Library of Christ Mind Teachings
ACIM Original Edition
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1 No one can give what he has not received. To give a thing
requires first you have it in your own possession. Here the laws of
Heaven and the world agree. But here they also separate. The world
believes that to possess a thing, it must be kept. Salvation teaches
otherwise. To give is how to recognize you have received. It is the
proof that what you have is yours.
2 You understand that you are healed when you give healing.
You accept forgiveness as accomplished in yourself when you forgive. You
recognize your brother as yourself and thus do you perceive that you are
whole. There is no miracle you cannot give, for all are given you.
Receive them now by opening the storehouse of your mind where they are
laid and giving them away.
3 Christ’s vision is a miracle. It comes from far beyond
itself, for it reflects eternal love and the rebirth of love which never
died but has been kept obscure. Christ’s vision pictures Heaven, for it
sees a world so like to Heaven that what God created perfect can be
mirrored there. The darkened glass the world presents can show but
twisted images in broken parts. The real world pictures Heaven’s
innocence.
4 Christ’s vision is the miracle in which all miracles are
born. It is their source, remaining with each miracle you give and yet
remaining yours. It is the bond by which the giver and receiver are
united in extension here on earth as they are one in Heaven. Christ
beholds no sin in anyone, and in His sight the sinless are as one. Their
holiness was given by His Father and Himself.
5 Christ’s vision is the bridge between the worlds. And in
its power can you safely trust to carry you from this world into one
made holy by forgiveness. Things which seem quite solid here are merely
shadows there, transparent, faintly seen, at times forgot, and never
able to obscure the light that shines beyond them. Holiness has been
restored to vision, and the blind can see.
6 This is the Holy Spirit’s single gift—the treasure house to
which you can appeal with perfect certainty for everything that can
contribute to your happiness. All are laid here already. All can be
received but for the asking. Here the door is never locked, and no one
is denied his least request or his most urgent need. There is no
sickness not already healed, no lack unsatisfied, no need unmet within
this golden treasury of Christ.
7 Here does the world remember what was lost when it was
made. For here it is repaired, made new again but in a different light.
What was to be the home of sin becomes the center of redemption and the
hearth of mercy where the suffering are healed and welcome. No one will
be turned away from this new home where his salvation waits. No one is
stranger to him. No one asks for anything of him except the gift of his
acceptance of his welcoming.
8 Christ’s vision is the holy ground in which the lilies of
forgiveness set their roots. This is their home. They can be brought
from here back to the world, but they can never grow in its unnourishing
and shallow soil. They need the light and warmth and kindly care
Christ’s charity provides. They need the love with which He looks on
them. And they become His messengers who give as they received.
9 Take from His storehouse that its treasures may increase.
His lilies do not leave their home when they are carried back into the
world. Their roots remain. They do not leave their source, but carry its
beneficence with them and turn the world into a garden like the one they
came from and to which they go again with added fragrance. Now are they
twice blessed. The messages they brought from Christ have been delivered
and returned to them. And they return them gladly unto Him.
10 Behold the store of miracles set out for you to give. Are
you not worth the gift when God appointed it be given you? Judge not
God’s Son, but follow in the way He has established. Christ has dreamed
the dream of a forgiven world. It is His gift whereby a sweet transition
can be made from death to life, from hopelessness to hope. Let us an
instant dream with Him. His dream awakens us to truth. His vision gives
the means for a return to our unlost and everlasting sanctity in God.