Week 11, Lessons 68-74, Academy of the Workbook of A Course in Miracales, 3/15/25

Review and discussion of lessons:

68. Love holds no grievances.
69. My grievances hide the light of the world in me.
70. My salvation comes from me.
71. Only God's plan of salvation will work.
72. Holding grievances is an attack on God's plan for salvation.
73. I will there be light.
74. There is no will but God's.

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The role assigned to your own mind, then, is simply to determine what, other than itself, must change if you are to be saved. ²According to this insane plan, any perceived source of salvation is acceptable, provided that it will not work.
☀️[CE W-71.3:1-2] (Only God’s plan for salvation will work.)

Idle wishes and grievances are partners or co-makers in picturing the world you see. ²The wishes of the ego gave rise to it, and the ego’s need for grievances, which are necessary to maintain it, peopled it with figures which seem to attack you and call for “righteous” judgment. ³They become the middlemen the ego employs to traffic in grievances, and stand between your awareness and your brothers’ reality. ⁴Beholding them, you do not know your brothers nor your Self.

Your will is lost to you in this strange bartering, in which guilt is traded back and forth, and grievances increase with each exchange. ²Can such a world have been created by the will the Son of God shares with his Father? ³Did God create disaster for His Son? ⁴Creation is the will of Both together. ⁵Would God create a world that kills Himself?
☀️[CE W-73.1-3] (I will there be light.)

2 The ego’s fundamental wish is to replace God. ²In fact, the ego is the physical embodiment of this wish... ³For it is this wish which seems to surround the mind with a body, keeping it separate and alone and unable to reach other minds except through the body which was made to imprison it. ⁴This, however, cannot be true communication. ⁵The limit on communication cannot be the best means to expand communication. ⁶Yet the ego would have you believe that it is.
☀️[CE W-72.2]

⁴The ego’s idle wishes are unshared, and therefore have no power at all. ⁵Its wishes are not idle, in the sense that they can make a world of illusions in which your belief can be very strong. ⁶But they are idle indeed in terms of creation. ⁷They make nothing that is real.
☀️[CE W-73.1-3] (I will there be light.)

Wishing is of the ego — Willing is of God

9 The Holy Spirit is perfectly trustworthy, as you are. ²God Himself trusts you, and therefore your trustworthiness is beyond question. ³It will always remain beyond question, however much you may question it. ⁴I trust my choices only because they are God’s will. ⁵We said before that you are the will of God. ⁶His will is not an idle wish, and your identification with His will is not optional because it is what you are. ⁷Sharing His will with me is not really open to choice at all, though it may seem to be. ⁸The whole separation lies in this fallacy. ⁹And the only way out of the fallacy is to decide that you do not have to decide anything.

10 Everything has been given you by God’s decision. ²This is His will, and you cannot undo it. ³Even the relinquishment of your false decision-making prerogative, which the ego guards so jealously, is not accomplished by your wish. ⁴It was accomplished for you by the will of God, Who has not left you comfortless. ⁵His Voice will teach you how to distinguish between pain and joy, and lead you out of the confusion you have made. ⁶There is no confusion in the mind of a Son of God, whose will must be the will of the Father, because the Father’s will is His Son.
☀️[CE T-7.IX.9-10]

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