I Am: A Course in Miracles (ACIM)

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 173 â??God is but Love, and therefore so am I.â?? [155] â??I will step back and let Him lead the way.â?? â??God is but Love, and therefore so am I.â?? [156] â??I walk with God in perfect holiness.â?? â??God is but Love, and therefore so am I.â??

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 172 â??God is but Love, and therefore so am I.â?? [153] â??In my defenselessness my safety lies.â?? â??God is but Love, and therefore so am I.â?? [154] â??I am among the ministers of God.â?? â??God is but Love, and therefore so am I.â??

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 171 â??God is but Love, and therefore so am I.â?? [151] â??All things are echoes of the Voice of God.â?? â??God is but Love, and therefore so am I.â?? [152] â??The power of decision is my own.â?? â??God is but Love, and therefore so am

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 170 â??There is no cruelty in God and none in me.â?? No-one attacks without intent to hurt.This can have no exception. When you think that you attack in self defense, you mean that to be cruel is protection; you are safe because of cruelty.You mean that you believe to hurt another brings you freedom.And you mean that to attack is to exchange the state in which you are for something better, safer, more secure from dangerous invasion and from fear. How thoroughly insane is the idea that to defend from fear is to attack! For here is fear begot and fed with blood, to make it grow and swell and rage.And thus is fear protected, not escaped.Today we learn a lesson which can save you more delay and needless misery than you can possibly imagine. It is this: You make what you defend against, and by Your own defense against it is it real And inescapable. Lay down your arms, And only then do you perceive it false. It seems to be the enemy without that you attack.Yet your defense sets up an enemy within; an alien thought at war with you, depriving you of peace, splitting your mind into two camps which seem wholly irreconcilable. For love now has an enemy, an opposite; and fear, the alien, now needs your defense against the threat of what you really are. If you consider carefully the means by which your fancied self- defense proceeds on its imagined way, you will perceive the premises on which the idea stands. First, it is obvious ideas must leave their source. For it is you who make attack, and must have first conceived of it.Yet you attack outside yourself, and separate your mind from him who is to be attacked, with perfect faith the split you made is real. Next are the attributes of love bestowed upon its enemy. For fear becomes your safety and protector of your peace, to which you turn for solace and escape from doubts about your strength and hope of rest in dreamless quiet.And as love is shorn of what belongs to it and it alone, love is endowed with attributes of fear.

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 169 â??By grace I live. By grace I am released.â?? Grace is an aspect of the Love of God which is most like the state prevailing in the Unity of truth. It is the worldâ??s most lofty aspiration, for it leads beyond the world entirely. It is past learning yet the goal of learning, for grace cannot come until the mind prepares itself for true acceptance. Grace becomes inevitable instantly in those who have prepared a table where it can be gently laid and willingly received; an altar clean and holy for the gift. Grace is acceptance of the Love of God within a world of seeming hate and fear. By grace alone the hate and fear are gone, for grace presents a state so opposite to everything the world contains that those whose minds are lighted by the gift of grace can not believe the world of fear is real. Grace is not learned.The final step must go beyond all learning. Grace is not the goal this course aspires to attain.Yet we prepare for grace in that an open mind can hear the call to waken. It is not shut tight against Godâ??s Voice. It has become aware that there are things it does not know, and thus is ready to accept a state completely different from experience with which it is familiarly at home. We have perhaps appeared to contradict our statement that the revelation of the Father and the Son as One has been already set. But we have also said the mind determines when that time will be, and has determined it.And yet we urge you to bear witness to theWord of God to hasten the experience of truth, and speed its advent into every mind which recognizes its effects on you. Oneness is simply the idea God is. And in His Being He encompasses all things. No mind holds anything but Him. We say â??God is,â?? and then we cease to speak, for in that knowledge words are meaningless. There are no lips to speak them, and no part of mind sufficiently distinct to feel that it is now aware of something not itself. It has united with its Source, and like its Source Itself, it merely is. We cannot speak nor write nor even think of this at all.It comes to every mind when total recognition that its will is Godâ??s has been

