WEBVTT 1 00:00:57.320 --> 00:00:57.799 And so. 2 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:22.439 Reads my name inside. 3 00:01:24.599 --> 00:01:28.640 He sees my name across and. 4 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:44.319 To me, y'all, i'll interrupt the song of the welcome 5 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:48.040 that one to this morning classed the lesson of the day. 6 00:01:48.359 --> 00:01:50.239 I'm very very sorry. 7 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:53.560 That I didn't you the. 8 00:01:52.599 --> 00:01:58.400 Appointed time, which is nine o'clock in the US Central time. 9 00:01:59.239 --> 00:02:03.239 I am currently in Spain, and I was absolutely. 10 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:06.640 Sure that I had it all figured out what time 11 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:11.840 I was going to do it, and for some unexplicable reason, 12 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:19.439 the time passed by, and it's now five thirty in 13 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:20.280 the afternoon. 14 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:20.639 Here. 15 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:24.560 You will, amiable. If you're not listening now, you will 16 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:31.240 be able to catch this class hopefully later. I'm a speaker. 17 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:34.680 If you're still interested day, if the lesson of the day, 18 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:39.159 you would normally read this lesson at the beginning of 19 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:45.879 the day, and so I trust everybody did so. But 20 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:53.000 yet we're going to involve ourselves in this class with 21 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:58.280 a lesson three forty seven, which is a great it's 22 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:03.479 an incredible lesson, actually, And the more we engage ourselves 23 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:08.520 in this theme what is the miracle? What is a miracle? 24 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:14.960 The more we actually begin to appreciate, at least this 25 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:18.319 is what happens with me. The more I begin to 26 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:25.960 appreciate the value of the miracle and what becomes what 27 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:32.719 becomes a real what becomes a real experience is the 28 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:37.240 certainty that is expressed in less than ninety one miracles 29 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:41.120 are seen in light that the miracle is going all 30 00:03:41.439 --> 00:03:44.919 all the time, and that the only thing the problem 31 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:48.120 is your only problem would be that you are not 32 00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:54.159 aware of it. It doesn't your awareness is not necessary 33 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:59.199 for it to be available, nor is your denial of 34 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:02.919 the occurrence a reason for the miracle not to be present. 35 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:06.400 It is going on all the time, and it's only 36 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:12.599 your We're only concerning ourselves with actually in this course 37 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:20.439 of miracles, to yeah to wipe away or to to 38 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:27.240 express the intention that are our defenses against the miracle, 39 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:32.399 from against the happening miracle from happening to be wiped 40 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:35.199 away for us. And so this is part of the 41 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:38.319 lesson of the day. So what we'll start doing will 42 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:46.040 read the as we as we do, we will read 43 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:51.160 what is a miracle? And welcome everyone. And again I'm 44 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:53.560 sorry that I was not there at the point in time, 45 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:56.600 but hey, time is going on all the time, so 46 00:04:56.800 --> 00:05:00.240 if you'll catch it, you'll catch it. Here is the 47 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:11.279 entire What is a miracle theme. A miracle is a correction. 48 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:15.439 It does not create nor really change at all. It 49 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:19.639 merely looks on devastation and reminds the mind that what 50 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:23.720 it sees is false. It undoes error, but does not 51 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:28.680 attempt to go beyond perception nor exceed the function of forgiveness. 