AN ANCIENT PROMISE WILL BE KEPT

An exit portal from this infinitely small maze of space and time has been opened.
Remember, time lasted but an instant in your mind, with no effect upon eternity. And so is all time past, and everything exactly as it was before the way to nothingness was made. The tiny tick of time in which the first mistake was made, and all of them within that one mistake, held also the Correction for that one, and all of them that came within the first. And in that tiny instant time was gone, for that was all it ever was. What God gave answer to is answered and is gone.

WE DISCOVER A BRAND NEW PLACE IN SPACE AND TIME

Look to this day, for it is life, the very life of life, in its brief course
lie all the realities and verities of existence, the bliss of growth,
the splendor of action, the glory of power.
For yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision,
But today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day.
Sanskrit proverb

Each day, and every minute in each day, and every instant that each minute holds, you but relive the single instant when the time of terror took the place of love. And so you die each day to live again,until you cross the gap between the past and present, which is not a gap at all. Such is each life; a seeming interval from birth to death and on to life again, a repetition of an instant gone by long ago that cannot be relived. And all of time is but the mad belief that what is over is still here and now.

Forgive the past and let it go, for it is gone. You stand no longer on the ground that lies between the worlds. You have gone on, and reached the world that lies at Heaven's gate. There is no hindrance to the Will of God, nor any need that you repeat again a journey that was over long ago. Look gently on your brother, and behold the world in which perception of your hate has been transformed into a world of love.

WE SHARE TOGETHER THE BEGINNING AND END OF TIME

Listen, and see if you remember an ancient song you knew so long
ago and held more dear than any melody you taught yourself to
cherish since.
Beyond the body, beyond the sun and stars, past everything you see and
yet somehow familiar, is an arc of golden light that stretches as you look
into a great and shining circle. And all the circle fills with light before
your eyes. The edges of the circle disappear, and what is in it is no
longer contained at all. The light expands and covers everything,
extending to infinity forever shining and with no break or limit
anywhere. Within it everything is joined in perfect continuity. Nor is it
possible to imagine that anything could be outside, for there is nowhere
that this light is not.
This is the vision of the Son of God, whom you know well. Here is the
sight of him who knows his Father. Here is the memory of what you are;
a part of this, with all of it within, and joined to all as surely as all is
joined in you. Accept the vision that can show you this, and not the
body. You know the ancient song, and know it well. Nothing will ever
be as dear to you as is this ancient hymn of love the Son of God sings to
his Father still.
And now the blind can see, for that same song they sing in honor of
their Creator gives praise to them as well. The blindness that they made
will not withstand the memory of this song. And they will look upon
the vision of the Son of God, remembering who he is they sing of. What
is a miracle but this remembering? And who is there in whom this
memory lies not? The light in one awakens it in all. And when you see
it in your brother, you are remembering for everyone.

My Home Awaits Me. I Will Hasten There.

If I so choose, I can depart this world entirely. It is not death whichmakes this possible, but it is change of mind about the purpose of the world. If I believe it has a value as I see it now, so will it still remain for me. But if I see no value in the world as I behold it, nothing that I
want to keep as mine or search for as a goal, it will depart from me. For I have not sought for illusions to replace the truth.

Father, my home awaits my glad return. Your Arms are open and I hear
Your Voice. What need have I to linger in a place of vain desires and of
shattered dreams, when Heaven can so easily be mine?

FINDING THE PRESENT

Time can release as well as imprison, depending on whose interpretation of it you use. Past, present and future are not continuous, unless you force continuity on them. You can perceive them as continuous, and make them so for you. But do
not be deceived, and then believe that this is how it is. For to believe reality is what you would have it be according to your use for it is delusional. You would destroy time's continuity by breaking it into past, present and future for your own purposes.You would anticipate the future on the basis of your past
experience, and plan for it accordingly. Yet by doing so you are aligning past and future, and not allowing the miracle, which could intervene between them, to free you to be born again.

