Quote from jem:
do we not have laws that prevent people from inciting violence or harm right now.
what do you mean by an in name Christian to boot.
As an in-name-only Christian, your concern is with Christ's vision. This you can attain.
Christ's vision has one law. It does not look upon a body, and mistake it for the Son whom God created.
Instead, Christ's vision beholds a light beyond the body; an idea beyond what can be touched, a purity undimmed by errors, pitiful mistakes, and fearful thoughts of guilt from dreams of sin.
Christ's vision sees no separation. And it looks on everyone, on every circumstance, all happenings and all events, without the slightest fading of the light it sees.
This can be taught; and must be taught by all who would achieve it.
Christ's vision requires but the recognition that the world can not give anything that faintly can compare with this in value.
There is nothing the world can set up as a goal that does not disappear when this vision has been perceived.
Therefore, as Christ sees, see no one as a body.
Greet each one as the Son of God he is, acknowledging that he is one with you in holiness. Thus are his sins forgiven him, for Christ has vision that has power to overlook them all.
As Christ sees, sins are gone. Unseen, they merely disappear, replaced by vision of the holiness that lies beyond them.
It matters not what form sins took, nor how enormous they appeared to be, nor who seemed to be hurt by them. They are no more. And all effects they seemed to have are gone with them, undone and never to be done.
This lesson is not difficult to learn, if you remember in your brother you see yourself. If he is lost in sin, so must you be. If you see light in him, your sins have been forgiven yourself.
As you give, so you receive. Give this vision, and you will receive it.
In this way, each brother that you meet today provides another chance to let Christ's vision shine on you, and offer you the peace of God.
A Christian is one who practices seeing with the eyes of Christ, until he sees with the eyes of Christ.
Christ's vision is a miracle. Christ beholds no sin in anyone. No one is stranger to him.
Christ's vision is the bridge between the worlds. And in its power can you safely trust to carry you from this world into one made holy by forgiveness. Things which seem quite solid here are merely shadows there; transparent, faintly seen, at times forgot, and never able to obscure the light that shines beyond them.
Until you see this way, you are "blind"...and see in-name-only.
This vision is the Holy Spirit's single gift; the treasure house to which you can appeal with perfect certainty for all the things that can contribute to your happiness.
Behold the store of miracles set out for you to give. Blind, you are unable to see miracles, and are therefore unable to give them.
Christ's vision is the miracle in which all miracles are born. His vision gives the means for a return to your unlost and everlasting sanctity in God.
Take from His storehouse, that its treasures may increase.
Each day, each hour, each instant, you are choosing what you want to look upon, the sounds you want to hear, the witnesses to what you want to be the truth for you.
Today, choose to look upon what Christ would have you see, to listen to God's Voice, and seek the witnesses to what is true in God's creation.
In Christ's sight, the world and God's creation meet, and as they come together all perception disappears. Christ's kindly sight redeems the world from death, for everything He looks on must live.
Perception is a mirror, not a fact. And what you look on is your state of mind, reflected outward. You can bless the world by looking on it through the eyes of Christ.
You can obscure this sight if you intrude your world upon it. Unless you use His vision, you will not see the holy sights He sees.
While you still remain outside the gate of Heaven, let yourself look on all you see through the holy vision and the eyes of Christ.
Only reality is free of pain. Only reality is free of loss. Only reality is wholly safe.
To see otherwise is to criticize and judge God's creation, interfering with reality, blasphemously distorting it into sickly forms.
The images you see reflect your thoughts. Yet is your mind at one with God's.
You have indeed misunderstood the world. How foolish and deceived you were to think that what you feared was in the world, instead of in your mind alone.
Today, see the world in the celestial gentleness with which creation shines...with the eyes of Christ.
Surrounding you is all the life that God created in His Love. Yet you do not see it while in-name-only seeing with the eyes of Christ.
Use not the bodies eyes today. Let Christ be your eyes today. And through His sight offer healing to the world through Him.
Who is Christ? He is God's Son as He created Him. He is the Self we share, uniting us with one another, and with God as well.
Christ is the link that keeps you one with God, and guarantees that separation is no more than an illusion of despair. You mind is part of His, and His of yours. He remains untouched by anything the bodies eyes perceive.
The Holy Spirit reaches from the Christ in you to all your dreams, and bids them come to Him to be translated into truth. He will exchange them for the final dream which God appointed as the end of dreams. When the dream of forgiveness rests upon the world and peace has come to every Son of God, what could there be to keep things separate?
When you see the face of Christ in everyone, it is the symbol that the time for learning now is over, and the goal of the Atonement has been reached at last.
Therefore, a Christian seeks to find Christ's face and look on nothing else. Christians share one vision as they look on the face of Him Whose Self is
ours.
As you behold His glory, you will know you have no need of learning or perception or of time. You have no need of anything except the holy Self, the Christ Whom God created as His Son.
Christ's vision let's you see 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. Such eyes see a world where terror is impossible, and witnesses to fear can not be found.
The real world holds a counterpart to each unhappy thought reflected in your world...a 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 there. There are no cries of pain and sorrow heard, for nothing there 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? The world it sees arises from a mind at peace with itself.
The Bible says God gave the world His only-begotten Son. He gave it
to his Son. Not the world you see. He gave the real world to His Son. So He has given it to you.
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 percieve 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. So it is seen in a state of grace.
Accept this vision both for yourself and for the world.
God's promises make no exceptions. And he guarantees that only joy can be the final outcome found for everything. Yet it is up to you when this is reached.
As an in-name-only Christian, Christ asks that He may use your eyes today, and thus redeem the world. Redemption must be one. As you are saved, the world is saved with you. For all must be redeemed together.
Forgiveness is the only gift you can give Christ, because it is the only gift you want. Give it that he may offer you peace of mind, taking away all terror and pain. And as they are removed from you, the dreams that seemed to settle on the world are gone.
Everything you give, you give yourself. This is salvation's simple formula.
The world will be saved as you accept Atonement for yourself.
All that intruded upon your holy sight forgiveness takes away. And as you see, you draw near the end of senseless journeys, mad careers and artificial values. And thus are you restored to your reality at last.
You do not yet understand what is meant by Atonement. Your holiness is far beyond your own ability to understand or know. Yet God, our Father, acknowledges your holiness as His. Our Will, together, understands it. And our Will, together, knows that it is so. Understanding it, you can appreciate it. Appreciating it, can you accept the Atonement.
Jesus
