A Course In Miracles: CHAPTER 31: THE FINAL VISION

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A Course In Miracles

CHAPTER 31: THE FINAL VISION

I. The Simplicity of Salvation

“How simple is salvation! All it says is what was never true is not true now, and never will be. The impossible has not occurred, and can have no effects. And that is all. Can this be hard to learn by anyone who wants it to be true?” (1:1-5)

“You can no longer say that you perceive no differences in false and true. You have been told exactly how to tell one from the other, and just what to do if you become confused. Why, then, do you persist in learning not such simple things?” (1:8-10)

“There is a reason.” (2:1)

“What you have taught yourself is such a giant learning feat it is indeed incredible. But you accomplished it because you wanted to, and did not pause in diligence to judge it hard to learn or too complex to grasp.” (2:7-8)

“No one who understands what you have learned, how carefully you learned it, and the pains to which you went to practice and repeat the lessons endlessly, in every form you could conceive of them, could ever doubt the power of your learning skill.” (3:1)

“For your power to learn is strong enough to teach you that your will is not your own, your thoughts do not belong to you, and even you are someone else.” (3:6)

“You who have taught yourself the Son of God is guilty, say not that you cannot learn the simple things salvation teaches you!” (4:6)

“His simple lessons in forgiveness have a power mightier than yours, because they call from God and from your Self to you.” (5:6)

“Is this a little Voice, so small and still It cannot rise above the senseless noise of sounds that have no meaning? God willed not His Son forget Him.” (6:1-2)

“Which lesson will you learn?” (6:4)

“The lessons to be learned are only two. Each has its outcome in a different world.” (7:1-2)

“The certain outcome of the lesson that God’s Son is guilty is the world you see. It is a world of terror and despair.” (7:4-5)

“The outcome of the lesson that God’s Son is guiltless is a world in which there is no fear, and everything is lit with hope and sparkles with a gentle friendliness. Nothing but calls to you in soft appeal to be your friend, and let it join with you. And never does a call remain unheard, misunderstood, nor left unanswered in the selfsame tongue in which the call was made. And you will understand it was this call that everyone and everything within the world has always made, but you had not perceived it as it was. And now you see you were mistaken. You had been deceived by forms the call was hidden in. And so you did not hear it, and had lost a friend who always wanted to be part of you. The soft eternal calling of each part of God’s creation to the whole is heard throughout the world this second lesson brings.” (8:1-8)

“There is no living thing that does not share the universal Will that it be whole, and that you do not leave its call unheard.” (9:1)

“God’s perfect Son remembers his creation. But in guilt he has forgotten what he really is.” (9:6-7)

“He will appear when you have answered Him, and you will know in Him that God is Love.” (10:6)

“You are deceived if you believe you want disaster and disunity and pain.” (11:3)

“Its outcome is the world you look upon.” (11:10)

“Let us be still an instant, and forget all things we ever learned, all thoughts we had, and every preconception that we hold of what things mean and what their purpose is. Let us remember not our own ideas of what the world is for. We do not know. Let every image held of everyone be loosened from our minds and swept away.” (12:1-4)

“Be innocent of judgment, unaware of any thoughts of evil or of good that ever crossed your mind of anyone. Now do you know him not. But you are free to learn of him, and learn of him anew. Now is he born again to you, and you are born again to him, without the past that sentenced him to die, and you with him. Now is he free to live as you are free, because an ancient learning passed away, and left a place for truth to be reborn.” (13:1-5)

In summary, section 1: “The Simplicity of Salvation” is saying:

Salvation is simple because it comes down to only two choices. A choice between two voices we can listen to, guiding our thoughts: God or the ego. Our thoughts create our reality, and whichever voice we listen to, is the reality we will experience. How can such a choice be hard? Because we have overlearned from the ego and believe wholeheartedly in what it shows us. We believe we are bodies and that this physical world and all the forms within it are the truth. We know we believe in this reality based upon our reactions to it. We covet things, people, and places – sometimes so ferociously it turns to violence. We cannot let go of the physical things our ego holds dear. And yet, salvation begs that we share, not covet. What are we to share? Our love. We share our love through the inner recognition that nothing in this world is separate from us, but is in truth, One in God. To see in this way, we must forgive all forms we see. To forgive, we must undo guilt. To be “guilty” is to believe you are a body. The guiltless are those who believe they are bodiless and are thus forgiven. And with forgiveness, you will see a bodiless, “guiltless,” world. To forgive then, we must remember to simply still our thoughts about the world. We do not know what the bodiless look like, nor how to see anything as it is in truth, as God created it eternally. Let all things be born again in your mind as you wipe it clean of all judgements, and in this purified place, truth will be reborn. The simplicity of salvation is the simplicity of your choice between God or the ego; the choice between guiltlessness – believing you are bodiless, and guilt – believing you are a body.

