
LESSON 157, Into His Presence would I enter now.
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Into His Presence would I enter now.
This is a day of silence and of trust. It is a special time of promise in your calendar of days. It is a time Heaven has set apart to shine upon, and cast a timeless light upon this day, when echoes of eternity are heard. This day is holy, for it ushers in a new experience; a different kind of feeling and awareness. You have spent long days and nights in celebrating death. Today you learn to feel the joy of life.
This is another crucial turning point in the curriculum. We add a new dimension now; a fresh experience that sheds a light on all that we have learned already, and prepares us for what we have yet to learn. It brings us to the door where learning ceases, and we catch a glimpse of what lies past the highest reaches it can possibly attain. It leaves us here an instant, and we go beyond it, sure of our direction and our only goal.
Today it will be given you to feel a touch of Heaven, though you will return to paths of learning. Yet you have come far enough along the way to alter time sufficiently to rise above its laws, and walk into eternity a while. This you will learn to do increasingly, as every lesson, faithfully rehearsed, brings you more swiftly to this holy place and leaves you, for a moment, to your Self.
He will direct your practicing today, for what you ask for now is what He wills. And having joined your will with His this day, what you are asking must be given you. Nothing is needed but today’s idea to light your mind, and let it rest in still anticipation and in quiet joy, wherein you quickly leave the world behind.
From this day forth, your ministry takes on a genuine devotion, and a glow that travels from your fingertips to those you touch, and blesses those you look upon. A vision reaches everyone you meet, and everyone you think of, or who thinks of you. For your experience today will so transform your mind that it becomes the touchstone for the holy Thoughts of God.
Your body will be sanctified today, its only purpose being now to bring the vision of what you experience this day to light the world. We cannot give experience like this directly. Yet it leaves a vision in our eyes which we can offer everyone, that he may come the sooner to the same experience in which the world is quietly forgot, and Heaven is remembered for a while.
As this experience increases and all goals but this become of little worth, the world to which you will return becomes a little closer to the end of time; a little more like Heaven in its ways; a little nearer its deliverance. And you who bring it light will come to see the light more sure; the vision more distinct. The time will come when you will not return in the same form in which you now appear, for you will have no need of it. Yet now it has a purpose, and will serve it well.
Today we will embark upon a course you have not dreamed of. But the Holy One, the Giver of the happy dreams of life, Translator of perception into truth, the holy Guide to Heaven given you, has dreamed for you this journey which you make and start today, with the experience this day holds out to you to be your own.
Into Christ’s Presence will we enter now, serenely unaware of everything except His shining face and perfect Love. The vision of His face will stay with you, but there will be an instant which transcends all vision, even this, the holiest. This you will never teach, for you attained it not through learning. Yet the vision speaks of your rememberance of what you knew that instant, and will surely know again
.- A Course in Miracles, WorkBook
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into his presence what I enter now no this is not walking into someone's presence physically like another body like you walk into my presence no it has nothing to do with that right hopefully recognize that
that this is about an alternate dimensional reality we're talking about coming to the Christ consciousness quite literally losing ourselves from definition from shape essentially what we even discussed about stepping out of the way so that the presence of Christ can remain and be here so many people have ideas and images that might come up about what this might look like that if someone says they are and they're acting in a specific way they're obviously not like we have ideas of what is good and what is bad only really because we are not in the presence ourselves it takes an ego in order to comprehend and perceive and understand egos if you see egos you're in ego so let's take some responsibility that if you are in Christ you would only see that of Christ
and that's the presence recognizing it everywhere and everyone regardless of how egotistical they might be you actually can see past it see through it and you don't even understand it in that same fashion anymore it's not like all they know not what they do they are just silly little people being total despises no in fact you are part of the game in which Christ is playing that you will experience it and play with everyone in this game that we call life the experience of what we are doing in this dimensional reality so as we are surrendering say this game and we are understanding and grasping and actually experiencing the presence of Christ now the presence of Christ is not somebody else it is everyone I mean yes it is somebody else it's everybody