52 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:34.199 Thus it stays within time's limits. Yet it paves the 53 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:39.480 way for the return of timelessness and loves awakening, for 54 00:05:39.639 --> 00:05:44.240 fear must slip away, slip away under the gentle remedy 55 00:05:44.439 --> 00:05:49.000 it brings. A miracle contains the gift of grace, for 56 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:53.120 it is given and received as one, and thus it 57 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:57.680 illustrates the law of truth. The world does not obey 58 00:05:57.800 --> 00:06:03.279 because it fails entirely to understand its ways. A miracle 59 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:08.160 inverts perception, which was upside down before, and thus it 60 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:13.560 ends the strange distortions that were manifest. Nower's perception open 61 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:19.480 to the truth. Now is forgiveness seen as justified. So 62 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:24.480 forgiveness is actually seen as justified as the miracle. As 63 00:06:24.519 --> 00:06:29.680 the miracle occurs, there in fact simultaneous occurrences. You could 64 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:33.839 say forgiveness is the home of miracles. The eyes of 65 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:37.680 Christ deliver them to all they look upon in mercy 66 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:46.800 and in love. Perception stands corrected in his sight, and 67 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:49.519 what was made was meant to curse has come to 68 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:54.480 bless Each lily or forgiveness offers all the world the 69 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:58.720 silent miracle of love, and each is laid before the 70 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:03.279 Word of God upon the universal altar to Creator and 71 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:08.519 creation in the light of perfect purity and endless joy. 72 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:12.720 The miracle is taken first on faith, because to ask 73 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:15.879 for it implies the mind has been made ready to 74 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:19.680 conceive or what it cannot see and does not understand. 75 00:07:20.519 --> 00:07:23.759 Yet faith will bring its witnesses to show that what 76 00:07:23.839 --> 00:07:27.600 it rested on is really there, and thus the miracle 77 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:31.560 will justify your faith in it and show it rested 78 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:35.040 on a world more real than what you saw before, 79 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:41.519 a world redeemed from what you thought was there. Miracles 80 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:45.319 fall like drops of healing rain from heaven on a 81 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:49.680 dry and dusty world where starved and thirsty creatures come 82 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:53.800 to die. Now they have water. Now the world is green, 83 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:57.439 and everywhere the signs of life spring up to show 84 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:00.399 that what is born can never die. For what has 85 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:06.319 life has immortality, and what has life has immortality because 86 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:08.959 there is only one life, and that I share with God, 87 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:13.959 and I love the more I read this, the more 88 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:21.120 we can love this. This, yeah, this centerpiece you could say, 89 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:24.680 of course, in miracles, because it really addresses the question 90 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:28.639 what is a miracle. And one of the things that 91 00:08:29.839 --> 00:08:32.600 occurred to me this morning when I was reading this 92 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:36.799 one sentence and each is each lily, a forgiveness is 93 00:08:36.879 --> 00:08:40.039 laid before the Word of God brought me back to 94 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:44.000 the idea of John One where it says in the 95 00:08:44.039 --> 00:08:46.759 beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, 96 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:49.840 and the Word was God. It is it is really 97 00:08:49.879 --> 00:08:56.320 that intent, that that the Word is God, and that 98 00:08:56.679 --> 00:09:00.519 the further we go back to that certainty, the more 99 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:06.399 the closer we come to the actually, yeah, to recognizing 100 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:11.919 the validity if I can use that word of forgiveness, 101 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:18.120 the justification of forgiveness, of forgiveness being fully justified on 102 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:26.799 the basis of what we are, and that actually that 103 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:29.279 is that is as close as we can get to 104 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:33.399 recognizing the Word of God as God as what we are. 105 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:41.679 Whereas we begin to fail quite quickly here. Okay, so 106 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:44.159 the lesson of the day then is less than three 107 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:50.799 forty seven. Anger must come from judgment. Judgment is the 108 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:55.559 weapon I would use against myself to keep the miracle 109 00:09:55.879 --> 00:09:59.960 away from me. Wow, that's amazing. Judgment is the weapon 110 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:04.120 and I would use against myself to keep the miracle 111 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:08.679 away from me. It's not that the miracle is not there. 