09/29/2025
A Course in Miracles
Chapter 12 The Sanity of Love
V1 The Outside World
Long ago we said that God so loved the world that He gave it to His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him would never see death. God does love the real world, and those who perceive its reality cannot perceive death. For death is not of the real world, in which everything is eternal. God gave you the real world in exchange for the one you made out of your split mind, which is the symbol of death. For if you could really separate yourself from the Mind of God, you would die, and the world you perceive is a world of separation.
You were willing to accept even death to deny your father. But He would not have it so, so it is not so. You could still not will against Him, and that is why you have no control over the world you made. It is not a world of will because it is governed by the desire to be unlike Him, and this desire is not His Will. The world you made is therefore totally chaotic, governed by arbitrary and senseless “laws”and without real meaning of any kind. For it was made out of what you do not want, projected from your mind because you were afraid of it.
Yet this world is only in the mind of its maker; along with his real salvation. Do not believe it is outside yourself, for only when you recognizing where it is will you gain control over it. For you do have control over your mind, for the mind is the mechanism of decision. If you will recognize that all attack which you perceive is in your own mind and nowhere else, you will at last have placed its source, and where it began it must end. For in this place also lies salvation. The altar of God, where Christ abideth is there.
You have defiled the altar but not the world. But Christ has placed the atonement on the altar for you. Bring your perceptions of this world to the altar, for it is the altar to truth. There you will see your vision changed, and there you will learn to see truly. From this place, where God and His Son dwell in peace and where you are welcome, you will look out on peace and behold the world truly. But to find the place, you must relinquish your investment in the world “you have” projected, allowing the Holy Spirit to extend the real world to you from the altar of God.
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