ACIM on Abundance, Fantasies, the Golden Rule and the "hell-fire" concept

I am determined to see. Recognizing the shared nature of my thoughts, I am determined to see. I would look upon the witnesses that show me the thinking of the world has been changed. I would behold the proof that what has been done through me has enabled love to replace fear, laughter to replace tears, and abundance to replace loss. I would look upon the real world, and let it teach me that my will and the Will of God are one. ACiM - Workbook Lesson 54

Ask with desire.

You need not be sure that you request the only thing you want. But when you have received, you will be sure you have the treasure you have always sought. What would you then exchange for it? What would induce you now to let it fade away from your ecstatic vision? For this sight proves that you have exchanged your blindness for the seeing eyes of Christ; your mind has come to lay aside denial, and accept the Thought of God as your inheritance.

Now is all doubting past, the journey's end made certain, and salvation given you. Now is Christ's power in your mind, to heal as you were healed. For now you are among the saviors of the world. Your destiny lies there and nowhere else. Would God consent to let His Son remain forever starved by his denial of the nourishment he needs to live? Abundance dwells in him, and deprivation cannot cut him off from God's sustaining Love and from his home. ACiM - Workbook Lesson 165

Forgiveness paints a picture of a world where suffering is over, loss becomes impossible and anger makes no sense. Attack is gone, and madness has an end. What suffering is now conceivable? What loss can be sustained? The world becomes a place of joy, abundance, charity and endless giving. It is now so like to Heaven that it quickly is transformed into the light that it reflects. And so the journey which the Son of God began has ended in the light from which he came.

Father, we would return our minds to You. We have betrayed

them, held them in a vise of bitterness, and frightened them

with thoughts of violence and death. Now would we rest

again in You, as You created us.
 ACiM - Workbook for Students - Lesson 249

This is a feast unlike indeed to those the dreaming of the world has shown. For here, the more that anyone receives, the more is left for all the rest to share. The Guests have brought unlimited supply with Them. And no one is deprived or can deprive. Here is a feast the Father lays before His Son, and shares it equally with him. And in Their sharing there can be no gap in which abundance falters and grows thin. Here can the lean years enter not, for time waits not upon this feast, which has no end. For love has set its table in the space that seemed to keep your Guests apart from you. ACiM - Text Chapter Twenty-eight - The Undoing of Fear - Section 3 - The Agreement to Join

Cause and effect are one, not separate. God wills you learn what always has been true: that He created you as part of Him, and this must still be true because ideas leave not their source. Such is creation's law; that each idea the mind conceives but adds to its abundance, never takes away. This is as true of what is idly wished as what is truly willed, because the mind can wish to be deceived, but cannot make it be what it is not. And to believe ideas can leave their source is to invite illusions to be true, without success. For never will success be possible in trying to deceive the Son of God. ACiMs - Text Chapter Twenty-six - The Transition - Section 7 - The Laws of Healing

Give, therefore, of your abundance, and teach your brothers theirs. Do not share their illusions of scarcity, or you will perceive yourself as lacking. ACiM Text - Chapter Seven - The Gifts of the Kingdom - The Totality of the Kingdom

You are the Will of God. Do not accept anything else as your will, or you are denying what you are. Deny this and you will attack, believing you have been attacked. But see the love of God in you, and you will see it everywhere because it is everywhere. See his abundance in everyone, and you will know that you are in him with them. They are part of you, as you are part of God. You are as lonely without understanding this as God himself is lonely when his sons do not know him. The peace of God is understanding this. There is only one way out of the world's thinking, just as there was only one way into it. Understand totally by understanding totality. ACiM Text - Chapter Seven - The Gifts of the Kingdom - The Totality of the Kingdom

We have said that without projection there can be no anger, but it is also true that without extension there can be no love. These reflect a fundamental law of the mind, and therefore one that always operates. It is the law by which you create and were created. It is the law that unifies the Kingdom, and keeps it in the Mind of God. To the ego, the law is perceived as a means of getting rid of something it does not want. To the Holy Spirit, it is the fundamental law of sharing, by which you give what you value in order to keep it in your mind. To the Holy Spirit it is the law of extension. To the ego it is the law of deprivation. It therefore produces abundance or scarcity, depending on how you choose to apply it. This choice is up to you, but it is not up to you to decide whether or not you will utilize the law. Every mind must project or extend, because that is how it lives, and every mind is life. ACiM Text - Chapter Seven - The Gifts of the Kingdom - The Unbelievable Belief