II. Walking with Christ

“An ancient lesson is not overcome by the opposing of the new and old.” (1:1)

“There is an ancient battle being waged against the truth, but truth does not respond.” (1:4)

“He has no enemy in truth.” (1:6)

“Let us review again what seems to stand between you and the truth of what you are. For there are steps in its relinquishment. The first is a decision that you make.” (2:1-3)

“What you would choose between is not a choice and gives but the illusion it is free, for it will have one outcome either way.” (3:1)

“The leader and the follower emerge as separate roles, each seeming to possess advantages you would not want to lose.” (3:3)

“You see yourself divided into both these roles, forever split between the two. And every friend or enemy becomes a means to help you save yourself from this.” (3:5-6)

“Perhaps you call it love. Perhaps you think that it is murder justified at last.” (4:1-2)

“And what of him? What does he want of you? What could he want, but what you want of him? Herein is life as easily as death, for what you choose you choose as well for him. Two calls you make to him, as he to you. Between these two is choice, because from them there is a different outcome.” (5:1-6)

“The voice you hear in him is but your own.” (5:11)

“For he is asking what will come to you, because you see an image of yourself and hear your voice requesting what you want.” (5:14)

“Before you answer, pause to think of this:

The answer that I give my brother is what I am asking for. And what I learn of him is what I learn about myself.

Then let us wait an instant and be still, forgetting everything we thought we heard; remembering how much we do not know.” (6:1-4)

“Because he is your equal in God’s Love, you will be saved from all appearances and answer to the Christ Who calls to you. Be still and listen. Think not ancient thoughts. Forget the dismal lessons that you learned about the Son of God who calls to you.” (7:1-4)

“Be very still an instant. Come without all thought of what you ever learned before, and put aside all images you made. The old will fall away before the new without your opposition or intent.” (8:1-3)

“Nothing will hurt you in this holy place, to which you come to listen silently and learn the truth of what you really want.” (8:6)

“Forgive your brother all appearances, that are but ancient lessons you have taught yourself about the sinfulness in you. Hear but his call for mercy and release from all the fearful images he holds of what he is and of what you must be.” (9:1-2)

“And in this choice is learning’s outcome changed, for Christ has been reborn to both of you.” (9:7)

“An instant spent without your old ideas of who your great companion is and what he should be asking for, will be enough to let this happen.” (10:1)

“He asks and you receive, for you have come with but one purpose; that you learn you love your brother with a brother’s love.” (10:5)

“Together is your joint inheritance remembered and accepted by you both.” (11:1)

“For next to you is One Who holds the light before you, so that every step is made in certainty and sureness of the road. A blindfold can indeed obscure your sight, but cannot make the way itself grow dark. And He Who travels with you has the light.” (11:7-9)

In summary, section 2: “Walking with Christ” is saying:

Because we have forgotten we are One with each other in God, we have forgotten Who walks with us. We are always walking with Christ, for He is part of our One Self. There are steps to remembering this. The first is to remember you have only one choice: who do I want to listen to; God or the ego? If you listen to the ego, you will forget your Oneness and see only a body and react to it as such. Thus, damning yourself to a bodily identity, for what you see in another, you are seeing in yourself. If you listen to God, you will see one who is need of your help in remembering Who They Are, same as you. How you answer this question, “Who do I want to listen to?” determines the world you will see. The second step then, is to stop, be still and listen within. Hold still all thoughts of the ego that scream, “They are a body! React to them in an unloving way! They are wrong and I am right!” Remember that the ego is always wrong in what it sees, and therefore you are always wrong whenever you see a body. So, forget all such nonsense for an instant and be still. Then the third step will come; sanity returns to your mind. For by the simple act of recognizing you do not want to choose to see the body you welcome God. He then, will take care of all that needs healing, for you have chosen to walk with Christ.