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 168 â??Your grace is given me. I claim it now.â?? God speaks to us. Shall we not speak to Him? He is not distant. He makes no attempt to hide from us. We try to hide from Him, and suffer from deception. He remains entirely accessible. He loves His Son.There is no certainty but this, yet this suffices. He will love His Son forever. When his mind remains asleep, He loves him still. And when his mind awakes, He loves him with a never-changing Love. If you but knew the meaning of His Love hope and despair would be impossible, for hope would be forever satisfied; despair of any kind unthinkable. His grace His answer is to all despair, for in it lies remembrance of His Love.Would He not gladly give the means by which His Will is recognized? His grace is yours by your acknowledgment.And memory of Him awakens in the mind which asks the means of Him whereby its sleep is done. Today we ask of God the gift He has most carefully preserved within our hearts, waiting to be acknowledged. This the gift by which God leans to us and lifts us up, taking salvationâ??s final step Himself. All steps but this we learn, instructed by His Voice. But finally He comes Himself and takes us in His Arms, and sweeps away the cobwebs of our sleep. His gift of grace is more than just an answer. It restores all memories the sleeping mind forgot; all certainty of what loveâ??s meaning is. God loves His Son. Request Him now to give the means by which this world will disappear, and vision first will come, with knowledge but an instant later. For in grace you see a light that covers all the world in love, and watch fear disappear from every face as hearts rise up and claim the light as theirs.What now remains that Heaven be delayed an instant longer? What remains undone when your forgiveness rests on everything? It is a new and holy day today, for we receive what has been given us. Our faith lies in the Giver, not our own acceptance. We acknowledge our mistakes, but He to Whom all error is unknown is yet the One Who answers our mistakes by giving us the means to lay them down, and rise to Him in gratitude and love.

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 167 â??There is one life, and that I share with God.â?? There are not different kinds of life, for life is like the truth. It does not have degrees. It is the one condition in which all that God created share. Like all His Thoughts, it has no opposite. There is no death because what God created shares His Life.There is no death because an opposite to God does not exist.There is no death because the Father and the Son are One. In this world there appears to be a state that is lifeâ??s opposite.You call it death.Yet we have learned that the idea of death takes many forms. It is the one idea which underlies all feelings that are not supremely happy. It is the alarm to which you give response of any kind that is not perfect joy.All sorrow,loss,anxiety and suffering and pain, even a little sigh of weariness, a slight discomfort or the merest frown, acknowledge death. And thus deny you live. You think that death is of the body. Yet it is but an idea, irrelevant to what is seen as physical.A thought is in the mind. It can be then applied as mind directs it. But its origin is where it must be changed if change occurs. Ideas leave not their source.The emphasis this course has placed on that idea is due to its centrality in our attempts to change your mind about yourself. It is the reason you can heal. It is the cause of healing. It is why you cannot die. Its truth established you as one with God. Death is the thought that you are separate from your Creator. It is the belief conditions change, emotions alternate because of causes you cannot control, you did not make, and you can never change. It is the fixed belief ideas can leave their source, and take on qualities the source does not contain, becoming different from their own origin, apart from it in kind as well as distance, time and form. Death cannot come from life. Ideas remain united to their source. They can extend all that their source contains. In that they can go far beyond themselves. But they can not give birth to what was never given them. As they are made, so will their making be. As they were born, so will they then give birth. And where they come from, there will they return.

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 166 â??I am entrusted with the gifts of God.â?? All things are given you. Godâ??s trust in you is limitless. He knows His Son. He gives without exception, holding nothing back that can contribute to your happiness. And yet, unless your will is one with His, His gifts are not received. But what would make you think there is another will than His? Here is the paradox that underlies the making of the world.This world is not the Will of God, and so it is not real.Yet those who think it real must still believe there is another will, and one that leads to opposite effects from those He wills. Impossible indeed; but every mind that looks upon the world and judges it as certain, solid, trustworthy and true believes in two creators; or in one, himself alone. But never in One God. The gifts of God are not acceptable to anyone who holds such strange beliefs. He must believe that to accept Godâ??s gifts, however evident they may become, however urgently he may be called to claim them as his own, is being pressed to treachery against himself. He must deny their presence, contradict the truth, and suffer to preserve the world he made. Here is the only home he thinks he knows. Here is the only safety he believes that he can find.Without the world he made is he an outcast, homeless and afraid. He does not realize that it is here he is afraid indeed, and homeless too; an outcast wandering so far from home, so long away, he does not realize he has forgotten where he came from, where he goes, and even who he really is. Yet in his lonely, senseless wanderings Godâ??s gifts go with him, all unknown to him. He cannot lose them. But he will not look at what is given him. He wanders on, aware of the futility he sees about him everywhere, perceiving how his little lot but dwindles as he goes ahead to nowhere. Still he wanders on in misery and poverty, alone though God is with him, and a treasure his so great that everything the world contains is valueless before its magnitude. He seems a sorry figure, weary, worn, in threadbare clothing, and with feet that bleed a little from the rocky road he walks.