The miracle enables you to see your brother without his past,and so perceive him as born again. His errors are all past, and by perceiving him without them you are releasing him. And since his past is yours, you share in this release. Let no dark cloud out of your past obscure him from you, for truth lies only in the present, and you will find it if you seek it there. You have looked for it where it is not, and therefore have not found it. Learn, then, to seek it where it is, and it will dawn on eyes that see. Your past was made in anger, and if you use it to attack the present, you will not see the freedom that the present holds.

Judgment and condemnation are behind you, and unless you bring them with you, you will see that you are free of them. Look lovingly upon the present, for it holds the only things that are forever true. All healing lies within it because its continuity is real. It extends to all aspects of the Sonship at the same time, and
thus enables them to reach each other. The present is before time was, and will be when time is no more. In it are all things that are eternal, and they are one. Their continuity is timeless and their communication is unbroken, for they are not separated by the past. Only the past can separate, and it is nowhere.

What seems eternal all will have an end. The stars will
disappear, and night and day will be no more. All things
that come and go, the tides, the seasons and the lives of men; all
things that change with time and bloom and fade will not return.
Where time has set an end is not where the eternal is. God's Son
can never change by what men made of him. He will be as he
was and as he is, for time appointed not his destiny, nor set the
hour of his birth and death. Forgiveness will not change him. Yet
time waits upon forgiveness that the things of time may
disappear because they have no use.
You who are now the bringer of salvation have the function of
bringing light to darkness. The darkness in you has been
brought to light. Carry it back to darkness, from the holy instant to
which you brought it. We are made whole in our desire to make
whole. Let not time worry you, for all the fear that you and your
brother experience is really past. Time has been readjusted to help
us do, together, what your separate pasts would hinder. You have
gone past fear, for no two minds can join in the desire for love
without love's joining them.
Not one light in Heaven but goes with you. Not one Ray that shines
forever in the Mind of God but shines on you. Heaven is joined with
you in your advance to Heaven. When such great lights have joined
with you to give the little spark of your desire the power of God
Himself, can you remain in darkness?
You are coming home together, after a long and meaningless
journey that you undertook apart, and that led nowhere. You have
found your brother, and you will light each other’s ways. And from
this light will the Great Rays extend back into darkness and forward
unto God, to shine away the past and so make room for His eternal
Presence, in which everything is radiant in the light.
You have reached the end of an ancient journey, not realizing yet
that it is over. You are still worn and tired, and the desert's dust still
seems to cloud your eyes and keep you sightless. Yet He Whom you
welcomed has come to you, and would welcome you. He has
waited long to give you this. Receive it now of Him, for He would
have you know Him. Only a little wall of dust still stands between
you and your brother. Blow on it lightly and with happy laughter,
and it will fall away. And walk into the garden love has prepared
for both of you.

Our Father, bless our eyes today. We are Your messengers, and we
would look upon the glorious reflection of Your Love which
shines in everything. We live and move in You alone. We are not
separate from Your eternal life. There is no death, for death is not Your
Will. And we abide where You have placed us, in the life we share with
You and with all living things, to be like You and part of You forever.
We accept Your Thoughts as ours, and our will is one with Yours
eternally. Amen.

Yet a little while and the world will see you no more but I will see you.
Because I live, you shall live also!
Now you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me and I in you.
Since you have loved me and kept my words, my Father will love you.
And we will come unto you and make our abode with you.
Now that you abide in me, my words abide in you.
Ask what you will and it shall be given unto you.
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.
Come unto me, if you labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn of me.
For I am meek and lowly in heart and you shall find rest unto your souls.
For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
Jesus Christ

The world is nothing in itself. Your mind must give it meaning. And what you behold upon it are your wishes, acted out so you can look on them and think them real. Perhaps you think you did not make the world, but came unwillingly to what was made already, hardly waiting for your thoughts to give
it meaning. Yet in truth you found exactly what you looked for
when you came. This world was over long ago. The thoughts that made it are no
longer in the mind that thought of them and loved them for a little while. The miracle but shows the past is gone, and what has truly gone has no effects. Remembering a cause can but produce illusions of its presence, not effects.
You think you live in what is past. Each thing you look upon you saw but for an instant, long ago, before its unreality gave way to truth. Not one illusion still remains unanswered in your mind. Uncertainty was brought to certainty so long ago that it is hard indeed to hold it to your heart, as if it were before you still.

