Lesson 150. My mind holds only what I think with God.
(139) I will accept Atonement for myself
(140) Only salvation can be said to cure
Years ago, the way we spoke or thought about religion and its basic principals was there were two alternatives only. While the two alternatives were the opposite of each other in every way, they had one thing in common, and that was their duration. Both were to last for an eternity. The alternatives were salvation and damnation.
Salvation meant you were seeking God while alive in this lifetime and therefore God bestowed eternal existence to you because of your attempts at goodness.
Damnation, the other and opposite alternative,was your just desserts imposed upon you by God because you pursued a physical life of Riley. Therefore after your current physical and pleasurable lifetime, you could only expect the torments of hell for an eternity.
We made God the heavy and the churches promoted these concepts to control the masses. Now we realize that it is the mind that imposes the idea of punishment and limited rewards. Now we have come to understand that salvation simply means you are free in your mind. You don’t buy into salvation’s alternative, damnation, because you aren’t listening to the counsel of the chattering mind threathening you every step of the way.
Instead you have become clear that, as the empty shell, you are open to intuitive inner wisdom that flows through you and directs you. The chatter of the punitive alternative is released immediately if it even comes up because it is no longer considered believable. This is the Correction that I have accepted. Salvation is only what my mind holds with God and that is why it can be said to cure.
