{"id":68,"date":"2023-10-23T15:02:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T14:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandbox.icourse-in-miracles.com\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2023-11-19T18:26:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T18:26:20","slug":"gemini-on-their-course","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.icourse-in-miracles.com\/?page_id=68","title":{"rendered":"Gemini"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our Creation is written in the stars.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:25px\">The first Movement for Inner Freedom ignited by a Sage named <strong>Issa of Nazareth and Nepal<\/strong>, found their identification written in de stars, in the skies of some 2000 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:25px\">They saw the <strong>constellation of Pisces<\/strong> in the skies above and understood the sign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"475\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox.icourse-in-miracles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-12-at-23.40.59-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:25px\"> And they accepted this celestial sign for their identity in time of persecution, tribulation and exile. However they could not be brought to extinction and their members are now found over the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our Creation is written in the stars again.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:25px\">This Movement for True Inner Freedom sees its creative origin, once more written in the stars .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"399\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox.icourse-in-miracles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Gemini-space-capsule-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:25px\">It is the astronautic platform of the NASA\u2019s project for the final stage for man\u2019s free flight from earth to the moon: <strong>The Space Project Gemini,<\/strong> which marks the course-correction to the freedom of thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1189\" height=\"893\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox.icourse-in-miracles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GEMINI-astronauts.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163\"\/><figcaption>Gemini capsule crew in count down to lift up into orbit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"567\" height=\"712\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox.icourse-in-miracles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Gemini-Neil-Armstrong-David-Scott-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-162\"\/><figcaption>The first Moon-lander Neil Armstrong (right) and his copilot Dave Scott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:25px\">And it is this GEMINI constellation in the sky with which the mystery of <strong>man\u2019s creation<\/strong> is written in the stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1262\" height=\"1266\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox.icourse-in-miracles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-05-05-at-10.17.14-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-169\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>And the relevant message sounds:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:25px\">\u201cYet the Truth is, you were <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Both<\/span><\/strong> created by a loving Father, Who created you <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Togethe<\/span><\/strong>r and as <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">One<\/span><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"734\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox.icourse-in-miracles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Abwoon-Twins.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-171\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:25px\">Therefore we should understand our Being as <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">conjoined<\/span> Divine Twins.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1208\" height=\"1180\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox.icourse-in-miracles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-05-05-at-10.26.02-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:25px\">This imperfect, expanding and <strong>dying Cosmos ,<\/strong><em> we now find ourselves in,<\/em> was never created by this loving Father-Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:25px\">It was created by a loving Father, Who created you <strong>Together <\/strong>and as <strong>One<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"996\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox.icourse-in-miracles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Gemini-the-Celestial-Twin-Brotherhood-large-779Kb.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox.icourse-in-miracles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-08-23-at-00.16.34.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-166\" width=\"539\" height=\"541\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:25px\">It was the original ERROR about a Tiny, Mad, Idea of <strong>ONE<\/strong> of the TWIN partners causing their seemingly <strong>separation <\/strong>in the DREAMING environment of the <strong>One Dreamer, who looked AWAY and jumped into a deep sleep.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"519\" height=\"529\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox.icourse-in-miracles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-19-at-16.22.40.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-176\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:25px\">This then resulted in a seemingly fragmentation of the eternal continuum into a myriad of succesively evolving\u00a0 <strong>time<\/strong> fragments and <strong>matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:25px\">Thus is in the <strong>deliberate dreaming<\/strong> away of ONE of the Twins, which we now experience as <strong>our own<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:25px\">That means to live, to struggle and to die on this planet Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:25px\">And it helps all of us to gradually understand and accept that we are the dreamer of this <strong>collective cosmic dream<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:25px\">We as in the Twin-Part that , although being <strong>permanently conjoined<\/strong> with our Heavenly Twin-part, are the <strong>one<\/strong> who <strong>looks away<\/strong> and <strong>dreams away<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox.icourse-in-miracles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-19-Gemini-in-opposites.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><strong>COPY trials<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong># <\/strong>  <strong>&#8220;I am <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God&#8217;s<\/span> Son<\/strong> &#8220;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>complete and healed and whole, shining in the <strong>reflection of His Love<\/strong>.