Lesson 151

All things are echoes of the Voice for God.

p1. No one can judge on partial evidence. 2
That is not judgment. 3 It is merely an opinion
based on ignorance and doubt. 4 Its seeming
certainty is but a cloak for the uncertainty it would conceal. 5
It needs irrational defense because it is irrational. 6
And its defense seems strong, convincing, and without a doubt because of
all the doubting underneath.

p2. You do not seem to doubt the world you see. 2
You do not really question what is shown you through the body’s eyes. 3
Nor do you ask why you believe it, even though you learned a long while
since your senses do deceive. 4 That you believe
them to the last detail which they report is even stranger, when you pause
to recollect how frequently they have been faulty witnesses indeed! 5
Why would you trust them so implicitly? 6 Why
but because of underlying doubt, which you would hide with show of certainty?

p3. How can you judge? 2 Your judgment
rests upon the witness that your senses offer you. 3
Yet witness never falser was than this. 4 But
how else do you judge the world you see? 5 You
place pathetic faith in what your eyes and ears report. 6
You think your fingers touch reality, and close upon the truth. 7
This is awareness that you understand, and think more real than what is
witnessed to by the eternal Voice for God Himself.

p4. Can this be judgment? 2 You have
often been urged to refrain from judging, not because it is a right to be
withheld from you. 3 You cannot judge. 4
You merely can believe the ego’s judgments, all of which are false. 5
It guides your senses carefully, to prove how weak you are; how helpless
and afraid, how apprehensive of just punishment, how black with sin, how
wretched in your guilt.

p5. This thing it speaks of, and would yet defend, it tells you
is yourself. 2 And you believe that this is
so with stubborn certainty. 3 Yet underneath
remains the hidden doubt that what it shows you as reality with such conviction
it does not believe. 4 It is itself alone that
it condemns. 5 It is within itself it sees the
guilt. 6 It is its own despair it sees in you.

p6. Hear not its voice. 2 The witnesses
it sends to prove to you its evil is your own are false, and speak with
certainty of what they do not know. 3 Your faith
in them is blind because you would not share the doubts their lord can not
completely vanquish. 4 You believe to doubt
his vassals is to doubt yourself.

p7. Yet you must learn to doubt their evidence will clear the way
to recognize yourself, and let the Voice for God alone be Judge of what
is worthy of your own belief. 2 He will not
tell you that your brother should be judged by what your eyes behold in
him, nor what his body’s mouth says to your ears, nor what your fingers’
touch reports of him. 3 He passes by such idle
witnesses, which merely bear false witness to God’s Son. 4
He recognizes only what God loves, and in the holy light of what He sees
do all the ego’s dreams of what you are vanish before the splendor He beholds.

p8. Let Him be Judge of what you are, for He has certainty in which
there is no doubt, because it rests on Certainty so great that doubt is
meaningless before Its face. 2 Christ cannot
doubt Himself. 3 The Voice for God can only
honor Him, rejoicing in His perfect, everlasting sinlessness. 4
Whom He has judged can only laugh at guilt, unwilling now to play with toys
of sin; unheeding of the body’s witnesses before the rapture of Christ’s
holy face.

p9. And thus He judges you. 2 Accept
His Word for what you are, for He bears witness to your beautiful creation,
and the Mind Whose Thought created your reality. 3
What can the body mean to Him Who knows the glory of the Father and the
Son? 4 What whispers of the ego can He hear?
5 What could convince Him that your sins are
real? 6 Let Him be Judge as well of everything
that seems to happen to you in this world. 7
His lessons will enable you to bridge the gap between illusions and the
truth.

p10. He will remove all faith that you have placed in pain, disaster,
suffering and loss. 2 He gives you vision which
can look beyond these grim appearances, and can behold the gentle face of
Christ in all of them. 3 You will no longer
doubt that only good can come to you who are beloved of God, for He will
judge all happenings, and teach the single lesson that they all contain.

p11. He will select the elements in them which represent the truth,
and disregard those aspects which reflect but idle dreams. 2
And He will reinterpret all you see, and all occurrences, each circumstance,
and every happening that seems to touch on you in any way from His one frame
of reference, wholly unified and sure. 3 And
you will see the love beyond the hate, the constancy in change, the pure
in sin, and only Heaven’s blessing on the world.

p12. Such is your resurrection, for your life is not a part of
anything you see. 2 It stands beyond the body
and the world, past every witness for unholiness, within the Holy, holy
as Itself. 3 In everyone and everything His
Voice would speak to you of nothing but your Self and your Creator, Who
is One with Him. 4 So will you see the holy
face of Christ in everything, and hear in everything no sound except the
echo of God’s Voice.

p13. We practice wordlessly today, except at the beginning of
the time we spend with God. 2 We introduce these
times with but a single, slow repeating of the thought with which the day
begins. 3 And then we watch our thoughts, appealing
silently to Him Who sees the elements of truth in them. 4
Let Him evaluate each thought that comes to mind, remove the elements of
dreams, and give them back again as clean ideas that do not contradict the
Will of God.

p14. Give Him your thoughts, and He will give them back as miracles
which joyously proclaim the wholeness and the happiness God wills His Son,
as proof of His eternal Love. 2 And as each
thought is thus transformed, it takes on healing power from the Mind which
saw the truth in it, and failed to be deceived by what was falsely added.
3 All the threads of fantasy are gone. 4
And what remains is unified into a perfect Thought that offers its perfection
everywhere.

p15. Spend fifteen minutes thus when you awake, and gladly give
another fifteen more before you go to sleep. 2
Your ministry begins as all your thoughts are purified. 3
So are you taught to teach the Son of God the holy lesson of his sanctity.
4 No one can fail to listen, when you hear the
Voice for God give honor to God’s Son. 5 And
everyone will share the thoughts with you which He has retranslated in your
mind.

p16. Such is your Eastertide. 2 And
so you lay the gift of snow-white lilies on the world, replacing witnesses
to sin and death. 3 Through your transfiguration
is the world redeemed, and joyfully released from guilt. 4
Now do we lift our resurrected minds in gladness and in gratitude to Him
Who has restored our sanity to us.

p17. And we will hourly remember Him Who is salvation and deliverance.
2 As we give thanks, the world unites with us
and happily accepts our holy thoughts, which Heaven has corrected and made
pure. 3 Now has our ministry begun at last,
to carry round the world the joyous news that truth has no illusions, and
the peace of God, through us, belongs to everyone.

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Lesson 151

All things are echoes of the Voice for God.

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