Week 29, Lessons 194-200, Academy for the Workbook of A Course in Miracles, 7/19/25

Week 29, Lessons 194-200, Academy for the Workbook of A Course in Miracles, 7/19/25

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3 It is essential for your progress in this course that you accept today’s idea and hold it very dear. ²Be not concerned that to the ego it is quite insane.
☀️[CE W-199.3:1-2]

8 Peace is the bridge which everyone will cross to leave this world behind. ²But it begins within the world perceived as different, and will lead from this fresh perception to the gate of Heaven and the way beyond.
☀️[CE W-200.8:1-2]

5 Release the future. ²For the past is gone, and what is present, freed from its bequest of grief and misery, of pain and loss, becomes the instant in which time escapes the bondage of illusions, where it runs its pitiless, inevitable course. ³Then is each instant which was slave to time transformed into a holy instant, when the light that was kept hidden in God’s Son is freed to bless the world. ⁴Now is he free, and all his glory shines upon a world made free with him, to share his holiness.
☀️[CE W-194.5]

⁷Remember then, teacher of God, that anger recognizes a reality that is not there. ⁸Yet is the anger certain witness that you do believe in it as fact. ⁹Now is escape impossible until you see you have responded to your own interpretation, which you have projected on an outside world.
☀️[CE M-17.9:7-9]

1 Gratitude is a lesson hard to learn for those who look upon the world amiss.
☀️[CE W-195.1:1]

2 ….for perception alone can be distorted. ³Only perception can be sick, because only perception can be wrong.
☀️[CE T-8.VIII.2]

3 Your brother is your “enemy” because you see in him the rival for your peace, a plunderer who takes his joy from you and leaves you nothing but a black despair so bitter and relentless that there is no hope remaining. ²Now is vengeance all there is to wish for. ³Now can you but try to bring him down to lie in death with you, as useless as yourself, as little left within his grasping fingers as in yours.
☀️[CE W-195.3]

²Love makes no comparisons, and gratitude can only be sincere if it is joined to love.
☀️[CE W-195.4:2]

6 But learn to let forgiveness take away the sins you think you see outside yourself, and you can never think the gifts of God are lent but for a little while, before He snatches them away again in death. ²For death will have no meaning for you then. ³And with the end of this belief is fear forever over. ⁴Thank your Self for this, for He is grateful only unto God, and He gives thanks for you unto Himself.
☀️[CE W-197.6]

Steps to free your mind from the belief in outside force pitted against your own…

Fear of God:
What makes the love of G0d seem unsafe?

1.Attack is my safety. I escape pain by attack and self defense.

5 The dreary, hopeless thought that you can make attacks on others and escape yourself has nailed you to the cross. ²Perhaps it seems to be salvation, yet it merely stands for the belief the fear of God is real.
[CE W-196.5:1-2]

2.Give me credit (honor, and lavish thanks) or I’ll retract my love, my generosity, my gifts.

Your gifts must be received with honor, lest they be withdrawn. ⁴And so you think God’s gifts are loans at best; at worst, deceptions which would cheat you of defenses to ensure that when He strikes He will not fail to kill. L. 197

Because you believe your love is conditional and limited, you believe His love is conditional. If you believe you can choose to take love away as you judge fit, you will believe God will takes away his love/gifts as he sees fit. If we think we can judge against our brothers, we will also think God is judging against us.

Steps to free your mind from the belief in outside force pitted against your own…

Fear of God:
What makes the love of G0d seem unsafe?

1.Attack is my safety. I escape pain by attack and self defense.

5 The dreary, hopeless thought that you can make attacks on others and escape yourself has nailed you to the cross. ²Perhaps it seems to be salvation, yet it merely stands for the belief the fear of God is real.
[CE W-196.5:1-2]

2.Give me credit (honor, and lavish thanks) or I’ll retract my love, my generosity, my gifts.

Your gifts must be received with honor, lest they be withdrawn. ⁴And so you think God’s gifts are loans at best; at worst, deceptions which would cheat you of defenses to ensure that when He strikes He will not fail to kill. L. 197

Because you believe your love is conditional and limited, you believe His love is conditional. If you believe you can choose to take love away as you judge fit, you will believe God will takes away his love/gifts as he sees fit. If we think we can judge against our brothers, we will also think God is judging against us.