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   "Can you imagine how beautiful those you forgive will look to you?  In no   
   fantasy   
   have you ever seen anything so lovely.  Nothing you see here, sleeping or   
   waking,   
   comes near to such loveliness.  And nothing will you value like unto this, nor   
   hold so dear.  Nothing that you remember that made your heart sing with joy has   
   ever brought you even a little part of the happiness this sight will bring you.   
   For you will see the Son of God.  You will behold the beauty the Holy Spirit   
   loves   
   to look upon, and which he thanks the Father for.  He was created to see this   
   for   
   you, until you learned to see it for yourself.  And all his teaching leads to   
   seeing it and giving thanks with him.   
      
   This loveliness is not a fantasy.  It is the real world, bright and clean and   
   new,   
   with everything sparkling under the open sun.  Nothing is hidden here, for   
   everything has been forgiven and there are no fantasies to hide the truth.  The   
   bridge between that world and this is so little and so easy to cross, that you   
   could not believe it is the meeting place of worlds so different.  Yet this   
   little   
   bridge is the strongest thing that touches on this world at all.  This little   
   step, so small it has escaped your notice, is a stride through time into   
   eternity,   
   beyond all ugliness into beauty that will enchant you, and will never cease to   
   cause you wonderment at its perfection.   
      
   This step, the smallest ever taken, is still the greatest accomplishment of   
   all in   
   God's plan of Atonement.  All else is learned, but this is given, complete and   
   wholly perfect.  No one but him who planned salvation could complete it thus.    
   The   
   real world, in its loveliness, you learn to reach.  Fantasies are all undone,   
   and   
   no one and nothing remain still bound by them, and by your own forgiveness you   
   are   
   free to see.  Yet what you see is only what you made, with the blessing of your   
   forgiveness on it.  And with this final blessing of God's Son upon himself, the   
   real perception, born of the new perspective he has learned, has served its   
   purpose.   
      
   The stars will disappear in light, and the sun that opened up the world to   
   beauty   
   will vanish.  Perception will be meaningless when it has been perfected, for   
   everything that has been used for learning will have no function.  Nothing will   
   ever change; no shifts nor shadings, no differences, no variations that made   
   perception possible will still occur.  The perception of the real world will   
   be so   
   short that you will barely have time to thank God for it.  For God will take   
   the   
   last step swiftly, when you have reached the real world and have been made   
   ready   
   for him.   
      
   The real world is attained simply by the complete forgiveness of the old, the   
   world you see without forgiveness.  The great Transformer of perception will   
   undertake with you the careful searching of the mind that made this world, and   
   uncover to you the seeming reasons for your making it.  In the light of the   
   real   
   reason that he brings, as you follow him, he will show you that there is no   
   reason   
   here at all.  Each spot his reason touches grows alive with beauty, and what   
   seemed ugly in the darkness of your lack of reason is suddenly released to   
   loveliness.  Not even what the Son of God made in insanity could be without a   
   hidden spark of beauty that gentleness could release.   
      
   All this beauty will rise to bless your sight as you look upon the world with   
   forgiving eyes.  For forgiveness literally transforms vision, and lets you see   
   the   
   real world reaching quietly and gently across chaos, removing all illusions   
   that   
   had twisted your perception and fixed it on the past.  The smallest leaf   
   becomes a   
   thing of wonder, and a blade of grass a sign of God's perfection.   
      
    From the forgiven world the Son of God is lifted easily into his home.  And   
   there   
   he knows that he has always rested there in peace.  Even salvation will become   
   a   
   dream, and vanish from his mind.  For salvation is the end of dreams, and with   
   the   
   closing of the dream will have no meaning.  Who, awake in Heaven, could dream   
   that   
   there could ever be need of salvation?  How much do you want salvation?  It   
   will   
   give you the real world, trembling with readiness to be given you.  The   
   eagerness   
   of the Holy Spirit to give you this is so intense he would not wait, although   
   he   
   waits in patience.  Meet his patience with your impatience at delay in meeting   
   him.  Go out in gladness to meet with your Redeemer, and walk with him in trust   
   out of this world, and into the real world of beauty and forgiveness."   
      
   Jesus Christ   
   A Course in Miracles   
   Chapter 17, Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship;   
   Section 2, "The Forgiven World"   
   https://tinyurl.com/A-Course-In-Miracles-pdf   
      
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