 coming to you from heart to heart as we go deep, deep, deep inward into the love of Jesus, the love of God, guided by the Holy Spirit, undoing all the errors in the mind, releasing all the scraps of fear and guilt that held us back from knowing our Creator, from knowing God. So we're in the process of unwinding the mind back to God, remembering the truth of God as Spirit, remembering our original creation, we'll call it, which is the Christ. God created us in love is the pure idea in the mind of God and that's the Christ. And all forgiveness is removing the obstacles to the awareness of love's presence. And letting go, letting go of outcomes, letting go of goals in the world, letting go of thoughts of the past and projections of the future, coming into the contentment and the tranquility and the serenity of the present moment. So today we jump in again with lesson 35. My mind is part of God's. I am very holy. Today's idea does not describe the way you see yourself now. It does, however, describe what vision will show you. It is difficult for anyone who thinks he is in this world to believe this of himself. Yet the reason he thinks he is in this world is because he does not believe it. You will believe that you are part of where you think you are. That is because you surround yourself with the environment you want and you want it to protect the image of yourself that you have made. The image is part of this environment. What you see while you believe you are in it is seen through the eyes of the image. This is not vision. Images cannot see. So wow, give it to us straight, Jesus. Jesus, in another part of his course, will say that a child of God is happy only in the environment in which he was created. And that's the kingdom of heaven. Jesus remembered the kingdom of heaven and that's where his happiness and joy, his peace, his love came from, from remembering the environment in which he was created, which is spirit. Eternal spirit. Spirit is eternal, the eternal nature of reality. You can say that line a thousand times every day. The eternal nature of reality. The idea for today presents a very different view of yourself by establishing your source that establishes your identity and it describes you as you must really be in truth. We will use a somewhat different kind of application for today's idea because the emphasis for today is on the perceiver rather than on what he perceives. For each of the three minute practice periods today, begin by repeating today's idea to yourself and then close your eyes and search your mind for the various kinds of descriptive terms in which you see yourself. Include all the ego-based attributes which you ascribe to yourself, positive or negative, desirable or undesirable, grandiose or debased. All of them are equally unreal because you do not look upon yourself through the eyes of holiness. In an earlier part of the mind searching period, you will probably emphasize what you consider to be the more negative aspects of your perception of yourself. Toward the latter part of the exercise period, however, more self-inflating descriptive terms may well cross your mind. Try to recognize that the direction of your fantasies about yourself does not matter. Illusions have no direction in reality. They are merely not true. A suitable, unselected list for applying the idea today might be as follows. I see myself as imposed on. I see myself as depressed. I see myself as failing. I see myself as engendered, endangered. I see myself as helpless. I see myself as victorious. I see myself as losing out. I see myself as charitable. I see myself as virtuous. You should not think of these terms in any abstract way. They will occur to you as various situations, personalities, and events in which you figure cross your mind. Pick up any specific situation that occurs to you, identify the descriptive term or terms you feel are applicable to your reactions to that situation, and use them in applying to this idea. After you have named each one at, but my mind is part of God's, I am very holy. During the longer exercise periods, there will probably be intervals in which nothing specific occurs to you. Do not strain to think up specific things to fill the interval, but merely relax and repeat today's idea slowly until something occurs to you. Although nothing that does occur should be emitted from the exercises, nothing should be dug out with effort. Neither force nor discrimination should be used. As often as possible during the day, pick up a specific attribute or attributes you are ascribing to yourself at the time and apply the idea for today to them, adding the idea in the form stated above to each of them. If nothing particular occurs to you, merely repeat the idea to yourself with closed eyes. My mind is part of God's, I am very holy. In traveling around the world for many years and talking to many, many, many course and miracle students, they talk about reaching the part in the workbook where they call up the holiness lessons. They say, oh, I was doing so well until these holiness lessons. They said, why do I have so much trouble hearing the word holy or holiness and then applying it to myself? And so this is the beginning of, yes, let's say it. This is the beginning of really opening up to the Holy Spirit. And that is the reading from the text that I'm gonna use in support of us today as we go for that idea. My mind is part of God's, I am very holy. Let's go back to chapter five and section one, the invitation to the Holy Spirit. And there is oftentimes an unconscious fear of the Holy Spirit, because it's the ego's fear of being undone. It's, or in Christian terms, it's the devil's fear of being exposed to the light of God and the power of God's love and disappearing, and ego doesn't want to disappear. So that's why there's sometimes a fear of the Holy Spirit, even if it's not a conscious fear. But we're going to open up here to the friendliness, the comfort of the great comforter. We're gonna open up to the instructions, the guidance of the Holy Spirit, which is our friend of friends, we'll say, in our mind. It's a bright light in our mind that is calling us home, is calling us out of the world, as we know from Jesus. I am calling you out of the world. So, chapter five, section one, the invitation to the Holy Spirit. Healing is a thought by which two minds perceive their oneness and become glad. This gladness calls to every part of the sonship to rejoice with them and lets God go out into them and through them. Only the healed mind can experience revelation with lasting effect, because revelation is an experience of pure joy. If you do not choose to be holy joyous, your mind cannot have