 Today we are on the 31st day of January, the 31st day, the last day of the month and therefore we are diving into a Course in Miracles workbook lesson 31 and a glorious, glorious way to spend our day with mind training. So lesson 31, here we go. I am not the victim of the world I see. Today's idea is the introduction to your declaration of release. Again the idea should be applied to both the world you see without and the world you see within. In applying the idea we will use a form of practice which will be used more and more with changes as indicated. Generally speaking the form includes two aspects, one in which you apply the idea on a more sustained basis and the other consisting of frequent applications of the idea throughout the day. Two longer periods of practice with the idea for today are needed, one in the morning and one at night. Three to five minutes for each of these are recommended. During that time look about you slowly while repeating the idea two or three times then close your eyes and apply the same idea to your inner world. You will escape from both together for the inner is the cause of the outer. As you survey your inner world merely let whatever thoughts cross your mind come into your awareness each should be considered for a moment and then replaced by the next. Try not to establish any kind of hierarchy among them. Watch them come and go as dispassionately as possible. Do not dwell on any one in particular but try to let the stream move on evenly and calmly without any special investment on your part. As you sit and quietly watch your thoughts repeat today's idea to yourself as often as you care to but with no sense of hurry. In addition repeat the idea for today as often as possible during the day. Remind yourself that you are making a declaration of independence in the name of your own freedom and in your freedom lies the freedom of the world. The idea for today is also particularly useful one to use as a response to any form of temptation that may arise. It is a declaration that you will not yield to it and put yourself in bondage. I am not the victim of the world I see. Beautiful. Well we actually are coming to a point today where we are letting go of the belief that we can be attacked because in the end we must realize that these attack thoughts these ego thoughts that we've held in our mind have appeared in different forms. It seems like we have been the one attacking or our body personality self and other times it seems as if the world or another person or another group is doing the attacking but Jesus taught us in the Sermon on the Mount to judge not lest you be judged and basically what he meant was as long as you hold on to these attack thoughts belief and separation from your creator belief that you can attack or be attacked that you will not know peace. The peace that passes the understanding of the world is beyond the possibility of attack or interference of any kind and so we practice this lesson today as we move forward. It's really when we're saying I'm not a victim of the world I see we're saying I cannot be mistreated, I cannot be abused, I cannot be unfairly treated in any way and it's obvious that the personality self the mask the persona that has been taken on by the ego as a false identity it's obvious that that persona seems to be attack and sometimes seems to attack even in self-defense but the real question underneath that is why wear a mask when God created you beautiful pure innocent perfect in spirit why take on a mask and get into the attack defense cycle. So the abuse that is perceived you have to begin to start to see that that's an interpretation and it's not a friendly interpretation this is not a Holy Spirit interpretation this is not a Jesus Christ interpretation all abuse and mistreatment is a gross misinterpretation of what is right here and right now and what is right here and right now is is God's love it is never absent God's love is always always always present so for support for today's idea I thought I would pop into a couple different places one of them is chapter 25 the justice of heaven uh it's actually section nine the justice of heaven in the chapter in chapter 25 and we can drop down to uh the third paragraph in in that section nine the justice of heaven be certain any answer to a problem the Holy Spirit solves will always be one in which no one loses and this must be true because he asked no sacrifice of anyone an answer which demands the slightest loss to anyone has not resolved the problem but has added to it and made it greater harder to resolve and more unfair it is impossible the Holy Spirit could see unfairness as a resolution to him what is unfair must be corrected because it is unfair and every error is a perception in which one at least is seen unfairly thus is justice not accorded to the Son of God when anyone is seen as losing he has been condemned and punishment becomes his due instead of justice the sight of innocence makes punishment impossible and justice sure the Holy Spirit's perception leaves no ground for an attack only a loss could justify attack and loss of any kind he cannot see the world solves problems in another way it sees a resolution as a state in which it is decided who shall win and who shall lose how much shall one shall take and how much the losers still defend yet does the problem still remain unsolved for only justice can set up a state in which there is no loser no one left unfairly treated and deprived and thus with grounds for vengeance problem solving cannot be vengeance which at best can bring another problem added to the first in which the murder is not obvious the Holy Spirit's problem solving is the way