&nbsp;&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">#   <strong>&#8220;I am as God <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">created<\/span> me.&#8221;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"> <em>Today I lay aside All sick illusions of myself, and <strong>let My Father tell<\/strong> me Who I really am.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>&nbsp;#   \u201cYet the Truth is <\/strong>you were <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">both<\/span> created by a <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">loving<\/span> Father<\/strong>, <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>Who created you <strong>together<\/strong> and <strong>as one.<\/strong>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">#   <strong>&#8220;Strengthen <\/strong><em>your <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">hold<\/span><\/em>, <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>and raise your eyes unto<strong> your Strong Companion<\/strong>,&#8221;  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">We will find the answers in the body of information which comprises the whole set of 7 volumes of the <strong>&#8220;URTEXT Manuscript<\/strong> (Seven volume combined edition 2009) of <strong> A COURSE IN MIRACLES&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">To comprehend what all these answers <strong>mean<\/strong>, and to apply them in the <strong>reality<\/strong> of our daily life,  we need a certain <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">mind-training .<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">mind<\/span>-training<\/strong> is meant to open our mind with a gentle  stimulation towards :<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1) the knowledge of the <strong>wording<\/strong>, i.e. the syntax, of the <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Source-texts<\/span>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2) the<strong> knowledge <\/strong>about the <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Cause and Effect<\/span> of the <strong>detour of Man<\/strong> into an incompatible universe.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3) the way of reading the Source texts in the sense of <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>de-codin<\/strong>g<\/span> this information.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4) the <strong>creative use<\/strong> of relevant <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">metaphors<\/span><\/strong> (as the teacher Yeshua the Nazarene used) opens our minds up to <strong>metaphoric imagery<\/strong> to concretely train our thought with.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5) the <strong>appreciation<\/strong> to observe regular <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Moments of <\/span><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">Stillness<\/span><span class=\"has-inline-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">,<\/span><\/strong> for the mind to be able to settle down in quietness, openness and ultimately to attain <strong>freedom<\/strong> and the <strong>Peace of God<\/strong>.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1. The <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Source<\/span> text<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">We thankfully refer to the aforementioned <strong>URTEXT Manuscript<\/strong>, which was so diligently gatherd, thoroughly studied, compiled and edited by <strong>Mr. Doug Thompson<\/strong> in 2009. One of his great merits hereby  is the integration of this body of authentic information into a <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong><em>searchable<\/em><\/strong> <strong>CONCORDANCE<\/strong><\/span>. In his vast concordance did he also include a second version of the Course and even 2 <strong>Bible<\/strong> versions. These were meant for <strong>Scholarly studies<\/strong> and serve this endeavour very well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This whole CONCORDANCE is, amongst others, web-published mentioning his authorship and to be found under the name : <strong>www.oracle-for-miracles.com<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The above-mentioned <strong>4 text phrases<\/strong> are therefore to be found with the aid of the <strong>Concordance<\/strong> within the original TEXT of the Urtext Manuscripts, under the following text references:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">a)  <strong>W 350 W14 1. &#8220;I am God&#8217;s Son,<\/strong> complete and healed and whole, shining in the reflection of His Love.&nbsp;&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">b)  <strong>W 120 L 2. <\/strong>110) <strong>&#8220;I am as God created me.&#8221;<\/strong> I am God&#8217;s Son. Today I lay aside All sick illusions of myself, and <strong>let My Father tell me<\/strong> Who I really am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">c)<strong>  T 21 C 13.<\/strong>&nbsp; \u201cYet the Truth is you were <strong>both created by a loving Father<\/strong>, Who created you <strong>together and as one<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">d) <strong>T 20 D 10.<\/strong>..&#8221;Strengthen <strong>your hold<\/strong>, and raise <strong>your eyes<\/strong> unto your  <strong>Strong Companion<\/strong>, in whom the meaning of your freedom lies. He seemed to be crucified beside you. And yet his holiness remained untouched and perfect, and with him beside you shall you this day enter with him to Paradise, and know the peace of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Cause <\/span>&amp; <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Effect<\/span> of Man&#8217;s <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">detour<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The source-text of the Course in Miracles narrates about the Cause of Man&#8217;s detour into a <strong>incompatible universe<\/strong> with the following cryptical metaphoric verses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>T 27 I 6.<\/strong> Into eternity, where all is one, there crept a <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">tiny, mad idea<\/span><\/strong>, at which the Son of God remembered <strong>not to laugh<\/strong>. <\/li><li>In his forgetting did <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">the thought<\/span><\/strong> become a serious idea, and possible of both accomplishment and real effects. <\/li><li><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Together,<\/span><\/strong> we can laugh them BOTH away, and understand that <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">time<\/span><\/strong> can NOT intrude upon eternity. <\/li><li>It IS a joke to think that <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">time <\/span><\/strong>can come to circumvent eternity, which MEANS <strong>there is no <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">time.