LISTEN, THIS WORLD. LISTEN TO THIS CALL...

All of you out there, wherever or whenever you think you are, you
are invited to this gathering. This is a celebration of the homecoming of the teachers of God. You are one of us as we are one together. We invite you to the miraculous advent of the reunion of your mind with the Mind of God. You've come a long way; you are very much closer to the end of time than you realize. Now is it time at last to free yourself from this chaotic world of loneliness and loss and pain and death. A world constructed by your own nightmare of self-identity. It was only a meaningless place that justified your continuing need of
self-sacrifice and annihilation. You have been using it in order to verify and sustain your apparent existence, and now at last it has become intolerable to you.

Come then, be freed of this burden of fear and self-doubt that you thought was a necessary and inescapable part of your existence. Come and free yourself that the world may be free. Come now to this celebration, you who are heavy-laden. We invite you to experience the incomparable healing energies of love emanating from this everexpanding circle of atonement. It is formed with teachers of God through their uncompromising commitment to and recognition of the miraculous, spontaneous transformation and illumination of their
individual minds and bodies.

Listen carefully: Stay watchful for the love that is all about you. Come and lay aside the grievances of your old pitifully fearful helpless self. You are entering into a brand new yet very ancient rapidly accelerating continuum of time, in which you will recognize yourself as a perfect creation of God.

Only An Instant Does This World Endure.
We seek Your holy world today. For we, Your loving Sons, have lost
our way a while. But we have listened to Your Voice, and learned
exactly what to do to be restored to Heaven and our true Identity. And
we give thanks today the world endures but for an instant. We would
go beyond that tiny instant to eternity.

FROM INSTANTANEOUS TO ETERNAL

The revelation that the Father and the Son are one will come in time to every mind. Yet is that time determined by the mind itself, not taught.The time is set already. It appears to be quite arbitrary. Yet there is no step along the road that anyone takes but by chance. It has already been taken by him, although he has not yet embarked on it. For time but seems to go in one direction. We but undertake a journey that is over. Yet it seems to have a future still unknown to us.

Time is a trick, a sleight of hand, a vast illusion in which figures come and go as if by magic. Yet there is a plan behind appearances that does not change. The script is written. When experience will come to end your doubting has been set. For we but see the journey from the point at which it ended, looking back on it, imagining we make it once again; reviewing mentally what has gone by.

The tiny instant you would keep and make eternal, passed away in Heaven too soon for anything to notice it had come. What disappeared too quickly to affect the simple knowledge of the Son of God can hardly still be there, for you to choose to be your teacher. Only in the past, - an ancient past, too short to make a world in answer to creation, - did this world appear to rise. So very long ago, for such a tiny interval of time, that not one note in Heaven's song was missed. Yet in each unforgiving act or thought, in every judgment and in all belief in sin, is that one instant still called back, as if it could be made again in time. You keep an ancient memory before your eyes. And he who lives in memories alone is unaware of where he is.

There is a place in you where this whole world has been
forgotten; where no memory of sin and of illusion lingers
still. There is a place in you which time has left, and echoes of
eternity are heard. There is a resting place so still no sound
except a hymn to Heaven rises up to gladden God the Father and
the Son. Where Both abide are They remembered, Both. And
where They are is Heaven and is peace.

We pause but for a moment more, to play our final, happy game
upon this earth. And then we go to take our rightful place where
truth abides and games are meaningless. So is the story ended.
Let this day bring the last chapter closer to the world, that
everyone may learn the tale he reads of terrifying destiny, defeat
of all his hopes, his pitiful defense against a vengeance he can
not escape, is but his own deluded fantasy. God's ministers have
come to waken him from the dark dreams this story has evoked
in his confused, bewildered memory of this distorted tale. God's
Son can smile at last, on learning that it is not true.

