Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Altar - Words used in A Course in Miracles



     
 The altar is within us

Grace is not given to a body, but to a mind. And the mind that receives it looks instantly beyond the body, and sees the holy place where it was healed. There is the altar where the grace was given, in which it stands.          T-19.I.13:1-3 
… as we ask to recognize what God has given us. We clear a holy place within our minds before His altar, where His gifts of peace and joy are welcome, and to which we come to find what has been given us by Him. W-104.4:1,2. (“I seek what belongs to me in truth”) 
Both Heaven and earth are in you, because the call of both is in your mind. The Voice for God comes from your own altars to Him. These altars are not things; they are devotions. ... Your divided devotion has given you the two voices, and you must choose at which altar you want to serve. The decision is very simple. It is made on the basis of which call is worth more to you.                      T-5.II.8:5-7,9,11,12. 
Corrective learning always begins with the awakening of spirit, and the turning away from the belief in physical sight. This often entails fear, because you are afraid of what your spiritual sight will show you. I said before that the Holy Spirit cannot see error, and is capable only of looking beyond it to the defense of Atonement. ... When the Holy Spirit is permitted to look upon the defilement of the altar, He also looks immediately toward the Atonement. Nothing He perceives can induce fear. Everything that results from spiritual awareness is merely channelized toward correction.     T-2.V.7:1-3,5-7. 

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