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A Course In Miracles
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Holy Spirit, Universal Inspiration
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... the mind is split between the ego and the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit will help you reinterpret everything that you perceive as fearful
The Holy Spirit is the highest communication medium. Miracles [flashes of insight] do not involve this type of communication, because they are temporary communication devices. When you return to your original form of communication with God by direct revelation, the need for miracles is over.
As a man, and also as one of God’s creations, my right-thinking, which came from the Holy Spirit or the Universal Inspiration, taught me first and foremost that this Inspiration is for all
The Holy Spirit is the only part of the Holy Trinity that has a symbolic function… He is described as something ‘separate,’ apart from the Father and from the Son… His symbolic function makes the Holy Spirit difficult to understand
Editor’s note: As we’ve seen, the Course insists on using orthodoxy’s terminology, but then takes it all away by assigning a new definition. The “Holy Spirit” herein is not a person, not part of Big Religion’s “trinity,” but, better rendered, the “Universal Inspiration," that is, each coming-alive person, throwing off the shackles of the ego, and finding that communication with God is a natural way to live. A contrast is made with the temporary insights of "miracles," as opposed to a more settled state of mind, a normal "open channel" to God, to be experienced once the ego is dismantled. This normal and usual way channel the Course calls "communion" with God. See the "prayer" icon.
The Holy Spirit is the Christ Mind which is aware of the knowledge that lies beyond perception
The Voice of the Holy Spirit is the Call to Atonement, or the restoration of the integrity of the mind
The Holy Spirit, the shared Inspiration of all the Sonship
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