<\/span> <\/strong><\/li><li>A timelessness in which is <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">time<\/span> <\/strong>made real; <\/li><li>a <strong>Part of <\/strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\"><strong>God<\/strong> <\/span>Which can attack Itself; <\/li><li>a <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">separate brother<\/span> as an enemy<\/strong>; <\/li><li>a <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">mind <\/span><\/strong>WITHIN a <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">body<\/span><\/strong>; <\/li><li>all are forms of circularity, whose ending starts at its beginning, ending at its cause.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>T 18 B 4.<\/strong> <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Call it not sin<\/span><\/strong>, but <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">madness<\/span><\/strong>, for such it was, and so it still remains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Invest it not with <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">guilt<\/span><\/strong>, for guilt implies it was accomplished IN REALITY. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">And, above all, <strong>BE NOT AFRAID<\/strong> OF IT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">When you seem to see some twisted form of <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">the original error <\/span><\/strong>rise to frighten you, say only,<em> \u2018God is NOT fear, but love,\u2019 <\/em>and it will disappear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">THE TRUTH<\/span><\/strong> WILL SAVE YOU. It has NOT left you, to go out into the mad world and so DEPART FROM YOU. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">Inward<\/span> is sanity<\/strong>; INsanity is OUTSIDE you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>You but BELIEVE<\/strong> it is the other way; that truth is OUTSIDE, and error and guilt within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>3. <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">De-Coding<\/span> the text material.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">All information which emerges unto  our minds from <strong>another higher or deeper dimension<\/strong> than ours, need and can be <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">de-coded<\/span><\/strong>, because they can not be understood right away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">De-coding<\/span><\/strong> starts with critical syntax reading and employing certain<strong> &#8220;keys&#8221;<\/strong>. And these <strong>&#8220;keys&#8221;<\/strong> are to be found in the material itself. And these are structured on the principles of <strong><em>&#8220;cause &amp; effect&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> and that of<strong><em> &#8220;consistency&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">After  years  of reading and contemplation I can share  s<strong>ome useful <span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">code-keys<\/span> here.<\/strong> But there may be more to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\"><strong>#<\/strong> <strong>&#8220;Tiny mad Idea&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><strong> <\/strong>&gt; &#8220;<strong>T 27 I 6.&nbsp;<\/strong>Into eternity, where all is one, there crept a <strong>tiny, mad idea<\/strong>, at which the Son of God remembered not to laugh.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\"><strong># &#8220;time&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><strong> <\/strong>&gt; <strong>T 27 I 6.<\/strong> &#8230;&#8230;..&#8221;It IS a joke to think that time can come to circumvent&nbsp;eternity, which MEANS there is <strong><em>no time<\/em><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\"># &#8220;Separation&#8221; <\/span> &gt;T 1 B 41an.&nbsp;Separation<\/strong> from God is the only lack he really needs to correct. But his Separation would never have occurred if he had&nbsp;not distorted his<strong><em> percepti<\/em>on of truth<\/strong>, and thus perceived himself as lacking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\"><strong>#<\/strong> &#8220;<strong>Projection&#8221;<\/strong> <\/span>&gt; <strong>T 21 A 1.&nbsp;Projection <\/strong>makes <strong><em>perception<\/em><\/strong>; the world you see is what you GAVE it, nothing more than that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">#  &#8220;Substitution&#8221;<\/span><\/strong> &gt; <strong>T 18 B 1.&nbsp;<\/strong>You who believe that God is fear,  made but <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">ONE<\/span> substitution<\/strong>. It has taken many forms, because it was the substitution of&nbsp; <strong>fragmentation for wholeness.<\/strong> It has become splintered and subdivided and divided again, over and over, that it is now almost&nbsp;<br>impossible to perceive it once was one, and still IS what it was. That ONE error, which brought truth to illusion, infinity to time, and&nbsp;life to death, was all you ever made. Your whole world rests upon it. Everything you see reflects it. And every special relationship&nbsp;you ever made is PART of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\"><strong>#<\/strong>  &#8220;<strong>Atonement&#8221;<\/strong> <\/span>&gt;  <strong>T 2 B 41.<\/strong>&#8230;    &#8220;The <strong>Atonement<\/strong> PRINCIPLE was in effect long before the&nbsp;Atonement itself was begun. The Principle was <strong>love,<\/strong> and the Atonement itself, was an <strong>ACT of love<\/strong>. Acts were not necessary before&nbsp;<br>the Separation, because the time-space belief did not exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\"><strong># <\/strong><\/span><strong>&#8220;Both, <span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">together<\/span>, as One&#8221;<\/strong> &gt; <strong>T 21 C 13.&nbsp;<\/strong>&#8220;Yet the truth is you were <strong>both <\/strong>created by a loving Father, Who created you <strong>together and as one<\/strong>. SEE what &#8220;proves&#8221;&nbsp;otherwise, and you DENY your whole reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. Thought <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Metaphore<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>T 27 I 6.<\/strong>  In his forgetting did <strong>the thought<\/strong> become a <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">serious idea<\/span><\/strong>, and possible of both accomplishment and real effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The <strong>didactic use<\/strong> of relevant metaphors (as the teacher Yeshua the Nazarene used) opens our minds up to<strong> metaphoric imagery<\/strong> to concretely train our<strong> erring thought<\/strong> with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Out of a deep Moment of Stillness emerged a <strong>metaphoric image<\/strong> about the Son of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The relevant <strong>Code keys<\/strong> are #<strong> <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Both<\/span>, <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">together<\/span>, <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">as One<\/span><\/strong> &gt; <strong>T 21 C 13.