The Divine Child is our real Identity. The Child is the Balance between this world of imagining and Deity Itself. This sacred Child is the means by which we uncover our authentic Identity. We are the Child of God but it seems to take time to awaken to this truth. With confidence and trust that The Child is our guide and comforter, our new (not new at all) interpreter, we forgive or undo our mistaken perceptions and see them in the Light of Wisdom. The images may change or not, this is of no importance. What is important is that with this new interpretation, a sense of well-being grows into an equanimity and sense of freedom beyond what mere words can only point. We start to understand what the meaning of this world really is and what to do about it, if we do anything at all. We start to identify more and more with this inner Child. Our beliefs about everything we thought were true are exchanged for the Child’s thought system of guiltlessness and ever-present peace and thanksgiving.
The Child tells us of the divine equation of giving and receiving and receiving and giving and we receive the blessings that follow in time from the living of this equation. The Child brings to us the subjective truth that ideas leave not their source. Giving and receiving now understood as one action reflecting God’s love for His Son.
The subjective truth allows us to take responsibility for the interpretations that we make. As ACIM states:
“This is the only thing that you need do for vision, happiness, release from pain and the complete escape from sin, all to be given you. Say only this, but mean it with no reservations, for here the power of salvation lies:
I am responsible for what I see,
I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide
Upon the goal I would achieve.
And everything that seems to happen to me
I ask for, and receive as I have asked.
Deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless in the face of what is done to you. Acknowledge but that you have been mistaken, and all effects of your mistakes will disappear.”
For me, this last statement, echoed throughout the course material, is a concept most important; to finally understand that what we have believed about ourselves has never really occurred. We are always innocent and the desire and imagining of being the possessor of life instead of God’s Life (Extention) is only a hypothetical impossibility. With a child’s trust, we return to the Child of God we are. We learn to let go the illusion of self-hate, which is imbedded in this illusory dream. Also imbedded or divinely imprinted is the Sacred Truth of Identity. This Truth will set us free.
The Manual for Teachers: “The terrible mistake about yourself the miracle corrects as gently as a loving mother sings her child to rest. Is not a song like this what you would hear?” “How lovely does the world become in just that single instant when you see the truth about yourself reflected there. Now you are sinless and behold your sinlessness. Now you are holy and perceive it so. And now the mind returns to its Creator; the joining of the Father and the Son, the Unity of unities that stands behind all joining but beyond them all. God is not seen but only understood. His Son is not attacked but recognized.”
This final Understanding is that God, Self, Child and Holy Spirit are One. Only God Is.
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