February 26, 2014 - A Radical Reliance

Love Glows
created by Aaron Springston

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson #57:

Today we review Lessons 31-35

I have often been asked if (or perhaps told that) Christian Science is a cult. Having been affiliated with this way of life since childhood, it assuredly is not. I've never been controlled by anyone, or asked to worship anyone, or any of the other criteria necessary to qualify for this category of action. I'm sure that Course in Miracles students often get the same thing, judging from what a quick search of YouTube videos reveal! What we do ask of ourselves is a radical reliance on God, a wholehearted acceptance of God as the only power, to recognize that Love leads every action. This is the goal I set for myself at every moment. And this is why I see such a strong interaction with these two disciplines: they both ask us to give up material beliefs and rely on Truth. And this may not be as hard as we'd like to make it out to be! Think back on the so-called laws of life you have adopted in the past. Shouldn't it be as easy to allow spiritual principles to guide your actions as it is to accept material rules which make no sense?  This quote from Lesson 34 says it all: "When I see the world as a place of freedom, I realize that it reflects the laws of God instead of the rules I made up for it to obey." And the rules of God are simple to hear when we have cleared out the cacophony which hides them from our thought. To live from the Truth within rather than the made-up rules of material existence, this is the freedom which will lead into harmonious peace for all. 

Mary Baker Eddy quote:

"The conceptions of mortal, erring thought must give way to the ideal of all that is perfect and eternal. Through many generations human beliefs will be attaining diviner conceptions, and the immortal and perfect model of God's creation will finally be seen as the only true conception of being."

Science & Health Page 260:7-12

May 30, 2012 - Unity Through Realization of Truth

A Course in Miracles Lesson #150

Review of:

#139 "I will accept Atonement for myself."

#140 "Only salvation can be said to cure."

The main thought to hold to in this review:

“My mind holds only what I think with God."

Photo by Aaron Springston

This atonement which is spoken of is mine for the acceptance of myself as God created me -- and, that is, in the image and likeness of God Itself. This acceptance includes the acknowledgement that we are all created as ideas of divine Mind, and this creation includes everyone and everything. As we are one with this emanation of Mind -- much like a ray of sunshine is the same with its source -- it only requires an awareness of this Truth in order for us to demonstrate it. If I am as God created me, then you are, too! When I accept this atonement -- this acknowledgement that I am as God created me, in perfect Oneness -- then, through this unity, we all accept it. Now, some may ask, if we are One in this sense, wouldn't all the horrible things that happen to everyone become a part of us? No, because divine Mind is all that's One. Material, mortal mind (ego, to ACIM-ers) is the epitome of the division which we all appear to live, because that is what we have accepted as inevitable for ourselves. Remember the hit movie, The Matrix? There were some profound metaphysical principles addressed! I particularly liked when Neo is in what appears to be a center for extraordinary behavior. He goes up to a person bending a spoon without touching it. He tries to do the same, to no avail. He is told that the way to do this is through knowing the truth: the spoon is not there. That's what metaphysical healing is all about. Today's workbook lesson review makes plain that the only cure is the understanding that there is no place where sickness can abide. The spoon is not there. Awakening to this knowledge brings with it the revelation that all which seems to be unlike good, God, has no reality. If we are attempting to change a material condition, it's just like trying to bend the spoon by the power of your mind. Only by the knowledge of its unreality is it seen for what it actually is: an idea. We are all ideas of divine Mind. We are all One in this reality. What will this realization unfold in experience  today? I am open with no expectations!

Mary Baker Eddy quote:

“Universal salvation rests on progression and probation, and is unattainable without them. Heaven is not a locality, but a divine state of Mind in which all the manifestations of Mind are harmonious and immortal, because sin is not there and man is found having no righteousness of his own, but in possession of 'the mind of the Lord,' as the Scripture says.”

Science & Health Page 291:12-18