Today I want to ask you to read the following and let it tell you what it says and to see what your response to it is. We use here the Combined Volume of Urtext Manuscripts book 1, Miracles In Action Press.

Remember that these daily posts are given to gladden yourself, to have a sip of the Holy Grail.

T 1 B 37ae.  The confusion of miracle impulse with sexual impulse is a major source of perceptual distortion, because it INDUCES rather than straightening out the basic level‐confusion which underlies all those who seek happiness with the instruments of the world. A desert is a desert is a desert. You can do anything you want in it, but you CANNOT change it from what it IS. It still lacks water, which is why it IS a desert (Bring up that dream about the Bluebird. While HS (Helen Schucman, the receiver) was looking for this dream, she came across another. The message was to bring both, as an excellent example of how extremely good HS had become over the intervening 25 years at sharpening pencils. Note that the essential content hasn’t changed; it’s just better written.) The thing to do with a desert is to LEAVE.

T 1 B 38. Miracles arise from a miraculous state of mind. By being One, this state of mind goes out to ANYONE, even without the awareness of the miracle worker himself. The impersonal nature of miracles is because Atonement itself is one, uniting all creations with their Creator.

T 1 B 39a. The miracle is an expression of an inner awareness of Christ & acceptance of his Atonement. The mind is then in a state of Grace, and naturally becomes gracious, both to the Host within and the stranger without. By bringing in the stranger, he becomes your brother.75 T(37) -37

 T 1 B 39b.  The miracles you are told NOT to perform have not lost their value. They are still expressions of your own state of Grace, but the ACTION aspect of the miracle should be Christ‐controlled, because of His complete Awareness of the Whole Plan. The impersonal nature of miracle‐mindedness ensures YOUR own Grace, but only Christ is in a position to know where Grace can be BESTOWED.

T 1 B 40a. A miracle is never lost. It touches many people you may not even know, and sometimes produces undreamed of changes in forces of which you are not even aware. This is not your concern. It will also always bless YOU. This is not your concern, either. But it IS the concern of the Record. The Record is completely unconcerned with reliability, being perfectly valid because of the way it was set up. It ALWAYS measures what it was supposed to measure.

T 1 B 40b.  I want to finish the instructions about sex, because this is an area the miracle worker MUST understand.

T 1 B 40c.  Inappropriate sex drives (or misdirected miracle‐impulses) result in guilt if expressed, and depression if denied. We said before that ALL real pleasure comes from doing God’s will.76 Whenever it is NOT done an experience of lack results. This is because NOT doing the will of God IS a lack of self.

T 1 B 40d.  Sex was intended as an instrument for physical creation to enable Souls to embark on new chapters in their experience, and thus improve their record. The pencil was NOT an end in itself. (See earlier section.) It was an aid to the artist in his own creative endeavors.

T(38) -38 As he made new homes for Souls and guided them through the period of their own developmental readiness, he learned the role of the father himself. The whole process was set up as a learning experience in gaining Grace.

T 1 B 40e.  The pleasure which is derived from sex AS SUCH is reliable only because it stems from an error which men shared. AWARENESS of the error produces the guilt. DENIAL of the error results in projection. CORRECTION of the error brings release.

T 1 B 40f.  The only VALID use of sex is procreation. It is NOT truly pleasurable in itself. “Lead us not into Temptation” means “Do not let us deceive ourselves into believing that we can relate in peace to God or our brothers with ANYTHING external.”T(39) -39 

T 1 B 40g.  The “sin of onan” was called a “sin” because it involved a related type of self‐delusion; namely, that pleasure WITHOUT relating can exist.

T 1 B 40h.  To repeat an earlier instruction, the concept of either the self or another as a “sex‐OBJECT” epitomizes this strange reversal. As B. (Bill, Helen’s assistant) put it, and very correctly, too, it IS objectionable, but only because it is invalid. Upside down logic produces this kind of thinking.

T 1 B 40i.  Child of God, you were created to create the good, the beautiful, and the holy. Do not lose sight of this. You were right in telling B. to invite Me to enter anywhere temptation arises. I will change the situation from one of inappropriate sexual attraction to one of impersonal miracle‐working. The concept of changing the channel for libidinal expression is Freud’s greatest contribution, except that he did not understand what “channel” really means.

T 1 B 40j.  The love of God, for a little while, must still be expressed through one body to another. That is because the real vision is still so dim. Everyone can use his body best by enlarging man’s perception, so he can see the real VISION. THIS VISION is invisible to the physical eye. The ultimate purpose of the body is to render itself unnecessary. Learning to do this is the only real reason for its creation.

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