Week 22, Lessons 145-151, Academy for the the Workbook of A Course in Miracles, 5/31/25.mp4

✨The Academy for the Workbook of A Course in Miracles 2025✨

✨Week 22✨
5/31/25

When you have been caught in the world of perception you are caught in a dream. You cannot escape without help, because everything your senses show merely witnesses to the reality of the dream (preface in FIP)

2 Illusions about yourself and the world are one.
☀️[CE W-62.2]

²It is as needful that you recognize you made the world you see as that you recognize that you did not create yourself. ³They are the same mistake. ⁴Nothing created not by your Creator has any influence over you. ⁵And if you think what you have made can tell you what you see and feel, and place your faith in its ability to do so, you are denying your Creator and believing that you made yourself.
☀️[CE T-21.II.11:2-5]

⁵Uncertainty about what you must be is self-deception on a scale so vast its magnitude can hardly be conceived. ☀️[CE W-139.2:5]

⁷He merely states that he is not himself, and therefore, being something else, becomes a questioner of what that something is.

4 Yet he could never be alive at all unless he knew the answer. ²If he asks as if he does not know, it merely shows he does not want to be the thing he is.
☀️[CE W-139.3-4]

³You cannot judge. ⁴You merely can believe the ego’s judgments, all of which are false. ⁵It guides your senses carefully, to prove how weak you are, how helpless and afraid, how apprehensive of just punishment, how black with sin, how wretched in your guilt.

5 This thing it speaks of and would yet defend it tells you is yourself. ²And you believe that this is so with stubborn certainty. ³Yet underneath remains the hidden doubt that what it shows you as reality with such conviction it does not believe. ⁴It is itself alone that it condemns. ⁵It is within itself it sees the guilt. ⁶It is its own despair it sees in you.
☀️[CE W-151.4-5]

²Your ministry begins as all your thoughts are purified.
☀️[CE W-151.15:2]

9 The necessary condition for the holy instant does not require that you have no thoughts that are not pure. ²But it does require that you have none that you would keep. ³Innocence is not of your making. ⁴It is given you the instant you would have it. ⁵For it would not be Atonement if there were no need for Atonement. ⁶You will not be able to accept perfect communication as long as you would hide it from yourself, for what you would hide is hidden.

10 In your practice, then, try only to be vigilant against deception, and seek not to protect the thoughts that you would keep unto yourself. ²Let the Holy Spirit’s purity shine them away, and bring all your awareness to the readiness for purity He offers you. ³Thus will He make you ready to acknowledge that you are host to God and hostage to no one and to nothing.
☀️[CE T-15.IV.9-10]

He will select the elements in them that represent the truth, and disregard those aspects which reflect but idle dreams.

²And He will reinterpret all you see, and all occurrences, each circumstance, and every happening which seems to touch on you in any way from His one frame of reference, wholly unified and sure.

³And you will see the love beyond the hate, the constancy in change, the pure in sin, and only Heaven’s blessing on the world.
☀️[CE W-151.11]
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