III. The Self-Accused

“Only the self-accused condemn. As you prepare to make a choice that will result in different outcomes, there is first one thing that must be overlearned.” (1:1-2)

“Learn this, and learn it well, for it is here delay of happiness is shortened by a span of time you cannot realize. You never hate your brother for his sins, but only for your own. Whatever form his sins appear to take, it but obscures the fact that you believe them to be yours, and therefore meriting a “just” attack.” (1:4-6)

“Why should his sins be sins, if you did not believe they could not be forgiven in you? Why are they real in him, if you did not believe that they are your reality?” (2:1-2)

“If you did not believe that you deserved attack, it never would occur to you to give attack to anyone at all.” (2:7)

“And how could murder bring you benefit?” (2:11)

“Sins are in bodies. They are not perceived in minds. They are not seen as purposes, but actions. Bodies act, and minds do not. And therefore must the body be at fault for what it does. It is not seen to be a passive thing, obeying your commands, and doing nothing of itself at all.” (3:1-6)

“Yet is the body prisoner, and not the mind. The body thinks no thoughts.” (4:1-2)

“The mind that thinks it is a sin has but one purpose; that the body be the source of sin, to keep it in the prison house it chose and guards and hold itself at bay, a sleeping prisoner to the snarling dogs of hate and evil, sickness and attack; of pain and age, of grief and suffering.” (5:1)

“Let us be glad that you will see what you believe, and that it has been given you to change what you believe. The body will but follow.” (6:1-2)

“Release your body from imprisonment, and you will see no one as prisoner to what you have escaped. You will not want to hold in guilt your chosen enemies, nor keep in chains, to the illusion of a changing love, the ones you think are friends.” (6:5-6)

“The innocent release in gratitude for their release.” (7:1)

“Open your mind to change, and there will be no ancient penalty exacted from your brother or yourself. For God has said there is no sacrifice that can be asked; there is no sacrifice that can be made.” (7:3-4)

In summary, section 3: “The Self-Accused” is saying:

Guilt is the belief we are bodies and innocence is the relinquishment of this belief. When we see bodies, our Innocent Identity as One stands accused of “sin” or separation. To bear witness to our innocence then, we must release everyone from the bodies we see. For we never hate anyone for theirbody, but only for how we interact with them through our own. Whatever form a body or “sin” appears to take, it but obscures the fact that you believe yourself to be a body as well, and therefore meriting a “just” attack against theirs. Without the body, it would never occur to you to attack at all. Separation or “sin” is acted out through bodies. Yet this is not the true state of our minds. Be glad you can change your mind about bodies! Release everyone in your mind from the belief they are a separate body from your own, and you will feel your own release as well. And you will stand in innocence, no longer feeling the pain of the self-accused.

IV. The Real Alternative

“There is a tendency to think the world can offer consolation and escape from problems that its purpose is to keep. Why should this be? Because it is a place where choice among illusions seems to be the only choice.” (1:1-3)

“Real choice is no illusion. But the world has none to offer. All its roads but lead to disappointment, nothingness and death.” (2:1-3)

“Seek not escape from problems here. The world was made that problems could not be escaped.” (2:5-6)

“There is no choice where every end is sure. Perhaps you would prefer to try them all, before you really learn they are but one. The roads this world can offer seem to be quite large in number, but the time must come when everyone begins to see how like they are to one another. Men have died on seeing this, because they saw no way except the pathways offered by the world. And learning they led nowhere, lost their hope. And yet this was the time they could have learned their greatest lesson. All must reach this point, and go beyond it.” (3:1-7)

“Learn now, without despair, there is no hope of answer in the world.” (4:3)

“Who would be willing to be turned away from all the roadways of the world, unless he understood their real futility?” (5:1)

“The learning that the world can offer but one choice, no matter what its form may be, is the beginning of acceptance that there is a real alternative instead. To fight against this step is to defeat your purpose here.” (6:1-2)

“There is a choice that you have power to make when you have seen the real alternatives. Until that point is reached you have no choice, and you can but decide how you would choose the better to deceive yourself again.” (8:1-2)

“He has not left His Thoughts! But you forgot His Presence and remembered not His Love. No pathway in the world can lead to Him, nor any worldly goal be one with His. What road in all the world will lead within, when every road was made to separate the journey from the purpose it must have unless it be but futile wandering?” (9:1-4)

“He has not left His Thoughts! He could no more depart from them than they could keep Him out. In unity with Him do they abide, and in Their Oneness Both are kept complete. There is no road that leads away from Him. A journey from yourself does not exist.” (10:1-5)