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. Moments of <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">Stillness<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"> For this we are invited  to observe regular <strong>Moments of Stillness,<\/strong> for the mind to be able to settle down in quietness, openness and ultimately to attain <strong>freedom<\/strong> and the <strong>Peace of God<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>UT 18 H 9. <\/strong>To <strong>do nothing<\/strong> is <strong>to rest<\/strong>, and make a <strong>place within<\/strong> you<strong>,<\/strong> <em>where<\/em> the <strong><em>activity<\/em><\/strong> of the <strong>body<\/strong> ceases to demand <strong>attention<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Into this <strong>place<\/strong> the <strong>Holy Spirit<\/strong> <strong>comes<\/strong>, and there <strong>abides<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>UT 18 H 10<\/strong>. He will <strong>remain<\/strong><strong> when you forget<\/strong>, and the body&#8217;s activities <strong>return<\/strong> to <strong>occupy your <\/strong><strong>conscious mind<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>UT 18 B 5<\/strong> &nbsp;And <strong>turn you<\/strong> to the <strong>stately <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">calm<\/span> within<\/strong>,&nbsp;where, in <strong>holy <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">stillness<\/span><\/strong>,&nbsp;<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>dwells<\/strong> <\/span><strong>the living God<\/strong>, you <strong>never<\/strong> <strong>left<\/strong>, and&nbsp; <strong>Who<\/strong> <strong>never<\/strong> <strong>left<\/strong> <strong>you<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>UT 18 B 6.<\/strong>&nbsp;The <strong>Holy Spirit<\/strong> takes you <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">gently by the hand<\/span><\/strong>, and retraces WITH you your mad journey OUTSIDE yourself, leading you gently back to the <strong>truth and safety <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">within<\/span><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He brings all your insane projections and your wild substitutions which YOU have placed OUTSIDE you, to the truth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Thus, He <strong>REVERSES the course of<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"> insanity<\/span><\/strong>, and restores you to<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"> <strong>reason<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>W 120 L 1.&nbsp;<\/strong>109)<strong> &#8220;I <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">rest<\/span> in God.&#8221;<\/strong><br>I rest in God today, and <strong>let Him work In me <\/strong>and through me, while I rest in Him, In <strong>quiet<\/strong> and in perfect<strong> certainty<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><strong>What am I ? ~ Who am I ?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>T 21 C 13.<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;Yet the truth is you were <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>both created<\/strong><\/span> by a loving Father, Who created you <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">together and as one.<\/span><\/strong> SEE what &#8220;proves&#8221;&nbsp;otherwise, and you DENY your whole reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"> <strong>T 20 D 10.&nbsp;<\/strong>&#8220;<strong>Strengthen your hold<\/strong>, and <strong>raise your eyes<\/strong> unto your <strong>strong companion<\/strong>, in whom the meaning of&nbsp;your <strong>freedom<\/strong> lies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox.icourse-in-miracles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Gemini-the-Celestial-Twin-Brotherhood-large-779Kb.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126\" width=\"382\" height=\"481\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>T 18 B 8.&nbsp;He loves you both, equally and as one<\/strong>. And as He loves you, so you ARE. You are NOT joined <strong>together<\/strong> by illusions, but in the <strong>Thought so holy<\/strong> and so perfect that illusions cannot remain to darken the holy place in which you stand <strong>together<\/strong>.&nbsp;God is with you, <strong>my brothers<\/strong>. Let us join in Him in peace and gratitude, and accept His gift of our most holy and perfect reality, that we share in Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>MIND-Training no.1<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1.&#8221;<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>Together<\/strong><\/span> and as <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\"><strong>One<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"> The Son of God is revealed to man as <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>&#8220;<\/strong><\/span><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">TWO in ONE&#8221;.<\/span> <\/strong>Two other independent sources confirm this Divinity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>a)<\/strong> <strong>The Pistis Sophia<\/strong> <\/span>&gt; The &#8220;example&#8221; about story in the <strong>Pistis Sophia<\/strong> about <strong>&#8220;Mother Mary and the boy Jesus&#8221;<\/strong> is a clear indication of the <strong>&#8220;Twin-brotherhood configuration&#8221;<\/strong> of &#8220;Jesus&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>Pistis Sophia Book I \u00a7 60<\/strong> <\/span> The answer of Mother Mary to the risen Christ: &#8220;Thy <strong>Power<\/strong> once <em>prophesied <\/em>in these words about thee.&nbsp;<strong>When thou wast small, <\/strong>before the <em>Spirit <\/em>came upon thee, while thou wast in a vineyard with Joseph, the Spirit came forth from the height he came to me into my house, he resembled thee.&nbsp;And I did not recognise him and I thought that he was thou. And the <em>Spirit <\/em>said to me : &#8216;Where is Jesus, my brother, that I <em>meet <\/em>him ?&#8217; And when he said these things to me, I was <em>confused <\/em>and I thought that he was a <em>phantom <\/em>to <em>tempt <\/em>me. <em>But <\/em>I took him, I bound him to the leg of the bed in my house, until I came out to you in the field, thou and Joseph, and I found you in the vineyard, as Joseph was hedging the vineyard with reeds. Now it happened, when thou didst hear me speaking the word to Joseph, thou didst <em>understand <\/em>the word and thou didst<strong> rejoice<\/strong>. And thou didst say : &#8216;Where is he that I may see him? Or else I await him in this <em>place&#8217;. But <\/em>it happened when Joseph heard thee saying these words, he was agitated and we came up at the same time, we went into the house. We found the <em>Spirit <\/em>bound to the bed. <strong>And we looked at thee with him, we found thee like him<\/strong>. And he that was bound to&nbsp; the bed was released, he embraced thee, he kissed thee. And thou also, thou didst kiss him and <strong>you became<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"> one<\/span><\/strong>.