 We continue on today with Chapter 6, The Lessons of the Holy Spirit. Be vigilant only for God and His Kingdom. We said before that the Holy Spirit is evaluative and must be. He sorts out the true from the false in your mind and teaches you to judge every thought you allow to enter it in the light of what God put there. Whatever is in accord with this light, He retains to strengthen the Kingdom in you. What is partly in accord with it, He accepts and purifies. But what is out of accord entirely, He rejects by judging against. This is how He keeps the Kingdom perfectly consistent and perfectly unified. Remember, however, that what the Holy Spirit rejects, the ego accepts. This is because they are in fundamental disagreement about everything, being in fundamental disagreement about what you are. The ego's beliefs on this crucial issue vary and that is why it promotes different moods. The Holy Spirit never varies on this point and so the one mood He engenders is joy. He protects it by rejecting everything that does not foster joy and so He alone can keep you wholly joyous. The Holy Spirit does not teach you to judge others because He does not want you to teach error and learn it yourself. He would hardly be consistent if He allowed you to strengthen what you must learn to avoid. In the mind of the thinker, then, He is judgmental but only in order to unify the mind so it can perceive without judgment. This enables the mind to teach without judgment and therefore to learn to be without judgment. The undoing is necessary only in your mind so that you will not project instead of extend. God Himself has established what you can extend with perfect safety. Therefore, the Holy Spirit's third lesson is, be vigilant only for God and His kingdom. This is a major step towards fundamental change yet it still has an aspect of thought reversal since it implies that there is something you must be vigilant against. It has advanced far from the first lesson which is merely the beginning of the thought reversal and also from the second which is essentially the identification of what is more desirable. This step which follows from the second as the second follows from the first emphasizes the dichotomy between the desirable and the undesirable. It therefore makes the ultimate choice inevitable. While the first step seems to increase conflict and the second may still entail conflict to some extent, this step calls for consistent vigilance against it. I have already told you that you can be as vigilant against the ego as for it. This lesson teaches not only that you can be but that you must be. It does not concern itself with order of difficulty but with clear cut priority for vigilance. This lesson is unequivocal in that it teaches there must be no exceptions although it does not deny that the temptation to make exceptions will occur. Here then your consistency is called on despite chaos. Yet chaos and consistency cannot coexist for long since they are mutually exclusive. As long as you must be vigilant against anything however, you are not recognizing this mutual exclusiveness and still believing that you can choose either one. By teaching what to choose, the Holy Spirit will ultimately teach you that you need not choose at all. This will finally liberate your mind from choice and directed towards creation within the kingdom. Choosing through the Holy Spirit will lead you to the kingdom. You create by your true being but what you are must learn to remember. The way to remember it is inherent in the third step which brings together the lessons implied in the others and goes beyond them towards real integration. If you allow yourself to have in your mind only what God put there, you are acknowledging your mind as God created it. Therefore, you are accepting it as it is. Since it is whole, you are teaching peace because you believe in it. The final step will be still taken for you by God but by the third step the Holy Spirit has prepared you for God. He is getting you ready for the translation of having into being by the very nature of the steps you must take with him. You learn first that having rests on giving and not on getting. Next you learn that you learn what you teach and that you want to learn peace. This is the condition for identifying with the kingdom since it is the condition of the kingdom. You have believed that you are without the kingdom and have therefore excluded yourself from it in your belief. It is therefore essential to teach you that you must be included and that the belief that you are not is the only thing that you must exclude. The third step is thus one of protection for your mind allowing you to identify only with the center where God placed the altar to himself. Alters are beliefs but God and his creations are beyond belief because they are beyond question. The voice for God speaks only for the belief beyond question which is the preparation for being without question. As long as belief in God and his kingdom is assailed by any doubts in your mind his perfect accomplishment is not apparent to you. This is why you must be vigilant on God's behalf. The ego speaks against his creation and therefore engenders doubt. You cannot go beyond belief until you believe fully. To teach the whole sonship without exception demonstrates that you perceive its wholeness and have learned that it is one. Now you must be vigilant to hold its oneness in your mind because if you let doubt enter you will lose awareness of its wholeness and will be unable to teach it. The wholeness of the kingdom does not depend on your perception but your awareness of its wholeness does. It is only your awareness that needs protection since being cannot be assailed. Yet a real sense of being cannot be yours while you are doubtful of what you are. This is why vigilance is essential. Doubts about being must not enter your mind or you cannot know what you are with certainty. Certainty is of God for you. Vigilance is not necessary for truth but it is necessary against illusions. Truth is without illusions and therefore within the kingdom. Everything outside the kingdom is illusion. When you threw truth away you saw yourself as if you were without it. By making another kingdom that you valued you did not keep only the kingdom of God in