“Forgive yourself your madness, and forget all senseless journeys and all goal-less aims. They have no meaning. You can not escape from what you are.” (11:1-3)

“Nowhere but where He is can you be found. There is no path that does not lead to Him.” (11:7)

In summary, section 4: “The Real Alternative” is saying:

We have but two choices; we can either choose to move towards God or away. Except we cannot truly ever leave Him, or we would cease to exist. We are each one of God’s Thoughts and can no more leave His Mind than He can “unthink” us. We are eternally created as His. And yet, in this world, we think we have an untold number of choices in what will bring us happiness. And all this time, we have simply forgotten we are unhappy because of our imagined separation from God. Once we realize this world will never fulfill the void left by our mistaken choice, the futility of all we have tried to accomplish hits some people with devastation. This is what brings many to suicide. They suddenly see the truth of the nothingness of the world and with no understanding of the truth to replace such thoughts, their heart moves into utter despair. Yet here is the moment of one’s highest achievement, your greatest glory. You can make another choice! Let the world go! Become still as you stand on the precipice of knowing God – for He is within you and all roads outside of you will only lead you back to this realization. This choice – the choice to turn within – is the only real alternative you have to suffering in the world.

V. Self-Concept versus Self

“The learning of the world is built upon a concept of the self adjusted to the world’s reality.” (1:1)

“The building of a concept of the self is what the learning of the world is for. This is its purpose; that you come without a self, and make one as you go along.” (1:5-6)

“A concept of the self is made by you. It bears no likeness to yourself at all. It is an idol, made to take the place of your reality as Son of God.” (2:1-3)

“This aspect can grow angry, for the world is wicked and unable to provide the love and shelter innocence deserves. And so this face is often wet with tears at the injustices the world accords to those who would be generous and good.” (3:1-2)

“Beneath the face of innocence there is a lesson that the concept of the self was made to teach. It is a lesson in a terrible displacement, and a fear so devastating that the face that smiles above it must forever look away, lest it perceive the treachery it hides. The lesson teaches this: “I am the thing you made of me, and as you look on me, you stand condemned because of what I am.” On this conception of the self the world smiles with approval, for it guarantees the pathways of the world are safely kept, and those who walk on them will not escape.” (5:1-4)

“Your brother then is symbol of your sins to you who are but silently, and yet with ceaseless urgency, condemning still your brother for the hated thing you are.” (6:8)

“Concepts are learned. They are not natural.” (7:1-2)

“What is a concept but a thought to which its maker gives a meaning of his own?” (7:6)

“They are ideas of idols, painted with the brushes of the world, which cannot make a single picture representing truth.” (7:10)

“Yet is all learning that the world directs begun and ended with the single aim of teaching you this concept of yourself, that you will choose to follow this world’s laws, and never seek to go beyond its roads nor realize the way you see yourself. Now must the Holy Spirit find a way to help you see this concept of the self must be undone, if any peace of mind is to be given you.” (8:2-3)

“Thus are the Holy Spirit’s lesson plans arranged in easy steps, that though there be some lack of ease at times and some distress, there is no shattering of what was learned, but just a re-translation of what seems to be the evidence on its behalf.” (9:1)

“Let us forget the concept’s foolishness, and merely think of this; there are two parts to what you think yourself to be. If one were generated by your brother, who was there to make the other?” (10:6-7)

“Perhaps the reason why this concept must be kept in darkness is that, in the light, the one who would not think it true is you. And what would happen to the world you see, if all its underpinnings were removed? Your concept of the world depends upon this concept of the self. And both would go, if either one were ever raised to doubt.” (11:1-4)

“There are alternatives about the thing that you must be.” (12:1)

“There is some understanding that you chose for both of you, and what he represents has meaning that was given it by you.” (12:4)

“Yet who was it that did the choosing first?” (12:6)

“Something must have gone before these concepts of the self. And something must have done the learning which gave rise to them.” (13:2-3)

“But this gain is paid in almost equal loss, for now you stand accused of guilt for what your brother is. And you must share his guilt, because you chose it for him in the image of your own.” (13:6-7)

“The concept of the self has always been the great preoccupation of the world. And everyone believes that he must find the answer to the riddle of himself. Salvation can be seen as nothing more than the escape from concepts.” (14:1-3)

