Logion 18 reads as follows in the Pursah rendering (from Gary Renard's Your Immortal Reality:
The
followers said to J, "Tell us how our end will be." He said, "Have you
discovered the beginning, then, so that you are seeking the end? For
where the beginning is, the end will be. Fortunate is the one who stands
at the beginning: That one will know the end and will not taste death."
The Course passage she connects this to is the following:
A
timelessness in which is time made real; a part of God that can attack
itself; a separate brother as an enemy; a mind within a body all are
forms of circularity whose ending starts at its beginning, ending at its
cause. The world you see depicts exactly what you thought you did.
Except that now you think that what you did is being done to you. The
guilt for what you thought is being placed outside yourself, and on a
guilty world that dreams your dreams and thinks your thoughts instead of
you. It brings its vengeance, not your own. It keeps you narrowly
confined within a body, which it punishes because of all the sinful
things the body does within its dream. You have no power to make the
body stop its evil deeds because you did not make it, and cannot control
its actions nor its purpose nor its fate. (ACIM:T27.VIII.7)
Eternity
- the Kingdom of which Jesus speaks - has neither a beginning nor an
end. Only time seems to have a beginning and and end and all things
certainly have beginnings and an end within the scope of the space-time
framework. The "beginning" in terms of the thought system which Jesus
teaches in ACIM is the thought of separation from God, aka. the ego. As a
spiritual discipline, to get back to that thought, to learn to see
where we made that choice, is absolutely necessary in order to make the
other choice. Or, to put it differently, a mistake can only be corrected
if you understand what the mistake was. Until then, you're running
around like a chicken with your head cut off, for you'll be fixing
everything except that one mistake. The above passage portrays just
exactly how that thought starts in the mind, and sets us up with the set
of expectations that is part of our experience in this world. Undoing
that thought is possible only by means of a return to the original
decision moment, as implied also by Logion 18.And so life is a bit like a labyrinth, and we are busy finding our way back to the beginning, for if you know how we got into this mess, then you have found the way out as well.
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