Library of Christ Mind Teachings
ACIM Original Edition
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1 What makes this world seem real except your own denial of
the truth which lies beyond? What but your thoughts of misery and death
obscure the perfect happiness and the Eternal Life your Father wills for
you? And what could hide what cannot be concealed except illusion? What
could keep from you what you already have except your choice to see it
not, denying it is there?
2 The Thought of God created you. It left you not, nor have
you ever been apart from It an instant. It belongs to you. By It you
live. It is your Source of life, holding you one with It, and everything
is one with you because It left you not. The Thought of God protects
you, cares for you, makes soft your resting place and smooth your way,
lighting your mind with happiness and love. Eternity and everlasting
life shine in your mind because the Thought of God has left you not and
still abides with you.
3 Who would deny his safety and his peace, his joy, his
healing and his peace of mind, his quiet rest, his calm awakening if he
but recognized where they abide? Would he not instantly prepare to go
where they are found, abandoning all else as worthless in comparison
with them? And having found them, would he not make sure they stay with
him and he remains with them?
4 Deny not Heaven. It is yours today but for the asking. Nor
need you perceive how great the gift, how changed your mind will be
before it comes to you. Ask to receive, and it is given you. Conviction
lies within it. Till you welcome it as yours, uncertainty remains. Yet
God is fair. Sureness is not required to receive what only your
acceptance can bestow.
5 Ask with desire. You need not be sure that you request the
only thing you want. But when you have received, you will be sure you
have the treasure you have always sought. What would you then exchange
it for? What would induce you now to let it fade away from your ecstatic
vision? For this sight proves that you have exchanged your blindness for
the seeing eyes of Christ; your mind has come to lay aside denial and
accept the Thought of God as its inheritance.
6 Now is all doubting past, the journey’s end made certain,
and salvation given you. Now is Christ’s power in your mind to heal as
you were healed. For now you are among the saviors of the world. Your
destiny lies there and nowhere else. Would God consent to let His Son
remain forever starved by his denial of the nourishment he needs to
live? Abundance dwells in him, and deprivation cannot cut him off from
God’s sustaining love and from his home.
7 Practice today in hope. For hope indeed is justified. Your
doubts are meaningless, for God is certain. And the Thought of Him is
never absent. Sureness must abide within you who are host to Him. This
course removes all doubts which you have interposed between Him and your
certainty of Him. We count on God and not upon ourselves to give us
certainty. And in His Name we practice as His Word directs we do. His
sureness lies beyond our every doubt. His love remains beyond our every
fear. The thought of Him is still beyond all dreams and in our minds
according to His Will.