“Seek not your Self in symbols. There can be no concept that can stand for what you are.” (15:1-2)

“If you can be hurt by anything, you see a picture of your secret wishes. Nothing more than this.” (15:8-9)

“You will make many concepts of the self as learning goes along.” (16:1)

“There will be some confusion every time there is a shift, but be you thankful that the learning of the world is loosening its grasp upon your mind. And be you sure and happy in the confidence that it will go at last, and leave your mind at peace. The role of accuser will appear in many places and in many forms.” (16:3-5)

“Yet have no fear it will not be undone.” (16:7)

“There will come a time when images have all gone by, and you will see you know not what you are. It is to this unsealed and open mind that truth returns, unhindered and unbound.” (17:2-3)

“There is no statement that the world is more afraid to hear than this:

I do not know the thing I am, and therefore do not know what I am doing, where I am, or how to look upon the world or myself.

Yet in this learning is salvation born. And What you are will tell you of Itself.” (17:6-9)

In summary, section 5: “Self-Concept versus Self” is saying:

By our decision to come into an experience of separation from God, we had to become a different “self.” For we could not retain the Identity of being One if we were to experience separation. And thus the ego was born, and with it, a body through which we could see ourselves as separate. And so it was, that we seemingly became two “selves.” One is merely a self-concept and not real, while the other is our true Self. As we relearn Who We Are, we will return many times, making many different “selves.” Each one bringing us closer to the truth as each one fails to bring us the peace we seek. When we come to the point in our learning where we discover that we have done this to ourselves, great guilt may be experienced. It is often painful to hear that by judging our brethren to be bodies, we hold them in that small, painful identity and ourselves as well. For what they are, so must we also be. The ego never wants you to realize this. It wants you to be endlessly preoccupied with searching for “who you are,” yet never finding it. For if you understood you held the power to undo your own self-concept, both the ego (and therefore the body) along with all the world you see now, would go. This is why the most powerful statement, the most powerful self-concept you can ever have, is that you do not know who you are. With belief in these words, you effectively wipe your mind clean of all ego self-concepts and allow the truth to enter and replace your own self-concept with your Self.

VI. Recognizing the Spirit

“You see the flesh or recognize the spirit. There is no compromise between the two. If one is real the other must be false, for what is real denies its opposite. There is no other choice in vision but this one. What you decide in this determines all you see and think is real and hold as true. On this one choice does all your world depend, for here have you established what you are, as flesh or spirit in your own belief. If you choose flesh, you never will escape the body as your own reality, for you have chosen that you want it so. But choose the spirit, and all Heaven bends to touch your eyes and bless your holy sight, that you may see the world of flesh no more except to heal and comfort and to bless.” (1:1-8)

“Salvation is undoing. If you choose to see the body, you behold a world of separation, unrelated things, and happenings that make no sense at all.” (2:1-2)

“Salvation is undoing of all this. For constancy arises in the sight of those whose eyes salvation has released from looking at the cost of keeping guilt, because they chose to let it go instead.” (2:6-7)

“Salvation does not ask that you behold the spirit and perceive the body not. It merely asks that this should be your choice. For you can see the body without help, but do not understand how to behold a world apart from it.” (3:1-3)

“Be not concerned how this could ever be. You do not understand how what you see arose to meet your sight. For if you did, it would be gone.” (3:5-7)

“Only in arrogance could you conceive that you must make the way to Heaven plain. The means are given you by which to see the world that will replace the one you made. Your will be done!” (4:1-3)

“For God Himself has said, “Your will be done.” And it is done to you accordingly.” (4:7-8)

“Are you a body? So is all the world perceived as treacherous, and out to kill.” (6:5-6)

“Are you a spirit, deathless, and without the promise of corruption and the stain of sin upon you? So the world is seen as stable, fully worthy of your trust; a happy place to rest in for a while, where nothing need be feared, but only loved.” (6:7-8)

“Your will be done, you holy child of God. It does not matter if you think you are in earth or Heaven. What your Father wills of you can never change. The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself. And you are worthy that your will be done!” (7:1-5)

In summary, section 6: “Recognizing the Spirit” is saying:

We are told that we either see the body or recognize the spirit within the body. We see either one or the other; in this, our seeing is uncompromising. And what we decide determines our reality. We will experience either this world or Heaven. Salvation is the only way to ensure that we consistently make the choice for Heaven by seeing only Spirit in others. Salvation is undoing and to undo this world we must forgive it. Forgiveness is merely the stillness of our thoughts about the world – cease to give what you see a second thought! This does not mean we go about pretending we do not see the world, but merely that we know that it is not the truth. In truth all is One. There is no separation. And all we have to do to heal our mind is recognize when we are suffering and choose against it. Remember that you are wrong about what you see as all forms of form, and you will be on the path to Light. This is how your will is done! For Who You Are in truth shines on regardless of what your ego sees. Remember this always, and you will always recognize the Spirit.

