Father, Christ's vision is Your gift to me, and it has power to translate all that the body's eyes behold into the sight of a forgiven world. How glorious and gracious is this world! Yet how much more will I perceive in it than sight can give. The world forgiven signifies Your Son acknowledges his Father, lets his dreams be brought to truth, and waits expectantly the one remaining instant more of time, which ends forever as Your memory returns to him. And now his will is one with Yours. His function now is but Your Own, and every thought except Your own is gone.
The quiet of today will bless our hearts, and through them peace will come to everyone. Christ is our eyes today. And through His sight we offer healing to the world through Him, the holy Son whom God created whole; the holy Son whom God created one.
What is The Christ?
Christ is God's Son as He created Him. He is the Self we share, uniting us with one another, and with God as well. He is the Thought Which still abides within the Mind That is His Source. He has not left His holy home, nor lost the innocence in which He was created. He abides unchanged forever in the Mind of God.
Christ is the link that keeps you one with God, and guarantees that separation is no more than an illusion of despair. For hope forever will abide in Him. Your mind is part of His, and His of yours.
He is the part in Which God's Answer lies; where all decisions are already made, and dreams are over. He remains untouched by anything the body's eyes perceive. For though in Him His Father placed the means for your salvation, yet does He remain the Self Who, like His Father, knows no sin.
Home of the Holy Spirit, and at home in God alone, does Christ remain at peace, within the Heaven of your holy mind. This is the only part of you that has reality in truth. The rest is dreams. Yet will these dreams be given unto Christ to fade before His glory, and reveal your holy Self, the Christ, to you at last.
The Holy Spirit reaches from the Christ in you to all your dreams, and bids them come to Him, to be translated into truth. He will exchange them for the final dream which God appointed as the end of dreams. For when forgiveness rests upon the world and peace has come to every Son of God, what could remain to keep things separate, for what remains to see except Christ's face?
And how long will this holy face be seen, when it is but the symbol that the time for learning now is over, and the goal of the Atonement has been reached at last? So therefore let us seek to find Christ's face, and look on nothing else. As we behold His glory, will we know we have no need of learning or perception or of time, or anything except the holy Self, the Christ Whom God created as His Son.
✨ Summary & practice
Let the body’s eyes see with Christ’s eyes.
This lesson marks a radical decision: to give up the body’s eyes and use Christ’s vision. In the curriculum, it is the peak of the teaching on perception. The gift God gives you, Christ’s vision, has the power to translate everything the body’s eyes see into the sight of a forgiven world, full of glory and grace. You perceive far more than physical sight can offer. You perceive the truth.
The central idea is that a forgiven world means the Son recognizes his Father. He lets his dreams be brought to truth and waits with hope for the instant when time ends forever, as the memory of God returns to him. His will is one with the Father’s. His function is only God’s function. Christ is your eyes today. Through His sight, you offer healing to the world, for you see the holy Son that God created whole and one.
This lesson is the culmination of a series beginning with lesson 262 (perceiving unity), continuing with holy vision (263), omnipresent Love (264), the gentleness of creation (265), and the face of Christ (269). It prepares for lessons 271–280, which explore life through Christ’s vision. Choosing Christ’s eyes over the body’s eyes is the fundamental choice that transforms all of existence.
In practice, today, each time you see something with your physical eyes, immediately add a second sight: what does Christ see here? Before an angry person, ask, 'Christ, what do You see?' Before a difficult situation, ask, 'What is the reality Christ’s vision perceives here?' With practice, Christ’s vision will become more natural than physical sight. You will see the reality behind appearances.
The body’s eyes show only a world of separation and fear. Christ’s eyes show unity and love. Choose today to see as Christ sees, and the whole world will transform before you.
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