in which the problem ends it has been solved because it has been met with justice until it has it will recur because it is not been solved the principle that justice means no one can lose is crucial to this course for miracles depend on justice not as seen through this world's eyes but as God knows and as knowledge is reflected in the sight the Holy Spirit gives so justice is forgiveness huh justice is forgive your brothers and sisters for they know not what they do you know they're forgive the misperception of fragmented perception forgive the belief in in duality forgive the split mind let go of the wrong mind and accept the right mind accept the atonement you know don't don't hold on to the belief that anybody has ever wronged anybody because in truth in reality in spirit that has not occurred and so justice is just a way of looking at the world with the Holy Spirit when with Jesus and trusting that as it says in the Bible all things work together for good for those who love the Lord and and as Jesus reaffirms and of course in miracles all things work together for good there are no exceptions except in the ego's judgment and the ego's judgment is not true it's not reality so let's jump ahead to also chapter 26 and let's go to section 10 the end of injustice you can see how this fits with our workbook lesson today I am not the victim of the world I see lesson 31 and here we are now in chapter 26 section 10 the end of injustice okay if there is no injustice then there can't be victimization there can't be abuse there can't be mistreatment ah it all pieces together thank you Jesus what then remains to be undone for you to realize their presence the presence of the Holy Spirit in Christ only this you have a differential view of when attack is justified and when you think it is unfair and not to be allowed when you perceive it as unfair you think that a responsive anger now is just and thus you see what is the same as different confusion is not limited if it occurs at all it will be total and its presence in whatever form will hide their presence they are known with clarity or not at all confused perception will block knowledge it is not a question of the size of the confusion or how much it interferes its simple presence shuts the door to theirs and keeps them there unknown what does it mean if you perceive attack in certain forms to be unfair to you it means that there must be some forms in which you think it is fair for otherwise how could some be evaluated as unfair some then are given meaning and perceived as sensible and only some are seen as meaningless and this denies the fact that all are senseless equally without a cause or consequence and cannot have effects of any kind their presence is obscured by any veil that stands between their shining innocence and your awareness that it is your own and equally belongs to every living thing along with you god limits not and what is limited cannot be heaven so it must be hell unfairness and attack are one mistake so firmly joined that where one is perceived the other must be seen you cannot be unfairly treated the belief you are is by another form of the idea that you are deprived by someone not yourself projection of the cause of sacrifice is at the root of everything perceived to be unfair and not your just desserts yet it is you who ask this of yourself in deep injustice to the son of god you have no enemy except yourself and your enemy indeed to him because you do not know him as yourself so there it is he goes on in paragraph four be aware of the temptation to perceive yourself as unfairly treated in this view you seek to find an innocence that is not theirs but yours alone and that the cost of someone else's guilt can innocence be purchased by the giving of your guilt to someone else and is it innocence that your attack on him attempts to get is it not rest retribution for your own attack upon the son of god you seek is it not safer to believe that you are innocent of this and victimize despite your innocence whatever way the game of guilt is played there must be loss someone must lose his innocence as someone else can take it from him making it his own so this is beautiful beautiful reminder the impossibility of attack the impossibility of being unfairly treated jesus is saying be aware of the temptation to perceive yourself unfairly treated because it's just the projection of an attack thought that's that's what this misperception is the belief that attack is real for anyone anywhere any place any time is a denial of the light of god the light of truth this world was made up by the ego the entire cosmos was made by the ego to be a representation of separation and attack and that's why it's a fragmented perception but when you start to open your heart to god's love it's like bye bye bye to fragmented perception you no longer want it and when you no longer want it you no longer perceive it what's there in the place unified perception the quantum field joy love happiness everything is swirling together simultaneously in this moment and you are a beholder of that you know you you are not going to buy the bait of victimization so again we practice our lesson today lesson 31 i am not the victim of the world i see and then you can remind yourself throughout the day i'm not a victim of anything i'm not i'm not a victim of anything i'm not a victim of the ego i no longer see a value in holding the belief in separation from god i would rather rejoice and go my way in happiness and gladness and so it is so it is we go forth in in happiness and joy thank you god bless you may you have a joyful loving uh happy happy filled day uh just rejoicing in the love of god all the way okay