your mind and thus placed part of your mind outside it. What you made has imprisoned your will and given you a sick mind that must be healed. Your vigilance against the sickness is the way to heal it. Once your mind is healed it radiates health and thereby teaches healing. This establishes you as a teacher who teaches like me. Vigilance was required of me as much as of you and those who choose to teach the same thing must be in agreement about what they believe. The third step then is a statement of what you want to believe and entails a willingness to relinquish everything else. The Holy Spirit will enable you to take this step if you follow Him. Your vigilance is the sign that you want Him to guide you. Vigilance does require effort but only until you learn that effort itself is unnecessary. You have exerted great effort to preserve what you made because it was not true. Therefore you must now turn your effort against it. Only this can cancel out the need for effort and call upon the being which you both have and are. This recognition is wholly without effort since it is already true and needs no protection. It is in the perfect safety of God. Therefore inclusion is total and creation is without limit. And from the workbook, lesson 44, God is the light in which I see. Today we are continuing the idea for yesterday adding another dimension to it. You cannot see in darkness and you cannot make light. You can make darkness and then you think you see in it. But light reflects life and is therefore an aspect of creation. Creation and darkness cannot coexist but light and life must go together. Being but different aspects of creation. In order to see you must recognize that light is within, not without. You do not see outside yourself nor is the equipment for seeing outside you. An essential part of this equipment is the light that makes seeing possible. It is with you always making vision possible in every circumstance. Today we are going to attempt to reach that light. For this purpose we will use a form of exercise which has been suggested before in which we will utilize increasingly. It is a particularly difficult form for the undisciplined mind and represents a major goal of mind training. It requires precisely what the untrained mind lacks. Yet this training must be accomplished if you are to see. Have at least three practice periods today, each lasting three to five minutes. A longer time is highly recommended, but only if you find the time slipping by with little or no sense of strain. The form of practice we will use today is the most natural and easy one in the world for the trained mind, just as it seems to be the most unnatural and difficult for the untrained mind. Your mind is no longer wholly untrained. You are quite ready to learn the form of exercise we will use today, but you may find that you will encounter strong resistance. The reason is very simple. While you practice in this way, you leave behind everything that you now believe and all the thoughts that you have made up. Properly speaking, this is the release from hell. Yet perceived through the ego's eyes, it is loss of identity and a descent into hell. If you can stand aside from the ego by ever so little, you will have no difficulty in recognizing that its opposition and its fears are meaningless. You might find it helpful to remind yourself from time to time that to reach light is to escape from darkness. Whatever you may believe to the contrary, God is the light in which you see. You are attempting to reach Him. Begin the practice period by repeating today's idea with your eyes open and close them slowly, repeating the idea several times more. God is the light in which I see. God is the light in which I see. God is the light in which I see. God is the light in which I see. Then try to sink into your mind, letting go every kind of interference and intrusion by quietly sinking past them. Your mind cannot be stopped in this unless you choose to stop it. It is merely taking its natural course. Try to observe your passing thoughts without involvement and slip quietly by them, while no particular approach is advocated for this form of exercise. What is needful is a sense of the importance of what you are doing. It's an inestimable value to you and an awareness that you are attempting something very holy. Salvation is your happiest accomplishment. It is also the only one that has any meaning because it is the only one that has any real use to you at all. If resistance rises in any form, pause long enough to repeat today's idea, keeping your eyes closed unless you are aware of fear. In that case, you will probably find it more reassuring to open your eyes briefly. Try, however, to return to the exercises with eyes closed as soon as possible. If you are doing the exercises correctly, you should experience some sense of relaxation and even a feeling that you are approaching if not actually entering into light. Try to think of light, formless and without limit as you pass by the thoughts of this world and do not forget that they cannot hold you to the world unless you give them the power to do so. Throughout the day, repeat the idea often with eyes open or closed as seems better to you at the time, but do not forget above all be determined not to forget today. God is the light in which I see. So today is a time of sinking inward, sinking past all thoughts, sinking past every thought of the light within. Today is a meditation. It does not matter what is believed about meditation. Today is our opportunity to meditate, to sink inward into stillness, not merely to watch the thoughts, to sink past them entirely deep inside. Today this is our vigilance to sink beneath all doubt thoughts because every doubt thought is the thought of fear. Every doubt thought is to question our very identity, which is beyond questioning. What is, is what I am and nothing else matters. This sinking inward, this complete letting go now has all importance and is the road to all meaning. This is to be given complete and full attention, full focus, everything. This meditation is not an event. It is not an event on the timeline. It is sinking into the timeless, the spaceless, the light, eternity, certainty, strength and certainty declare God is the light in which