&nbsp;&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>b)<\/strong><\/span><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"> The Aquarian Gospel: of Jesus the Christ<\/span> &gt;<\/strong> &#8220;The Resurrection of Jesus&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>Chapter 172,<\/strong> <\/span><em>\u00a7 32 <\/em> And then the earth began to quake and in the rays of light they saw a form descend from heaven. They said, Behold an angel comes.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">33 And then they heard again, <span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">&#8220;<em>Adon Mashich Cumi&#8221;.<\/em><\/span>    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">34 And then <strong>the white-robed form<\/strong> tramped on the Roman seal, and then he tore it into shreds; he took the mighty stone in hand as though it were a pebble from the brook, and cast it to the side.                                                      35 And <strong>Jesus<\/strong> opened up his eyes and said, All hail the rising sun! the coming of the day of righteousness!                                                                                        36 And then he folded up his burial gown, his head bands and his coverings and laid them all aside.                                                                                               37 He rose, and for a moment <strong>stood beside the white-robed form<\/strong>.                   38 The weaker soldiers fell upon the ground, and hid their faces in their hands; the stronger stood and watched.                                                                <span class=\"has-inline-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">39<\/span><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\"><strong> They saw the body of the Nazarene <\/strong><\/span><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">transmute<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\"><strong>; they saw it change from <\/strong><\/span><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">mortal to immortal<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\"><strong> form, and then it disappeared. <\/strong><\/span>                                            40 The soldiers heard a voice from somewhere; yea, from everywhere, it said:                                                                                                                               41<span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\"> &#8220;<em>Peace, peace on earth; good will to men.<\/em>&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This<strong> <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">&#8220;Two-in ONE&#8221;<\/span> configuration<\/strong> is best translated and understood in the<strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"> metaphore<\/span><\/strong> of a <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Divine TWIN Brotherhood<\/span> ( or Sisterhood).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>Metaphoric<\/strong> Imagery<\/span> of this Divine TWIN enables us to accept, to comprehend and to realize this, during the process of the following Mind-Training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">2. The <\/span><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">GEMINI<\/span><span class=\"has-inline-color has-very-dark-gray-color\"> constellation: <\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"> A useful <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">metaphoric Thought-image<\/span><\/strong> for thought-building  and finally  <strong>thought-transition<\/strong> unto a higher realm of Thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In the early days of the last Milenium during the Roman persecution of the &#8220;Christeens&#8221; the constellation of  the <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>PISCES<\/strong><\/span> ( 2 fishes) was their secret <strong>symbol of identity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"475\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox.icourse-in-miracles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-12-at-23.40.59.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"453\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox.icourse-in-miracles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-12-at-23.50.41.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-129\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">And today the constellation of<strong> <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">GEMINI<\/span><\/strong>, hoovering every day above our heads, is a <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">concrete and <strong>visible<\/strong><\/span><strong> celestial symbol<\/strong> to be used as <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">metaphor <\/span><\/strong>for our <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">True Being<\/span> as God created us. It depicts the configuration of the <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Divine Twin-brotherhood in Christ.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1262\" height=\"1266\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox.icourse-in-miracles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-05-05-at-10.17.14.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-121\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It is to be understood and seen as a <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">TWIN-configuration<\/span><\/strong> of the <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>Siamese type<\/strong> <\/span><span class=\"has-inline-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">which<\/span> means a fixed <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\"><strong>con-joined<\/strong> <\/span> <strong>Twin-brotherhood<\/strong> with shared vital parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1208\" height=\"1180\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox.icourse-in-miracles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-05-05-at-10.26.02-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-124\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In so doing, by mentally exercising and experiencing with this configuration of our True Being, we can realize how concrete and permanently <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>NEAR<\/strong><\/span> the <strong>Presence<\/strong> of the Loving Creator is. This is vividly depicted in the <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">permanent connectedness<\/span><\/strong> with our <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\"><strong>conjoined<\/strong> <strong>Twin<\/strong> Companion<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"996\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox.icourse-in-miracles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Gemini-the-Celestial-Twin-Brotherhood-large-779Kb.