Lesson 23 & 24.

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Contemplation's of the wookbook lessons of A Course in Miracles.

 

Lesson 23.

 

I have found my abuser.

His name is, I-Me & Mine.

My own thoughts

have sought to attack me,

and my defence was seeing that attack.

 

Forgive the darkened crowd

of your mind-scape.

Already the Image of God

is imprinted in you,

as the face of Love.

Her thoughts are,

aspiring cathedrals of Light,

each one a message of silence.

 

Ego reflects the malicious

in all its forms.

It has dressed you for every part, but love.

Be not violent with that poor fellow though.

Your benevolence

should extend to all of you.

First do no harm to yourself.

Self-deceit kills more expertly than death,

just show the error of its ways.

 

Quickly, confess to the turning sky-

Say: I know nothing,

I know nothing of this.

Don't lament the world.

Don't lament your careening way upon it.

It was never more real than your last thought.

 

Look with the eyes of a child.

Search out your real face,

In every smile,

and see no look of fear.

In the gallery of the heavens,

are hung the portraits of this love.

In meeting and departure.

In movement and stillness

Seek out your original face.

 

We write our way in quick sand,

contouring whole continents.

A scratch here, a mark there.

And so the world of you is mapped.

This is the blind way of it.

 

Lovers need only the signs of Love.

Their best interests are buried

in that garden.

Their thoughts are rooted in the real.

They do not escape the worlds attack

they overcome its every effect,

by the shape of thought alone.

 

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Lesson 24.

 

You cannot make your own way

in this world.

Even if you try,

Love will direct you to Love....

That path you perceive correctly,

was laid before you came

by the hand of your own well-being.

Nothing you do without this direction

leads to anything.

Your own total reliance in Love

is your eternal Self interest.

 

Perception alone, will lead to myopia,

only love sees the appropriate spectacle of it.

First ask for guidance

then you can throw a way this white cane,

and see without the fear of dark glasses.

 

When you forget this

you perceive a maze of

contradictory paths.

You study religiously

for the ministry of confusion.

You behold enjoyment in pain,

health in suffering,

love in self-hate......

Let go of the map you hold.

The heart has a chart

that will lead you

from what was learned,

to what can be taught.

 

Let the Beloved One

awaken your soul

with the same vision

she opened your heart with.

Love is the key

that opens every soul.

You can actually hear the lock turn

when you rely only,

on Her hand to open it.

Her knowing

is your faith.

The universe tilts

into your perspective as Hers.

You become the affair of Love.

 

love

 

eric

 

 

 

Copyright 2002. Eric Ashford.