THE GIFTS OF GOD — Sondra Ray and Markus Ray on A Course in Miracles

Markus Ray discusses the coming of the Guest. Who but the Christ could bestow on us the Gifts of God? Can we make the space to receive them? This is our challenge and our great benefit, to be host to the Guest of our True Self.

There is a "gap" the ego loves to maintain between ourselves and our brother. This is the ultimate way we maintain our separation from God. We cannot claim we want God's Love without ending this "gap of separation." God's Love is WHOLE. It does not cast out the evil doers. Because in this dimension of Spirit beyond the body and all its "demonstrations," there is no "gap" between us and our brothers. We are joined in this Dimension of Divine Reality. And therefore we end the separation we imagined between ourselves and God, since our "brother" is God.

The real Ark of Safety is our Holy Relationship. This transcends the body. It ends the sense of separation. There is a Wholeness that is our Reality. There is no separation. Our true Will is one with our Creator's Will. There is no Will but God's. We do not exist apart from this Will, therefore God's Will is our Will. It is one of Absolute, Unconditional Love.

We make secret vows with our body to be "sick." We assign that role to the body which it does not even have. It is not the body who is "sick," it is our mind of the ego's thought system that attacks the body, and our brother, to enact a vengeance upon itself. But the real Self as God created cannot be affected by this insanity. And...the body is neutral. It will only do what it is directed to do. Who directs it? The "ego" or our True Self of Love?

God is the alternative to fear. We either use the thought system of the Ego (Fear), or the Thought System of God (Love). We cannot use both. The alternative to Fear is Love. This is the only real decision we will ever make in life. Which will we choose? We are not seeing and hearing clearly, beyond all "sickness," until we choose for Love.

The Greater Joining is with our Creator and with our True Self. This is the Self we share with all of our Brothers and Sisters. There are no separate "bodies" and "personalities" in this Joining. It's a Lofty Action. Can we take it?

When we agree to JOIN with our Creator and our Brothers and Sisters, the "cause" of sickness is ended. Separation is ended, which was never really there. The imagined "gap" is bridged at the "speed of light" by the Holy Spirit, and our JOY is restored, as it was always there is in Reality.

In this Video MARKUS RAY discusses our Agreement to Join and end the separation that maintains sickness.

In this Section the speaker continues in Chapter 28 that deals with the undoing of fear. REVERSING EFFECT AND CAUSE is the subject of this talk. Cause must have an effect; an effect establishes a cause. We are the Effect (Self of God's Son) of our Cause (God our Creator).

The Father is the Cause and the Son is His Effect. These all share in Love, Purity, Innocence, Boundlessness, Freedom. True Cause and Effect is Unlimited.

Healing is seeing the the Effect does not make the Cause. The ego has reversed them. Healing is to reverse this confusion and allow ourselves to be the Effects of Love, of God, of our Creator, as a MIND in the MIND of LOVE. We are not separated from this One Mind. Separation is the only condition we need to heal--and this is accomplished by seeing our True Mind is always part of the Cause, the MIND of GOD.

We are asked to reverse our notions of dreaming the result in sickness and death.