 Jesus is leading us day by day here and letting go of the projected world and accepting the kingdom of heaven within as we go within to the mystical Christ. What a nice sound that has, the mystical Christ. Every time you have doubts about your motivation or you don't feel quite so inspired, you feel like you're dragging a little bit. Just remember that little phrase, the mystical Christ. It brings a sparkle to your eyes, a smile on your face. Yeah, Christ is our identity and we smile every time we give our mind that thought, the mystical Christ. So today we're on day 14 of the year. We're on Sunday the 14th of January and we're dropping into the beautiful lesson today and this is kind of a hallelujah lesson. I'd say after those first 13 kind of exposing and undoing lessons about our thoughts and our perceptions, then we just came to meeting this world and gender sphere yesterday. But here we are opening to the hallelujah. It's like Hosanna, Hosanna, glory to the Lord in the highest. This is like our the beginning of our resurrection day because we're getting into true cause and effect. That's right, that God is love and God creates in love and this fragmented perceptual world of linear time is not the will of God. The will of God is love. The will of God is perfect happiness. God's will for you is perfect happiness. So let's jump into lesson 14 today. Lesson 14, God did not create a meaningless world. The idea for today is of course the reason why a meaningless world is impossible. But God did not create does not exist and everything that does exist exist as he created it. The world you see has nothing to do with reality. It is of your own making and it does not exist. The exercises for today are to be practiced with eyes closed throughout. The mind searching period should be short a minute at most. Do not have more than three practice periods with today's idea unless you find them comfortable. If you do it will be because you really understand what they are for. The idea for today is another step in learning to let go the thoughts that you have written on the world and see the word of God in their place. The early steps in this exchange which can truly be called salvation can be quite difficult and even quite painful. Some of them will lead you directly into fear. You will not be left there. You will go far beyond it. Our direction is toward perfect safety and perfect peace. With eyes closed think of all the horrors of the world across your mind. Name each one as it occurs to you and then deny its reality. God did not create it and so it is not real. Say for example, God did not create that war and so it is not real. God did not create that airplane crash and so it is not real. God did not create that disaster. Specify a disaster, an earthquake, a tsunami, anything you can think of and so it is not real. Suitable subjects for the application of today's idea also include anything you are afraid might happen to you or to anyone about whom you are concerned. In each case name the quote disaster quite specifically. Do not use general terms. For example, do not say God did not create illness but God did not create cancer or heart attacks or whatever may arouse fear in you. This is your personal repertory of horrors at which you are looking. These things are part of the world you see. Some of them are shared illusions and others are part of your personal health. It does not matter. What God did not create can only be in your own mind apart from his. Therefore it has no meaning. In recognition of this fact conclude the practice periods by repeating today's idea. God did not create a meaningless world. The idea for today can of course be applied to anything that disturbs you during the day aside from the practice periods. Be very specific in applying it. Say God did not create a meaningless world. He did not create and then you specify whatever situations disturbing you and so it is not real. Hallelujah. God did not create a meaningless world. This is such a basic core lesson because this is aligned with the introduction of the text. Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Because God did not create a meaningless world this can be a base core lesson that you carry with you whenever you feel guilt or fear or shame or pain. It's the step out. It's the step of release from illusions. If God is love and everything that God creates is pure love. If God is spirit and spirit is real and true. If eternal life and spirit and infinity are reality then this fits right with our lesson today. God did not create a meaningless world. Let's just pop into the text for a little support because I know a lot of times when I've traveled the world I've spoken and visited 44 countries and five different six continents I guess. But actually one of the questions that come up when we start to get into the idea that God did not create a meaningless world is people oftentimes will say well where did it come from then? So let's go to chapter five which is in section three in that chapter the guide to salvation. Let's jump down to paragraph 11. The ego made the world as it perceives it but the Holy Spirit the reinterpretor of what the ego made sees the world as a teaching device for bringing you home. The Holy Spirit must perceive time and reinterpret it into the timeless. He must work through opposites because he must work with and for a mind that is in opposition. Correct and learn and be open to learning. You have not made truth but truth can still set you free. Look as the Holy Spirit looks and understand as he understands. His understanding looks back to God in remembrance of me. He is in communion with God always and he is part of you. He is your guide to salvation because he holds the remembrance of things