Cure is a word that cannot be applied to any remedy the world accepts as
beneficial. What the world perceives as therapeutic is but what will make the
body "better." When it tries to heal the mind, it sees no separation from
the body, where it thinks the mind exists. Its forms of healing thus must substitute illusion for illusion. One belief in sickness takes another form, and so the patient now perceives himself as well.
He is not healed. He merely had a dream that he was sick, and in the dream he
found a magic formula to make him well. Yet he has not awakened from the dream,
and so his mind remains exactly as it was before. He has not seen the light that
would awaken him and end the dream. What difference does the content of a dream
make in reality? One either sleeps or wakens. There is nothing in between.
The happy dreams the Holy Spirit brings are different from the dreams of the
world, where one can merely dream he is awake. The dreams forgiveness lets the
mind perceive do not induce another form of sleep, so that the dreamer dreams
another dream. His happy dreams are heralds of the dawn of truth upon the mind. They lead from sleep to
gentle waking, so that dreams are gone. And thus they cure for all eternity.
Atonement heals with certainty, and cures all sickness. For the mind which
understands that sickness can be nothing but a dream is not deceived by forms
the dream may take. Sickness where guilt is absent cannot come, for it is but
another form of guilt. Atonement does not heal the sick, for that is not a cure.
It takes away the guilt that makes the sickness possible. And that is cure
indeed. For sickness now is gone, with nothing left to which it can return.
Peace be to you who have been cured in God, and not in idle dreams. For cure
must come from holiness, and holiness can not be found where sin is cherished.
God abides in holy temples. He is barred where sin has entered. Yet there is no
place where He is not. And therefore sin can have no home in which to hide from
His beneficence .There is no place where holiness is not, and nowhere sin and
sickness can abide.
This is the thought that cures. It does not make distinctions among unrealities.
Nor does it seek to heal what is not sick, unmindful where the need for healing
is. This is no magic. It is merely an appeal to truth, which cannot fail to heal and heal forever. It is not
a thought which judges an illusion by its size, its seeming gravity, or anything
that is related to the form it takes. It merely focuses on what it is, and knows
that no illusion can be real.
Let us not try today to seek to cure what
cannot suffer sickness. Healing must be sought but where it is, and then applied
to what is sick so that it can be cured. There is no remedy the world provides
that can effect a change in anything. The mind that brings illusions to the
truth is really changed. There is no change but this. For how can one illusion
differ from another but in attributes that have no substance, no reality, no
core, and nothing that is truly different?
Today we seek to change our minds about the source of sickness, for we seek a
cure for all illusions, not another shift among them. We will try today to find
the source of healing, which is in our minds because our Father placed it there
for us. It is not further from us than ourselves. It is as near to us as our own
thoughts, so close it is impossible to lose. We need but seek it and it must be
found.
We will not be misled today by what appears to us as sick. We go beyond
appearances today, and reach the source of healing from which nothing is exempt.
We will succeed to the extent to which we realize that there can never be a
meaningful distinction made between what is untrue and equally untrue. Here
there are no degrees, and no beliefs that what does not exist is truer in some
forms than others. All of them are false, and can be cured because they are not
true.
So do we lay aside our amulets, our charms and medicines, our chants and bits of
magic in whatever form they took. We will be still and listen for the Voice of
healing which will cure all ills as one, restoring saneness to the Son of God.
No voice but This can cure. Today we hear a single Voice Which speaks to us of
truth where all illusions end, and peace returns to the eternal quiet home of
God.
We waken hearing Him, and let Him speak to us five minutes as the day begins,
and end the day by listening again five minutes more before we go to sleep. Our
only preparation is to let our interfering thoughts be laid aside, not
separately, but all of them as one. They are the same. We have no need to make
them different, and thus delay the time when we can hear our Father speak to us.
We hear Him now. We come to Him today.
With nothing in our hands to which we cling, with lifted hearts and listening
minds we pray:
"Only salvation can be said to cure. Speak to us, Father, that we may be healed."
And we will feel salvation cover us with
soft protection, and with peace so deep that no illusion can disturb our minds,
nor offer proof to us that it is real. This will we learn today. And we will say
our prayer for healing hourly, and take a minute as the hour strikes to hear the
answer to our prayer be given us as we attend in silence and in joy. This is the
day when healing comes to us. This is the day when separation ends, and we
remember Who we really are.
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