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Now think about God as your Cosmic Lover
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Now look at yourself until you realize yourself as cosmic lover and cosmically loved.
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God is not concerned with form because He does not see it
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God (your true self) is not concerned with form because he (you) sees it infinitely as it is. Form is quite real, but it is not the limitation boundaries of perception's view of it. It is omnipresent in all its amalgamated and indivisible numberless parts...which parts (so-called) are each unlimited as is their father (you) and thus do not change...and yet to perception, it appears to change as awareness dances in its light. The original sin or single error was to focus by abridgment of vision (i.e.-attempting to deny attention to part), giving appearances that seemed even more separate, and more and more so, spiraling into ideas of joining and structure of a complex nature. Before focusing, and subsequent concentrating and choosing, the idea of "joining" was unknown. (This description speaks of it as though it were a chronological event, but it is not...it is merely a way to model or reflect it in language by metaphor.)
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In fuller context:
God is not concerned with form because He does not see it; being merely the manifestation of the single error. The content, BEING FULLY EXPRESSED IN THE ETERNAL NOW, is Willed to be remembered, and thus known fully in its wholeness, and therefore, understood.
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Something that is pretty common is generalization, in which process, people typically disregard differences, believing this simplifies the matter being discussed. One regular product of this, devised to promulgate this type of simplicity, is the clich� or convenient catch phrases or colloquialisms. The idea of form versus content is one of these sayings, expressed in many ways. However, as mind opens to reality, it discovers it is not formless, and that it is not a container capable of "contents" per se. Thus we see that juxtaposition of these terms is not true...there are no contents, and there is no form (of the common definition) to be let go of. So, focusing on content instead of form is actually another version of the knowledge of good and evil...for it directs attention toward a false and separated idea, and cloaks the simple truth that it is focusing itself that is at issue, and neither content nor form.
I would add that, aside from the reference to "content," the last sentence is very true in its representation. (i.e.- "Reality, 'the Father', or in other words, your true self, is being fully expressed in the eternal now, willed forever to BE as it is, to be wholly known as it is, wholly seen as it is, and therefore wholly understood as it is...and all our mental abandonment of this knowledge and its vision and understanding cannot and have not usurped that perfect will (your will)." This speaks of omnipresence, omniscience and opens the mind to omnipotence.)
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The form adapts itself to need; the content is unchanging, as eternal as its Creator.
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This statement again reiterates the misconception. In truth, form does adapt, but it is only the appearance of form that changes, and that is its adaptation. This is why it is so easy to misconstrue and launch out on a false premise of focus, making a world appear from a single tiny mad idea. We get caught up on the changes in appearance from our dancing dervish-style focusing. Just as seeing is wholly natural, so also focusing and spinning off into complexly fearful pathways is natural. So, it rather comes down to the simple question, "What do you want?" For clearly you were free to err, and equally free are you to relinquish your focus and choosing. The focusing made it unclear what you want by denying your whole vision of it in order to focus. You can remain in that which appears as sin if you wish, but wishing this can never satisfy, and thus the question is asked, "What do you want?"...and its corrollary, "How can you realize what you want?" While this latter question is typically viewed as "How can I 'get' what I want?"...that is merely the result of the interlocutory marriage contract you have made...called the ego or belief system. Divorce is not required and yet dissolution is necessary. Divorce (egoic view) would attempt to wrench your ego from you, while dissolution offers also a simpler, gentler seeming path...reversal of error. Thus it is noted possible to turn over to your reality that which your perception knows not how to direct. Your error was to focus, spinning off into a world in need...of dissolution. Your simple and single correction is to look wholly in order to see wholly. Nothing else can work, for nothing else made the world you believe you see.
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This does not necessarily mean that this is the highest level of communication of which he is capable now.
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I need to point out that the above is a misquote, apparently combining two sentences by accident. The correct quote is as follows:
"...This does not necessarily mean that this is the highest level of communication of which he is capable. It does mean, however, that it is the highest level of communication of which he is capable now. The whole aim of the miracle is to raise the level of communication, not to lower it by increasing fear." (excerpt from ACIM-T-2.IV.5...emphases added)
This correct quote suggests that one is subject to his "condition" of fear, which is untrue. Every single person IS capable now, and that is what forgiveness offers, a way to see that he is capable now. This may seem like splitting hairs or perhaps even a semantics game, but I assure you it is not. We all appear to be trapped, and we all believe in the appearance to one degree or another...BUT OUR BELIEFS ARE FALSE! While it may be helpful in discussion such as this quote offers, to delineate the dreamside appearance parameters and descriptions and its reasonable rationalizations (such as this)...THESE DISCUSSIONS ARE FALSE! In fact, that is their point...to show you a way to realize they are speaking of false ideas in a false world of perception...not to make you follow a regimen as slaves to your dream.
If you encounter someone who "appears to" fail in communication at a high level, remember that levels do not exist, and treat him as though he absolutely knew the truth beyond levels, as though you were speaking to and treating Jesus himself (therein lies the value of Jesus as a symbol). This willingness to recognize the truth opens the channel for its miraculous manifestation by erasure and alignment in the dream and your belief system. You are not magically effecting or forcing it upon your dreamside view (as metaphysics would suggest), but you are simply offering willingness to see the truth, and allowing it to appear differently in perception, and eventually to disappear as separated perceptions altogether. It is vital to remember that you are not making anything happen, but are simply offering willingness to truth...nothing more.
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a l t a r l i g h t
The inner light can answer any of this world's queries and resolve any of its problems. Beyond all of these concerns, the inner light will show you who you are and your relationship to all...and bring you an understanding of love and peace that transcends ordinary human thought processes. Discover what it truly means to "love one another" and to "see peace."
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