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Chapter 2: The Most Astounding Spiritual Truth I’ve Ever Read
There is a vast difference between being spiritual and religious. Spirituality is for those who have experienced a hell of sorts, the religious are those afraid of going there. I’m the former.
A Course In Miracles is in complete agreement with the Disappearance Of The Universe and explains that God did not make this universe. God's first creation was Christ (not Jesus). He became aware this is His Father, Whose very nature is to give and teach all He knows, and He knows everything. Christ knew He was not in any way separate or different from God and understands He is not a part of God but an extension of the whole. He knew love must be shared, and the love that is shared in His Father’s universe is exquisite and beautiful. Oh, the joy and laughter as They completed One Another. Christ supremely became as powerful, compassionate, wise, knowing, limitless, and most importantly as loving as His Creator. They are inseparable and continue to co-create vast galaxies and universes. There was no concept of time or space, for They were everywhere, and They were One. God has created Christ to be exactly like Himself and to share His eternal love and joy in a state of unencumbered, boundless, and unimaginable ecstasy. Any question the Son asked was instantly answered as Their communication was perfect.
Then somewhere, some when Christ asked a question that was not answered. What? Why? The question was like, What else is there? Or What would it be like to go out and play by Myself? I Am did not answer because there is nothing else, but God’s perfect creation. The Divine Son became horrified, certainly an awful new feeling previously unknown. He mistakenly thought His perfect communication was completely gone. Then He experienced a vastly more terrible knowing. Fear. Christ instantly created a universe of His own where He could hide. What we refer to as The Big Bang occurred, composed of billions of fragments. The first ego was spawned. This Mind believes that it is completely on its own. While we may still try to create, we cannot really compose without the power of God, so everything made eventually falls apart and dies. The reason is that this false dream universe was contrived due to fear.
God knows absolutely nothing about this, since in nonduality there is only a constant, unchangeable Love. Before there was only Oneness, now there is Twoness. The idea of duality could not be carried out in God’s reality, so Christ created a dream universe of illusion and entered it as if falling asleep and dreaming. The trouble was that He went into such a deep state of sleep that He had no awareness that He was dreaming. So he accepted the universe of illusion as real and forgot that He had a true home in the Celestial Realm.
The story of Adam symbolizes what happened to Him and us. The Bible says that a deep sleep fell upon Adam, and nowhere is there a reference to his waking up. This created a barrier in communication between the Father and the Son so deep that God decided a correction was necessary. God's extension outward, though not His completeness, is blocked when the Son does not communicate with Him as One. So He thought, My Child is asleep and must be awakened. So God wanted to awaken His Son. But there was a major problem.
Whatever God places His attention on becomes as if it is real. If God entered the dream to redeem His Son, then the dream would become real to Him as well, and He would also be trapped. There would be the risk of both the Father and the Son becoming eternally separated from their true Home, eternally losing Their Identity. In other words, if God Himself were to acknowledge anything except the idea of perfect oneness, then there would no longer be perfect oneness. There would no longer be a perfect state of Heaven for us to return to. As we will see, we never really left anyway. We’re still there, but we have entered into a nightmare state of illusion. While we have traveled only in dreams, God and Christ, Who are always One, have continued as They always have and always will, completely unaffected by the “tiny, mad idea” of separation.
To solve the problem and allow God to keep His attention focused on Reality, His second creation occurred, The Holy Spirit, a bridge between the two states of existence and the answer to the separation. He has created the Holy Spirit as the Mediator between perception and knowledge. Without this link with God, perception would have replaced knowledge forever in our minds. With this link with God, the perception will become so changed and purified that it will lead to understanding.
Thus, the original Christ was healed and woke up in Heaven. In other words, we are all split off as part of the One Christ Mind. There can only be one Son. Unity can only create unity. Multiplicity cannot originate from Oneness. If all His creations are His Son, everyone must be an integral part of the whole Son ship. The Son ship in its oneness transcends the sum of its parts. Therefore, the term Sons of God is used by God for our convenience in addressing His Children as they believe they are. On the other hand, the Son of God is the term used to denote who we truly are as Christ, the Identity of Oneness we shall awaken to after our dream of multiplicity is undone.
Each time a baby appears to be born into this world, it is merely reliving the time when it seemed to leave its perfect environment in God, where all was Nirvana. It was completely taken care of and provided for. Then suddenly found itself slapped in the face by a seeming reality that was a living hell by comparison. We may consider birth to be a miracle, but babies don’t come into this world smiling, do they? They come in crying and screaming.
The mind that is reliving the seeming separation has actually fallen asleep and is dreaming an idle, insignificant dream, or nightmare because anything that seemed to be apart from Heaven would have to be symbolic of an opposite to Heaven. It would thus seem to include opposite characteristics. There’s no doubt we believe we’re experiencing reality here. We must be shown the way out of this experience. Our “asleep at the wheel mind” doesn’t know it, but it’s going to wake up in the equivalent of a cosmic instant. That is because the Voice for God and Heaven, which we will refer to as the Holy Spirit, is still with us to remind us of the truth and call us to return. This fail-safe memory of whom wereally are can never be lost, making an awakening to the reality of Heaven completely inevitable.
We have the power to choose the memory and strength of God or something else instead. That is what the part of our mind that decides did immediately after the seeming separation. Out of shock, fear, and confusion, it made a series of unwise choices that resulted in us appearing to be here. We still don’t realize that, given the remarkable power of the mind, certain choices made by us could end the seeming separation, and could have at any time. This means that we are capable of accomplishing it, with beautiful help from The Holy Spirit.
God could not have created this world. It would not be in His nature. He is not cruel. If this were the real world, God would be cruel. For no Father could subject His children to this as the price of salvation and be loving. Now that we have been informed of the most profound spiritual truth ever written, let us reason together to begin and determine what this actually means in the year 2024. A Course In Miracles states that it is even beyond its teachings to fully explain what Love actually is. However, with logic and reasoning we are given glimpses. Let’s discuss a Love that Is absolutely perfect. A Love that Is beyond purity, immeasurably magnificent and beautiful, immense total power, all knowing, all seeing, everywhere, outside of time, forever unchanging, cannot conceive of any loss, eternal, always giving, an unlimited joy and contentment and happiness. Totally complete in and of Itself, with a perfect light that extends to all existence. We are a part of this forever.
You may ask what happens to a Jeffrey Dahmer serial killer at his moment of death. I have read that we all have two or three spiritual advisors, who will show us our life experiences in time, the good, and bad. Then we will be asked a question, “Would you prefer to enter back into time?” A mass murderer would say, “I lived a terrible life and understand all the misery I have caused, especially to the loved ones of victims I slaughtered. I need to return to time as a baby and be tortured and killed to experience the horror.” Reincarnation is real to us in our dream and designed for continued learning, the correcting of our mistakes and the eventual achievement of perfection in forgiveness.
I have explained my understanding of the difference between our right mind and the wrong mind. We can either follow spirit or ego. The whole purpose of The Course is to teach you that the ego is unbelievable and will forever be unbelievable. By accepting the Atonement for yourself, you are deciding against the belief that you can be alone, thus dispelling the idea of separation and affirming your true identification with the entire Kingdom, as it's part of you. This identification is beyond doubt, as it is beyond belief. Your wholeness has no limits because you are Eternal.
The following is from The Course. “Who Is Christ? Who Is The Holy Spirit? What Is The Second Coming? What Is The Final Judgment? What Is The Ego? What Is Creation? Who Am I? What Is Salvation? What Is The Body? What Is Jesus’s Purpose? What Is The World?”
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