 and we are taking it one lesson a day. Here we are in February. We've made it here to February 13th, and we are on workbook lesson 44 today. I think you're going to really enjoy the collaboration with Jesus today. Today is like a, I'll call it a Jesus Christ guided meditation coming to us. So we all know that guided meditations can be very, very helpful and have been helpful. I know in my life there's been so many guided meditations, music meditations, closed-eyed meditations, open-eyed meditations, yeah, all kinds of meditations that have been very, very helpful at sinking much, much, much deeper in the mind beyond the surface of consciousness where all the images are and appearances and all the sights and sounds that aren't really sights and aren't really sounds, but they're just the projections of the belief in separation from God, the belief in differences, the belief in separate objects even, even to believe a tree is a tree. The ego has named the tree and pulled it out of the, we'll say the tapestry that the Holy Spirit is leading us towards, is toward the forgiven world, towards the happy dream, towards the simultaneous tapestry of unity, of unified awareness, seeing that illusions are all one and illusions are not many and illusions are not even dual and there are no opposites in heaven. God is a God of love and oneness and pure innocence and infinity and God doesn't create opposites or multiplicity, but we practice with everything that the ego made and that's what this Jesus Christ guided meditation and workbook lesson is about, listen 44 today, because we practice with what the ego made and letting the Holy Spirit use what the ego made to transform our consciousness and transform our awareness to take us up to the tippy top of consciousness, which is the domain of the ego and then to the leaping off point of the happy dream or the forgiven world and it just takes mind training. So we're worried for it. So here we go, we're going into workbook lesson 44 today. 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 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. Beautiful. So again, we're reinforcing that amazing, amazing revelatory truth that creation is eternal, God is eternal, that the idea of Christ, the creation of God is eternal and that Christ's creations are eternal as well. Spirit creates, spirit creates spirit. Love creates, love creates love. Light creates, light creates light and he's saying light and life, light reflects life. So when we talk about the vision of Christ, we're talking about that light of Christ, it's not of the five senses, it's not of the body's eyes or the body's ears. None of the five senses are involved in light and none of them are involved in eternity either. Five is not one, five senses. And it seems like the five senses are of the body, but the body's a projection of the ego and so are the five senses. So there's people that have near-death experiences and they report coming out of the body and being above the body in a corner of the room and hearing all the sounds and perceiving all the things that are happening as they're in the room, the body's laying there, whether it's laying there or being revived by the paramedics or whatever, they're perceiving something, but they're not perceiving themselves as in the body. That's another good symbol to the mind that the five senses are not in the body. They're part of the ego and the ego's fragmented filter or perception of separation. Again, five is not one. There's one God, one life, one Christ, one heaven and everything is eternal oneness and love. And that's creation. And then creation just extends itself, so. But we're also being reminded here in the first paragraph, creation and darkness cannot coexist. So spirit and ego, spirit and linear time, spirit and differences, oneness and multiplicity, they don't coexist, they cannot coexist, but light and life must go together being different aspects of creation, being different aspects of, we'll say, eternity. And even the word different is, not the way we think of it in this world, because Jesus tells us in the Course that the seeming levels of the trinity, Father, Son, Holy Ghost, the trinity, Holy Spirit, those levels, he said, never conflict. So we always say levels, how many levels are there in oneness? There aren't really any. Jesus is like, he's giving us some words to say, wake up, know the oneness of God. In paragraph two, 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. So again, we follow on from paragraph one. You must, in order to see, you must recognize the light is within, not without. At one point in the Course, Jesus says, the body is outside you, but it seems to surround you, shutting you off from others. Yeah, that's what he's saying. There's another line in the Course where Jesus says, mind reaches to itself, it does not go out. Within itself is everything, you within it and it within you. Again, he's teaching us that there's nothing outside of the mind and there's nothing outside of the light of Christ, the light of heaven, the light of God's love. And the projection is the attempt to get rid of something you do not want, which is fear. It's kind of a sneaky device, the ego invents a linear cosmos to try to hurl the fear out and seem as if the fear is in the cosmos. But the fear is just a belief in the ego, in the mind. And you have to go deep, deep, deep before you realize that the ego is just a false belief. It's just false evidence appearing real. That's the whole acronym for the synonym that it's not real, fear is not real. But if you see it in the world, then you're seeing it where it's not. He's telling us you do not see outside yourself. You do not see with the vision of Christ when you look out through the images. When you look through the image that the ego is, it's an image, a picture of the separation from God. When you look through the image, you see images and you believe in those images and then it's like you're looking outside for meaning, for purpose, for truth. It's not possible. An essential part of this equipment is the light that makes seeing possible. He's saying that you can only see with the vision of Christ. You can only see with spiritual vision. Sometimes it's called the spiritual eye. Sometimes it's called, you know, like Jesus said, let thine eye be single. The spiritual eye, the perspective of the spirit is when you go back, back, back, past all the images is just pure light. And I am light is a statement of truth, identity. I am light. I am the light of the world, statement of truth. I bring light with me wherever I go. It's a statement because who you are is light. So he's going to set us up here with those first two paragraphs by basically saying the only way that you truly see in the real sense, spiritual vision is Christ vision and that is light. Paragraph three. 