ACIM Speaks on The Script of the Holy Spirit

This is Episode 23 of ACIM Speaks podcast. We continue with "the scripts" discussion and read from Workbook Lesson 169 in A Course in Miracles. The previous episode in the series covered "possession, the script of the ego," the extension of the idea that a script outside yourself controls your life; "what has been given you;" and the "script you write." Now, the final clarification on what is given us, the grace that we can bring back to the world.

In the previous episode, there was something mentioned that is worth mentioning again. If you go back and listen to that episode, you will notice the words reliability and validity. In the context of the podcast, these could be heard as an inside joke, although, if you have been listening to the ACIM Speaks podcast from the beginning, or are aware of the history of the Course, you would know what it is about. Helen and Bill, the scribes of A Course in Miracles were psychologists and part of their jobs was in research and data collection in this field. The words reliability and validity were common to them. Reliability, as used in the Course, means something that the ego does over and over again and produces the same illusion to protect itself from the truth about you. And validity means what is True, the truth about you. It is a good idea to keep that in mind. The passage containing these words was about the compulsions, addictions, and other "driven" behaviors that we adopt. They are not What We Are.

Text read in this podcast is from Workbook Lesson 169, and here as The Script of the Holy Spirit

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What is the Real World?

The real world is a symbol, like the rest of what perception offers. Yet it stands for what is opposite to what you made. Your world is seen through eyes of fear, and brings the witnesses of terror to your mind. The real world cannot be perceived except through eyes forgiveness blesses, so they see a world where terror is impossible and witnesses to fear cannot be found.

The real world holds a counterpart for each unhappy thought reflected in your world, as sure correction for the sights of fear and sounds of battle which your world contains. The real world shows a world seen differently, through quiet eyes and with a mind at peace. Nothing but rest is here. There are no cries of pain or sorrow heard, for nothing here remains outside forgiveness, and the sights are gentle. Only happy sights and sounds can reach the mind that has forgiven itself.

What need has such a mind for thoughts of death, attack, and murder? What can it perceive surrounding it but safety, love, and joy? What is there it would choose to be condemned? And what is there that it would judge against? The world it sees arises from a mind at peace within itself. No danger lurks in anything it sees, for it is kind and only kindness does it look upon.

The real world is the symbol that the dream of sin and guilt is over, and God’s Son no longer sleeps. His waking eyes perceive the sure reflection of his Father’s Love, the certain promise that he is redeemed. The real world signifies the end of time, for its perception makes time purposeless.

The Holy Spirit has no need of time when it has served His purpose. Now, He waits but that one instant more for God to take His final step, and time has disappeared, taking perception with it as it goes and leaving but the Truth to be Itself. That instant is our goal, for it contains the memory of God. And as we look upon a world forgiven, it is He Who calls to us and comes to take us home, reminding us of our Identity Which our forgiveness has restored to us.

What is the Holy Spirit?

The Holy Spirit mediates between illusions and the truth. Since He must bridge the gap between reality and dreams, perception leads to knowledge through the grace that God has given Him, to be His gift to everyone who turns to Him for truth. Across the bridge that He provides are dreams all carried to the truth, to be dispelled before the light of knowledge. There, are sights and sounds forever laid aside. And where they were perceived before, forgiveness has made possible perception’s tranquil end.

The goal the Holy Spirit’s teaching sets is just this end of dreams, for sights and sounds must be translated from the witnesses of fear to those of love. And when this is entirely accomplished, learning has achieved the only goal it has in truth. For learning, as the Holy Spirit guides it to the outcome He perceives for it, becomes the means to go beyond itself, to be replaced by the Eternal Truth.

If you but knew how much your Father yearns to have you recognize your sinlessness, you would not let His Voice appeal in vain, nor turn away from His replacement from the fearful images and dreams you made. The Holy Spirit understands the means you made by which you would attain what is forever unattainable and, if you offer them to Him, He will employ the means you made for exile to restore your mind to where it truly is at home.

From knowledge, where He has been placed by God, the Holy Spirit calls to you, to let forgiveness rest upon your dreams and be restored to sanity and peace of mind. Without forgiveness will your dreams remain to terrify you, and the memory of all your Father’s Love will not return to signify the end of dreams has come.

Accept your Father’s gift. It is a call from Love to Love, that It be but Itself. The Holy Spirit is His gift, by which the quietness of Heaven is restored to God’s beloved Son. Would you refuse to take the function of completing God, when all He wills is that you be complete?

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