A Course in Miracles Lesson #199
“I am not a body. I am free.”
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| "Light Show Aaron" photo by Heather Magnan |
Today's idea has always intrigued me. Perhaps that's because it's like a seemingly-unsolvable puzzle, one of those intricate knots with an object in the middle which you're trying to extricate. Then when you see the solution, you wonder what seemed so impossible! And if you put the puzzle away and don't look at it for a long while, you forget what you knew, until something reminds you of the answer. That's what these studies do for me: they remind me of what's been forgotten. So today I will look to divine Mind for discernment. Infinite intelligence is my heritage as a child of God. I pray to release all beliefs I have concerning reality, and allow inner knowing to show me Truth.
"The term Mind and body I understand to mean God and man; man the manifestation and embodiment of Mind is the body of Mind; is the Infinite aggregation of spiritual ideas forever held, controlled, and governed by the law of Life, harmony, and completeness, so man was never born, never had a claim, never sinned, never left heaven, but is spiritual, perfect, harmonious and eternal. This understanding is the savior to our belief of body, the law of recovery of every and any claim of error.
There is just one God and one body.
I am the image and likeness of God; no mortal mind can confine this image in a mortal body, harm or touch it in any way, Mind has set me free from every error. Divine Love fills every avenue, flows through every channel and removes every obstruction.
Man has no material body through which to express anything; his body is the body of God."
[This is an excerpt from an article entitled "Body" by Mary Baker Eddy, filed in the Congressional Library, January 19, 1886, found by Lyda Sandifer Hord]
This material is copyrighted by Marsha Havens, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. All rights reserved. All writings, other than quoted material from A Course in Miracles or Mary Baker Eddy are the personal interpretation and understanding of the author