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 165 â??Let not my mind deny the Thought of God.â?? What makes this world seem real except your own denial of the truth which lies beyond? What but your thoughts of misery and death obscure the perfect happiness and the Eternal Life your Father wills for you? And what could hide what cannot be concealed except illusion? What could keep from you what you already have except your choice to see it not, denying it is there? The Thought of God created you. It left you not, nor have you ever been apart from It an instant. It belongs to you. By It you live. It is your Source of life, holding you One with It, and everything is one with you because It left you not.The Thought of God protects you, cares for you, makes soft your resting place and smooth your way, lighting your mind with happiness and love. Eternity and Everlasting Life shine in your mind because the Thought of God has left you not, and still abides with you. Who would deny his safety and his peace, his joy, his healing and his peace of mind, his quiet rest, his calm awakening, if he but recognized where they abide? Would he not instantly prepare to go where they are found, abandoning all else as worthless in comparison with them? And having found them, would he not make sure they stay with him and he remain with them? Deny not Heaven. It is yours today but for the asking. Nor need you perceive how great the gift, how changed your mind will be before it comes to you.Ask to receive and it is given you. Conviction lies within it.Till you welcome it as yours, uncertainty remains.Yet God is fair. Sureness is not required to receive what only your acceptance can bestow. Ask with desire.You need not be sure that you request the only thing you want. But when you have received you will be sure you have the treasure you have always sought. What would you then exchange it for? What would induce you now to let it fade away from your ecstatic vision? For this sight proves that you have exchanged your blindness for the seeing eyes of Christ; your mind has come to lay aside denial and accept the Thought of God as its inheritance.

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html What time but now can truth be recognized? The present is the only time there is. And so today, this instant, now, we come to look upon what is forever there; not in our sight, but in the eyes of Christ. He looks past time and sees eternity as represented there. He hears the sounds the senseless busy world engenders, yet He hears them faintly, for beyond them all He hears the song of Heaven and the Voice of God more clear, more meaningful, more near. The world fades easily away before His sight. Its sounds grow dim. A melody from far beyond the world increasingly is more and more distinct; an ancient Call to Which He gives an ancient answer.You will recognize them both. For they are but your answer to your Fatherâ??s Call to you. Christ answers for you, echoing your Self, using your voice to give His glad consent; accepting your deliverance for you. How holy is your practicing today, as He gives you His sight and hears for you, and answers in your name the Call He hears. How quiet is the time you give to spend with Him beyond the world. How easily are all your seeming sins forgot and all your sorrows unremembered. On this day is grief laid by, for sights and sounds which come from nearer than the world made clear to you who will today accept the gifts He gives. There is a silence into which the world can not intrude.There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost.There is a sense of holiness in you the thought of sin has never touched.All this today you will remember. Faithfulness in practicing today will bring rewards so great and so completely different from all things you sought before, that you will know that here your treasure is, and here your rest. This is the day when vain imaginings part like a curtain, to reveal what lies beyond them. Here is what is really here made visible, while all the shadows which appeared to hide it sink to obscurity. Now is the balance righted, and the scales of judgement left to Him Who judges true. And in His judgement will a world unfold in perfect innocence before your eyes. Now w

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 163 â??There is no death.The Son of God is free.â?? Death is a thought which takes on many forms, often unrecognized. It may appear as sadness, fear, anxiety or doubt; as anger, faithlessness and lack of trust; concern for bodies, envy, and all forms in which the wish to be as you are not may come to tempt you.All such thoughts are but reflections of the worshipping of death as savior and as giver of release. Embodiment of fear, the host of sin, god of the guilty and the lord of all illusions and deceptions, does the thought of death seem mighty. For it seems to hold all living things within its withered hand; all hopes and wishes in its blighting grasp. All goals perceived but in its sightless eyes.The frail, the helpless and the sick bow down before its image, thinking it alone is real, inevitable, worthy of their trust. For it alone will surely come. All things but death are seen to be unsure, too quickly lost however hard to gain, uncertain in their outcome, apt to fail the hopes they once engendered, and to leave the taste of dust and ashes in their wake in place of aspirations and of dreams. But death is counted on. For it will come with certain footsteps when the time has come for its arrival. It will never fail to take all life as hostage to itself. Would you bow down to idols such as this? Here is the strength and might of God Himself perceived within an idol made of dust. Here is the opposite of God proclaimed as lord of all creation, stronger than Godâ??s Will for life, the endlessness of love and Heavenâ??s perfect, changeless constancy. Here is the Will of Father and of Son defeated finally, and laid to rest beneath the headstone death has placed upon the body of the holy Son of God. Unholy in defeat, he has become what death would have him be. His epitaph, which death itself has written, gives no name to him, for he has passed to dust. It says but this: â??Here lies a witness God is dead.â?? And this it writes again and still again, while all the while its worshippers agree, and kneeling down with foreheads to the ground, they whisper fearfully that it is so.

