[acimlessons_list] Review VI, Lesson 205 - July 24

[Susan Carrier]

Review VI, Lesson 205 - July 24

"I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me."

"I want the peace of God."

"I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me."

PRACTICE SUMMARY

REVIEW VI

PURPOSE: To carefully review the last 20 lessons, each of which contains the
whole curriculum and is therefore sufficient for salvation, if understood,
practiced, accepted and applied without exception.

MORNING/EVENING QUIET TIME: 15 minutes--at least

* Repeat: "I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me."

* Close eyes and relinquish all that clutters the mind; forget all you
thought you knew. Give the time to the Holy Spirit, your Teacher. If you
notice an idle thought, immediately deny its hold, assuring your mind that
you do not want it. Then let it be given up and replaced with today's idea.
Say: "This thought I do not want. I choose instead (today's idea)."

REMARKS: We are attempting to go beyond special forms of practice because we
are attempting a quicker pace and shorter path to our goal.

HOURLY REMEMBRANCE: Repeat: "I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as
God created me."

FREQUENT REMINDER: as often as possible, as often as you can. Repeat: "I am
not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me."

RESPONSE TO TEMPTATION: permit no idle thought to go unchallenged.

If you are tempted by an idle thought, immediately deny its hold, assuring
your mind that you do not want it. Then let it be given up and replaced with
today's idea. Say: "This thought I do not want. I choose instead (today's
idea)."

COMMENTARY

Review VI says that, "Each of these ideas alone would be sufficient for
salvation, if it were learned truly" (W-rVI.Int.1:3). It adds, "Each
contains the whole curriculum if understood, practiced, accepted, and
applied to all the seeming happenings throughout the day" (W-rVI.Int.2:2).
Today's lesson is an idea of which I find that easy to believe. If you are
into memorization (as I am), this lesson is an excellent one to add to your
repertoire.

It's worth noticing the list of four verb forms that are identified as
making any of these ideas into "the whole curriculum."

UNDERSTOOD: No matter how strongly the Course advocates experience, and
points out that a universal theology is impossible (C-Int.2:5), you cannot
get around the fact that it makes understanding very important. How can we
enter into the experience of an idea if we do not understand it?
Understanding is here presented as the fundamental step. Before we can
really utilize the idea, "I want the peace of God," we have to understand
it. Implied in the idea (and clearly presented in the full lesson, #185) is
the fact that there is a very strong thought in my mind, perhaps
unacknowledged, that I do not want the peace of God, and this is
demonstrated by the fact that I do not experience it. That contrary thought,
however, is a mistaken one, to be dismissed whenever we become aware of it,
and replaced with the truth: I <do> want the peace of God.

PRACTICED: That is what we are doing in these Workbook lessons. Practicing.
Repeating frequently. Spending some extended time allowing the thought to
soak in and penetrate the recesses of our minds.

ACCEPTED: Notice that acceptance comes after practice. Our minds do not
accept the idea at the start, even after we understand the idea. When we
begin to practice, we do not truly accept that we want the peace of God. We
think we want something else, something more, something besides peace. It
takes a good deal of practice to retrain our minds, until we begin to
realize that "the peace of God is everything I want."

APPLIED: Having accepted the idea, we can now begin to apply it to each
different "seeming happening" during the day. When the car cuts us off in
traffic: "I want the peace of God." When we find ourselves wistfully longing
for a more fulfilling relationship, "The peace of God is everything I want."
When we begin to feel driven to obtain some earthly goal at any cost, "The
peace of God is my one goal." When we start to think we don't know what to
do or where to go, "The peace of God is the aim of all my living here." And
when we start to feel impelled to fulfill some need of our bodies, "I am not
a body. The peace of God is everything I want. I am free."

Thank You, Father, for today's reminder of Your peace. There is nothing else
I need, and nothing else I want. O, may today's lesson become the keynote of
my life, so that I can say and truly mean, "The peace of God is my one
goal."

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