Only those who have a real and lasting sense of abundance can be truly charitable. This is obvious when you consider what is involved. ACiM Text - Chapter Four - The Illusions of the Ego - The Ego and False Autonomy

The emptiness engendered by fear must be replaced by forgiveness. That is what the Bible means by "There is no death," and why I could demonstrate that death does not exist. I came to fulfill the law by reinterpreting it. The law itself, if properly understood, offers only protection. It is those who have not yet changed their minds who brought the "hell-fire" concept into it. I assure you that I will witness for anyone who lets me, and to whatever extent he permits it. Your witnessing demonstrates your belief, and thus strengthens it. Those who witness for me are expressing, through their miracles, that they have abandoned the belief in deprivation in favor of the abundance they have learned belongs to them. ACiM - Text Chapter One - The Meaning of Miracles - Section 4 The Escape from Darkness

Ultimately, every member of the family of God must return. The miracle calls him to return because it blesses and honors him, even though he may be absent in spirit. "God is not mocked" is not a warning but a reassurance. God would be mocked if any of his creations lacked holiness. The creation is whole, and the mark of wholeness is holiness. Miracles are affirmations of Sonship, which is a state of completion and abundance. ACiM - Text Chapter One - The Meaning of Miracles - Section 5 Wholeness and Spirit

The miracle is a sign that the mind has chosen to be led by me in Christ's service. The abundance of Christ is the natural result of choosing to follow him. ACiM - Text Chapter One - The Meaning of Miracles - Section 5 Wholeness and Spirit

fantasies

Do not forget that your will has power over all fantasies and dreams. Trust it to see you through, and carry you beyond them all. ACiM - Workbook - Introduction to Second Review

Fantasies change reality. That is their purpose. They cannot do so in reality, but they can do so in the mind that would have reality be different. ACiM - Text Chapter Seventeen - Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship - Section 1 - Bringing Fantasy to Truth

You cannot be faithful to two masters who ask conflicting things of you. What you use in fantasy you deny to truth. Yet what you give to truth to use for you is safe from fantasy. ACiMs - Text Chapter Seventeen - Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship - Section 1 - Bringing Fantasy to Truth

Mind cannot attack, but it can make fantasies and direct the body to act them out. Yet it is never what the body does that seems to satisfy. Unless the mind believes the body is actually acting out its fantasies, it will attack the body by increasing the projection of its guilt upon it. ACiM - Text Chapter Eighteen - The Passing of the Dream - Section 6 - Beyond the Body

Miracles are natural. When they do not occur something has gone wrong.

I am the only one who can perform miracles indiscriminately, because I am the Atonement. You have a role in the Atonement which I will dictate to you. Ask me which miracles you should perform. This spares you needless effort, because you will be acting under direct communication. The impersonal nature of the miracle is an essential ingredient, because it enables me to direct its application, and under my guidance miracles lead to the highly personal experience of revelation. A guide does not control but he does direct, leaving it up to you to follow. "Lead us not into temptation" means "Recognize your errors and choose to abandon them by following my guidance. " ACiM - Text Chapter One - The Meaning of Miracles - Section 3 Atonement and Miracles

The Golden Rule is the rule for appropriate behavior. ACiM - Text Chapter One - The Meaning of Miracles - Section 3 Atonement and Miracles

The miracle is a sign that the mind has chosen to be led by me in Christ's service. The abundance of Christ is the natural result of choosing to follow him. ACiM - Text Chapter One - The Meaning of Miracles - Section 5 Wholeness and Spirit

A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need correct. ACiM - Text Chapter One - The Meaning of Miracles - Section 6 The Illusion of Needs

The idea of orders of need, which follows from the original error that one can be separated from God, requires correction at its own level before the error of perceiving levels at all can be corrected. You cannot behave effectively while you function on different levels. However, while you do, correction must be introduced vertically from the bottom up. This is because you think you live in space, where concepts such as "up" and "down" are meaningful. Ultimately, space is as meaningless as time. Both are merely beliefs.

The real purpose of this world is to use it to correct your unbelief. ACiM - Text Chapter One - The Meaning of Miracles - Section 6 The Illusion of Needs