Helper of the world - ACIM Special Message
Dec. 31, 1975.
It is done. This year will be different. Hell has gone by. I did not fail. I brought you all unto your Father, out of hell forever.
You will realize this gradually, for you could not bear to hear all that this means now. This year it will gradually unfold, and by the time the year has ended you will wonder why you ever doubted.
I cannot tell you more than you could hear without fright, and if you knew all that has been prepared for you, you would indeed be frightened. Now I tell you only this, for this you can believe:
This year you will set up a place which will be the home of the course; a place where it will grow from infancy into a helper of the world. It will grow slowly, because nothing can be permitted to go wrong. It must develop without error, and with nothing to mar its perfect purity. It is the Word of God, to be kept holy forever.
This time there will be no failure, no loss of truth, no misunderstanding and no misinterpretation. I will direct its growth as it reaches from the paper on which it was written into the hearts for which it was intended.
Be comforted by this: It will be impossible to make any mistakes in its connection which will endure. I am watching over it with all the care I have for all my brothers in salvation. I understand what it can do for them, and I will make sure that it does it, and does it perfectly.
Do not be concerned about starting. You have started. Do not be concerned about growing. You have grown and will yet grow more. And above all, do not be concerned about my love for you. There will not be one of you who will not be sure this year that I am with you, was with you when you came, and will never leave you.
What more would you have? I will tell you everything you need know, whenever you need to know it. My promises are sure because they are of God.
As you are and I am, Amen.
Was There a Physical Resurrection?
My body disappeared because I had no illusion about it. The last one had gone. It was laid in the tomb, but there was nothing left to bury. It did not disintegrate because the unreal cannot die. It merely became what it always was. And that is what “rolling the stone away” means. The body disappears, and no longer hides what lies beyond. It merely ceases to interfere with vision. To roll the stone away is to see beyond the tomb, beyond death, and to understand the body’s nothingness. What is understood as nothing must disappear. I did assume a human form with human attributes afterwards, to speak to those who were to prove the body’s worthlessness to the world. This has been much misunderstood. I came to tell them that death is illusion, and the mind that made the body can make another since form itself is an illusion. They did not understand. But now I talk to you and give you the same message. The death of an illusion means nothing. It disappears when you awaken and decide to dream no more. And you still do have the power to make this decision as I did. God holds out His hand to His Son to help him rise and return to Him. I can help because the world is illusion, and I have overcome the world. Look past the tomb, the body, the illusion. Have faith in nothing but the spirit and the guidance God gives you. He could not have created the body because it is a limit. He must have created the spirit because it is immortal. Can those who are created like Him be limited? The body is the symbol of the world. Leave it behind. It cannot enter Heaven. But I can take you there any time that you choose. Together we can watch the world disappear and its symbol vanish as it does so. And then, and then — I cannot speak of that. A body can not stay without illusion and the last one to be overcome is death. This is the message of the crucifixion; There is no order of difficulties in miracles. This is the message of the resurrection: Illusions are illusions. Truth is true. Illusions vanish. Only truth remains. These lessons needed to be taught but once, for when the stone of death is rolled away, what can be seen but an empty tomb? And that is what you see who follow me into the sunlight and away from death, past all illusions, on to Heaven’s gate, where God will come Himself to take you home. - From ACIM special messages [CE Cameo-33.4-5]