The Name of God is my inheritance

You live by symbols. You have made up names for everything you see. Each one becomes a separate entity, identified by its own name. By this you carve it out of unity. By this you designate its special attributes, and set it off from other things by emphasizing space surrounding it. This space you lay between all things to which you give a different name; all happenings in terms of place and time; all bodies which are greeted by a name.

This space you see as setting off all things from one another is the means by which the world’s perception is achieved.  You see something where nothing is, and see as well nothing where there is unity; a space between all things, between all things and you. Thus do you think that you have given life in separation. By this split you think you are established as a unity which functions with an independent will.

The lesson for today describes beautifully the place in which you find yourself. You read these words and recognize immediately the truth of what they are telling you. Today’s lesson describes the human condition. You have never questioned how you name everything and give each thing a separate place in your mind. You believe this to be the natural use of your mind’s capacity. You separate friends from enemies, the familiar from the unfamiliar, the useful from the not useful and on and on. This is a very limited use of your mind and it has nothing to do with reality. Let’s turn it up a notch. Let’s look a little further.

There is a place in your mind where you know that you are not of this world. It is right there, if you only look. When you go inward you find this place and all the help you need. The Holy Spirit resides there and He sorts out the true from the false for you. All it takes is to ask for help. All it takes is to question your reality, as you see it, for just an instant. Use the lesson for today. It is here to help you.

Thus what you need are intervals each day in which the learning of the world becomes a transitory phase; a prison house from which you go into the sunlight and forget the darkness. Here you understand the Word, the Name which God has given you; the one Identity which all things share; the one acknowledgment of what is true. And then step back to darkness, not because you think it real, but only to proclaim its unreality in terms which still have meaning in the world that darkness rules.

Use all the little names and symbols which delineate the world of darkness. Yet accept them not as your reality. The Holy Spirit uses all of them, but He does not forget creation has one Name, one meaning, and a single Source which unifies all things within Itself. Use all the names the world bestows on them but for convenience, yet do not forget they share the Name of God along with you.

The beauty of this Course is that nothing is taken away from you. You will still use and recognize all the symbols, but you will know they have no meaning. That is where your freedom lies. The Name of God is your inheritance, and today you know this to be so.