Lessons 91-100

Failure to perceive light is to perceive darkness. The light is useless to you even though it is still there.
ACIM-W-91:2:5-7

Truth and Light

There is no darkness...just a belief in the absence of light. So if there is no darkness, all there is, is  light.  If we experience darkness it is because we are not seeing the light that is  always there. Our body's eyes can not see light, only the absence of it. We look out about us in darkness.

A miracle is the ability to see truth.  Truth can only be seen in light and with the vision of the True Self. This True Self is much deeper than the body and our identity of "little me". 

Our body/little me identification keeps us from seeing our True Self. It keeps us limited and stuck in darkness. Lesson 91 asks that we question who we are if we are not a body or the limitations a body offers us.  We state what we aren't but erroneously believe we are, and then affirm what we really are.  For example we may say, "I am not weak, but strong." This lesson teaches that all sense of weakness we experience is related to the belief that we are merely a body.  We will never see or experience miracles as long as continue to think we are body and therefore continually look about us in darkness.

Not a Body

In Lesson 92 we are asked to accept the fact that we are not a body...to see that a body's eyes cannot truly see nor can a body's brain think.   When we look out as body's and little I's we are weak and see only through darkness a world that is terrifying.  We in perceive  through these separate little forms a world worthy of condemnation and judgment...a world to fear.  We hate ourselves. There is no miracles in this body version of a dark world.

The Light of Strength Within

There is, however, a light of strength in us that doesn't flicker or go out. There is something much Greater and stronger within us that sees and thinks through us denying the body's limited version of sight and thought. It sees past appearances  to what is real. It will shows us the way if we put away our body's sight for IT.

Not What We Have Made

Our belief in ourselves as sinners not worthy of forgiveness are fixed in our minds and we spend our lives fruitlessly seeking salvation from this suffering the belief leaves us with.   We cannot see that we are not who we think we are.  True salvation comes when we accept: you are as God created you, not what you yourself have made.  That means that light and joy and peace abide in us. ( Lesson 93).  Knowing we are as God created us brings complete salvation and freedom from suffering. ( Lesson 94)

One Self

Lesson 95 encourages us  to take part in a committed practice of affirming and reflecting on this truth that I am one Self  for five minutes at the beginning of every waking hour. There will be times that we may forget to practice this and we are instructed to gently correct ourselves when we do.  It assures us that each time we do remember, someone hears the voice of hope, the stirring of truth within his mind, the gentle rustling of the wings of peace.

A lot of our inner conflict comes from experiences ourselves in duality.  We see ourselves as two...both good and evil, loving and hating, mind and body. But The self you made can never be your Self, nor can your Self be split in two. We too often mistakenly believe we are bodies and deny our spirit. Spirit makes use of mind as means to find Self expression.  And the mind which serves the spirit is at peace and filled with joy.  Its power comes from spirit, and it is fulfilling happily its function here.  Yet mind can also see itself divorced from spirit and perceive itself within a body it confuses with itself. 96:4:1-4 (Lesson 96)

Spirit Am I

This sums up Lesson 97 beautifully : Spirit am I, a holy Son of God, free of all limits, safe, and healed and whole, free to forgive, and free to save the world.

A Part In Salvation

The next lesson attempts to remove our guilt and therefore our fear by asking us to accept our part in God's plan for salvation. All we have to do is be willing to set aside our illusions and accept the truth. We allow God to do teh rest. (Lesson 98) 

What is this salvation that we accept being a part of? 

Salvation is simply forgiveness and forgiveness is simply an awareness that we and our brothers were/are not seeing clearly. We recognize that we have mistakenly willed something different than that which  God Wills for us.  This split in Will, however, cannot be so because we are a part of God.  God thinks and sees through us. Any thought that conflicts with the truth that we are already whole, complete peaceful and of Love is not of God.  We simply need to recognize the error of those thoughts, and correct them.  This is forgiveness. This is salvation. This is our only function here. (Lesson 99)

Joy is Our Function Here

In Lesson 100 we are assured that God's Will for us is perfect happiness. Sadness [or anything other than joy] is the sign that you would play another part, instead of what has been assigned to you by God. We must realize that joy is our function here. It is our joy that will help save the world.

All is well!


ACIM (2007) A Course in Miracles: Combine Volume. Workbook: Lessons 91-100. Foundations For Inner Peace.