“God always existed. But you separated yourself from direct awareness of your relationship with unity, with oneness with God, just as you separated yourself from relationship with the wholeness of the pattern of creation. (The Treatises of A Course of Love: A Treatise on the New, 2.22)”
1 – Unity and Relationship
Here again is a further explanation of unity and relationship. Our unity is not, as we may have suspected, just with our brothers and sisters, but with God Himself. God is the All, and we would do well to remember this. He is deep within us, as well as present in the outside as we perceive it. He is everywhere, but still in the unity that makes Him One, not in pantheism.
2 – Direct Awareness?
We now need to reaffirm this direct awareness that we have lost. This direct awareness can be viewed as another way of describing Christ-consciousness. In A Course in Miracles, Jesus says that there is a way for us to be brought under his direct guidance, but that this usually entails a step that we are not yet ready to accept. Perhaps, by the time we have studied both ACIM and ACOL (and ascended to the mountain top with Jesus in the Forty Days and Forty Nights), we will be ready for this direct awareness again. May this be so. Such a joy we would know in all of our days, even the times that seem, on the surface, to be hard.
3 – Combat?
We have lived in combat with not only our brothers and sisters, but with our environment. Thankfully, as a worldwide society, we are coming to know better. The “wholeness of the pattern of creation” does include, to my way of thinking, not only our brothers and sisters, but also our environmental surroundings. We are a part of creation, and though we look upon ourselves as the crowning part of creation, it behooves us to consider other forms of life as well, along with the natural world.
4 – Oneness
“You have believed in God and perhaps in some concept of unity or oneness, but you have also denied even the possibility of experiencing your own direct relationship with God, or the possibility that your life is a direct experience of the pattern of unity or oneness that is creation. (The Treatises of A Course of Love: A Treatise on the New, 2:22)”
We can experience a direct relationship with God, though A Course in Miracles and A Course of Love are ambivalent about whether or not this relationship can be outside of Awakening or Christ-consciousness. Much is said in A Course in Miracles about listening to the Holy Spirit, Who is our Guide, and Who is Universal Inspiration. And much is said in A Course of Love about listening to the Christ Self, found within the mind, and exemplified in a combination of mind and heart that embodies wholeheartedness.
5 – Illusions
It is possible that the illusion in which we exist prior to Awakening is not entered into by God, and thus we need a mediator. I don’t personally believe this, but many sincere students/teachers of A Course in Miracles do so believe.
6 – Direct Communion
Certainly, after Christ-consciousness, we commune directly with God. This much is made clear by this quotation. And we understand, once again, the unity of all creation. We are in a fortunate period indeed when we welcome Christ-consciousness into our lives. God makes the decision of when, but we can do much to be ready. Actually it is the Holy Spirit Who does the “much,” because it is said in ACIM that we have to do little, just show a “little willingness.”
7 – God
Whatever the truth of our relationship to God, certainly He has not left us bereft. He is with us in spirit or in actuality.
8 – Rest Easy
And with this assurance, we can rest easy.
Prayer:
Dear Father/Mother,
Please help me to rejoin You, my brothers and sisters, and to adopt a friendly relationships with my environment in this world. I would not have separation anymore. You can effect this change in me. I ask for it now.
Thank you for your support, emotionally and in other ways, as I have sought to walk alone in this world. I would leave that way of being behind today, as I walk with You every step of the way.
Amen.
MIRACLES EACH DAY 
Illusions:
God is not in the illusion that we have created with our mind because this illusion is one of space, time and matter. God is not to be observed in this reality. But still, God is always present whether we are clinging to the illusion or approaching Christ Consciousness. So yet again, a great spiritual paradox. God cannot be figured out with the rational mind!
While we sleep deep within the illusion, the Holy Spirit speaks to us, guides us, teaches us, so that we can awaken and move toward Christ Consciousness… providing we ask and seek. This is all that is required. It is truly a miracle!
Having said all of this, I may be wrong, so in the words of Charles Fillmore, “I reserve the right to change my mind!”
Thank you, David, for a very cogent reply. I keep going back to the prayers in the Workbook that Jesus addresses to God. Why would he do this if God is not following us and hearing our prayers?
I hope that others will join our conversation.
Most fondly, Celia
I’m a new reader of your blog. My face is for study has always been fine. I’m just getting a feel of what you’re saying and feeling a little more confident as I recognize the father the son and the Holy Spirit. I believe that God is ever present as well. I further believe that he becomes real to us when we except his plan.