Projection makes perception. The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that. But though it is no more than that, it is not less. Therefore, to you it is important. It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. Perception is a result and not a cause. And that is why order of difficulty in miracles is meaningless. Everything looked upon with vision is healed and holy. Nothing perceived without it means anything. And where there is no meaning,
there is chaos.

THIS INSTANT IS THE ONLY TIME THERE IS.

I have conceived of time in such a way that I defeat my aim. If I elect
to reach past time to timelessness, I must change my perception of
what time is for. Time's purpose cannot be to keep the past and future
one. The only interval in which I can be saved from time is now. For in
this instant has forgiveness come to set me free. The birth of Christ is
now, without a past or future. He has come to give His present blessing
to the world, restoring it to timelessness and love. And love is everpresent,
here and now.

Thanks for this instant, Father. It is now I am redeemed. This instant is
the time You have appointed for Your Son's release, and for salvation of
the world in him.

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep,
but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,
at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be
raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Paul of Tarsus

I Am Surrounded By The Love Of God.
Father, You stand before me and behind, beside me, in the place I see
myself, and everywhere I go. You are in all the things I look upon, the
sounds I hear, and every hand that reaches for my own. In You time
disappears, and place becomes a meaningless belief. For what surrounds
Your Son and keeps him safe is Love Itself. There is no Source but This,
and nothing is that does not share Its holiness; that stands beyond Your
one creation, or without the Love Which holds all things within Itself.

Father, Your Son is like Yourself. We come to You in Your Own Name
today, to be at peace within Your everlasting Love.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with
all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great
commandment. And the second is like unto it,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST
Jesus Is Speaking…

I take the journey with you. For I share your doubts and fears a
little while, that you may come to me who recognize the road by
which all fears and doubts are overcome. We walk together. I
must understand uncertainty and pain, although I know they
have no meaning. Yet a savior must remain with those he
teaches, seeing what they see, but still retaining in his mind the
way that led him out, and now will lead you out with him. God's
Son is crucified until you walk along the road with me.
My resurrection comes again each time I lead a brother safely to
the place at which the journey ends and is forgot. I am renewed
each time a brother learns there is a way from misery and pain. I
am reborn each time a brother's mind turns to the light in him
and looks for me. I have forgotten no one. Help me now to lead
you back to where the journey was begun, to make another
choice with me.
In joyous welcome is my hand outstretched to every brother who
would join with me in reaching past temptation, and who looks
with fixed determination toward the light that shines beyond in
perfect constancy. Give me my own, for they belong to You. And
can You fail in what is but Your Will? I give You thanks for what
my brothers are. And as each one elects to join with me, the song
of thanks from earth to Heaven grows from tiny scattered
threads of melody to one inclusive chorus from a world
redeemed from hell, and giving thanks to You.
And now we say "Amen." For Christ has come to dwell in the
abode You set for Him before time was, in calm eternity. The
journey closes, ending at the place where it began. No trace of it
remains. Not one illusion is accorded faith, and not one spot of
darkness still remains to hide the face of Christ from anyone. Thy
Will is done, complete and perfectly, and all creation recognizes
You, and knows You as the only Source it has. Clear in Your
likeness does the Light shine forth from everything that lives and
moves in You. For we have reached where all of us are one, and
we are home, where You would have us be.

The Mission of A Course In Miracles International

To advance a vision for all people on earth of our
divine purpose, to be united in peace and love with
all of humanity in the recognition of our oneness and
equality in the sight of God. With no regard to race,
color, creed, gender, or national origin, there is, has
been, and will always be, in our species an innate,
inborn faculty of expanding self-realization and
understanding of our entire purpose for existence,
derived through and by acts of forgiveness and love.
We are certain in our hearts and minds that this new
understanding of a True Universal Relationship must
and will bring bright innovative solutions to the often
devastating problems of aggregate human existence
that have beset Mankind since the beginning of time.
Our only goal is enlightenment. The means are the
consistent and uncompromising application of A
Course In Miracles. Our curriculum directs, supports,
enhances and accelerates this transformation of our
minds. Our focus includes service, education,
dissemination and communication of the message of
A Course In Miracles throughout the world.
A Journey without distance
in the space of an instant of reality…