Lesson 155: I will step back and let him lead the way.

The world is an illusion. You came here seeking to be an illusion and to avoid your own reality. Yet you cannot leave yourself. Wherever you go, you take you with you. When you chose to come to this world, you were mistaken in your choice, and you have suffered from a deep sense of loss that you do not understand. Once you learn of your mistake, and choose again, you will rejoice. But until you do, you will need a Teacher Who perceives your madness in choosing to come here, but Who can still look beyond the illusion that you are pretending to be, to the simple truth in you instead.

That Teacher is the Holy Spirit. He will show you a way of living in the world that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though you smile more frequently. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet. And the ones who walk the world as you do recognize their own. Those who still walk the way of ego will recognize you, too, and believe you are still like them, as you were before. Yet you have set your footsteps on the way God has opened to you, and to them through you.

There is a path that leads away from loss of every kind, one which quickly leaves sacrifice and deprivation behind as you walk toward truth. Those who follow you will walk with you on this path. All salvation does is ask that you accept the truth and let it go before you, lighting your way. This you can do with ease, as the Holy Spirit guides you through the darkness to the light within. Letting the ego lead is madness. It is tantamount to walking in darkness toward a ditch or a steep cliff, which is trepidatious, to say the least. So step back and let the illusion of insanity sink behind the truth of sanity. Let the Holy Spirit lead the way, for you would walk away from the ego, along the road to God.

Lesson 156: I walk with God in perfect holiness.

Ideas do not leave their source. You are an idea of love, an idea of God. Therefore your Source is God. If this is true, how can you be apart from Him? It is simple; you cannot. And where God is, there must be holiness as well as life. This is the way salvation works. As you step back, the light in you shines forth and encompasses the world. In light and in laughter, all mistakes are gone, because they are absurd, just a silly dream. They no longer affect your thoughts, words or actions. The approach to God is near. You are free just to BE. You are as God created you, and He created you in His Image. Who walks with you? You walk with God in light as angels peacefully clear your path.

Lesson 157: Into His Presence would I enter now.

You have spent long days and nights in celebrating death, in entertaining thoughts in your mind which were not only lacking in peace, but in many instances they were frightening nightmares because they were in the dark and they were untrue. Now it is time to experience the joy of life. When you join your will with His, what you ask for must be given you. Ask to enter into His Presence. You may experience startling results, even the first time you ask this of Him. This will be a new experience for you; a different kind of feeling and an awareness of being in eternity. His perfect Love assures it.

Lesson 158: Today I learn to give as I receive.

You have been given the knowledge that you are a mind, in Mind and purely mind, sinless forever, wholly unafraid, because you were created out of Love. With Christ’s vision you look upon everyone, on every circumstance, all happenings and all events -- without the slightest fading of the light it sees. This is what you must give: see no one as a body. Greet your brother as the Son of God he is, and acknowledge that he is one with you in holiness. Christ’s vision has the power to overlook all errors and to see the holiness that lies beyond them. So give this, and receive what you give. And you will know your brother and yourself. By the holy gifts you give, Christ’s vision looks upon you as well.

Lesson 159: I give the miracles I have received.

No one can give what he has not received. The world believes that to give is to lose. The truth is that to give is how you recognize that you have received. How can you give happiness to a brother if you are not happy? Giving happiness is how you recognize that you are happy. There is no miracle that you cannot give, because all are given you. Receive them now by opening up the storehouse in your mind where they have been kept for you by the Holy Spirit, and give them all away.

Christ’s vision is a miracle. It reflects Eternal Love and pictures Heaven’s innocence. Christ’s vision is the miracle in which all miracles are born. It is their source. Christ’s vision is the bridge between the worlds. And you can safely trust in its power to carry you from this world into one made holy by forgiveness. Things which are seen as quite solid here are merely shadows there; transparent, faintly seen, at times forgot, and never obscure the light that shines beyond them. Here, all can be received but for the asking. The door to the storehouse 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. Behold the store of miracles set out for you to give.

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. For an instant, dream with Him. His dream will awaken you to truth. His vision gives the means for a return to your unlost and everlasting sanctity in God. Become His messenger and share His dream with your brother, giving as you have received.