112 00:10:08.840 --> 00:10:12.240 It is still there. It is always there. And so 113 00:10:12.519 --> 00:10:17.200 in the first thing you could say, just from reading 114 00:10:17.240 --> 00:10:23.320 this the lesson title itself, that you would recognize that 115 00:10:23.639 --> 00:10:28.559 by giving up judgment, the miracle becomes available to you, 116 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:34.559 and that your anger is any anger, that your experience 117 00:10:34.679 --> 00:10:39.440 is actually an indication that you have judged and are 118 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:43.120 keeping the miracle that is available to you away from you. 119 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:48.200 And as you begin to see with lesser number ninety 120 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:51.759 one that the miracle is going on is always there, 121 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:54.639 then you can see that there is really no necessity 122 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:58.559 for that, that you just made a mistake in keeping 123 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:02.840 the miracle outside yourself. The occurrence of the miracle is 124 00:11:02.840 --> 00:11:06.600 really not an accident or a coincidence or whatever. 125 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:07.600 It is. 126 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:13.639 There if you intend to see it. Father, I want 127 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:17.639 what goes against my will, and do not want what 128 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:22.799 is my will to have is the premise on which 129 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:26.320 you could say, of course, in miracles is built that 130 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:29.840 you could say, well, I want miracles and I love miracles. 131 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:33.879 But really the truth of it is you. In this 132 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:38.799 situation in which you find yourself in a judgmental association 133 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:43.440 with everything around you, everything that you think you see, 134 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:50.600 you are actually actively choosing against your own will and 135 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:53.879 do not want what is your will to have. And 136 00:11:53.919 --> 00:11:58.320 this is why forgiveness is giving you here. This is 137 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:01.440 why we are talking about the miracle as a correction. 138 00:12:02.679 --> 00:12:05.919 Straighten my mind. My father, it is sick, but you 139 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:10.639 have offered freedom, and I choose to claim your gift today, 140 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:14.480 and so I give all judgment to the one you 141 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:19.159 gave to me to judge for me. He sees what 142 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:23.159 I behold, and yet he knows the truth. He looks 143 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:26.360 on pain, and yet he understands it is not real, 144 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:31.159 and in his understanding it is healed. He gives the 145 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:36.080 miracles my dreams would hide from my awareness. Let him 146 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:39.480 judge to day. I do not know my will, but 147 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:42.759 he is sure it is your own, and he will 148 00:12:42.759 --> 00:12:46.639 speak for me and call your miracles to come to me. 149 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:51.279 Listen today, be very still, and hear the gentle voice 150 00:12:51.320 --> 00:12:55.200 for God assuring you that he has judged you as 151 00:12:55.480 --> 00:13:00.200 the son he loves. And so this is where where 152 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:07.000 you may become very active in offering all your judgments 153 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:11.679 to the Holy Spirit and in fact offer everything you 154 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:16.559 see or you think you see lesser number one. Nothing 155 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:19.679 I see means anything I've judged in amiss according to 156 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:23.320 less than number three. It's your judgment that has given 157 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:26.320 it the meaning that you think it has, and it 158 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:31.919 is really not what it is. Actually, those are all 159 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:36.240 the things that you do not want and not in yeah, 160 00:13:36.279 --> 00:13:45.279 in truth what you do not want, but you have 161 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:47.720 to acknowledge for one second that it's actually what you 162 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:50.879 want and that it goes against your will. And in 163 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:52.960 that sense is this course in miracle is a very 164 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:57.639 practical course. It is not trying to find a solution 165 00:13:57.759 --> 00:14:02.679 for your problem, because the problems that you