Today’s ACIM Lesson

6. What Is the Christ?

Posted on September 28, 2021

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

In Part II of the Workbook, every 10 lessons we are given an instruction. It comes in the form of a question. There are 14 of these questions all together, and each one of them corresponds to a set of 10 lessons, and is to be read every day for the next 10 days along with our lesson for the day. “What Is the Christ?” is the sixth instruction and goes with Lessons 271 – 280.

6. What Is the Christ?

Christ is God’s Son as He created Him. He is the Self we share, uniting us with one another, and with God as well. He is the Thought which still abides within the Mind that is His Source. He has not left His holy home, nor lost the innocence in which He was created. He abides unchanged forever in the Mind of God.

Christ is the link that keeps you one with God, and guarantees that separation is no more than an illusion of despair, for hope forever will abide in Him. Your mind is part of His, and His of yours. He is the part in which God’s Answer lies; where all decisions are already made, and dreams are over. He remains untouched by anything the body’s eyes perceive. For though in Him His Father placed the means for your salvation, yet does He remain the Self Who, like His Father, knows no sin.

Home of the Holy Spirit, and at home in God alone, does Christ remain at peace within the Heaven of your holy mind. This is the only part of you that has reality in truth. The rest is dreams. Yet will these dreams be given unto Christ, to fade before His glory and reveal your holy Self, the Christ, to you at last.

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. For when forgiveness rests upon the world and peace has come to every Son of God, what could there be to keep things separate, for what remains to see except Christ’s face?

And how long will this holy face be seen, when it is but the symbol that the time for learning now is over, and the goal of the Atonement has been reached at last? So therefore let us seek to find Christ’s face and look on nothing else. As we behold His glory, will we know we have no need of learning or perception or of time, or anything except the holy Self, the Christ Whom God created as His Son.

Remember, in Part II of the Workbook, every 10 lessons we are given an instruction. It comes in the form of a question. There are 14 of these questions all together, and each one of them corresponds to a set of 10 lessons, and is to be read every day for the next 10 days along with our lesson for the day. “What Is the Christ?” is the sixth instruction and goes with Lessons 271 – 280.

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Lesson 270 – I will not use the body’s eyes today.

Posted on September 27, 2021

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by Amy Torres

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If I do not use the body’s eyes today, all that is left is the Everything of Nothing. A forgiven world is a world washed clean by my Father, and His Vision sees only Love and Light. The formless beauty of ever-expanding Love is pristine and exquisite, priceless and timeless. The Word is No Word and words are nowhere to be found at the entrance to Heaven’s Gate.

LESSON 270

I will not use the body’s eyes today.

Father, Christ’s vision is Your gift to me, and it has power to translate all that the body’s eyes behold into the sight of a forgiven world. How glorious and gracious is this world! Yet how much more will I perceive in it than sight can give. The world forgiven signifies Your Son acknowledges his Father, lets his dreams be brought to truth, and waits expectantly the one remaining instant more of time which ends forever, as Your memory returns to him. And now his will is one with Yours. His function now is but Your Own, and every thought except Your Own is gone.

The quiet of today will bless our hearts, and through them peace will come to everyone. Christ is our eyes today. And through His sight we offer healing to the world through Him, the holy Son whom God created whole; the holy Son whom God created One.

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Lesson 269 – My sight goes forth to look upon Christ’s face.

Posted on September 26, 2021

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by Amy Torres

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There is nothing to see but Light and the essence of Light. We are each other and there is no other. One and the same, we go our merry Way, uncovering and rediscovering the sameness of All. Christ is but a word which means “anointed one” and that anointed one is every one of us. The world is no-thing, and how we see the world is the path Home. Feel your inner light, radiate your inner light, see your inner light in everything and everyone everywhere and you will see that what you see is a mirror of yourself, pure, innocent and whole: the Anointed One.

LESSON 269

My sight goes forth to look upon Christ’s face.