VII. The Savior’s Vision

“Learning is change. Salvation does not seek to use a means as yet too alien to your thinking to be helpful, nor to make the kinds of change you could not recognize. Concepts are needed while perception lasts, and changing concepts is salvation’s task.” (1:1-3)

“You could not recognize your “evil” thoughts as long as you see value in attack. You will perceive them sometimes, but will not see them as meaningless.” (2:1-2)

“But should one brother dawn upon your sight as wholly worthy of forgiveness, then your concept of yourself is wholly changed. Your “evil” thoughts have been forgiven with his, because you let them all affect you not.” (2:5-6)

“In terms of concepts, it is thus you see him more than just a body, for the good is never what the body seems to be.” (3:1)

“By focusing upon the good in him, the body grows decreasingly persistent in your sight, and will at length be seen as little more than just a shadow circling round the good.” (3:3)

“Have faith in him who walks with you, so that your fearful concept of yourself may change. And look upon the good in him, that you may not be frightened by your “evil” thoughts because they do not cloud your view of him. And all this shift requires is that you be willing that this happy change occur. No more than this is asked.” (5:1-4)

“The concept of yourself that now you hold would guarantee your function here remain forever unaccomplished and undone.” (6:1)

“The concept of the self stands like a shield, a silent barricade before the truth, and hides it from your sight. All things you see are images, because you look on them as through a barrier that dims your sight and warps your vision, so that you behold nothing with clarity.” (7:1-2)

“Behold your role within the universe!” (8:1)

“And this he learns when first he looks upon one brother as he looks upon himself, and sees the mirror of himself in him.” (8:4)

“And in this single vision does he see the face of Christ, and understands he looks on everyone as he beholds this one.” (8:6)

“The veil across the face of Christ, the fear of God and of salvation, and the love of guilt and death, they all are different names for just one error; that there is a space between you and your brother, kept apart by an illusion of yourself that holds him off from you, and you away from him.” (9:1)

“What is temptation but the wish to stay in hell and misery? And what could this give rise to but an image of yourself that can be miserable, and remain in hell and torment? Who has learned to see his brother not as this has saved himself, and thus is he a savior to the rest.” (10:1-3)

“The holy ones whom God has given you to save are but everyone you meet or look upon, not knowing who they are; all those you saw an instant and forgot, and those you knew a long while since, and those you will yet meet; the unremembered and the not yet born. For God has given you His Son to save from every concept that he ever held.” (10:5-6)

“For holiness is seen through holy eyes that look upon the innocence within, and thus expect to see it everywhere. And so they call it forth in everyone they look upon, that he may be what they expect of him.” (11:3-4)

“Whatever form temptation seems to take, it always but reflects a wish to be a self that you are not.” (12:1)

“The savior’s vision is as innocent of what your brother is as it is free of any judgment made upon yourself.” (13:1)

“Be vigilant against temptation, then, remembering that it is but a wish, insane and meaningless, to make yourself a thing that you are not. And think as well upon the thing that you would be instead.” (14:1-2)

“Let not the world’s light, given unto you, be hidden from the world. It needs the light, for it is dark indeed, and men despair because the savior’s vision is withheld and what they see is death.” (15:1-2)

“Can you to whom God says, “Release My Son!” be tempted not to listen, when you learn that it is you for whom He asks release? And what but this is what this course would teach? And what but this is there for you to learn?” (15:5-7)

In summary, section 7: “The Savior’s Vision” is saying:

To change what we see, we must change what we have learned. In this world, we are taught we are bodies. This must be unlearned and replaced with the knowledge we are spirit, and the body is but a vehicle for communicating God’s Love to one another while we imagine ourselves as separate. Learning is change. Learn this, and you change what you experience. Therefore, forgive all bodies you see. The Course states that “To forgive is to overlook.” (T. CH9 IV.1:2) To overlook all bodies then, we must quiet our thoughts about what those bodies are saying and doing. We know not who they are in truth. The Savior’s Vision understands this, knowing that we are not our ego and what it does with the body. The Savior’s Vison knows that without a body, we would only know the Love that binds us all in God and all else would be forgotten. Be vigilant then, against all thoughts of separation – any thought that causes you to lose your peace, even a fraction. And once you catch such a thought, banish it with the understanding that you do not want it. Then replace the thought with what you know to be true – that we are beings of Light and all else is false. God asks us to release Christ from the bodily visions our ego holds so dear. We do this through forgiveness, looking beyond the body and using our Savior’s Vision instead.