think you 166 00:14:02.759 --> 00:14:07.080 have really have no solution. So like, Okay, I have 167 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:10.440 a problem, I need of need of parking space, or 168 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:15.039 I have cancer, Please I need a miracle to to 169 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:17.840 solve this for me, is not what this course of 170 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:23.320 miracles is offering. It is really the the removal of 171 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:26.159 the black the blocks to the awareness of Love's presence, 172 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:30.240 where the things that you are concerned about are really 173 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:33.200 not of any concern. And this is what this course 174 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:35.399 of miracles is offering you. This is what the mind 175 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:38.879 training is offering you. This is what the practical application 176 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:43.840 of this of these lessons offers you. That that your 177 00:14:43.879 --> 00:14:46.759 mind begins to get become adjusted to. 178 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:48.559 UH. 179 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:50.320 And this will this is what you will see in 180 00:14:50.360 --> 00:14:56.039 the beginning of of course of Course in Miracles, if 181 00:14:56.080 --> 00:15:00.200 you care to look that you get a custom to 182 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:04.480 performing miracles, and that miracle, the miracle is actually going 183 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:07.559 on all around you, if you just step out of 184 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:10.799 the way and allow forgiveness to wrestle on all things. 185 00:15:10.840 --> 00:15:16.679 Is the lesson will will prescribe. I will will take 186 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:21.360 a little break just to to consider this lesson for 187 00:15:21.399 --> 00:15:23.879 a minute, and then I would like to come back 188 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:27.159 and read from the text of Course in Miracles lesson 189 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:32.279 in chapter three where it says judgment and the authority 190 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:37.240 and the authority problem, which is obviously actually what this 191 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:42.639 is also pointing to. And I'm just going to be 192 00:15:42.759 --> 00:15:51.240 curious to see how this feeds into this lesson. Let's 193 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:55.360 just have one song and then then I'll come be 194 00:15:55.480 --> 00:16:00.240 right back with that. Let's see what we have here. 195 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:09.919 That was not what I was looking for. I was 196 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:16.000 looking for another so it's heaven is calling you. 197 00:16:28.039 --> 00:16:37.120 Softly, draw back the curtains, opened, the windows, pull up 198 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:46.960 the lines, softly, n letting the lie in heavenly every 199 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:49.200 so divine. 200 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:59.559 Oh, everything was calling you. Everything is calling you. 201 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:14.720 And the kids baccady, come back, come back, come. 202 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:21.559 Come come. 203 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:41.680 Gentlyna, gather your men, rees, send them free on agre 204 00:17:42.839 --> 00:17:46.799 rees Gentlyna. 205 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:53.400 Hold of beas come through the flows and mans in 206 00:17:53.680 --> 00:18:00.079 the blood overythies on. 207 00:18:01.400 --> 00:18:05.319 Everyday is calling your name. 208 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:25.160 Kids back any come back, come back, come back, come back, 209 00:18:25.559 --> 00:18:30.640 come come back. 210 00:18:31.039 --> 00:18:39.680 Come the Jane Pina. 211 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:44.319 Song me. 212 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:55.279 Jane, Okay, thank you so much, Mitch. It's a wonderful song. So, 213 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:58.519 as I said, on this day where the lesson is 214 00:18:58.799 --> 00:19:04.079 uh uh anger comes from judgment, and this is you know, 215 00:19:04.359 --> 00:19:07.440 this is how you keep the miracle away from you. 216 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:13.079 Let's read from chapter three, the sixth section, Judgment and 217 00:19:13.160 --> 00:19:16.640 the authority problem. Let's see how far we get with this. 218 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:19.880 If that's his, if this is is okay with everyone. 219 00:19:20.839 --> 00:19:27.839 We have already discussed the last judgment, but insufficient detail. 