Wed. #23 “I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts.”
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#23 “I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts.”
ACIM Chapter 19, “The Attainment of Peace.”
In fact, 13 pages are given to “The obstacles to peace.”
...This lesson today gave me guidelines for my ways out of fear.
This segment reasoned with me on why I was so fearful...
Yet my fear was covered by denial.
I’ve always called it “survival denial.”
Staying with the thought of attaining “inner peace…”
It is with this thought then, that I want to focus on
In order to change my perception of this ego world.
Then I must learn that it is attack thoughts that I do not want.
That I must learn to change attack thoughts to thoughts of love.
I must learn to love Self to give up attack thoughts.
The egoworld I see is a vengeful world,
And everything in it is a symbol of vengeance.
Each of my perceptions of “external reality” is
A pictorial representation of my own attack thoughts.
One can well ask if this can be called: “seeing?”
Is not “fantasy” a better word for such a process,
And hallucination a more appropriate term for the result?
I can handle this better if I refer to this as “ego hallucinations.”
I “see” the world that I have “made,”
But I do not see myself as the “image-maker.”
I cannot be saved from this egoworld,
But I can be saved from its cause.
That is what salvation means,
For where is the egoworld I see when its cause is gone?
It is gone, too.
“Vision” already holds a replacement for everything
I “think” I “see” now.
Loveliness can “light” my images,
And so transform them that I will love them,
Even though they were “made” of hate,
For I will not be “making” them alone.
The idea for today introduces the thought that
I am not trapped in this world I see,
Because its causes can be changed.
This change requires, 1st, that the cause be identified..
And, 2nd, then let go, so that it, the 3rd, can be replaced.
The 1st two steps in this process require my cooperation.
The 3rd one does not. ***(This is a prelude to p.90 prayer.)
I do not need to cooperate with HS* in letting Him undo the consequences.
(I need to let HolySpirit undo the consequences
Entirely with my hands/egomind off!
Reason? When I think I need to remain with it…
My hands/egomind are still on it! Ugh!)
My images have already been replaced with a mere desire
When I decided to take the 1st two steps
And I will someday see that this is so.
“I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts.”
***...rell
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