LESSON FIFTY-SEVEN

Lesson 57:

I am not a victim of the world I see…I have invented the world I see…There is another way of looking at the world… I could choose peace instead of this… My mind is part of God’s, I am very holy…

We come to understand that these are not declarations to our personal private mind. Yet as long as we identify ourselves as persons in this world, we see only our own quilt projected out. But these lesson statements are not speaking to that illusion or self-concept. Rather, the Course is addressing the decision-making part of the Son’s mind. The Course is actually speaking to this neutral territory which chooses to believe, place faith in, and identify with one of the two seemingly available thought systems; love and fear. It is the part of the mind where ‘will’, as we experience it in this world, resides.

They are two mutually exclusive thought systems. And from them, two entire universes came forth and reside within the mind… They are referred to by many names: Holy Spirit or ego, Heaven or hell, Knowledge or perception, inclusion or separation, judgment or forgiveness, Love or fear… Yet of course these are only labels, which by definition are separating…

It is only, when, for an instant we allow total dis-identification with these labels and their perceived meaning, allowing judgment to be suspended and willingness to take its place, that we can see the choice at all. We never decide alone, because we are not alone… We always choose with one or the other; Love or fear. The course asks us, “Will you be Host to God, or hostage to the ego?” This is always the decision we are making… And what we decide tells us who we think we are…

Now, once a decision (whether we seem to be aware of making it or not) has been made, that system is exclusive, and holographic in nature…always looking upon itself. And until questioned, all other decisions that seemingly follow; each and every interpretation, big and small are all the same and are determined by the identity I chose...     

 I am not the victim of the world I see… I am the decision-maker… I decide. I am 100% responsible! Can this fact honestly be seen as victimizing? When all the power of the universe lies within my one choice?

 Honestly, can one really continue to be duped by this flimsy egoic stance, once it has been seen at all?

 I think not! ~ No, certainly not...

 I invented the world I see…. Change my mind about the world by choosing to think with Love and certainly…

There is another way of looking at the world… I could see peace instead of this… Is this really a difficult choice to make when what I choose has already been done…and L o v e: relentless and inevitable~ sits at the throne on the Alter placed within the Mind by God himself? …
“The power of decision is my own and Heaven is a decision I must make” ~I am the Son of God; wholly present,to do my part in re-member-ing the mind that thought it spit. This re-member-ing of God’s Son, ~this choosing the Atonement for myself, ~this seeing the false as false and only the truth as True, ~thus forgiving all… This is my one goal…my purpose here.
WE ARE CHRIST… and we are NOT alone…ours is ONE-Mind… that mind is part of God’s.
WE ARE VERY H O L Y!!!