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Indeed: &#8220;&#8230; the TRUTH is, you were BOTH created by a Loving Parent, Who created you<strong> <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">TOGETHER<\/span><\/strong> and as <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\"><strong>ONE<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. The <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><em>ILLUSION<\/em><\/span> of the <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">SEPARATION<\/span> between the <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">&#8220;TWINS.&#8221;<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:21px\">This seemingly occurred within our TWIN-Brotherhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:21px\">In the <strong>Curriculum<\/strong> of  the &#8220;COURSE in MIRACLES&#8221; we learn about this as follows :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>T 27 H 6.&nbsp;<\/strong>In <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">separation<\/span><\/strong> from your <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">(Divine Twin) Brother<\/span><\/strong> was <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">the first attack<\/span> upon <strong>yourSelf<\/strong> begun.&nbsp;&nbsp;And it is THIS the <strong>world<\/strong> bears witness to.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>T 5 E 13.&nbsp;The <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Separation <\/span>is merely another term for a <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><em>split<\/em>(-off) mind.<\/span>&nbsp; <\/strong>It was <strong>not an act,<\/strong> but a <span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\"><strong>thought<\/strong>.<\/span>&nbsp;Therefore, the <strong>idea of Separation can be given away<\/strong>, just as the idea of unity can,&nbsp;and either way, it will be STRENGTHENED IN THE MIND OF THE GIVER.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The<em> <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">ego<\/span><\/em> is the symbol of the <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Separation<\/span><\/strong>, just as the <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Holy Spirit<\/span><\/strong> is the <strong>symbol<\/strong> of <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">peace<\/span>.<\/strong>&nbsp;What you <strong>perceive in others<\/strong> you are STRENGTHENING <strong>IN<\/strong> YOUR SELF.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>You<\/strong> let your<strong> <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">mind <\/span><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">misperceive<\/span><\/strong>, but the <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Holy Spirit<\/span><\/strong> lets <strong>your mind re-interpret<\/strong> its own <strong>misperceptions<\/strong>.&nbsp;The <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Holy Spirit<\/span><\/strong> is the perfect teacher.&nbsp;It <strong>uses only<\/strong> what your minds <strong>ALREADY understand<\/strong> <em>(in the Higher&nbsp; mind)<\/em>, to teach you that you&nbsp;do not understand it <em>(now, being in the lower mind).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Therefore<\/span><\/strong> : The <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Separation<\/span><\/strong> <em>seemed to have occurred<\/em> but it is an Illusion of ourselves, which we wayback when ever have<strong> chosen<\/strong> deliberately and in which we NOW <strong>still believe<\/strong> to be true. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\">Remember always : &#8220;<strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">The<em> ego<\/em><\/span> is the <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">symbol<\/span> of the <\/strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong>Separation<\/strong>.<\/span>&#8221; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">What you perceive in others you are STRENGTHENING <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">IN<\/span><\/strong> YOUR SELF i.e. in your own <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">EGO- thought system.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MIND-Training no. 2<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. The <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">CORRECTION<\/span> of <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">error<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>T 2 D 8.&nbsp;<\/strong>The <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">correction of fear<\/span> IS your responsibility. When you ask for release from fear, you are implying that it isn&#8217;t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">You should&nbsp;ask, instead, for help in the <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">conditions<\/span> which have brought the fear about. This condition always entails a<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"> separated<\/span>&nbsp;Mind-<span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">willing<\/span>ness. At this level, <span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">you CAN<\/span> help it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>T 27 C 16. And thus is healing given <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">BOTH<\/span> of you.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Correction MUST be left to One Who knows <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">correction and forgiveness<\/span> ARE the same.&nbsp;      <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">With <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">HALF<\/span><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\"> a mind<\/span>, this is NOT understood.&nbsp;Leave, then, correction to the <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Mind That IS united<\/span>, functioning as One BECAUSE It is not split in purpose, and conceives a single function as Its ONLY one.&nbsp;                     <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Here is the function GIVEN It conceived to be Its Own, and NOT apart from that Its Giver keeps BECAUSE it has been shared.&nbsp;                             <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In His ACCEPTANCE of this function lies the means whereby <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">your mind is unified<\/span>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">His SINGLE purpose unifies the <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">halves of you<\/span> that you <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">perceive as separate<\/span>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">And each <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">forgives<\/span> the other, that he may accept his <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">OTHER half as PART<\/span> of him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>T 3 B 5<\/strong> &#8230;. <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Forgiveness<\/span> is an empty gesture, unless it entails <span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">correction<\/span>. Without this, it is essentially <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">judgmental<\/span>, rather than&nbsp;<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">healing<\/span>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. The JOINING <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Together<\/span>, as Divine <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">TWIN<\/span> <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Sonship<\/span>.