The practical application of the Holy Spirit's purpose is
extremely simple, but it IS unequivocal. In fact, in ORDER to be simple, it
MUST be unequivocal. The simple is merely what is EASILY UNDERSTOOD, and for
this, it is apparent that IT MUST BE CLEAR. The setting of the Holy Spirit's
goal is GENERAL. Now He will work WITH you, TO MAKE IT SPECIFIC, for
application IS specific. There are certain VERY specific guidelines He provides
for ANY situation, but remember that you do not yet realize their universal
application. Therefore, it is essential, at this point, to use them in each
situation separately, until you can more safely look BEYOND each situation, in
an understanding far broader than you now possess.
In any situation in which YOU are uncertain, the FIRST
thing to consider, very simply, is, "What do I want to come of this? What
is it FOR?" The clarification of the goal belongs at the BEGINNING, for it
is this that will DETERMINE the outcome. In the ego's procedure, this is
reversed. The SITUATION becomes the determiner of the outcome, WHICH CAN BE
ANYTHING. The reason for this disorganized approach is evident. The ego does
not know what it WANTS to come of it. It IS aware of what it does NOT want, but
only that. It has no POSITIVE goal at all.
Without a clear-cut, positive goal, set at the outset,
the situation just seems to happen, and makes no sense until it has ALREADY
HAPPENED. Then you look BACK at it, and try to piece together what it MUST have
meant. AND YOU WILL BE WRONG. Not only is your judgment IN THE PAST, but you
have no idea what SHOULD have happened. No goal was set, with which to bring
the means IN LINE. And now, the only judgment LEFT to make is whether or not
the ego LIKES it; is it acceptable, or does it call for vengeance? The absence
of a criterion for outcome, SET IN ADVANCE, makes understanding doubtful, and
evaluation impossible.
The value of deciding, in advance, what you WANT to
happen, is simply that you will perceive the situation as a means to MAKE it
happen. You will therefore make every effort to OVERLOOK what interferes with
the accomplishment of your objective, and concentrate on everything that helps
you meet it. It is quite noticeable that THIS approach has brought you closer
to the Holy Spirit's SORTING OUT of truth and falsity. The "true"
becomes what can be used to MEET the goal. The "false" becomes the
useless FROM THIS POINT OF VIEW. The situation now HAS meaning, but only
because the goal has MADE it meaningful.
The goal of truth has further practical advantages. If
the situation is used for truth and sanity, its outcome MUST be peace. And this
is quite APART from what the outcome IS. For, if peace is the CONDITION of
truth and sanity, and CANNOT be WITHOUT them, where peace is, they MUST be.
Truth comes of itself. If you experience PEACE, it is because the truth HAS
come to you. And you WILL see the outcome truly, for deception cannot prevail
against you. And you will RECOGNIZE the outcome, BECAUSE you are at peace. . .
. The Holy Spirit knows the situation IS as the goal determines it, and is
experienced ACCORDING to the goal.
The goal of truth REQUIRES FAITH. Faith is implicit in
the acceptance of the Holy Spirit's purpose. AND THIS FAITH IS ALL-INCLUSIVE.
Where the goal of truth is set, there faith MUST be. The Holy Spirit sees the
situation AS A WHOLE. The goal establishes the fact that EVERYONE involved in
it WILL play his part in its accomplishment. THIS IS INEVITABLE. No-one will
fail in anything. This SEEMS to ask for faith BEYOND you, and beyond what you
can GIVE. But this is so ONLY from the viewpoint of the ego, for the ego
believes in "solving" conflicts through FRAGMENTATION, and does NOT
perceive the situation as a whole. Therefore, it seeks to split off SEGMENTS of
the situation, and deal with them SEPARATELY. For it has faith in separation,
NOT in wholeness.
Confronted with any ASPECT of the situation which SEEMS
to be difficult, the ego will attempt to TAKE THIS ASPECT ELSEWHERE, and
resolve it there. And it will SEEM to be successful. Except that this attempt
CONFLICTS WITH UNITY, and MUST obscure the goal of truth. And peace will not be
experienced, EXCEPT in fantasy. Truth has NOT come, because faith has been
DENIED, being WITHHELD from where it rightfully belonged. Thus do you LOSE the
understanding of the situation the goal of truth would bring. For fantasy
solutions bring but the ILLUSION of experience, and the illusion of peace is
NOT the condition in which the truth can enter.
The substitutes for ASPECTS of the situation are the
witnesses to your LACK of faith. They demonstrate that you did NOT believe that
the situation AND THE PROBLEM were in the same place. The problem WAS this lack
of faith. And it is THIS you demonstrate, when you REMOVE it from its source,
and place it elsewhere. As a result, YOU DO NOT SEE THE PROBLEM. Had you not
lacked the faith it COULD be solved, the PROBLEM would be gone. And the
situation would have been MEANINGFUL to you, because the INTERFERENCE in the
way of understanding, would have been removed. To remove the problem ELSEWHERE,
is to KEEP it. For you remove yourself FROM it, and MAKE it unsolvable.
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