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 and which we will utilize increasingly. It is 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 more times. 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 of 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 estimable 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. God is the light in which I see. God is the light in which I see. 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 to not forget today. God is the light in which I see. And to support us with this beautiful lesson beautiful Jesus Christ guided meditation let's go back to chapter 12 and section six the vision of Christ. Oh my, the ego is trying to teach you how to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. The Holy Spirit teaches that you cannot lose your soul and there is no gain in the world. For of itself it profits nothing. To invest without profit is surely to impoverish yourself and the overhead is high. Not only is there no profit in the investment but the cost to you is enormous. For this investment cost you the world's reality by denying yours and gives you nothing in return. You cannot sell your soul but you can sell your awareness of it. You cannot perceive your soul but you will not know it while you perceive something else is more valuable. The Holy Spirit is your strength because he knows nothing but the spirit as you. He is perfectly aware that you do not know yourself and perfectly aware of how to teach you to remember what you are. Because he loves you, he will gladly teach you what he loves for he wills to share it. Remembering you always, he cannot let you forget your worth for the father never ceases to remind him of his son and he never ceases to remind his son of the father. God is in your memory because of him. You chose to forget your father but you do not really want to do so and therefore you can decide otherwise. As it was my decision, so is it yours. You do not want the world. The only thing of value in it is whatever part of it you look upon with love. This gives it the only reality it will ever have. Its value is not in itself but yours is in you. As self-value comes from self-extension so does the perception of self-value come from the extension of loving thoughts outward. Make the world real unto yourself for the real world is the gift of the Holy Spirit and so it belongs to you. Correction is for all who cannot see. To open the eyes of the blind is the Holy Spirit's mission for he knows that they have not lost their vision but merely sleep. He would awaken them from the sleep of forgetting to the remembering of God. Christ's eyes are open and he will look upon whatever you see with love if you accept his vision as yours. The Holy Spirit keeps the vision of Christ for every son of God who sleeps. In his sight the son of God is perfect and he longs to share his vision with you. He will show you the real world because God gave you heaven. Through him your father calls his son to remember. The awakening of his son begins with his investment in the real world and by this he will learn to reinvest in himself. For reality is one with the father and the son and the Holy Spirit blesses the real world in their name. So again he's talking about investing in the real world, praying for the real world. He's talking about the happy dream of forgiveness. He's talking about the forgiven world. He's talking about a reflection of light so that you still seem to see the images but you don't invest in them at all. You don't interpret them. You open totally to the Holy Spirit, to Jesus, the forgiveness, the release of error and the acceptance of the truth and you open to a unified awareness. If you're a scientist you open to the quantum field and you let go everything else that you seem to learn about the world, about physics, not everything. When you have seen this real world as you will surely do you will remember us, capital US, capital U. He's talking about Christ and the Holy Spirit, the essence, the eternal nature. If you must learn the cost of sleeping and refuse to pay it, only then will you decide to awaken and then the real world will spring to your sight for Christ has never slept. He is waiting to be seen for he has never lost sight of you. He looks quietly on the real world which he would share with you because he knows of the Father's love for him. And knowing this he would give you what is yours? In perfect peace he waits for you at his Father's altar holding out the Father's love to you in the quiet light of the Holy Spirit's blessing. For the Holy Spirit will lead everyone home to his Father where Christ waits as his self, his divine self, his spiritual self. Every child of God is one in Christ for his being is in Christ as Christ is in God. Christ's love for you is his love for his Father which he knows because he knows his Father's love for him. And the Holy Spirit has at last led you to Christ at the altar to his Father. Perception fuses into knowledge because perception has become so holy that his transfer to holiness is merely its natural extension. Love transfers to love without any interference for the two are one. As you perceive more and more common elements in all situations, the transfer of training under the Holy Spirit's guidance increases and becomes generalized. Gradually you learn to apply it to everyone and everything for its applicability is universal. This has been accomplished. Perception and knowledge have become so similar that they share the unification of the laws of God. What is one cannot be perceived as separate and the denial of separation is the reinstatement of knowledge. At the altar of God, the holy perception of God's Son becomes so enlightened that light streams into it and the spirit of God's Son shines in the mind of the Father and becomes one with it. Very gently does God shine upon himself loving the extension of himself that is his Son. The world has no purpose as it blends into the purpose of God. For the real world has slipped quietly into heaven where everything eternal in it has always been. There the Redeemer and the Redeemed join in perfect love of God and of each other. Heaven is your home and being in God it must also be in you. The vision of Christ, the kingdom of heaven is within. The kingdom of God is within. Amen, hallelujah, all glory to God. Truth is true and only the truth is true and we rejoice in that high happy note. But all the angels are rejoicing with us today as we go forward. Deep dive, first Christ Jesus Christ meditation, guided meditation of the workbook. Enjoy it, sink deep in it today. God is the light in which I see. Amen.