220 00:19:28.160 --> 00:19:32.720 But in insufficient detail, after the last judgment, there will 221 00:19:32.799 --> 00:19:41.440 be no more. Judgment is symbolic because judgment is symbolic 222 00:19:42.640 --> 00:19:51.599 because perception. Beyond perception, there is no judgment. Wow symbolic 223 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:57.680 because beyond perception there is no judgment. Judgment is the 224 00:19:57.960 --> 00:20:02.160 realm of symbols, and this is what you are aware 225 00:20:02.279 --> 00:20:07.680 of in the world you see, and beyond perception there 226 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:12.759 is no judgment and therefore no symbolic when the people, 227 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:16.200 when the Bible says judge not that you be not judged, 228 00:20:16.880 --> 00:20:19.759 it means that if you judge the reality of others, 229 00:20:20.759 --> 00:20:25.880 will you will be unable to avoid? Sorry, sorry for that. 230 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:30.319 When the Bible says judge not that you be not judged, 231 00:20:30.839 --> 00:20:33.519 it means that if you judge the reality of others, 232 00:20:34.279 --> 00:20:38.160 you will be unable Sorry. It means that if you 233 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:41.559 judge the reality of others, you will be unable to 234 00:20:41.839 --> 00:20:49.440 avoid judging your own. So it is it is actually 235 00:20:50.119 --> 00:20:55.920 having that effect effect Immediately you will you will also 236 00:20:56.039 --> 00:21:01.279 be judging your own reality, and you will be judging 237 00:21:01.359 --> 00:21:05.240 it in as it is not, and it is a 238 00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:11.039 wilful act of self deception. That is, it is important 239 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:16.440 to recognize that. So that's the only purpose you would 240 00:21:16.640 --> 00:21:20.519 you could is there actually the only purpose that judgment? 241 00:21:20.680 --> 00:21:26.640 Then han has the choice to judge rather than to know. 242 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:30.720 Is the cause of the loss of peace. Judgment is 243 00:21:30.759 --> 00:21:34.960 the process on which perception, but not knowledge, rests. I 244 00:21:35.079 --> 00:21:38.599 have thus discussed this before in terms of the selectivity 245 00:21:38.680 --> 00:21:47.319 of perception, pointing out that evaluation is its obvious prerequisite evaluation, 246 00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:53.279 which is what judgment is. Judgment always involves rejection. It 247 00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:57.000 never emphasizes only the positive aspects of what is judged, 248 00:21:57.559 --> 00:22:01.680 whether in you or in others. What has been perceived 249 00:22:01.880 --> 00:22:06.400 and rejected or judged and found wanting remains in your 250 00:22:06.519 --> 00:22:10.799 mind because it has been perceived. One of the illusions 251 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:13.640 from which you suffer is the belief that what you 252 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:19.000 judged against has no effect. This cannot be true unless 253 00:22:19.039 --> 00:22:24.000 you also believe that what you judged against does not exist. 254 00:22:26.279 --> 00:22:29.119 You evidently do not believe this, or you would not 255 00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:33.519 have judged against it. In the end, this is really cool. 256 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:36.880 Is a really cool reasoning. I'll read this again. One 257 00:22:36.920 --> 00:22:39.559 of the illusions from which you suffer is the belief 258 00:22:39.680 --> 00:22:46.119 that what you judged against has no effects. This cannot 259 00:22:46.160 --> 00:22:50.079 be true unless you also believe that what you judged 260 00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:55.680 against does not exist. You evidently do not believe this, 261 00:22:56.039 --> 00:22:58.200 that it does not exist, or you would not have 262 00:22:58.319 --> 00:23:01.759 judged against it. In the end, it does not matter 263 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:05.400 whether your judgment is right or wrong. Either way, you 264 00:23:05.519 --> 00:23:09.359 are placing your belief in the unreal. This cannot be 265 00:23:09.480 --> 00:23:15.079 avoided in any type of judgment because it implies the 266 00:23:15.200 --> 00:23:19.680 belief that reality is yours to select from. Wow, and 267 00:23:19.799 --> 00:23:24.039 reality is obviously the realm of you could say beyond 268 00:23:24.079 --> 00:23:28.000 the miracle, because the miracle is actually clearing that up 269 00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:36.000 if you allow the Holy Spirit to to to demonstrate 270 00:23:36.119 --> 00:23:44.680 or to show you, because vision will will make miracles 271 00:23:44.799 --> 00:23:50.839 apparent to you and make your reality a parent to you. 272 00:23:52.119 --> 00:23:55.160 You have no idea of the tremendous release and deep 273 00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:59.119 peace that comes from meeting yourself and your brother's totally 274 00:23:59.240 --> 00:24:04.359 without judgment. Wow. What an incredible offering that this is. 275 00:24:05.039 --> 00:24:10.279 This is This is not debatable as it is stated, 276 00:24:10.480 --> 00:24:14.000 is stated as a as a fact that the piece 277 00:24:14.079 --> 00:24:18.960 that you're actually looking for is from that. And what 278 00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:21.440 is wonderful about the lesson of the day is that 279 00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:26.480 your anger is when it's when it's apparent. You now 280 00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:31.880 know with lesson three forty seven that anger comes from judgment. 