A Course In Miracles - Chapter 10, Section V

Hi,

I'm Teresa Hubbard.

Welcome back to our continued reading of the text to A Course in Miracles.

We continue today in Chapter 10,

The Idols of Sickness,

Section 5,

The Denial of God.

To summarize my takeaways,

In Section 5 of Chapter 10,

We learn that to deny God is to deny our own identity,

Which is blasphemous.

Yet blasphemy is self-destructive,

Not God-destructive.

To deny God inevitably results in projection,

Causing us to believe that others,

Not ourselves,

Have done this to us.

Yet we learn here that we must not attribute our denial of God onto others or we cannot see the spark in them.

For it is the denial of our brother's spark that causes us to suffer.

Because when we see our brothers without the spark of God,

We are denying God.

Our denial of God means that we are making our own gods and putting them before our Father.

Jesus lovingly reminds us here that of ourselves we can do nothing,

But we are not of ourselves.

It is because we are not of ourselves that we need not be troubled by the gods we make.

They are nothing because our Father did not create them.

Our Father created us wholly without sin,

Wholly without pain,

And wholly without suffering of any kind.

If we deny God,

We bring sin,

Pain,

And suffering into our own mind because of the power God gave us.

Our minds are capable of creating worlds,

But we can also deny what we create because we are free.

As always,

Our choice is determined by what we value.

And when we look with peace upon our brothers,

God will come rushing into our hearts in gratitude for our gift to him.

We must not deny ourselves the joy that was created for us for the misery we have made for ourselves.

God has given us the means for undoing what we have made.

Listen,

And we will learn how to remember what we are.

I invite you to keep a few things in mind as you listen to the reading.

The course uses male pronouns,

Yet this is simply a way of pointing to the spiritual being,

Having no gender.

The course is written in first person,

And although not introduced directly to the reader,

It becomes clear that the words are from Jesus,

Often quoting from the Bible.

The course uses traditional Christian terms in a non-traditional manner.

These words are simply pointers to truth,

Nothing more.

A term you will hear within this reading,

Reality,

Pure spirit,

Which is changeless,

Eternal,

Formless,

And boundless.

Reality is also referred to in the course as heaven or the kingdom of God.

And now,

On to the reading.

A Course in Miracles,

Chapter 10,

The Idols of Sickness.

Section 5,

The Denial of God.

The rituals of the God of sickness are strange and very demanding.

Joy is never permitted,

For depression is the sign of allegiance to the God of sickness.

Depression means that you have forsworn God.

Many are afraid of blasphemy,

But they do not understand what it means.

They do not realize that to deny God is to deny their own identity,

And in this sense,

The wages of sin is death.

This sense is very literal.

Denial of life perceives its opposite,

As all forms of denial replace what is with what is not.

No one can really do this,

But that you think you can and believe you have is beyond dispute.

Do not forget,

However,

That to deny God will inevitably result in projection,

And you will believe that others,

And not yourself,

Have done this to you.

You must receive the message you give,

Because it is the message you want.

You may believe that you judge your brothers by the messages they give you,

But you have judged them by the message you give to them.

Do not attribute your denial of joy to them,

Or you cannot see the spark in them that would bring joy to you.

It is the denial of the spark that brings depression,

For whenever you see your brothers without it,

You are denying God.

Allegiance to the denial of God is the ego's religion.

The God of sickness obviously demands the denial of health,

Because health is in direct opposition to its own survival.

But consider what this means to you.

Unless you are sick,

You cannot keep the gods you made,

For only in sickness could you possibly want them.

Blasphemy,

Then,

Is self-destructive,

Not God-destructive.

It means that you are willing to not know yourself in order to be sick.

This is the offering your God demands,

Because having made him out of your insanity,

He is an insane idea.

He has many forms,

But although he may seem to be many different things,

He is but one idea,

The denial of God.

Sickness and death seem to enter the mind of God's Son against his will.

The quote,

Attack on God,

End quote,

Made his Son think he was fatherless,

And out of his depression he made the God of depression.

This was his alternative to joy,

Because he would not accept the fact that although he was a creator,

He had been created.

Yet the Son is helpless without the Father,

Who alone is his help.

I said before that of yourself you can do nothing,

But you are not of yourself.

If you were,

What you have made would be true,

And you could never escape.

It is because you did not make yourself that you need be troubled over nothing.

Your gods are nothing,

Because your Father did not create them.

You cannot make creators who are unlike your creator,

Any more than he could have created a Son who is unlike him.

If creation is sharing,

It cannot create what is unlike itself.

It can only share what it is.

Depression is isolation,

And so it could not have been created.

Son of God,

You have not sinned,

But you have been much mistaken.

Yet this can be corrected,

And God will help you,

Knowing that you could not sin against him.

You denied him because you loved him,

Knowing that if you recognized your love for him,

You could not deny him.

Your denial of him,

Therefore,

Means that you love him,

And that you know he loves you.

Remember that what you deny you must have once known,

And if you accept denial,

You can accept its undoing.

Your Father has not denied you,

He does not retaliate,

But he does call to you to return.

When you think he has not answered your call,

You have not answered his.

He calls to you from every part of the Sonship,

Because of his love for his Son.

If you hear his message,

He has answered you,

And you will learn of him if you hear it right.

The love of God is in everything he created,

For his Son is everywhere.

Look with peace upon your brothers,

And God will come rushing into your heart in gratitude for your gift to him.

Do not look to the God of sickness for healing,

But only to the God of love,

For healing is the acknowledgment of him.

When you acknowledge him,

You will know that he has never ceased to acknowledge you,

And that in his acknowledgment of you lies your being.

You are not sick,

And you cannot die.

But you can confuse yourself with things that do.

Remember,

Though,

That to do this is blasphemy,

For it means that you are looking without love on God and his creation,

From which he cannot be separated.

Only the Eternal can be loved,

For love does not die.

What is of God is his forever,

And you are of God.

Would he allow himself to suffer?

And would he offer his suffering to you?

Would he allow himself to suffer?

And would he offer his Son anything that is not acceptable to him?

If you will accept yourself as God created you,

You will be incapable of suffering.

Yet to do this you must acknowledge him as your creator.

This is not because you will be punished otherwise.

It is merely because your acknowledgment of your Father is the basis of your being.

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