 Today we have a theme in our workbook lesson that is salvation, salvation. Interesting word, salvation. Jesus reminds us in his text of the Course in Miracles that only the mind needs to be salvaged and it's only saved through peace. So this is an important direction as we go into today's workbook lesson because salvation has been applied to persons and people. Salvation has been applied to different aspects of the world or saving the world but salvation is for the mind. It's the mind that's sleeping and dreaming of exile from God that needs salvation. It needs to be saved from its false belief in the ego, the devil, evil, things that God did not create. God is not in a battle. God is pure love, unconditional, eternal, changeless love, and what seems to be the conflict is basically arising from the belief in a split mind. But love and fear don't go together. You can't believe in both love and fear and know the Creator. What the Holy Spirit is, the reminder in our mind, the remembrance of God's love, and that's why it's so important to follow the Holy Spirit, listen to the Holy Spirit, follow the instructions. That's what Jesus is our demonstration of. He basically listened to the Holy Ghost. He listened to the Holy Spirit. He heard only one voice. He transcended the ego. He even said 2,000 years ago, be of good cheer for I have overcome the world. So that's a good reminder too that we cannot look for salvation in the world enough of saving the planet, saving the whales, saving the government, saving the country, foolishness, absolute foolishness. It's the sleeping mind that believes in separation from God that of course is the point of salvation. It's the point of redemption. It's the point of forgiveness. It's the point of healing. There is no other purpose worthy of our holy mind. So today we are going to jump into Lesson 70 from the workbook Lessons of a Course in Miracles. My salvation comes from me. This is my salvation comes from the Christ identity that I am. This is not salvation from a personality's self. There are no personal saviors. God is no respecter of persons, the Bible tells us. So here we go. My salvation comes from me. My salvation comes from my mind choosing to listen to Jesus and the Holy Spirit. All temptation is nothing more than some form of the basic temptation not to believe the idea for today. Salvation seems to come from anywhere except from you. So too does the source of guilt. You see neither guilt nor salvation as in your own mind and nowhere else. When you realize that all guilt is solely an invitation of your mind, you also realize that guilt and salvation must be in the same place. It is in understanding this you are saved. So yeah guilt and salvation. You could say wrong-mindedness is guilt. Right-mindedness of Jesus and the Holy Spirit is salvation and it's a choice in the mind. Don't look to the world for salvation. It's a choice in the mind. My salvation comes from me. My salvation comes from mind, from choosing mind. Yeah there's been beautiful teachers of this. Mary Baker Eddy really was such a beautiful demonstration of divine mind. Spectacular, sparkling, pointing always pointing to God, pointing to God. God is the source of everything. God is the source of healing. God is the source of identity. The seeming cost of accepting today's idea is this. It means that nothing outside yourself can save you. Nothing outside yourself can give you peace. But it also means that nothing outside yourself can hurt you or disturb your peace or upset you in any way. Today's idea places you in charge of the universe where you belong because of what you are. This is not a role that can be partially accepted and you must surely begin to see that accepting it is salvation. It may not however be clear to you why the recognition that guilt is in your own mind entails the realization that salvation is there as well. God would not have put the remedy for sickness where it cannot help. That is the way your mind has worked but hardly his. He wants you to be healed so he has kept the source of healing where the need for healing lies. You have tried to do just the opposite making every attempt however distorted and fantastic it might be to separate healing from the sickness for which it was intended and thus keep the sickness. Your purpose was to ensure that healing did not occur. God's purpose was to ensure that it did. Today we practice realizing that God's will and ours are really the same in this. God wants us to be healed and we do not really want to be sick because it makes us unhappy. Therefore in accepting the idea for today we are really in agreement with God. He does not want us to be sick neither do we. He wants us to be healed. So do we. We are ready for longer practice periods today each of which should last some 10 to 15 minutes. We will however still let you decide when to undertake them. We will follow this practice for a number of lessons and it would again be well to decide in advance when would be a good time to lay aside for each of them and then in hearing to your own decisions as closely as possible. Begin these practice periods by repeating the idea for today and adding a statement signifying your recognition that salvation comes from nothing outside you. You might put it this way. My salvation comes from me. It cannot come from anywhere else. Then devote a few minutes with your eyes closed to reviewing some of the external places where you have looked for salvation in the past in other people, in possessions, in various situations and events, and in self concepts that you sought to make real. Recognize that it is not there. And tell yourself my salvation cannot come from any of these things. My salvation comes from me and only from me. Now we will try again to reach the light in you which is where your salvation is. You cannot find it in the clouds that surround the light