T-15.IX

The Holy Instant and the Attraction of God

The Holy Instant undoes body-based limits by accepting the Holy Spirit’s vision, restoring communication as joining and letting God’s Love outweigh guilt and time.

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Primary
From bodies to vision: learning the Holy Instant’s Great Rays.
The holy instant loosens the body’s claim on relationship.
Pillar
The ego limits love by reducing brothers to bodies.
The Holy Spirit frees vision from the body’s limits.
Release limited sight: let Great Rays in your brother replace the body.
Supporting
The ego separates by teaching communication to accept limits.
Union asks for undivided acceptance, not strength split in two.
God’s Love attracts by increase, undoing the ego’s limits.
When you are willing, God translates holy seeing into knowledge now.
Purpose chooses means: share the Holy Spirit’s purpose and stop dividing strength.
The body is the ego’s symbol: it limits communication to preserve separation.
Choosing guilt limits vision and communication, opposing God’s attraction.
Union becomes complete when communication is limitless and guilt is set aside.
Minor
Stop seeking Atonement through separation; let God translate vision to knowledge.
Divided strength blocks creation; the Holy Instant restores one Purpose for eternity.
A symbol serves separation or communication; purpose determines the body’s use.
Heaven’s quiet completeness draws you past lonely substitutes into the holy instant.
Limits imprison the Sonship when bodies are used to define it.
Exchange little relationships for limitless joining beyond the body.
Make vision stable by wanting it more than delay.
Echo
The body’s ego purpose is attack; renounce it for communication.

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