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>T 18 B 7.<\/strong>&nbsp;<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">Within<\/span> yourselves,&nbsp;<strong>you <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">love<\/span><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"> each other<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;with perfect <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">love<\/span>. <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">Here<\/span> is holy ground, in which no substitutes can enter, and where only the TRUTH about each other can abide.&nbsp;<strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">Here<\/span> you are <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">joined<\/span> in <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/span>, as much&nbsp;<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">together<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;as you are with Him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox.icourse-in-miracles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Twin-Brothers-Buddying-shoulder-to-shoulder.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-133\" width=\"447\" height=\"296\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">original error<\/span> , of taking the &#8220;<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">tiny mad idea of separation<\/span>&#8221; seriously, has not entered here, nor ever will. <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">Here<\/span> is the radiant truth, to which the Holy Spirit submitted your relationship.&nbsp;Let Him bring it <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">here<\/span>, where YOU would have it be. Give Him but a little faith in each other, to help Him show you that no&nbsp;substitute you made for <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Heaven<\/span> can keep you from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>T 18 B 8.&nbsp;<\/strong>In you there is&nbsp;<strong>no <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">separation<\/span><\/strong>, and no <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">substitute<\/span> can keep you from each other. Your reality was GOD&#8217;s creation, and HAS no substitute.&nbsp;You are so&nbsp;<strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">firmly joined<\/span>&nbsp;<\/strong>in <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">truth<\/span>, that only God is there. And He could NEVER accept something else INSTEAD of you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>He loves you&nbsp;<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">both<\/span>,&nbsp;<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">equally<\/span>&nbsp;and as&nbsp;<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">one<\/span><\/strong>. And as He loves you, so you ARE. You are NOT&nbsp;joined<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">&nbsp;<strong>together<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;by&nbsp;<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">illusions<\/span>, but in the<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">&nbsp;<strong>Thought<\/strong><\/span><strong>&nbsp;so holy<\/strong>&nbsp;and so perfect that <em>illusions<\/em> cannot remain to darken the holy place in which you stand&nbsp;<strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">together<\/span><\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br><strong>T 18 B 11.&nbsp;<\/strong>You have been&nbsp;<strong>called, <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">together<\/span><\/strong>, to the&nbsp;most holy function&nbsp;that this&nbsp;<strong>world<\/strong>&nbsp;contains.&nbsp;It is the ONLY one that has no limits, and that reaches out&nbsp;<strong>to every&nbsp;broken fragment&nbsp;of the <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Sonship<\/span>, with healing and uniting comfort.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br><strong>T 18 D 3. If you knew&nbsp;<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Who walks beside you<\/span>&nbsp;on THIS way<\/strong>, which YOU have chosen, fear would be impossible. You do NOT know, because the journey into darkness has been long and cruel, and you have gone deep into it. A little flicker of your eyelids, closed so long, has not yet been sufficient to give you confidence in yourselves, so long despised. You go TOWARD <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">love<\/span>, still hating it, and TERRIBLY afraid of its judgment upon you. And you do NOT realize that you are NOT afraid of <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">love<\/span>, but only OF&nbsp;WHAT YOU MADE OF IT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>T 18 D 6.<\/strong>&nbsp;Each instant that we spend<strong>&nbsp;<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">together<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;will teach you that this goal is possible, and will strengthen your DESIRE to reach it. And in your desire lies its accomplishment. YOUR desire is now in complete accord with all the power of the Holy Spirit&#8217;s Will. <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">No little, faltering footsteps<\/span> that you may take can separate your desire from His Will and from His STRENGTH.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>I&nbsp;hold your hand<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;as surely as you <span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">agreed to take<\/span> each <span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">other<\/span>&#8216;s (as &#8220;<span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">triplet<\/span>&#8220;).&nbsp;YOU WILL NOT&nbsp;SEPARATE&nbsp;for I stand with you, and&nbsp;<strong>walk with yo<\/strong>u in your advance to&nbsp;Truth. And where we go we carry&nbsp;God&nbsp;with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br><strong>T 18 I 12<\/strong>. Be sure of this;<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\"> love<\/span> has entered your<em>&nbsp;<\/em><strong><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">special<\/span><\/em>&nbsp;relationship<\/strong>, and entered fully, at&nbsp;your weak request.&nbsp;You do NOT recognize that love has come, because you have not yet let go of&nbsp;<strong>ALL the barriers you hold against <span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">EACH OTHER<\/span>.<\/strong>&nbsp;And you will NOT be able to give love <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">welcome separately<\/span>.