and it is in them you have been looking for it. It is not there. It is past the clouds and in the light beyond. Remember that you will have to go through the clouds before you can reach the light. But remember also that you have never found anything in the cloud patterns you imagined that endured or that you wanted. Since all illusions of salvation have failed you, surely you do not want to remain in the clouds looking vainly for idols there when you can also easily walk into the light of real salvation. Try to pass the clouds by whatever means appeals to you. If it helps you, if it helps you, think of me holding your hand and leading you. And I assure you this will be no idol fantasy. For the short and frequent practice periods today remind yourself that your salvation comes from you and nothing but your own thoughts can hamper your progress. You are free from all external interference. You are in charge of your salvation. You are in charge of the salvation of the world. Say then my salvation comes from me. Nothing outside of me can hold me back. Within me is the world's salvation and my own. My salvation comes from me. Big one. And to support us today in accepting the atonement, accepting salvation, accepting redemption, accepting happiness, joy, peace, love, understanding, harmony, that there's nothing greater. That is the whole purpose of everything is to accept the correction for the error that we had called ego. So we're going to look to chapter 18 from the text in section 6 for support for the lesson of the day. My salvation comes from me, from the mind, where the correction, the Holy Spirit abides, where Jesus abides. Beyond the body, there is nothing outside you. That is what you must ultimately learn. For it is the realization that the kingdom of heaven is restored to you. For God created only this and he did not depart from it nor leave it separate from himself. The kingdom of heaven is the dwelling place of the Son of God who left not his Father and dwells not apart from him. Heaven is not a place nor a condition. It is merely an awareness of perfect oneness and the knowledge that there is nothing else, nothing outside this oneness and nothing else within. What could God give but knowledge of himself? What else is there to give? The belief that you could give and get something else, something outside yourself has cost you the awareness of heaven and of your identity. And you have done a stranger thing than you yet realize. You have displaced your guilt to your body from your mind. Yet a body cannot be guilty for it can do nothing of itself. You who think you hate your body deceive yourself. You hate your mind for guilt has entered into it and it would remain separate from your brothers, which it cannot do. Minds are joined, bodies are not. Only by assigning to the mind the properties of the body does separation seem to be possible. And it is mind that seems to be fragmented and private and alone. Its guilt which keeps it separate is projected to the body which suffers and dies because it is attacked to hold the separation in mind and let it not know its identity. Mind cannot attack but it can make fantasies and direct the body to act them out. Yet it is never what the body does that seems to satisfy. Unless the mind believes the body is actually acting out its fantasies it will attack the body by increasing the projection of its guilt upon it. In this the mind is clearly delusional. It cannot attack but it maintains it can and uses what it does to hurt the body to prove it can. The mind cannot attack but it can deceive itself and this is all it does when it believes it has attacked the body. It can project its guilt but it will not lose it through projection. And though it clearly can misperceive the function of the body it cannot change its function from what the Holy Spirit establishes it to be. The body was not made by love yet love does not condemn it and can use it lovingly respecting what the Son of God has made and using it to save him from illusions. Would you not have the instruments of separation reinterpreted as a means for salvation and used for purposes of love? Would you not welcome and support the shift from fantasies of vengeance to release from them? Your perception of the body can clearly be sick but project not this upon the body. For your wish to make destructive what cannot destroy can have no real effect at all. What God created is only what he would have it be being his will. You cannot make his will destructive. You can make fantasies in which your will conflicts with his but that is all. It is insane to use the body as a scapegoat for guilt directing its attack and blaming it for what you wished it to do. It is impossible to act out fantasies for it is still the fantasies you want and they have nothing to do with what the body does. It does not dream of them and they but make it a liability where it could be an asset. For fantasies have made your body your enemy weak vulnerable treacherous worthy of the hate that you invested in it. How has this served you? You have identified with this thing you hate the instrument of vengeance and the perceived source of your guilt. You have done this to a thing that has no meaning proclaiming it to be the dwelling place of God's son and turning it against him. This is the host of God that you have made and neither God nor his most holy son can enter an abode that harbors hate and where you have sown the seeds of vengeance violence and death. This thing you made to serve your guilt stands between you and other minds. The minds are joined but you do not identify with them. You see yourself locked in a separate prison removed and unreachable incapable of reaching out as being reached. You hate this prison you have made and would destroy it but you would not escape from it leaving it unharmed without your guilt upon it. Yet only thus can