Preaching Astrology, Giving Light and Spreading Love
Day 14 Body Means || Priestess ACIM Lesson
Well I have been so incredibly ill the past two days,
I couldn’t even keep myself awake long enough to even conceive the potential of reading my lesson and doing my study. The pure sickness, purging and just weakness was humbling beyond belief. Diving in here for Day 14 of my 40 day commitment to studying a Course in Miracles. Today took me to Chapter 8 VIII “The Body as Means or End”.
The ego has a profound investment in sickness. If you are sick, how can you object to the ego’s firm belief that you are not invulnerable?
-A Course in Miracles
The body, then, is not the source of its own health. The body’s condition lies solely in your interpretation of its function.
-A Course in Miracles
The ego makes a fundamental confusion between means and end as it always does. Regarding the body as an end, the ego has no real use for it because it is not an end. You must have noticed an outstanding characteristic of every end that the ego has accepted as its own. When you have achieved it, it has not satisfied you. This is why the ego is forced to shift ceaselessly from one goal to another, so that you will continue to hope it can yet offer you something.
-A Course in Miracles
The ego as a judge gives anything but an impartial judgment. When the ego calls on a witness, it has already made the witness an ally.
-A Course in Miracles
A sick body does not make any sense. It could not make sense because sickness is not what the body is for. Sickness is meaningful only if the two basic premises on which the ego’s interpretation of the body rests are true; that the body is for attack, and that you are a body. Without these premises sickness is inconceivable.
-A Course in Miracles
Sickness is a way of demonstrating that you can be hurt. It is a witness to your frailty, your vulnerability, and your extreme need to depend on external guidance. The ego uses this as its best argument for your need for its guidance.
-A Course in Miracles
Sickness is merely another example of your insistence on asking guidance of a teacher who does not know the answer. The ego is incapable of knowing how you feel.
-A Course in Miracles
The Holy Spirit’s Voice is as loud as your willingness to listen. It cannot be louder without violating your freedom of choice, which the Holy Spirit seeks to restore, never to undermine.
-A Course in Miracles
The Holy Spirit teaches you to use your body only to reach your brothers, so He can teach His message through you. This will heal them and therefore heal you.
-A Course in Miracles
Everything used in accordance with its function as the Holy Spirit sees it cannot be sick. Everything used otherwise is.
-A Course in Miracles
Do not allow the body to be a mirror of a split mind. Do not let it be an image of your own perception of littleness. Do not let it reflect your decision to attack.
-A Course in Miracles
Health is seen as the natural state of everything when interpretation is left to the Holy Spirit, Who perceives no attack on anything.
-A Course in Miracles
Health is the result of relinquishing all attempts to use the body lovelessly.
-A Course in Miracles
Health is the beginning of the proper perspective on life under the guidance of the one Teacher Who knows what life is, being the Voice for Life Itself.
