Miracle Principle 42

January 28, 2021

Miracle Principle 42 Wholeness is the perceptual content of the miracle. It thus corrects, or atones for, the faulty perception of lack.

Remember in Miracle principle 41 Jesus told us that we must heal our perception of our idea that we are excluded from universal love; that we are outside of wholeness and therefore not holy. “You must work a miracle on behalf of yourself here before you can extend miracles as creative energies, which they are.” (T-1.41.3:2) In this principle it is our acceptance of our place within the wholeness of God’s creation that is the content of the miracle. This corrects our faulty perception of lack and it is from here that we offer that correction to others.

Now Jesus goes into detail about how the mechanics of projection can keep this from happening. It is the stimulus that generates our response and is the stimulus that determines what kind of response we have. When we use projection—a hurling of something we do not want and regard as dangerous and frightening to someone else—then we respond to that person accordingly. Miracles, on the other hand, extend what we want to keep—love, safety, and joy.

If we have worked a miracle for ourselves that corrects our own perception of lack then the stimulus is one of love. If we do not and we extend from the perception of our outsider status, then the stimulus generates behaviour in accord with our perception. Therefore, “As ye perceive (the stimulus), so will ye behave.” (2:9) We must discipline ourselves to ask what it is that we are responding to because of the intimate relationship between stimulus and behaviour.

To take this back to the Golden Rule—Do unto others as you would have them do unto you—we see how this comes into play when the stimulus is from the right level. When we perceive from the understanding that we are part of the whole of God’s creation this is the correct stimulus. Therefore, our behaviour is the correct response to the correct stimulus or the correct perception.

“The presence of level confusion always results in variable reality testing, and hence in variability in behavioural appropriateness.” (3:5)

When our reality is of physical, we behave accordingly and if our reality is of spirit we also behave accordingly. When we do not accept our spiritual identity it is a form of debasing our self-image. This will result in either “self contempt or projection onto others, and usually both.” (4:2) In order to work miracles that will correct the level confusion in others we need to have the right perception of our real identity. We need to recognize that we and our “neighbours are equal members of the same family.” (4:3) This is perceiving correctly and we will behave accordingly.

“The way to perceive for Golden Rule behaviour is to look out from the perception of your own holiness and perceive the holiness of others.” (4:4)

We must realize that our reality concept is to accept our deprivation and it may come out in inventive ways as in Helen’s “forgetting” names to protect others from her deprived wish to manipulate them. Instead we are told that this is a misinterpretation of a revelation that urged the changing of our minds from the need to offer hate and destruction when the lack of love really calls for love. “The emptiness engendered by fear should be replaced by love, because love and it’s absence are in the same dimension, and true correction cannot be undertaken except within a dimension.” (6:2)

Jesus reminds us that he has come to reinterpret the law because he is the authority on reality. We need to go to the real authority in order to receive the right stimulus. Jesus is the right authority. We witness to the authority we believe in and it is this witnessing that demonstrates our belief and also strengthens our belief. When we accept Jesus as the authority on reality, we will give miracles that express our abandonment of deprivation in favour of the abundance that belongs to us.

Reflection:

Spend some time thinking about the ways you may be rejecting Jesus as the authority on your reality. In situations where you find yourself responding in the same old way, ask yourself “What is this in response to? Am I responding to the true authority?

Suggested Practice:

Today I accept the true authority and determine to respond only to this.