you escape. The home of vengeance is not yours. The place you set aside to house your hate is not a prison but an illusion of yourself. The body is a limit imposed on the universal communication that is an internal property of mind but the communication is internal. Mind reaches to itself. It is not made up of different parts which reach each other. It does not go out. Within itself it has no limits and there is nothing outside it. It encompasses everything. It encompasses you entirely. You within it and it within you. There is nothing else anywhere or ever. The body is outside you but it seems to surround you shutting you off from others and keeping you apart from them and them apart from you. It is not there. There is no barrier between God and his Son nor can his Son be separated from himself except in illusions. This is not his reality though he believes it is. Yet this could only be if God were wrong. God would have had to create differently and to have separated himself from his Son to make this possible. He would have had to create different things and to establish different orders of reality only some of which were love. Yet love must forever be like itself, changeless forever and forever without alternative. And so it is. You cannot put a barrier around yourself because God placed none between himself and you. You can stretch out your hand and reach to heaven. You whose hand is joined with your brothers have begun to reach beyond the body but not outside yourself to reach your shared identity together. Could this be outside you where God is not? Is he a body and did he create you as he is not and where he cannot be? You are surrounded only by him. What limits can there be on you whom he encompasses? Everyone has experienced what he would call a sense of being transported beyond himself. This feeling of liberation far exceeds the dream of freedom sometimes hoped for in special relationships. It is a sense of actual escape from limitations. If you will consider what this transportation really entails you will realize that it is a sudden unawareness of the body and the joining of yourself and something else in which your mind enlarges to encompass it. It becomes part of you as you unite with it and both become whole as neither is perceived as separate. What really happens is that you have given up the illusion of a limited awareness and lost your fear of union. The love that instantly replaces it extends to what has freed you and unites with it. And while this last you are not uncertain of your identity and would not limited you have escaped from fear to peace asking no questions of reality but merely accepting it. You have accepted this instead of the body and have let yourself be one with something beyond it simply by not letting your mind be limited by it. This can occur regardless of the physical distance that seems to be between you and what you join. If your respective positions in space and of your differences in size and seeming quality time is not relevant. It can occur with something past present or anticipated thus something can be anything and anywhere a sound a sight a thought a memory and even a general idea without specific reference. Yet in every case you join it without reservation because you love it and would be with it. And so you rush to meet it setting letting your limits melt away suspending all the laws your body obeys and gently setting them aside. There is no violence at all in this escape. The body is not attacked but simply properly perceived. It does not limit you it merely because you would not have it so. You are not really lifted out of it. It cannot contain you. You go where you would be gaining not losing a sense of your Christ self in these instance of release from physical restrictions. You experience much of what happens in the holy instant the lifting of the barriers of time and space the sudden experience of peace and joy and above all the lack of awareness of the body and of the questioning whether or not all this is possible. It is possible because you wanted the sudden expansion of awareness that takes place with your desire for it. It is the irresistible appeal the holy instant holds. It calls you to be yourself within its safe embrace. There are the laws of limit lifted for you to welcome you to openness of mind and freedom. Come to this place of refuge where you can be yourself in peace not through destruction not through a breaking out but merely by a quiet melting in where peace will join you there simply because you have been willing to let go the limits you have placed upon love and joined it where it is and where it led you in answer to its gentle call to be at peace. Divine logic divine reasoning divine extension divine wisdom that's what we're beholding here divine wisdom and divine wisdom brings about an unawareness of the body if I'm going for my salvation the salvation of the world and my salvation comes from me then I have to be ready to transcend the body to to let go of my awareness of it and to expand my awareness and allow my awareness to be expanded to encompass everyone and everything all inclusive love again we say love is all inclusive there is no exclusiveness and love that's an ego game it doesn't exist well let's enjoy a beautiful song by my friend Alisa Amor from her album in every heartbeat and we're on the theme of salvation this holy instant has salvation come to remember that we all are one one more time let's remember it today let's remember it for everyone and everything my salvation comes from me my salvation comes from me the Christ the perfect creation of a perfect loving god my salvation comes from my true identity my salvation comes from the love that I am yeah yeah okay all right sweet ones sweet mystical christ be who you are now salvation yeah there it is that's the happiness and joy be who you are in truth god bless you bye