&nbsp;You could no more know God alone, than He knows you without&nbsp;<strong>y<u>our&nbsp;<\/u><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\"><u>( divine Twin-)<\/u><\/span><\/em><u><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">&nbsp;brother<\/span><\/u>.<\/strong>&nbsp;But,&nbsp;<strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">TOGETHER<\/span>*<\/strong>, you could&nbsp;<strong><u>no more<\/u><\/strong>&nbsp;be UNAWARE of&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>love<\/strong>, than&nbsp;<strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">love<\/span>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;could know you not, or fail to recognize&nbsp;<strong>ITSELF<\/strong>&nbsp;in you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br><strong>T 20 D 10.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>Strengthen your <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">hold<\/span>, and raise your <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">eyes<\/span> unto&nbsp;your<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">&nbsp;<strong>strong Companion<\/strong>,<\/span> in whom the meaning of your&nbsp;<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">freedom<\/span> lies.&nbsp;He seemed to be&nbsp;<strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">crucified<\/span> beside you<\/strong>.&nbsp;And yet <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">his holiness<\/span> remained untouched and perfect, and <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">with<\/span> <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">him<\/span><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"> <\/span><span class=\"has-inline-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">beside&nbsp;<\/span>you shall you this day enter <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">with<\/span> <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">him<\/span> to<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\"> Paradise<\/span>, and know the <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">peace<\/span> of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>T 21 C 13.&nbsp;<\/strong>Yet the <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">truth<\/span> is you were&nbsp;<strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">both<\/span>&nbsp;created by a loving Father<\/strong>, Who created you&nbsp;<strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">together&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong>and <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">as&nbsp;<strong>one<\/strong><\/span>.&nbsp;SEE what &#8220;proves&#8221;&nbsp; otherwise, and you DENY&nbsp;<strong>your whole reality<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br><strong>T 27 I 6.&nbsp;Into <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">eternity<\/span>, where all is one<\/strong>, there crept a <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">tiny, mad idea<\/span>, at which the <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Son<\/span> of God remembered not to laugh. In his&nbsp; forgetting did the thought become a serious idea, and possible of both accomplishment and real effects.&nbsp;<strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Together,<\/span> we can laugh&nbsp; them BOTH away<\/strong>, and understand that time can NOT intrude upon eternity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It IS <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong>a joke <\/strong><\/span>to think that time can come to circumvent&nbsp; eternity, which MEANS there <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">is no <strong>time<\/strong><\/span>.&nbsp;A timelessness in which is time made real; a Part of God Which can attack Itself; a&nbsp; separate brother as an enemy; a mind WITHIN a body; all are forms of circularity, whose ending starts at its beginning, ending at its&nbsp; cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>W 170 R5 8.<\/strong>&nbsp;Release&nbsp;me<sup>1<\/sup>&nbsp;as&nbsp;you&nbsp;practice&nbsp;once again the&nbsp;<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Thoughts<\/span>&nbsp;&nbsp;I<sup>2<\/sup>&nbsp;brought to you from&nbsp;<strong>Him<\/strong>,&nbsp;Who&nbsp;sees&nbsp;your&nbsp;<em>bitter need<\/em>,&nbsp;and&nbsp;knows&nbsp;the&nbsp;answer&nbsp;God&nbsp;has given&nbsp;<strong>Him<\/strong><em>&nbsp;(our&nbsp;Divine heavenly Twin-Brother, not God !)&nbsp;.<\/em>. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>Together<\/strong>*<\/span>&nbsp;we can laugh&nbsp;them&nbsp;both away : accomplishment &amp;&nbsp; real effects of the&nbsp;dream of separation\u2026. &gt; T 27 I 6.)&nbsp;.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>Together*<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;we review^ these&nbsp;thoughts.&nbsp;. &nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Together*<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;we devote^ our&nbsp;<em>time and effort<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;them.&nbsp;.&nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">And<strong>&nbsp;<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">together*<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;we will, teach^&nbsp;them&nbsp;to&nbsp;<em>our <span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">brothers<\/span><\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">God would not have&nbsp;Heaven&nbsp;incomplete.&nbsp;It&nbsp;waits for you<strong>&nbsp;as&nbsp;I<\/strong>&nbsp;do.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>I&nbsp;am<\/strong>&nbsp;incomplete&nbsp;without<strong>&nbsp;your&nbsp;<\/strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\"><strong>part<\/strong>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<em>Me&nbsp;<\/em><\/span><em>(= Divine Twin brotherhood)<\/em>.&nbsp;And as&nbsp;<strong>I<\/strong>&nbsp;am made whole, we go&nbsp;<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>together<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/span>to our&nbsp;ancient&nbsp;<em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">H<\/span><\/em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\"><em>ome<\/em>,<\/span>&nbsp;prepared for us before time was,&nbsp;.&nbsp; &nbsp; and kept unchanged by time,&nbsp; immaculate and safe,&nbsp;as it will be at last, when&nbsp;<em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">time<\/span><\/em>&nbsp;is done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. The WAY back <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">HOME<\/span>.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. The <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Mother<\/span> God<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Creation is written in the stars. The first Movement for Inner Freedom ignited by a Sage named Issa of Nazareth and Nepal, found their identification written in de stars, in the skies of some 2000 years ago. They saw the constellation of Pisces in the skies above and understood the sign. 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