what it does not choose to be. Remember that spirit knows no difference between having and being. The higher mind thinks according to the law spirit obeys and therefore honors only the laws of God. To spirit, getting is meaningless and giving is all. Having everything, spirit holds everything by giving it and thus creates as the Father created. While this kind of thinking is totally alien to having things, even to the lower mind, it is quite comprehensible in connection with ideas. If you share a physical possession, you divide its ownership. If you share an idea, however, you do not listen it. All of it is still yours, although all of it has been given away. Further, if the one to whom you give it accepts it as his, he reinforces it in your mind and thus increases it. If you can accept the concept that the world is one of ideas and the whole belief in the false association the ego makes between giving and losing is gone. Let us start our process of reawakening with just a few simple concepts. Thoughts increase by being given away. The more who believe in them, the stronger they become. Everything is an idea. How then can giving and losing be associated? This is the invitation to the Holy Spirit. I have said it already that I can reach up and bring the Holy Spirit down to you, but I can bring him to you only at your own invitation. The Holy Spirit is in your right mind as he was in mine. The Bible says may the mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus and uses this as a blessing. It is the blessing of miracle-mindedness. It asks you that you may think as I thought joining with me in Christ thinking. The Holy Spirit is the only part of the Holy Trinity that has a symbolic function. He is referred to as the healer, the comforter, and the guide. He is also described as something separate apart from the Father and from the Son. I myself said, if I go, I will send you another comforter and he will abide with you. His symbolic function makes the Holy Spirit difficult to understand because symbolism is open to different interpretations. As a man and also one of God's creation, my right thinking, which came from the Holy Spirit or the universal inspiration, taught me first and foremost that this inspiration is for all. I could not have it myself without knowing this. The word know is proper in this context because the Holy Spirit is so close to knowledge that he calls it forth or better allows it to come. I have spoken before of the higher or true perception which is so near to truth that God himself can flow across the little gap. Knowledge is always ready to flow everywhere but it cannot oppose. Therefore you can obstruct it although you can never lose it. The Holy Spirit is the Christ mind which is aware of the knowledge that lies beyond perception. He came into being with the separation as a protection inspiring the Atonement principle at the same time. Before that, there was no need for healing for no one was comfortless. The voice of the Holy Spirit is the call to Atonement or to the restoration of the integrity of the mind. When the Atonement is complete and the whole sonship is healed, there will be no call to return but what God creates is eternal. The Holy Spirit will remain with the sons of God to bless their creations and keep them in the light of joy. So there we go. Wow, that's our invitation to the Holy Spirit and what better way as we're practicing my mind as part of God's I am very holy as we're welcoming the holiness then we welcome the Holy Spirit. We invite the Holy Spirit. We say, come unto me, move through me, breathe through me, shine through me, guide me, instruct me. I would not say or do anything today without your guidance. I would not think anything today if it doesn't line up with you, Holy Spirit. To Holy Spirit, we offer our thoughts, our prayers. We say, Holy Spirit, decide for God for me. Enlighten me, illuminate my mind. Let me shine forth and be happy. Let me make a happy noise for God today or if you don't wanna make any noise just have a happy smile on your face. Have a happy gaze in your eyes. Sparkle, sparkle, sparkle today wherever you go. When you wake up and you invite the Holy Spirit expect sparkling eyes. That's what you get when you honestly, sincerely invite the Holy Spirit to be in your heart and to guide you and shine through you. Sparkle, sparkle, sparkle. So it's just an honor really to do this. We again will look at that lesson. My mind is part of God's I am very holy. It's that I am very holy part that people sometimes have a resistance to and that's because of ego conditioning. Let's admit that there was a lot of past learning ego conditioning with guilt and blame and pain and shame and pride and all kinds of things, scraps of guilt, scraps of nothingness that have preoccupied our minds. Let's get the Holy Spirit vacuum cleaner on us today to vacuum those scraps up, get that dirt. It just seems to be dirt because God didn't create it and we have no business thinking these strange thoughts of time and space. Time and space are strange thoughts. If your mind is literally blank when you're thinking of these strange thoughts of what people call their daily lives or daily stream of consciousness is strange. It's weird. It's unusual. It doesn't really belong in our holy mind and Jesus is telling us it's really not a part of your holy mind because you are still holy and your holiness remains unchanged, untouched. Your worth is not established by a personality self or a group of personality selves. Your worth is established by God. Nothing you think or say or make or do establishes your worth because when God creates Christ as a pure idea, there ain't nothing gonna touch that. That is completely beyond these erroneous thoughts of time and space. You can feel the joy. You could really feel it in your heart when you realize that you're a creation of God and all you're meant to do is watch this world and in the end, it's not so much participate in any of the thoughts that you think you think or the world that you think you see. People say is that passive? Well, it's just like a gaze of innocence is what you're going into. You're a dreamer of this dream and if you line that dreaming up with the Holy Spirit then you're just going to be gazing on the world and being the light of the world and just by your state of mind, by the condition of your heart. That's all it is. It's nothing more. It's quite simple. It's actually that ego is complex at trying to cover over. So go forth today, shine your light and be the love and joy and the holiness that you are. And remember, my mind is part of God's. I am very holy. Amen, God bless and go forth in love and light.