past and to come and brings them to the present. He holds this gladness gently in your mind asking only that you increase it in his name by sharing it to increase his joy in you. Wow okay there we go the ego made the world as it perceives it but the Holy Spirit the reinterpretor of what the ego made sees the world as a teaching device for bringing you home. Very very encouraging what an opportunity. So let's jump now to chapter 10. No let's go let's go all the way to 11 and section 7 and we'll drop down here to a little bit inside the fourth paragraph starting with the fourth sentence in the fourth paragraph. You have made many ideas that you have placed between yourself and your Creator and these beliefs are the world as you perceive it. So it's a world of beliefs in heaven there are no beliefs but these beliefs are the world as you perceive it and these beliefs are the ego. We just you know heard in the previous chapter reading that the ego made the world as it perceives it so so basically if you believe in the ego then you believe in its projected world and you take that projected world to be reality. Truth is not absent here but it is obscure. You do not know the difference between what you have made and what God created and so you do not know the difference between what you have made and what you have created. Okay to believe that you can perceive the real world is to believe that you can know yourself. You can know God because it is his will to be known. The real world is all that the Holy Spirit has saved for you out of what you have made and to perceive only this is salvation because it is the recognition that reality is only what is true. So that's a beautiful addition right there that the ego made the world as it perceives it the Holy Spirit can reinterpret it all and has reinterpreted it all in an instant and and has saved everything for you out of what you have made so it's like all the loving thoughts were saved and all the projections were seen as nothing and released. What a comforter. What a guide. That's why we listen to the guidance of the Holy Spirit and Jesus because because basically we want to see the world differently. We want to see a forgiven world. We want to see a happy dream. We want our our distorted fragmented perception to get straightened out so we can see the world anew. We can see a lit up world instead of a fragmented and linear dark world that the ego presents to us. So when we look through the ego filter it's it's it's dark. It's it's frustrating. It's it's fearful. It's it's guilty. It's a it's a dark dark dark lens. I'm looking and seeing some some sunglasses. It's like you're having a beautiful happy day joyful joyful and then you you look at the world with the ego oh it's much darker. It's like putting sunglasses on your eyes. Okay well let's pop off now onward to to an optimistic note. Let's go to chapter 12 and we're going to go down to paragraph eight in section three here. Start with sentence four. God gave you the real world in exchange for the one you made out of your split mind and which is the symbol of death for if you could really separate yourself from the mind of God you would die. So when he says God gave you the real world sometimes people say well wait a minute if God is pure spirit and he doesn't even know about this world then why how is he giving us the real world and it's really the Holy Spirit is the maker capital M of the real world basically just what we read the Holy Spirit has saved only the love only the love for us and and has released everything else released linearity released all attack all grievances you might say if the ego made linear time in the linear time space cosmos then God gave you the real world and the Holy Spirit is the maker of this world and he's showing you the momentary simultaneous world of it's not a linear time because the ego is using a projected world of linear time to guard against the love of God and of course the Holy Spirit brings us back to the present moment and simultaneous time so he goes on to say the world you perceive is a world of separation perhaps you are willing to accept even death to deny your father yet he would not have it so and so it is not so you still cannot will against him and that is why you have no control over the world you may have no control over the world you may the script is written these these ideas from the text and the workbooks seem to be going together you have no control over the world you made and then from lesson 158 the script is written then just a little bit later in that paragraph for you do have control over your mind since the mind is the mechanism of decision ah okay no control over the world you made the script is written but you do have control over your mind since the mind is the mechanism of decision yeah basically that's basically saying you can choose the purpose of forgiveness that the Holy Spirit holds out in the mind that's what he's calling the right mind in his system here and the wrong mind is the ego believe in which it's just a false projected linear world that's totally chaotic and senseless and meaningless and it's just made out of the ego and we don't really want the ego but it's a projection of the ego projected from your mind because you are afraid of it okay so basically it's not outside he says in one sentence a little bit earlier there since before do not believe it is outside of yourself for only by recognizing where it is will you gain control over it so when you see it as an external world you have no control over the world you made and when you see that it's not left your mind and you can choose again and with the Holy Spirit get the world a whole new purpose then the world lights up welcome to the happy dream welcome to the forgiven