Addendum to Lesson 99

“… forgiveness is the means by which I will recognize my innocence. It is the reflectionof God’s Love on earth. It will bring me near enough to Heaven that the Love of God can reach down to me and raise me up to Him.” (W-pL.60)

“Salvation now becomes a borderland between the truth and the illusion.” (L-99) It is described in Chapter 26 :

“There is a borderland of thought that stands between this world and Heaven. It is not a place, and WHEN you reach it is APART from time. Here is the meeting place where thoughts are brought TOGETHER; where conflicting values MEET, and ALL illusions are laid down beside the truth, where they are judged to be untrue. This borderland is just beyond the gate of Heaven. Here is every thought made pure and wholly simple. Here is sin denied, and everything that IS, received instead.

This is the journey's end. We have referred to it as the "real world." And yet there is a contradiction here, in that the words imply a LIMITED reality, a PARTIAL truth, a SEGMENT of the universe made true. This is because knowledge makes NO attack upon perception. They are brought together, and only ONE continues past the gate where Oneness is. Salvation IS a borderland, where place and time and choice have meaning still, and yet it can be seen that they are temporary, OUT of place, and EVERY choice has been ALREADY made. “ (T-26.III)

“The mind that sees illusions thinks them real. The have existence in that they are thoughts. And yet they are not real, because the mind that thinks these thoughts is separated from God.” (L-99)

“I think, therefore I’m” is the famous Descartes’s statement. Well, according to the course “I think therefore I’m not” (K.Wapnick). What is being and existence then?

“Existence as well as being rests on communication. Existence is SPECIFIC in how, what, and with whom communication is worth undertaking. Being is completely without these distinctions. It is a state in which the mind IS in communication with everything that is real, including its own Soul. To whatever extent you permit this state to be curtailed, you are limiting your sense of your OWN reality, which becomes total only by recognizing ALL reality in the glorious context of its real relationship to YOU. This IS your reality. Do not desecrate it or recoil from it. It is your real home, your real temple, and your real self. “ (T-4.V-VII)