Salvation comes from my one Self.
You experience yourself as two, both good and evil, loving and hating, mind and body. This induces feelings of acute and constant conflict, and leads to frantic attempts to reconcile the contradictory aspects of this self-perception. You've sought many solutions, and none work. The opposites you see in you will never be compatible. But one exists.
You must accept that truth and illusion cannot be reconciled if you are to be saved. Until you accept this, you will attempt an endless list of goals you cannot reach; wasted time and effort, hopefulness and doubt, each one as futile as the one before, and failing as the next one surely will.
Two selves could not be resolved, and good and evil have no meeting place. The self you made can never be your Self, nor can you Self be split in two, and still be what It is and must forever be. A mind and body cannot both exist. Make no attempt to reconcile the two, for one denies the other can be real.
The mind that serves the spirit is at peace and filled with joy. Seeing itself divorced from spirit it perceives itself within a body and gets confused. Without its function then it has no peace, and happiness is alien to its thoughts.
Your Self retains Its Thoughts, and they remain within your mind and in the Mind of God. The HS holds salvation in your mind, and offers it the way to peace. Salvation is a thought you share with God, because His Voice accepted it for you and answered in your name that it was done. Salvation is kept among the Thoughts your Self holds dear and cherishes for you.
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Addendum to Lesson 96:
Lesson 96: A mind and body cannot both exist
“You see the flesh or recognize the Spirit. There is no compromise between the two. If one is real the other must be false, for what is real denies its opposite. There is no choice in vision but this one. What you decide in this determines all you see, and think is real, and hold as true. On this one choice does all your world depend, for here have you established what you are, as flesh or Spirit in your own belief. If you choose flesh, you never will escape the body as your own reality, for you have chosen that you want it so. But choose the Spirit, and all Heaven bends to touch your eyes, and bless your holy sight, that you may see the world of flesh no more except to heal and comfort and to bless.” (T-31.VI.1)
Lesson 96: Without its function (i.e., forgiveness) then it has no peace, and happiness is alien for its thoughts.
“Salvation is undoing. ….Salvation does not ask that you behold the Spirit and perceive the body not. It merely asks that this should be your CHOICE. For YOU can see the body WITHOUT help, but do not understand how to behold a world APART from it. It is your world salvation will undo, and LET you see another world your eyes could never find. Be not concerned HOW this could ever be. You do not understand how what YOU see arose to meet your sight. For if you did, it would be gone. The veil of ignorance is drawn across the evil and the good, and must be passed that both may disappear, so that perception finds no hiding place.
How is this done? It is not done at all. What COULD there be within the universe that God created that must still be done?” (T-31.VI.2)
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