281 00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:35.680 You have judged, and you have judged, and this is 282 00:24:35.839 --> 00:24:38.720 the result. You're angry and you don't understand why you 283 00:24:38.839 --> 00:24:41.720 give it all sorts of reasons. You're never You're never 284 00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:45.160 upset for the reason that you think so, you're you're 285 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:47.519 looking at something that is not there. And this is 286 00:24:47.559 --> 00:24:54.000 why you're upset. When you recognize what you are and 287 00:24:54.119 --> 00:24:56.839 what your brothers are, you will realize that judging them 288 00:24:56.880 --> 00:25:01.720 in any ways without meaning. And it's not that you 289 00:25:01.799 --> 00:25:03.720 are not allowed to judge. It is not that you 290 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:06.400 should not judge. That's what Jesus says in the in 291 00:25:06.519 --> 00:25:09.559 the Teacher's Manual. It's not that you shouldn't be judging. 292 00:25:09.599 --> 00:25:12.720 It's not we're not judging you for judging. It is 293 00:25:12.799 --> 00:25:16.440 actually is why would you want to do it? If 294 00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:23.240 it has this effect? And if and it and what 295 00:25:23.359 --> 00:25:25.839 he is saying giving you as a fact that he's 296 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:30.119 demonstrating to you that judging has no meaning. So then 297 00:25:30.240 --> 00:25:35.039 the question becomes why would you? You can? But why 298 00:25:35.119 --> 00:25:39.319 would you It is the course of your difficulty. In fact, 299 00:25:39.440 --> 00:25:44.680 their meaning is lost to you precisely because the meaning 300 00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:47.759 of your brothers is lost to you, precisely because you 301 00:25:47.839 --> 00:25:53.039 are judging them all uncertainly. Uncertainty comes from the belief 302 00:25:53.680 --> 00:25:58.440 that you are under the coercion of judgment. You have 303 00:25:58.559 --> 00:26:01.400 no choice in the matter. You do not need judgment 304 00:26:01.960 --> 00:26:05.440 to organize your life, and you certainly do not need 305 00:26:05.519 --> 00:26:09.599 it to organize yourself. In the presence of knowledge, all 306 00:26:09.759 --> 00:26:14.200 judgment is automatically suspended, and this is the process that 307 00:26:14.559 --> 00:26:21.319 enables recognition to replace perception. I'll read it again. You 308 00:26:21.480 --> 00:26:24.680 do not need judgment to organize your life, and you 309 00:26:24.839 --> 00:26:28.160 certainly do not need it to organize yourself. In the 310 00:26:28.279 --> 00:26:32.720 presence of knowledge, All judgment is automatically suspended, and this 311 00:26:32.920 --> 00:26:39.000 is the process that enables recognition to replace perception. You 312 00:26:39.079 --> 00:26:44.640 are very fearful of everything you perceive but have refused 313 00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:50.400 to accept. You believe that because you have refused to 314 00:26:50.519 --> 00:26:54.519 accept it, you have lost control over it. Well, I'll 315 00:26:54.559 --> 00:26:57.799 read it again. You are very fearful of everything you 316 00:26:58.000 --> 00:27:04.759 perceive but have refused. You perceive but have refused to accept. 317 00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:09.160 You believe that because you have refused to accept it, 318 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:13.960 you have lost control over it. This is why you're fearful, 319 00:27:14.599 --> 00:27:18.480 and this is why you see it in nightmares or 320 00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:22.920 in pleasant disguises, in what seemed to be your happier dreams. 321 00:27:24.240 --> 00:27:27.039 Nothing that you have refused to accept can be brought 322 00:27:27.160 --> 00:27:32.039 into awareness. It is not dangerous in itself, but you 323 00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:37.359 have made it seem dangerous to you. So we're beginning 324 00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:41.039 to see what he means. By you stop judging, then 325 00:27:41.079 --> 00:27:45.319 everything is allowed in to your awareness, and you will 326 00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:48.400 begin to recognize that you don't there's no reason for 327 00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:52.480 you to be afraid of anything. When you feel tired, 328 00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:56.599 it is because here, here another demonstration, here's something else 329 00:27:56.680 --> 00:27:59.480 that you can You can say, I'm tired, so he 330 00:27:59.640 --> 00:28:03.000 this is reason why. It is because you have judged 331 00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:07.920 yourself as capable of being tired. When you laugh at someone, 332 00:28:08.160 --> 00:28:12.519 it is because you have judged him as unworthy. And 333 00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:15.200 when you laugh at yourself, you must laugh at others, 334 00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:20.279 if only because you cannot tolerate the idea of being 335 00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:25.880 more unworthy than they are. Wow, these are all things 336 00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:29.079 that you are very well aware that you're doing him 337 00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:35.200 as you interact with your brothers. All this makes you 338 00:28:35.279 --> 00:28:39.279 feel tired because it is essentially disheartening. You are not 339 00:28:39.480 --> 00:28:42.559 really capable of being tired, but you are very capable 340 00:28:42.599 --> 00:28:48.240 of wearing yourself. The strain of constant judgment is virtually intolerable. 341 00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:51.240 See this is also a way in which you judge 342 00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:55.880 by laughing at others, Laughing at yourself. You're judging yourself. 