Core Concepts Reinforce Each Other
We (I) sometimes become fixated on one lesson or concept and battle it to a stalemate (I give up). It is sometimes helpful to keep several basic concepts of ACIM in mind when dealing with a difficult to understand lesson. For instance, lesson 132 states ‘there is no world’, which seems to directly contradict all that we see, hear, and painfully feel. But this lesson can be put into perspective by remembering lesson 94 ‘I am as God Created Me’.
As God created us as ‘spirit’ not a body, from the perspective of spirit there is no world, which is a projection of our bodily ego thought. In this context, the thought that there is no world makes perfect sense.
Combine this with another core concept: ‘Ideas leave not their source’. The idea of the world therefore, which we (not God) created, does not leave its source, which is our thought system. Thus, the world as we see it does not exist to God, except as interpreted by his Holy Spirit, which we could consider the one intermediary between God and our illusory world.
The concept of the world we see being an illusion, unreal, therefore means that any ‘guilt’ we experience here for our misdeeds is likewise an eternal illusion. While is seems deadly real to us, in eternity it is only a part of an illusory dream.
© A Course in Miracles – Foundation for Inner Peace
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