VIII. Choose Once Again

“Temptation has one lesson it would teach, in all its forms, wherever it occurs. It would persuade the holy Son of God he is a body, born in what must die, unable to escape its frailty, and bound by what it orders him to feel.” (1:1-2)

“Would you be this, if Christ appeared to you in all His glory, asking you but this:

Choose once again if you would take your place among the saviors of the world, or would remain in hell, and hold your brothers there.

For He has come, and He is asking this.” (1:4-6)

“How do you make the choice? How easily is this explained! You always choose between your weakness and the strength of Christ in you. And what you choose is what you think is real.” (2:1-4)

“Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn presented once again, so where you made a faulty choice before you now can make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought to you. In every difficulty, all distress, and each perplexity Christ calls to you and gently says, “My brother, choose again.” He would not leave one source of pain unhealed, nor any image left to veil the truth.” (3:1-3)

“The images you make cannot prevail against what God Himself would have you be. Be never fearful of temptation, then, but see it as it is; another chance to choose again, and let Christ’s strength prevail in every circumstance and every place you raised an image of yourself before.” (4:1-2)

“Learn, then, the happy habit of response to all temptation to perceive yourself as weak and miserable with these words:

I am as God created me. His Son can suffer nothing. And I am His Son.

Thus is Christ’s strength invited to prevail, replacing all your weakness with the strength that comes from God and that can never fail.” (5:1-5)

“You are as God created you, and so is every living thing you look upon, regardless of the images you see.” (6:1)

“A miracle has come to heal God’s Son, and close the door upon his dreams of weakness, opening the way to his salvation and release. Choose once again what you would have him be, remembering that every choice you make establishes your own identity as you will see it and believe it is.” (6:4-5)

“My brothers in salvation, do not fail to hear my voice and listen to my words. I ask for nothing but your own release.” (8:1-2)

“Let us be glad that we can walk the world, and find so many chances to perceive another situation where God’s gift can once again be recognized as ours!” (9:1)

“In joyous welcome is my hand outstretched to every brother who would join with me in reaching past temptation, and who looks with fixed determination toward the light that shines beyond in perfect constancy.” (11:1)

“And now we say “Amen.” For Christ has come to dwell in the abode You set for Him before time was, in calm eternity. The journey closes, ending at the place where it began. No trace of it remains. Not one illusion is accorded faith, and not one spot of darkness still remains to hide the face of Christ from anyone. Thy Will is done, complete and perfectly, and all creation recognizes You, and knows You as the only Source it has. Clear in Your likeness does the light shine forth from everything that lives and moves in You. For we have reached where all of us are one, and we are home, where You would have us be.” (12:1-8)

In summary, section 8: “Choose Once Again” is saying:

Always, we are making a choice with our thoughts – we are either choosing to think with the ego or the Holy Spirit. We know with whom we are choosing to think, by how we feel. All forms of suffering felt stem from our choice to join with the ego. And all peace and love come from joining our thoughts with the Holy Spirit. Temptation then, is nothing more than being fooled by the forms we see and falling for the temptation to believe they are real. We know we have been fooled, by how we feel. When you are tempted to believe that you or anyone else is a body and are tempted to feel suffering in response to bodies in any form, simply remember: You remain as God created you. And nothing you imagine can undo the Love that you are. If anything but Love is perceived, then remember that you are listening to the ego and you are wrong. Then choose once again. Choose to step among the saviors of the world, by choosing to overlook, or forgive, what you see. With this choice, the journey to Love comes to an end, for illusions no longer tempt us to believe in anything but the truth of our Oneness. With these thoughts, we allow God to step forward and restore to us our true sight, and the final vision of a world transformed into His Unity will be made manifest.

This concludes CHAPTER 31: THE FINAL VISION

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