343 00:28:56.640 --> 00:29:02.519 It is very tiring. The strain of constant judgment is 344 00:29:02.640 --> 00:29:07.880 virtually intolerable. It is curious that an ability so debilitating 345 00:29:08.039 --> 00:29:12.039 would be so deeply cherished. Yet, if you wish to 346 00:29:12.160 --> 00:29:16.440 be the author of reality, you will insist on holding 347 00:29:16.640 --> 00:29:20.039 on to judgment. And this is why we are reading this. 348 00:29:20.240 --> 00:29:23.519 This is the authority problem that you have. You want 349 00:29:23.519 --> 00:29:25.160 to be the author, you want to be in control 350 00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:31.759 of reality. You will also regard judgment with fear, believing 351 00:29:31.799 --> 00:29:39.400 that it will someday be used against you. This belief 352 00:29:39.519 --> 00:29:41.920 can exist only to the extent that you believe in 353 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:46.160 the efficacy of judgment as a weapon of defense for 354 00:29:46.440 --> 00:29:51.759 your own authority. Again, this belief can exist only to 355 00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:57.119 the extent that you believe in the efficacy efficacy of 356 00:29:57.319 --> 00:30:01.519 judgment as a weapon of defense for your own authority, 357 00:30:02.119 --> 00:30:06.359 which it would have to be. God offers only mercy. 358 00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:12.480 Your words should reflect only mercy. Wow, you are as 359 00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:16.359 God created you. This is you are as He is. 360 00:30:16.680 --> 00:30:20.319 And this is why this is the uh the direction. 361 00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:30.160 Not because that is what you were ordered to do, 362 00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:34.599 it's what you would you you would be advised to 363 00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:37.920 do if you are as God created you, because that 364 00:30:38.119 --> 00:30:41.880 is what you have received, mercy, and that is what 365 00:30:42.039 --> 00:30:46.799 you should give. Justice. What a wonderful lesson here, justice 366 00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:51.200 is a temporary expedient or an attempt to teach you 367 00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:55.680 the meaning of mercy. It is judgmental only because you 368 00:30:55.799 --> 00:31:02.160 are capable of injustice. I've spoken of different symptoms, and 369 00:31:02.680 --> 00:31:10.440 at that level there is almost endless, endless variation. There is, however, 370 00:31:10.599 --> 00:31:15.920 only one cause for all of them, the authority problem. Wow, 371 00:31:17.599 --> 00:31:24.799 symptoms and the authority problem are almost are almost synonymous. 372 00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:29.160 You could say this is the root of all evil. 373 00:31:30.599 --> 00:31:35.119 Every symptom the ego makes involves a contradiction in terms, 374 00:31:35.720 --> 00:31:38.039 because the mind is split between the ego and the 375 00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:42.279 Holy Spirit, so that whatever the ego makes is incomplete 376 00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:46.920 and contradictory. This untenable position is the result of the 377 00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:51.759 authority problem, which, because it accepts the one inconceivable thought 378 00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:57.000 as its premise, can produce only ideas that are inconceivable. 379 00:31:58.240 --> 00:32:03.880 The issue of authority is a question of authorship, cool authorship. 380 00:32:04.039 --> 00:32:07.599 Who is the creator? Who is the creator of my reality? 381 00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:11.079 When you have an authority problem, it is always because 382 00:32:11.119 --> 00:32:16.519 you believe you are the author of yourself and project 383 00:32:16.599 --> 00:32:21.640 your delusion onto others. You then perceive the situation as 384 00:32:21.720 --> 00:32:28.880 one in which others are literally fighting you for your authorship. 385 00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:33.920 This is cool, this says. If I never read this, 386 00:32:34.200 --> 00:32:40.720 this is the fundamental error. Just a few more paragraphs, 387 00:32:40.839 --> 00:32:44.279 with your permission. This is the fundamental error of all 388 00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:47.279 those who believe that have usurped the power of God. 389 00:32:48.200 --> 00:32:52.359 This belief is very frightening to them, but hardly troubles God. 390 00:32:53.079 --> 00:32:56.440 He is, however, eager to undo it, not to punish 391 00:32:56.559 --> 00:32:59.799 its children, but only because he knows that it makes 392 00:32:59.839 --> 00:33:05.400 them unhappy. God's creations are given their true authorship, but 393 00:33:05.519 --> 00:33:08.920 you prefer to be an anonymous when you choose. You 394 00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:15.599 choose to separate yourself from your author, being uncertain of 395 00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:19.880 your true authorship. As you are created by God, you 396 00:33:20.039 --> 00:33:24.079 believe that your creation was anonymous. This leaves you in 397 00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:28.720 a position where it sounds meaningful to believe that you 398 00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:34.880 created yourself. You believe that your creation was anonymous. This 399 00:33:35.119 --> 00:33:38.799 leaves you in a position where it sounds meaningful that 400 00:33:38.960 --> 00:33:44.880 you believe you created yourself. Interesting this, the dispute over authorship, 401 00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:48.480