Library of Christ Mind Teachings
ACIM Original Edition
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31 How can you become increasingly aware of the Holy Spirit in you
except by His effects? You cannot see Him with your eyes nor hear Him
with your ears. How, then, can you perceive Him at all? If you inspire
joy, and others react to you with joy even though you are not
experiencing joy yourself, there must be something in you that is
capable of producing it. If it is in you and can produce joy, and if
you see that it does produce joy in others, you must be dissociating
it in yourself.
32 It seems to you that the Holy Spirit does not produce joy
consistently in you only because you do not consistently arouse joy
in others. Their reactions to you are your evaluations of His
consistency. When you are inconsistent, you will not always give
rise to joy and so you will not always recognize His consistency.
What you offer to your brother, you offer to Him because He cannot go
beyond your offering in His giving. This is not because He limits
His giving, but simply because you have limited your receiving. The
will to receive is the will to accept.
33 If your brothers are part of you, will you accept them? Only they
can teach you what you are, and your learning is the result of what you
taught them. What you call upon in them, you call upon in yourself.
And as you call upon it in them, it becomes real to you. God has but
one Son, knowing them all as one. Only God Himself is more than they,
but they are not less than He is. Would you know what this means? If
what you do to my brother you do to me, and if you do everything for
yourself because we are part of you, everything we do belongs to you
as well. Every Soul God created is part of you and shares His glory
with you. His Glory belongs to Him, but it is equally yours. You
cannot, then, be less glorious than He is.
34 God is more than you only because He created you, but not even this
would He keep from you. Therefore you can create as He did, and your
dissociation will not alter this. Neither God’s light nor yours is
dimmed because you do not see. Because the Sonship must create as one,
you remember creation whenever you recognize part of creation. Each
part you remember adds to your wholeness, because each part is
whole. Wholeness is indivisible, but you cannot learn of your wholeness
until you see it everywhere. You can know yourself only as God knows
His Son, for knowledge is shared with God. When you awake in Him you
will know your magnitude by accepting His limitlessness as yours, but
meanwhile you will judge it as you judge your brothers’ and will accept
it as you accept theirs.
35 You are not yet awake, but you can learn how to awaken. Very simply
the Holy Spirit teaches you to awaken others. As you see them waken, you
will learn what waking means, and because you have willed to wake
them, their gratitude and their appreciation of what you have given them
will teach you its value. They will become the witnesses to your
reality, as you were created witnesses to God’s. Yet when the Sonship
comes together and accepts its oneness, it will be known by its
creations, who witness to its reality as the Son does to the Father.
36 Miracles have no place in eternity because they are reparative. Yet
while you still need healing, your miracles are the only witnesses to
your reality which you can recognize. You cannot perform a miracle for
yourself, because miracles are a way of giving acceptance and
receiving it. In time, the giving comes first, though they are
simultaneous in eternity, where they cannot be separated. When you
have learned that they are the same, the need for time is over.
37 Eternity is one time, its only dimension being “always.” This
cannot mean anything to you, however, until you remember God’s open arms
and finally know His open mind. Like Him, you are “always,” in His
Mind and with a mind like His. In your open mind are your creations,
in perfect communication born of perfect understanding. Could you but
accept one of them, you would not want anything the world has to
offer. Everything else would be totally meaningless. God’s meaning is
incomplete without you, and you are incomplete without your creations.
Accept your brother in this world and accept nothing else, for in him
you will find your creations, because he created them with you. You
will never know that you are co-creator with God until you learn that
your brother is a co-creator with you.