I ask Your blessing on my sight today. It is the means which You have chosen to become the way to show me my mistakes, and look beyond them. It is given me to find a new perception through the Guide You gave to me, and through His lessons to surpass perception and return to truth. I ask for the illusion which transcends all those I made. Today I choose to see a world forgiven, in which everyone shows me the face of Christ, and teaches me that what I look upon belongs to me, that nothing is, except Your holy Son.

Today our sight is blessed indeed. We share one vision, as we look upon the face of Him Whose Self is ours. We are one because of Him Who is the Son of Him Who is our own Identity.

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Lesson 268 – Let all things be exactly as they are.

Posted on September 25, 2021

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by Amy Torres

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Let me not be seduced by guilt and loyalty oaths if things seem to happen which demand grief and sympathy. Let me match my form to another’s kindly, but without believing anything painful has occurred. Let me see through the illusion effortlessly today, because with Your Light there is nothing to see but Light, Whole, Holy and Unified. Your Will is mine, therefore my will is not my own but expanding as a Whole Living Oneness which is tragedy-free, destruction-free, hassle-free. I do not have the big picture, so let me leave that to You and be Your outpicturing until God’s Word fully awakens the Christ within.

LESSON 268

Let all things be exactly as they are.

Let me not be Your critic, Lord, today, and judge against You. Let me not attempt to interfere with Your creation, and distort it into sickly forms. Let me be willing to withdraw my wishes from its unity, and thus to let it be as You created it. For thus will I be able, too, to recognize my Self as You created me. In love was I created, and in love will I remain forever. What can frighten me, when I let all things be exactly as they are?

Let not our sight be blasphemous today, nor let our ears attend to lying tongues. Only reality is free of pain. Only reality is free of loss. Only reality is wholly safe. And it is only this we seek today.

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Lesson 267 – My heart is beating in the peace of God.

Posted on September 24, 2021

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by Amy Torres

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The heartbeat is rhythmic, like the ebb and flow of the ocean. It is a cosmic drum with a mellow, even beat. Personal identity is dissolved in the pulse and hum of this universal force. Lub dub … lub dub … no me … no you … undone … back Home.

LESSON 267

My heart is beating in the peace of God.

Surrounding me is all the life that God created in His Love. It calls to me in every heartbeat and in every breath; in every action and in every thought. Peace fills my heart, and floods my body with the purpose of forgiveness. Now my mind is healed, and all I need to save the world is given me. Each heartbeat brings me peace; each breath infuses me with strength. I am a messenger of God, directed by His Voice, sustained by Him in love, and held forever quiet and at peace within His Loving Arms. Each heartbeat calls His Name, and every one is answered by His Voice, assuring me I am at home in Him.

Let me attend Your Answer, not my own. Father, my heart is beating in the peace the Heart of Love created. It is there and only there that I can be at home.

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Lesson 266 – My holy Self abides in you, God’s Son.

Posted on September 23, 2021

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by Amy Torres

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God has filled the world with saviors. As long as we dream we are bodies in a world, we can see each and every body as His reflection. Good or evil, we can see them as our savior. Everybody is loving or calling for love. We can receive love and give love, if we choose to live by, “My holy Self abides in you, God’s Son.” That is Paradise.

LESSON 266

My holy Self abides in you, God’s Son.

Father, You gave me all Your Sons, to be my saviors and my counselors in sight; the bearers of Your holy Voice to me. In them are You reflected, and in them does Christ look back upon me from my Self. Let not Your Son forget Your holy Name. Let not Your Son forget his holy Source. Let not Your Son forget his Name is Yours.

This day we enter into Paradise, calling upon God’s Name and on our own, acknowledging our Self in each of us; united in the holy Love of God. How many saviors God has given us! How can we lose the way to Him, when He has filled the world with those who point to Him, and given us the sight to look on them?

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Lesson 265 – Creation’s gentleness is all I see.

Posted on September 22, 2021

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by Amy Torres

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Creation’s gentleness is the truth of my thoughts. The images I see reflect my thoughts … placing myself in God’s Hands unveils a gentler view. Paul Hedderman says the ego is addicted to “self-ing.” Un-selfing results in Being. Being shines with celestial gentleness transforming this world and everybody in it. Ashay!