world the Holy Spirit says that's beautiful and let's add one more section in here uh let's jump to the workbook now lesson 152 it's dropped down to paragraph five as God created you you must remain unchangeable with transitory states by definition false and that includes all shifts in feeling alterations and conditions of the body and the mind in all awareness and in all response this is the all inclusiveness which sets the truth apart from false it and the false kept separate from truth as what it is so we're doing that workbook lesson God did not create a meaningless world and now we're in the middle just taking a snippet out of lesson 152 where Jesus is asking us some direct questions and he's getting pretty direct some have said that they they still think that God created the world even though over and over throughout the text and workbook creation is described as pure spirit and and that is what God creates and that's what Christ creates but there is nowhere where the Course says that uh that the ego uh is not behind this projected crazy world uh this linear world of fragmentation and here Jesus says yes it's a question he says is it not strange that you believe to think you made the world you see as arrogance God made it not this you can be sure what can he know of the ephemeral the sinful and the guilty the afraid the suffering and lonely and the mind that lives within a body that must die you but accuse him of insanity to think he made a world where such things seem to have reality he is not mad yet only madness makes a world like this okay God is pure love God is eternal love God is forever and ever and ever oneness love and God is not mad meaning insane yet only madness insanity of the ego makes a world like this to think that God made chaos contradicts his will invented opposites to truth and suffers death to triumph over life all this is arrogance humility would see at once these things are not of him and can you see what God created not to think you can is merely to believe you can perceive what God will not to be and what could be more arrogant than this let us today be truly humble and accept what we have made as what it is the power of decision is our own decide but to accept your rightful place as co-creator of the universe and all you think you made will disappear what rises to awareness then will be all that there ever was eternally as it is now and it will take the place of self deceptions made but to usurp the altar to the father and the son when when Jesus says decide but to accept your rightful place as co-creator of the universe he's talking about spirit again because creation co-creation God's creations Christ's creations all the creations are spirit if you believe that God creates form then you have not read the beyond idle section where Jesus comes right out in one sentence says God knows not form in a period it's very very clear today we practice true humility by abandoning the false pretense by which the ego seeks to prove it arrogant only the ego can be arrogant but truth is humble in acknowledging its mightiness its changelessness and its eternal wholeness all encompassing God's perfect gift to his beloved son we lay aside the arrogance which says that we are sinners guilty and afraid ashamed of what we are and lift our hearts in true humility instead to him who has created us immaculate like to himself in power and love the power of decision is our own and we accepted him that which we are and humbly recognize the Son of God so we're coming into that awareness again we're moving towards that just deep acceptance of I am as God created me of I am spirit and that's what we're doing today when we go through this lesson God did not create a meaningless world we cannot accept the truth until we first forgive and we must see the falsity of the entire world of all the projections not some projections not many projections but all projections of this world were not created by God God did not create a meaningless world God is not a projector God is a creator of love and God creates in spirit and the Christ is spirit so Christ is an idea in the mind of God and hallelujah hallelujah we are getting into true cause and effect God spirit creates Christ spirit God is to cause Christ is the effect Christ is like God in every way except one which is that Christ did not create God and God did create Christ in eternity it's a cause effect relationship that we'll see later in the workbook is expressed in the workbook lesson I I choose the second place to gain the first Jesus tells us even in the text that the statement I am the father are one still has two parts to it meaning he's just talking about cause and effect in heaven God is the creator Christ is the effect this world is the belief that I can make myself it's denying that I am a spiritual creation of a loving God and that's the authority problem that is the that's where the question of authorship comes up not in heaven where God is obviously the author of reality but but with time and space where there is a question of of who is the author even the new age teachings of you create your own reality ah that's still the authority problem now God is the creator of reality and you can only accept it that's what accepting the atonement or the correction is about so all glory to God I hope you all have a blessed day shining and sharing living and loving in the moment being spontaneous being playful being joyful being gleeful that's a way to be gleeful is a way to be when you realize God did not create a meaningless world that puts your mind in a really good direction to toward the light to what is created to what is real to what will last forever and that's love light spirit so thank you everyone God bless you have a joyful day