Library of Christ Mind Teachings
ACIM Original Edition
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The Holy Spirit mediates between illusions and the truth. As He must
bridge the gap between reality and dreams, perception leads to knowledge
through the grace that God has given Him, to be His gift to everyone who
turns to Him for truth. Across the bridge that He provides are dreams
all carried to the truth, to be dispelled before the light of knowledge.
There are sights and sounds forever laid aside. And where they were
perceived before, forgiveness has made possible perception’s tranquil
end.
2 The goal the Holy Spirit’s teaching sets is just this end
of dreams. For sights and sounds must be translated from the witnesses
of fear to those of love. And when this is entirely accomplished,
learning has achieved the only goal it has in truth. For learning, as
the Holy Spirit guides it to the outcome He perceives for it, becomes
the means to go beyond itself, to be replaced by the Eternal Truth.
3 If you but knew how much your Father yearns to have you
recognize your sinlessness, you would not let His Voice appeal in vain
nor turn away from His replacement for the fearful images and dreams you
made. The Holy Spirit understands the means you made, by which you would
attain what is forever unattainable. And if you offer them to Him, He
will employ the means you made for exile to restore your mind to where
it truly is at home.
4 From knowledge, where He has been placed by God, the Holy
Spirit calls to you to let forgiveness rest upon your dreams and be
restored to sanity and peace of mind. Without forgiveness will your
dreams remain to terrify you. And the memory of all your Father’s Love
will not return to signify the end of dreams has come.
5 Accept your Father’s gift. It is a call from Love to Love
that it be but itself. The Holy Spirit is His gift by Which the
quietness of Heaven is restored to God’s beloved Son. Would you refuse
to take the function of completing God when all He wills is that you be
complete?
