Lesson 43

God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him. Perception is not an attribute of God. His is the realm of knowledge. Yet He has created the Holy Spirit as the Mediator between perception and knowledge. Without this link with God, perception would have replaced knowledge forever in your mind. With this link with God, perception will become so changed and purified that it will lead to knowledge. That is its function as the Holy Spirit sees it. Therefore, that is its function in truth. Healed perception becomes the means by which the Son of God forgives his brother, and thus forgives himself.

Addendum from Elena:

The last statement is a key teaching in the Course:

"To percieve the healing of your brother as the healing of yourself is thus the way to remmeber God. For you forgot your brothers with Him, and God's Answer to your forgetting is but the way to remember" (T-12.II.2:9).

This lesson also teaches you to bring awarness to " mind wandering" and "irrelevant thoughts" that distract you from today's exercise reminding you gently that:

"You are much too tolerant of mind wandering, and are passivly condoning your mind's miscreations (i.e., projections) (T-2.VI. 4:6)

Finally, the lesson urges you to apply today's idea to "situations and events .... which seem to distress you in any way." If we are not peaceful it is our responsibility and no one else's:

I must have decided wrongly, because I'm not at peace
I made the decision myself, but I can also decide otherwise.
I want to decide otherwise because I want to be at peace.
I do not feel guilty, because the Holy Spirit will undo all the conseqneces of my wrong decision if I will let him.

(T-5. VII.6:7; ACIM; K. Wapnick)