Yet this world is ONLYin the mind of its maker, along with his
REALsalvation. Do not believe it is outside of yourself, for only by
recognizing WHEREit is will you gain control over it. For you DO
have control over your mind, since the mind is the mechanism of
decision. If you will recognize that ALLattack 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 same place also
lies salvation.The altar of God where Christ abideth is there.
You have defiled the altar but NOTthe world. Yet Christ has
placed the Atonement on the altar FORyou. Bring your perceptions
of the world to this 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 in peace and behold the world truly.Yet
to find the place, you must relinquish your investment in the world as
YOUhave projected it, allowing the Holy Spirit to project the real
world to you from the altar of God.
SEEKING AND FINDING
The ego is certain that love is dangerous, and this is always its central
teaching. It never PUTSit this way; on the contrary, everyone who
believes that the ego is salvation is intensely engaged in the search for
love.Yet the ego, though encouraging the search very actively, makes
one proviso; do not FINDit. Its dictates, then, can be summed up
simply as: “Seek and do NOTfind.”This is the one promise the ego
holds out to you, and the one promise it will KEEP.For the ego
pursues its goal with fanatic insistence, and its reality testing, though
severely impaired, is completely consistent.
The search which the ego undertakes is therefore bound to be
defeated. And since it also teaches that it is YOURidentification, its
guidance leads you to a journey which must end in perceived SELF-
defeat. For the ego CANNOTlove, and in its frantic search for love,
it is seeking what it is AFRAIDto find. The search is inevitable
because the ego is part of your mind, and because of its source, the
ego is not wholly split off, or it could not be believed at all. For it is
YOURmind that believes in it, and gives existence to it.Yet it is also
your mind that has the power to DENYthe ego’s existence, and you
SEEKING AND FINDING