Lesson 130

“It is impossible to see two worlds.”

Perception is consistent. What you see reflects your thinking. And
your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see. Your
values are determiners of this, for what you value you must want to
see, believing what you see is really there. No-one can see a world his
mind has not accorded value. And no-one can fail to look upon what
he believes he wants.

Yet who can really hate and love at once? Who can desire what
he does not want to have reality? And who can choose to see a world
of which he is afraid? Fear must make blind, for this its weapon is;
that which you fear to see you cannot see. Love and perception thus
go hand in hand, but fear obscures in darkness what is there.

What, then, can fear project upon the world? What can be seen
in darkness that is real? Truth is eclipsed by fear, and what remains is
but imagined. Yet what can be real in blind imaginings of panic
borne? What would you want that this is shown to you? What would
you wish to keep in such a dream?

Fear has made everything you think you see. All separation, all
distinctions, and the multitude of differences you believe make up
the world. They are not there. Love’s enemy has made them up.Yet
love can have no enemy, and so they have no cause, no being and no
consequence. They can be valued, but remain unreal. They can be
sought, but they can not be found.

Today we will not seek for them, nor waste this day in seeking
what can not be found. It is impossible to see two worlds which have
no overlap of any kind. Seek for the one; the other disappears. But
one remains. They are the range of choice beyond which your
decision cannot go. The real and the unreal are all there is to choose
between, and nothing more than these.

Today we will attempt no compromise where none is possible.
The world you see is proof you have already made a choice as
all-embracing as its opposite.

What we would learn today is more than just the lesson that
you cannot see two worlds. It also teaches that the
one you see is quite consistent from the point of view from which
you see it. It is all a piece because it stems from one emotion, and
reflects its source in everything you see.

Six times today, in thanks and gratitude, we gladly give five
minutes to the thought which ends all compromise and doubt, and
go beyond them all as one. We will not make a thousand meaningless
distinctions, nor attempt to bring with us a little part of unreality as
we devote our minds to finding only what is real.

Begin your searching for the other world by asking for a strength
beyond your own, and recognize what it is you seek. You do not want
illusions. And you come to these five minutes emptying your hands of all
the petty treasures of this world. You wait for God to help you, as you say:

“It is impossible to see two worlds.
Let me accept the strength God offers me
And see no value in this world, that I
May find my freedom and deliverance.”

God will be there. For you have called upon the great unfailing
Power Who will take this giant step with you in gratitude. Nor will
you fail to see His thanks expressed in tangible perception and in truth.
You will not doubt what you will look upon. For though it is perception,
it is not the kind of seeing that your eyes alone have ever seen before.

And you will know God’s strength upheld as you made this choice.
Dismiss temptation easily today whenever it arises, merely by
remembering the limits on your choice. The unreal or the real, the
false or true is what you see, and only what you see. Perception is
consistent with your choice, and hell or Heaven come to you as one.

Accept a little part of hell as real, and you have damned your
eyes and cursed your sight, and what you will behold is hell indeed.
Yet the release of Heaven still remains within your range of choice,
to take the place of everything that hell would show to you. All you
need say to any part of hell, whatever form it takes, is simply this:

“It is impossible to see two worlds.
I seek my freedom and deliverance,
And this is not a part of what I want.”

Brittany Shawley added:

Accept a little part of hell as real, and you have damned your eyes and cursed your sight, and what you will behold is hell indeed. Yet the release of Heaven still remains within your range of choice, to take the place of everything that hell would show to you. All you need say to any part of hell, whatever form it takes, is simply this:

It is impossible to see two worlds.
I seek my freedom and deliverance,
and this is not a part of what I want.