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Chapter 15: Dissolving Dissociation

9. The Spotless Mirror of Holiness

The Atonement does not make holy, because you were created holy. It merely brings unholiness to Holiness, or what you made to what you are. The bringing together of illusion and Truth, of the ego and the Divine, is the Holy Spirit’s only Function. Do not keep hidden from your Creator what you have made, for hiding it has cost you Knowledge of the Divine and of yourself. The Knowledge is safe, but where is your Safety apart from the Divine? The making of time to take the place of Timelessness lay in the decision to be not as you are. Thus, Truth was made past in your mind, and the present was dedicated to illusion. And the past, too, was changed, and interposed between what always was, and now. The past that you remember never was, and represents only denial of what always was and is and will forever be.

To bring the ego to the Divine is merely to bring error to Truth, where it stands corrected because it is the opposite of what it meets, and is undone because the contradiction can no longer stand. How long can contradiction stand when its impossible nature is clearly revealed? What disappears in Light has not been attacked. It merely vanishes because it is not true. Different realities are meaningless, for Reality must be One. It cannot change with time, or mood, or chance. Its Changelessness is what makes It real. This cannot be undone. Undoing is for unreality. And Reality will undo unreality for you.

Just by being what It is, Truth releases you from everything that It is not. The Atonement is so gentle that you need only whisper to It and all Its Power will rush to your assistance and support. You are strong with the Divine beside you, but without It you will believe yourself to be frail, even unto nothing. The Atonement offers you the Divine. The Gift that you rejected is still held by the Atonement in you. The Holy Spirit holds It there for you. The Divine has not left Its Altar, though Its Children placed other gods upon It. The Temple still is holy, for the Presence that dwells within It is Holiness.

In the Divine’s Temple within, Holiness waits quietly for the return of them who love It. For Love’s Presence knows they will return to Purity and to Grace. The Graciousness of the Divine will receive them gently, and cover all their sense of pain and loss with the immortal Assurance of their Creator’s Love. There, fear of death will be replaced with Joy of Living. For the Divine is Life, and Its Children abide in Its Life forever. Life is as holy as the Holiness by which It was created. The Presence of Holiness lives in Everything that has Being, for Holiness created Life, and leaves not what It created, holy as Itself.

In this world you can become a spotless mirror in which the Holiness of your Creator shines forth from you to all around you. You can reflect the Realm of Heaven here. But to do so, no reflections of the images of idols may dim the mirror that would hold the Divine’s Reflection in it. Earth can reflect the Divine or the ego, Heaven or what is not Heaven. To reflect Heaven you need only leave the mirror of the world clean and clear of all the images of hidden darkness that you have drawn upon it. Of Itself the Divine will shine upon the clean and clear mirror. Only the clear Reflection of the Divine can be seen upon the world if this Reflection is to be seen at all. Reflections are seen in Light. In darkness they are obscure, and their meaning seems to be found only in shifting interpretations rather than in themselves.

The Reflection of the Divine needs no interpretation because It is perfectly clear. Just clean and clear the mirror and everyone will understand the Message that shines forth from what the mirror holds out for everyone to see. It is the Message that the Holy Spirit is holding to the cleaned mirror of the world that is in everyone. They recognize this Message because they have been taught their need for It, but they don’t know where to turn to find It. Let them, then, see It in you, and share It with you. If you realize, even for a single Instant, the Power of healing that the Reflection of the Divine shining in you can bring to all the world, you will not wait to make the mirror of your mind clean to receive the image of the Holiness that heals the world.

The image of Holiness that shines in your mind is not obscure and will not change. Its Meaning to those who behold It is not obscure, for everyone sees It as the same. All bring their different problems to Its healing Light, and all problems are met only with healing there. There is no contradiction in what Holiness calls forth. The Response of Holiness to any form of error is always the same. Its one Response is healing, without any regard for what is brought to It.

Those who have learned to offer only healing because of the Reflection of Holiness in them are ready at last for their Homecoming to Heaven. There, Holiness is not a reflection but the actual Condition of what was only reflected to them in this world. The Divine is no image, and Its Children, as Part of It, hold It in them in Truth. Being the Truth, they do not merely reflect the Truth.

When no perception stands between the Divine and Its Creation, or between Its Children and their own creations, the Knowledge of Creation must continue forever. The reflections that you accept into the mirror of your mind in time just bring Eternity nearer or delay It further. But Eternity Itself is beyond all time. Reach out of time and touch It, with the help of Its Reflection in you, and you will turn from time to Holiness as surely as the Reflection of Holiness calls everyone to lay all fear and guilt aside.

Reflect the Peace of Heaven here, and bring this world to Heaven. For the Reflection of Truth draws everyone to Truth. And as they enter into It, they leave all reflections behind. In Heaven, Reality is shared and not reflected. By sharing Its Reflection here, Its Truth becomes the only perception that the Children of the Divine accept. And thus, remembrance of Reality’s Creator dawns on them, and they can no longer be satisfied with anything but their own reality.