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 162 â??I am as God created me.â?? This single thought, held firmly in the mind, would save the world. From time to time we will repeat it, as we reach another stage in learning. It will mean far more to you as you advance.These words are sacred, for they are the words God gave in answer to the world you made. By them it disappears, and all things seen within its misty clouds and vaporous illusions vanish as these words are spoken. For they come from God. Here is the Word by which the Son became His Fatherâ??s happiness, His Love, and His completion. Here creation is proclaimed, and honored as it is.There is no dream these words will not dispel; no thought of sin and no illusion that the dream contains that will not fade away before their might.They are the trumpet of awakening that sounds around the world.The dead awake in answer to its call.And those who live and hear this sound will never look on death. Holy indeed is he who makes these words his own; arising with them in his mind, recalling them throughout the day, at night bringing them with him as he goes to sleep. His dreams are happy and his rest secure; his safety certain and his body healed, because he sleeps and wakens with the truth before him always. He will save the world because he gives the world what he receives each time he practices the words of truth. Today we practice simply. For the words we use are mighty, and they need no thoughts beyond themselves to change the mind of him who uses them. So wholly is it changed that it is now the treasury in which God places all His gifts and all His Love to be distributed to all the world, increased in giving; kept complete because its sharing is unlimited. And thus you learn to think with God. Christâ??s vision has restored your sight by salvaging your mind. We honor you today.Yours is the right to perfect holiness you now accept.With this acceptance is salvation brought to everyone, for who could cherish sin when holiness like this has blessed the world? Who could despair when perfect joy is yours, available to all

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The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 160 â??I am at home. Fear is the stranger here.â?? Fear is a stranger to the ways of love. Identify with fear, and you will be a stranger to yourself.And thus you are unknown to you.What is your Self remains an alien to the part of you which thinks that it is real but different from yourself. Who could be sane in such a circumstance? Who but a madman could believe he is what he is not, and judge against himself? There is a stranger in our midst, who comes from an idea so foreign to the truth he speaks a different language, looks upon a world truth does not know, and understands what truth regards as senseless. Stranger yet, he does not recognize to whom he comes, and yet maintains his home belongs to him, while he is alien now who is at home. And yet how easy it would be to say, â??This is my home. Here I belong, and will not leave because a madman says I must.â??What reason is there for not saying this? What could the reason be except that you had asked this stranger in to take your place, and let you be a stranger to yourself ? No-one would let himself be dispossessed so needlessly unless he thought there was another home more suited to his tastes. Who is the stranger? Is it fear or you that is unsuited to the home which God provided for His Son? Is fear His own, created in His likeness? Is it fear that love completes and is completed by? There is no home can shelter love and fear.They cannot coexist. If you are real, then fear must be illusion. And if fear is real, then you do not exist at all. How simply, then, the question is resolved. Who fears has but denied himself and said, â??I am the stranger here. And so I leave my home to one more like me than myself, and give him all I thought belonged to me.â?? Now is he exiled of necessity, not knowing who he is, uncertain of all things but this; that he is not himself, and that his home has been denied to him. What does he search for now? What can he find? A stranger to himself can find no home wherever he may look, for he has made return impossible. His way is lost except a miracle will search him

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 159 â??I give the miracles I have received.â?? No-one can give what he has not received.To give a thing requires first you have it in your own possession. Here the laws of Heaven and the world agree. But here they also separate.The world believes that to possess a thing it must be kept. Salvation teaches otherwise.To give is how to recognize you have received. It is the proof that what you have is yours. You understand that you are healed when you give healing.You accept forgiveness as accomplished in yourself when you forgive.You recognize your brother as yourself and thus do you perceive that you are whole.There is no miracle you cannot give, for all are given you. Receive them now by opening the storehouse of your mind where they are laid and giving them away. Christâ??s vision is a miracle. It comes from far beyond itself, for it reflects Eternal Love and the rebirth of love which never died, but has been kept obscure. Christâ??s vision pictures Heaven, for it sees a world so like to Heaven that what God created perfect can be mirrored there.The darkened glass the world presents can show but twisted images in broken parts. The real world pictures Heavenâ??s innocence. Christâ??s vision is the miracle in which all miracles are born. It is their source, remaining with each miracle you give, and yet remaining yours. It is the bond by which the giver and receiver are united in extension here on earth as they are one in Heaven. Christ beholds no sin in anyone, and in His sight the sinless are as one.Their holiness was given by His Father and Himself. Christâ??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. Holiness has been restored to vision, and the blind can see. This is the Holy Spiritâ??s single gift; the treasurehouse to which you can appeal with perfect certainty for everything that can