because yes but it is the presence of Christ is within you within you so you're not looking for some specific entity that might be titled Christ but in fact everyone is Christ and that you're recognized that this is an alternate dimensional reality the Christ consciousness for C's is that the right word everything it overlaps all that is remember the dreamer experience the dreamer is Christ the dreamer is Christ everything in the dream is Christ's mind Christ thoughts the thoughts do not leave their source everything is in the source of Christ and Christ is in the source of the mind of God so as you're doing this
and actually going taking this to heart experiencing into the presence and doing what all of this beautiful wonderful curriculum and actually putting it to heart honest authentic repetition practice attempts trying to do it that's why meditation is so important because you're actually trying to surrender the world you're trying to step back and you're trying to empty your mind you're trying to get out until you do it's all trying until you succeed and then you know exactly what it is you know exactly you're you're getting hints yes I know how to take a few steps know how to take those steps knows how to take maybe many many steps I need to just meditate and I can get there right but when you actually achieve and recognize the total totality of the presence of
Christ you know how to do it instantaneously in fact I'm doing it right now and I'm not doing it I can do both at the same time you understand what I mean because when you actually experience it you recognize and palpably can tell the difference between dimensional realities they are all here you feel them all right now you feel them all right now and yet you're just focused on specific ones emotions bodies ego mentality mind body spirit is essentially what you're focused on and so you're experiencing it in this fashion you're training your mind to recognize the authority that is Christ that can make the choice between dimensions so if you want to experience heaven you have to
have the authority to choose heaven so the course miracles is about recognizing that authority into the presence of that authority I am right now going into it let's do it that's what you're doing so this is a day in history and when you actually achieve it it's done for the rest of your life I've many people reference to my death experience and they think about of course they hear about it like all that's just a point in time so it's not real and like I'm I'm dead right now I'm still dead or right now so it's a misunderstanding thinking that was an experience for me I've never been the same since so in that understanding it wasn't a moment in time yes physicality I will tell you yes I have two two minutes three minutes I was having a seizure and it stopped yes in physicality but the awareness of realities beyond and outside is
is continuous it's always so it's that barrier that's broken that I stepped out of the way and can recognize it and yes sure I can focus in oh body's only bodies here's Devon and all my body and I can look in other directions but to recognize that I'm doing it is a whole nother ballgame then you believe that you're succumbed to it when you're making these decisions you're making these choices in your reality right now so yeah yeah I mean it's a little distorted disorienting it's like whoa dude man this is like mind-boggling stuff it's really not I mean it does sound somewhat complicated as I'm describing in this fashion but really just recognize that as it's speaking about into the presence of Christ it's talking about alternate dimensional reality I mean obviously hey well I don't see any Christ around here there's no Christ and there's just Devon there's just microphones the screen camera you're not even
here that's another dimension so it's talking about quite literally another dimension a lot of people have difficulty usually older older folks understanding what a dimension is we think usually alternate universes and we don't recognize that that's what this is talking about it's always been talking about something that can be here right now all the time and yet not here all the time right so that that is what that's about it's not here this is the third dimensional focused reality physicality in this construct Christ is another one a totally different one which is here and now heaven a different one here and now God here and now terrestrial terrestrial celestial kingdoms here and now
resurrection here and now it's all here and now last judgment it's right happening right now this is the last judgment is it seen as good you're literally reviewing your life and judging it all right now so it's a little like whoa you know war and heaven happening right now war and heaven yeah you really was this guess I don't I believe it all noise awesome I'm holly good bad angry sad talk about a war and heaven it's all happening right now those are alternate dimensional reality and yet I'm just a body I'm just here this is me right now you can see it all you can feel all you just can't seem to you just have it all compacted into no you don't really exist
so definitions over all your history all all your time like eons eons of existence has brought you to this point where you see yourself in this fashion you've made several decisions over long periods of times over and over and over again and you're making these decisions right now so yes of course you don't recognize who you actually are that's okay just recognize to get out of it you all all you have to do is recognize you're making a decision for it I want this to be happening what do I really want do I not want this to be happening anymore do I want to recognize who I am recognize the decision you're making to not know who you are so you can recognize to make a decision to know who you are see the difference
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