 By day, Jesus is guiding us deeper, deeper, deeper to the kingdom of heaven within, to the light that shines forever and ever and ever. The light of innocence, the light of joy, the light of happiness, the light of love. And this week we've been rolling along in what I'm calling the holiness lessons, the holiness theme. Yes, the light of holiness. That's it. That's what everything is about, to come in touch with holiness, your own holiness and therefore the holiness of everything and everyone, as you let that holiness radiate out and kind of shine upon the world, you let it extend. You have nothing that you would hold on as an obstacle to it or as a block to it. So today we are going again into another holiness lesson in the workbook and we are on workbook lesson 39 today. My holiness is my salvation. And it's almost like Jesus is starting off this lesson with a riddle. But he's using it for instructive purposes. Isn't it fun when Jesus kind of gives you a riddle and then you're supposed to open your heart up to what, what, what is the meaning of the riddle? If guilt is hell, what is its opposite? There we go. There's the riddle. If guilt is hell, what is its opposite? Without the text for which this workbook was written, the ideas used for the exercises are very simple, very clear and totally unambiguous. We are not concerned with intellectual feats nor logical toys. We are dealing only in the very obvious, which has been overlooked in the clouds of complexity in which you think you think. If guilt is hell, what is its opposite? This is not difficult, surely. The hesitation you may feel in answering is not due to the ambiguity of the question. But do you believe that guilt is hell? If you did, you would see at once how direct and simple the text is and you would not need a workbook at all. No one needs practice to gain what is already his. Okay, if guilt is hell, what is its opposite? Basically he's telling us, do you believe that guilt is hell? If you did, you will see at once how direct and simple the text is and you would not need a workbook at all. So guilt is not associated with hell, to the sleeping mind. Guilt takes many attractive forms in the sleep of forgetfulness. In the world of projections, guilt is attractive. There's even a section in A Course in Miracles in the text called The Attraction of Guilt, the whole section devoted to that. So that's why he's saying guilt is hell, what is its opposite, because guilt is not believed to be hell in the sleeping mind. It's actually made by the ego to be quite attractive in certain forms. And very unattractive in other forms, but that's part of the split mind projecting out a world of opposites of duality and multiplicity. We have already said that your holiness is the salvation of the world. What about your own salvation? You cannot give what you do not have. A savior must be saved. How else can he teach salvation? Today's exercises will apply to you recognizing that your salvation is crucial to the salvation of the world. As you apply the exercises to your world, the whole world stands to benefit. Your holiness is the answer to every question that was ever asked is being asked now or will be asked in the future. Your holiness means the end of guilt and therefore the end of hell. Your holiness is the salvation of the world and your own. How could you, to whom your holiness belongs, be excluded from it? God does not know unholiness. Can it be he does not know his son? A full five minutes are urged for the four longer practice periods for today and longer and more frequent practice sessions are encouraged. If you want to exceed the minimum requirements more rather than longer sessions are recommended, although both are suggested. Begin the practice periods as usual by repeating today's idea to yourself. Then with eyes closed, touch out your unloving thoughts in whatever form they appear. Uneasiness, depression, anger, fear, worry, attack, insecurity and so on. Whatever form they take, they are unloving and therefore fearful. And so it is from them that you need to be saved. Many situations, events or personalities you associate with unloving thoughts of any kind are suitable subjects for today's exercises. It is imperative for your salvation that you see them differently and it is your blessing on them that will save you and give you vision. Slowly without conscious selection and without undue emphasis on any one in particular, put your mind for every thought that stands between you and your salvation. Apply the idea for today to each of them in this way. My unloving thoughts about are keeping me in hell. My holiness is my salvation. You may find these practice periods easier if you intersperse them with several short periods during which you merely repeat today's idea to yourself slowly a few times. You may also find it helpful to include a few short intervals in which you just relax and do not seem to be thinking of anything. Sustained concentration is very difficult at first. It will become much easier as your mind becomes more disciplined and less distractible. Meanwhile, you should feel free to introduce variety into the exercise periods in whatever form appeals to you. Do not, however, change the idea itself as you vary the method of applying it. However you elect to use it, the idea should be stated so that its meaning is the fact that your holiness is your salvation. End each practice period by repeating the idea in its original form once more and adding. If guilt is hell, what is its opposite? In the shorter applications, which should be made some three or four times an hour and more if possible, you may ask yourself this question. Repeat today's idea and preferably both. If temptations arise, a particularly helpful form of the idea is, my holiness is my salvation from this. My holiness is my salvation and if guilt is hell, what is its opposite? Jesus is using the idea for today and the riddle together toward the end of the lesson just so we can come to realize, my holiness is my salvation and guilt is hell. That's why we have to let go all thoughts of this world. The positive, the negative, the right, the wrong, the attractive, the unattractive. It's all the same. The images are all the same. The images were not created by God and nothing that the ego made can veil the love of truth. My holiness is my salvation. So for some support from the text, for today I was guided to type in a search that was called gift of holiness and this is what came up. As I read through it, I said, oh, these are all juicy, juicy support for my holiness is my salvation. From the text, chapter 12, section 6, make the world real unto yourself. For the real world is the gift of the Holy Spirit and so it belongs to you. Offer Christ's gift to everyone and everywhere for miracles offered. The Son of God through the Holy Spirit attune you to reality. That's from the text, chapter 13, section 8, text, chapter 15, section 3, the Holy Spirit can hold your magnitude clean of all littleness clearly and in perfect safety in your mind untouched by every little gift the world of littleness would offer you. And from chapter 16, section 2, when you have made this joining as the Holy Spirit bids you and have offered it to him to use as he sees fit, his natural perception of your gift enables him to understand it and you to use his understanding on your behalf. 6, chapter 17, section 5, as you begin to recognize and accept the gifts you have so freely given to your brother, you will also accept the effects of the Holy Instant and use them to correct all your mistakes and free you from their results. Chapter 19, section 4, for it is he who offered your relationship the gift of holiness without which it would have been forever impossible to appreciate your brother. And also from that same section, and offer thanks to God that he is holy and has been given the gift of holiness for you. And again from that same area, behold the gift of freedom that I gave the Holy Spirit for you. So wow, what a journey we're on here. Today we are practicing the workbook lesson. My holiness is my salvation and we're zooming into the day. And yeah, what an amazing morning this has been. This lesson has just been washing through the mind and bringing such relief, such sparkle, such tranquility washing over the mind, serenity. Yes, my holiness is my salvation. It's almost like a song that's wanting to come out of my lips. But it's in my heart chamber. I don't know why it hasn't emerged. But it will, I'm sure it's going to be bubbling and bubbling. So how beautiful my holiness is my salvation. Go forth, shine your light. Just think about that. Yeah, that any question has ever been asked, any problem that ever presented itself. It was our own holiness, our identity as the Christ, the holiness of the Christ that is the answer to any seeming situation, person, place, event that disturbs us. No, our holiness was what was missing from our perception. And now we're letting it come in us and through us and letting our love and joy and laughter just bubble up, bubble up in our awareness. And and spread. It's like our it's our gift of grace to everyone and everything. What a string of holiness lessons. My holiness is my salvation. This this is. Yeah, we're just getting the crescendo. OK. Thank you, everyone. I wish you love. I wish you a happy day. I wish you all the joy of God.