LESSON 265

Creation’s gentleness is all I see.

I have indeed misunderstood the world, because I laid my sins on it and saw them looking back at me. How fierce they seemed! And how deceived was I to think that what I feared was in the world, instead of in my mind alone. Today I see the world in the celestial gentleness with which creation shines. There is no fear in it. Let no appearance of my sins obscure the light of Heaven shining on the world. What is reflected there is in God’s Mind. The images I see reflect my thoughts. Yet is my mind at one with God’s. And so I can perceive creation’s gentleness.

In quiet would I look upon the world, which but reflects Your Thoughts, and mine as well. Let me remember that they are the same, and I will see creation’s gentleness.

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Lesson 264 – I am surrounded by the Love of God.

Posted on September 21, 2021

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by Amy Torres

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I am surrounded by the Love of God. This is salvation’s prayer. I am surrounded by the Love of God. Timeless, placeless, infinite, eternal. At Home, perfectly safe, Peaceful and Free. Joyfully Extending Perfect Knowledge. I am surrounded by the Love of God. I am surrounded … above, below, without, within … surrounded, enfolded, secure, relaxed, open, Unified … surrounded is unbounded … for I am the Love of God, undifferentiated Father and Son.

LESSON 264

I am surrounded by the Love of God.

Father, You stand before me and behind, beside me, in the place I see myself, and everywhere I go. You are in all the things I look upon, the sounds I hear, and every hand that reaches for my own. In You time disappears, and place becomes a meaningless belief. For what surrounds Your Son and keeps him safe is Love itself. There is no source but this, and nothing is that does not share its holiness; that stands beyond Your one creation, or without the Love which holds all things within itself. Father, Your Son is like Yourself. We come to You in Your Own Name today, to be at peace within Your everlasting Love.

My brothers, join with me in this today. This is salvation’s prayer. Must we not join in what will save the world, along with us?

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Lesson 263 – My holy vision sees all things as pure.

Posted on September 20, 2021

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by Amy Torres

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Holy vision sees nothing but innocence, purity and light. Holy vision is whole and unified. Holy vision is beyond the brain, the ego mind, the world, and what we consider earthly life. Holy vision is timeless, formless, changeless, constant, peaceful, joyous love. Holy vision leaves us on the brink of Eternity … suspended just an instant until our Father reaches down and scoops us back Home.

LESSON 263

My holy vision sees all things as pure.

Father, Your Mind created all that is, Your Spirit entered into it, Your Love gave life to it. And would I look upon what You created as if it could be made sinful? I would not perceive such dark and fearful images. A madman’s dreams is hardly fit to be my choice, instead of all the loveliness with which you blessed creation; all its purity, its joy, and its eternal, quiet home in You.

And while we still remain outside the gate of Heaven, let us look on all we see through holy vision and the eyes of Christ. Let all appearances seem pure to us, that we may pass them by in innocence, and walk together to our Father’s house as brothers and the holy Sons of God.

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Lesson 262 – Let me perceive no differences today.

Posted on September 19, 2021

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by Amy Torres

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What seems so hard becomes so easy as I surrender and allow the thing I relate as myself be punctured and deflate. All the tension and struggle held within that balloon called “me” flows out and into the All That Is, the Ultimate Flow. Flowing with the flow is smooth and easy. Flowing with the Flow … now that’s The Life.

LESSON 262

Let me perceive no differences today.

Father, you have One Son. And it is he that I would look upon today. He is Your one creation. Why should I perceive a thousand forms in what remains as one? Why should I give this one a thousand names, when only one suffices? For Your Son must bear Your Name, for You created him. Let me not see him as a stranger to his Father, nor as stranger to myself. For he is part of me and I of him, and we are part of You Who are our Source, eternally united in Your Love; eternally the holy Son of God.

We who are one would recognize this day the truth about ourselves. We would come home, and rest in unity. For there is peace, and nowhere else can peace be sought and found.

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