Lesson 45: God is the Mind with which I think.
Real thinking is done with God-Mind. It is telepathic, i.e., shared without speaking. And it is communication without words. Because God Thought does not take place in the brain. Real thoughts are in the Mind of God and there is nowhere else for them to go. That is why it is said, in Lesson 19, “Yet it is a fact that there are no private thoughts.”
Jesus asks, “Where, then, are your real thoughts?” Lesson 45 is about finding our real thoughts. Jesus tells us that our real thoughts must be in our mind, “because they cannot have left their source”.
“God wills you learn what has always been true: that He created you as part of Him, and this must still be true because ideas leave not their source.” T-26.VII.13:2
Next, Jesus gives us today’s magnificent practice:
“We will attempt to leave the unreal and seek for the real. We will deny the world in favor of truth. We will not let the thoughts of the world hold us back. We will not let the beliefs of the world tell us that what God would have us do is impossible. Instead, we will try to recognize that only what God would have us do is possible.” Remember Lesson 38? “There is nothing my holiness cannot do.” Well, this is how holiness does it.
Jesus then boosts our confidence:
“We will also try to understand that only what God would have us do is what we want to do. And we will also try to remember that we cannot fail in doing what He would have us do. There is every reason to feel confident that we will succeed today. It is the Will of God.” Remember yesterday’s lesson ended with, “Above all, be determined not to forget [to practice] today.” Forgetting is how the ego intervenes with our success.
We are going to return to the thoughts we thought with God in the beginning. That’s exciting!
The thoughts we thought with God in the beginning “are there in your mind now, completely unchanged.”
The exercises for today are directed toward the Foundation where our mind is joined with the Mind of God. “You will probably be unable as yet to realize how high you are trying to go,” says our elder brother, “…the Kingdom of Heaven.”
Jesus concludes Lesson 45 with, “Stand aside, however briefly, from all thoughts that are unworthy of Him Whose host you are. And thank Him for the Thoughts He is thinking with you.” Remember Chapter 11 when Jesus asks us, “Would you be hostage to the ego or host to God?” and Chapter 15 when Jesus reminds us that he has asked us before, “Would you be hostage to the ego or host to God?” Well, this is our opportunity to answer that question.
