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<center>'''Only salvation can be said to cure.'''</center>
Only [[salvation]] can be said to [[cure]].
"Cure" is a word that cannot be applied to any remedy the world [[accepts]] as
beneficial. What the world [[perceives]] as therapeutic is but what will make
the [[body]] "better." When it tries to heal the [[mind]], it sees no [[separation]] from
the body, where it thinks the mind exists. Its forms of healing thus must
[[substitute]] [[illusion]] for illusion. One belief in sickness takes another form,
and so the patient now perceives himself as well.
He is not healed. He merely had a dream that he was sick, and in the dream
he found a [[magic]] [[formula]] to make him well. Yet he has not [[awakened]] from
the dream, and so his mind remains exactly as it was before. He has not
seen the [[light]] that would awaken him and end the dream. What [[difference]]
does the content of a dream make in [[reality]]? One either [[sleeps]] or [[wakens]].
There is nothing in between.
The [[happy]] [[dreams]] the [[Holy Spirit]] brings are different from the dreaming of
the world, where one can merely dream he is awake. The dreams
[[forgiveness]] lets the mind [[perceive]] do not induce another form of sleep, so
that the dreamer dreams another dream. His happy dreams are [[heralds]] of the
dawn of truth upon [[the mind]]. They lead from sleep to [[gentle]] waking, so that
dreams are gone. And thus they cure for all [[eternity]].
[[Atonement]] heals with [[certainty]], and cures all sickness. For the mind which
[[understands]] that sickness can be nothing but a dream is not [[deceived]] by
[[forms]] the dream may take. Sickness where guilt is [[absent]] cannot come, for
it is but another form of guilt. Atonement does not heal the sick, for that is
not a cure. It takes away the guilt that makes the sickness possible. And that
is cure indeed. For sickness now is gone, with nothing left to which it can
return.
Peace be to you who have been cured in [[God]], and not in idle [[dreams]]. For
cure must come from [[holiness]], and holiness can not be found where sin is
cherished. God abides in holy [[temples]]. He is barred where [[sin]] has entered.
Yet there is no place where He is not. And therefore sin can have no [[home]]
in which to hide from His beneficence. There is no place where holiness is
not, and nowhere sin and sickness can abide.
This is the [[thought]] that cures. It does not make distinctions among
unrealities. Nor does it seek to heal what is not sick, unmindful where the
need for [[healing]] is. This is no [[magic]]. It is merely an [[appeal]] to [[truth]], which
cannot fail to heal and heal forever. It is not a thought that judges an [[illusion]]
by its size, its seeming [[gravity]], or anything that is related to the form it
takes. It merely [[focuses]] on what it is, and knows that no illusion can be real.
Let us not try today to seek to cure what cannot suffer [[sickness]]. [[Healing]]
must be sought but where it is, and then applied to what is sick, so that it
can be cured. There is no remedy the world provides that can effect a
[[change]] in anything. [[The mind]] that brings illusions to the truth is really
changed. There is no change but this. For how can one illusion differ from
another but in [[attributes]] that have no substance, no [[reality]], no core, and
nothing that is truly different?
Today we seek to change our minds about the [[source]] of [[sickness]], for we
seek a cure for all [[illusions]], not another shift among them. We will try today
to find the source of healing, which is in our minds because [[our Father]]
placed it there for us. It is not farther from us than ourselves. It is as near to
us as our own [[thoughts]]; so close it is impossible to lose. We need but seek it
and it must be found.
We will not be misled today by what appears to us as sick. We go beyond
[[appearances]] today and reach the [[source]] of [[healing]], from which nothing is
exempt. We will succeed to the extent to which we [[realize]] that there can
never be a meaningful distinction made between what is untrue and equally
untrue. Here there are no [[degrees]], and no [[beliefs]] that what does not exist is
truer in some forms than others. All of them are [[false]], and can be cured
because they are not true.
So do we lay aside our [[amulets]], our [[charms]] and [[medicines]], our [[chants]] and
bits of [[magic]] in whatever form they take. We will be still and [[listen]] for the
[[Voice]] of healing, which will cure all ills as one, restoring saneness to the
Son of God. No voice but this can cure. Today we hear a single Voice
which speaks to us of [[truth]], where all [[illusions]] end, and peace returns to the
[[eternal]], quiet [[home]] of God.
We [[waken]] hearing Him, and let Him speak to us five minutes as the day
begins, and end the day by [[listening]] again five minutes more before we go
to [[sleep]]. Our only [[preparation]] is to let our interfering thoughts be laid aside,
not separately, but all of them as one. They are the same. We have no need
to make them [[different]], and thus [[delay]] the time when we can hear [[our
Father]] speak to us. We hear Him now. We come to Him today.
With nothing in our hands to which we cling, with lifted [[hearts]] and listening
minds we [[pray]]:
<center>''Only salvation can be said to cure.''</center>
<center>''Speak to us, Father, that we may be healed.''</center>
And we will feel [[salvation]] cover us with soft [[protection]], and with peace so
deep that no [[illusion]] can disturb our [[minds]], nor offer [[proof]] to us that it is
real. This will we learn today. And we will say our prayer for [[healing]]
hourly, and take a minute as the hour strikes, to hear the answer to our
prayer be given us as we attend in [[silence]] and in [[joy]]. This is the day when
healing comes to us. This is the day when separation ends, and we
remember Who we really are.
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