Yet forgiveness, taught and learned, brings with it the experiences which bear witness that the time the mind itself determined to abandon all but this is now at hand. This is beyond experience we try to hasten. The Son of God has merely disappeared into his Father, as his Father has in him. It lies beyond salvation past all thought of time, forgiveness and the holy face of Christ. It returns the mind into the endless present, where the past and future cannot be conceived. It comes to every mind when total recognition that its will is God’s has been completely given and received completely. We cannot speak nor write nor even think of this at all. And like its Source Itself, it merely is. There are no lips to speak them, and no part of mind sufficiently distinct to feel that it is now aware of something not itself. We say “God is,” and then we cease to speak, for in that knowledge words are meaningless. And in His Being, He encompasses all things. And yet we urge you to bear witness to the Word of God to hasten the experience of truth, and speed its advent into every mind that recognizes truth’s effects on you. But we have also said the mind determines when that time will be, and has determined it. We have perhaps appeared to contradict our statement that the revelation of the Father and the Son as one has been already set. It has become aware that there are things it does not know, and thus is ready to accept a state completely different from experience with which it is familiarly at home. It is not shut tight against God’s Voice. Yet we prepare for grace in that an open mind can hear the Call to waken. Grace is not the goal this course aspires to attain. The final step must go beyond all learning. By grace alone the hate and fear are gone, for grace presents a state so opposite to everything the world contains, that those whose minds are lighted by the gift of grace can not believe the world of fear is real. Grace is acceptance of the Love of God within a world of seeming hate and fear. Grace becomes inevitable instantly in those who have prepared a table where it can be gently laid and willingly received an altar clean and holy for the gift. It is past learning, yet the goal of learning, for grace cannot come until the mind prepares itself for true acceptance. It is the world’s most lofty aspiration, for it leads beyond the world entirely. Grace is an aspect of the Love of God which is most like the state prevailing in the unity of truth. Sunday, June 18th, 2023 LESSON 169 By Grace I Live.
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