Mastery
If you want mastery and I tell you the means to get it, and you don’t use the means, don’t let the ego tell you that the problem is you just don’t like the means. Don’t be fooled by that ego trick. The ego doesn’t care about the means. It’s just violently opposed to the ends. Under no circumstances does it want you to be a master. That would be its undoing. It uses your belief in preference to keep you a prisoner of your self.
It might tell you the Course is too difficult to understand, that it is boring or that there are more interesting ways. Anything to keep you searching outside yourself. The truth is...
* You will become a master. It is God’s will and yours.
* The only choice you have is how long it will take you.
* You can become a master by using any number of means because you have assigned to the means the purpose of supporting you in achieving mastery.
* Jesus offers you a shortcut. A means that is a precise structured learning plan to achieve mastery as quickly as possible.
* Mastery is the experience of being your Self, of oneness, of remembering Spirit. Also known as enlightenment, resurrection of the mind or salvation.
* This spiritual experience is ironically achieved through an intellectual process. It takes wise intellectual reasoned choices and concerted effort to bring about this experience. Mastering the Course and it’s concepts, true forgiveness work, true prayer and developing a relationship with the Holy Spirit are all essential.
* Mastery, enlightenment, resurrection of the mind or salvation (MERS) is waking up from the dream and recognizing the truth that has always been and will always be.
* When each seemingly separated mind has merged, when every mind that has dreamed thousands of lifetimes has reached this state of awakening from the dream, that is the Second Coming of Christ.
The Second Coming is the one event in time which time itself can not affect. For every one who ever came to die, or yet will come or who is present now, is equally released from what he made. In this equality is Christ restored as one Identity, in which the Sons of God acknowledge that they all are one. And God the Father smiles upon His Son, His one creation and His only joy. (W-449.9.4)
* Once you attain MERS you are actually outside the dream– which means you are actually outside of time and space. You are beyond the split mind in the Christ mind.
* When all minds are one, God takes the final step
This is God's Final Judgment: "You are still My holy Son, forever innocent, forever loving and forever loved, as limitless as your Creator, and completely changeless and forever pure. Therefore awaken and return to Me. I am your Father and you are My Son." (W-455.10.5)
This world is a classroom. It is either a classroom for mastery where adults learn of their identity in Christ, their oneness, sinlessness and awakening. Or it is a classroom where children learn to be special, separate and different, where they learn to play games of guilt, sin and death and how to reach an ever deeper sleep.
You decide on the purpose of the classroom. The purpose you assign to it will determine your experience of it and your results. You can be a happy peaceful learner of mastery or a panicked, terrified, powerless puppet of the ego learning the broken record dance of death. Your choice.