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Lesson 27 - Above all else I want to see.

August 11, 2025 /

1. Today’s idea expresses something stronger than mere determination. ²It gives vision priority among your desires. ³You may feel hesitant about using the idea, on the grounds that you are not sure you really mean it. ⁴This does not matter. ⁵The purpose of today’s exercises is to bring the time when the idea will be wholly true a little nearer.

2. There may be a great temptation to believe that some sort of sacrifice is being asked of you when you say you want to see above all else. ²If you become uneasy about the lack of reservation involved, add:

              3Vision has no cost to anyone.

4If fear of loss still persists, add further:

              5It can only bless.

3. The idea for today needs many repetitions for maximum benefit. ²It should be used at least every half hour, and more if possible. ³You might try for every fifteen or twenty minutes. ⁴It is recommended that you set a definite time interval for using the idea when you wake or shortly afterwards, and attempt to adhere to it throughout the day. ⁵It will not be difficult to do this, even if you are engaged in conversation, or otherwise occupied at the time. ⁶You can still repeat one short sentence to yourself without disturbing anything.

4. The real question is, how often will you remember? ²How much do you want today’s idea to be true? ³Answer one of these questions, and you have answered the other. ⁴You will probably miss several applications, and perhaps quite a number. ⁵Do not be disturbed by this, but do try to keep on your schedule from then on. ⁶If only once during the day you feel that you were perfectly sincere while you were repeating today’s idea, you can be sure that you have saved yourself many years of effort.

✨ Inspired by the core message of the Course:

"Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."

This lesson comes from (A Course in Miracles). Hemelbewus presents it in Afrikaans as part of a path of inner healing and forgiveness. The translation was done with great care and dedication over several years by Henri Theron, and brings the deep spiritual teachings of the Course to Afrikaans-speaking readers.

📚 Read more about the Course: www.acim.org

Lesson 27: Above all else I want to see. (ACIM, W-27)

Lesson 26 - My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.

August 10, 2025 /

1. It is surely obvious that if you can be attacked you are not invulnerable. ²You see attack as a real threat. ³That is because you believe that you can really attack. ⁴And what would have effects through you must also have effects on you. ⁵It is this law that will ultimately save you, but you are misusing it now. ⁶You must therefore learn how it can be used for your own best interests, rather than against them.

2. Because your attack thoughts will be projected, you will fear attack. ²And if you fear attack, you must believe that you are not invulnerable. ³Attack thoughts therefore make you vulnerable in your own mind, which is where the attack thoughts are. ⁴Attack thoughts and invulnerability cannot be accepted together. ⁵They contradict each other.

3. The idea for today introduces the thought that you always attack yourself first. ²If attack thoughts must entail the belief that you are vulnerable, their effect is to weaken you in your own eyes. ³Thus they have attacked your perception of yourself. ⁴And because you believe in them, you can no longer believe in yourself. ⁵A false image of yourself has come to take the place of what you are.

4. Practice with today’s idea will help you to understand that vulnerability or invulnerability is the result of your own thoughts. ²Nothing except your thoughts can attack you. ³Nothing except your thoughts can make you think you are vulnerable. ⁴And nothing except your thoughts can prove to you this is not so.

5. Six practice periods are required in applying today’s idea. ²A full two minutes should be attempted for each of them, although the time may be reduced to a minute if the discomfort is too great. ³Do not reduce it further.

6. The practice period should begin with repeating the idea for today, then closing your eyes and reviewing the unresolved questions whose outcomes are causing you concern. ²The concern may take the form of depression, worry, anger, a sense of imposition, fear, foreboding or preoccupation. ³Any problem as yet unsettled that tends to recur in your thoughts during the day is a suitable subject. ⁴You will not be able to use very many for any one practice period, because a longer time than usual should be spent with each one. ⁵Today’s idea should be applied as follows:

7. First, name the situation:

              2I am concerned about _________.

3Then go over every possible outcome that has occurred to you in that connection and which has caused you concern, referring to each one quite specifically, saying:

              4I am afraid _________ will happen.

8. If you are doing the exercises properly, you should have some five or six distressing possibilities available for each situation you use, and quite possibly more. ²It is much more helpful to cover a few situations thoroughly than to touch on a larger number. ³As the list of anticipated outcomes for each situation continues, you will probably find some of them, especially those that occur to you toward the end, less acceptable to you. ⁴Try, however, to treat them all alike to whatever extent you can.

9. After you have named each outcome of which you are afraid, tell yourself:

              2That thought is an attack upon myself.

3Conclude each practice period by repeating today’s idea to yourself once more.

✨ Inspired by the core message of the Course:

"Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."

This lesson comes from (A Course in Miracles). Hemelbewus presents it in Afrikaans as part of a path of inner healing and forgiveness. The translation was done with great care and dedication over several years by Henri Theron, and brings the deep spiritual teachings of the Course to Afrikaans-speaking readers.

📚 Read more about the Course: www.acim.org

Lesson 26: My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. (ACIM, W-26)

Lesson 25 - I do not know what anything is for.

August 9, 2025 /

1. Purpose is meaning. ²Today’s idea explains why nothing you see means anything. ³You do not know what it is for. ⁴Therefore, it is meaningless to you. ⁵Everything is for your own best interests. ⁶That is what it is for; that is its purpose; that is what it means. ⁷It is in recognizing this that your goals become unified. ⁸It is in recognizing this that what you see is given meaning.

2. You perceive the world and everything in it as meaningful in terms of ego goals. ²These goals have nothing to do with your own best interests, because the ego is not you. ³This false identification makes you incapable of understanding what anything is for. ⁴As a result, you are bound to misuse it. ⁵When you believe this, you will try to withdraw the goals you have assigned to the world, instead of attempting to reinforce them.

3. Another way of describing the goals you now perceive is to say that they are all concerned with “personal” interests. ²Since you have no personal interests, your goals are really concerned with nothing. ³In cherishing them, therefore, you have no goals at all. ⁴And thus you do not know what anything is for.

4. Before you can make any sense out of the exercises for today, one more thought is necessary. ²At the most superficial levels, you do recognize purpose. ³Yet purpose cannot be understood at these levels. ⁴For example, you do understand that a telephone is for the purpose of talking to someone who is not physically in your immediate vicinity. ⁵What you do not understand is what you want to reach him for. ⁶And it is this that makes your contact with him meaningful or not.

5. It is crucial to your learning to be willing to give up the goals you have established for everything. ²The recognition that they are meaningless, rather than “good” or “bad,” is the only way to accomplish this. ³The idea for today is a step in this direction.

6. Six practice periods, each of two-minutes duration, are required. ²Each practice period should begin with a slow repetition of the idea for today, followed by looking about you and letting your glance rest on whatever happens to catch your eye, near or far, “important” or “unimportant,” “human” or “nonhuman.” ³With your eyes resting on each subject you so select, say, for example:

              4I do not know what this chair is for.

              5I do not know what this pencil is for.

              6I do not know what this hand is for.

⁷Say this quite slowly, without shifting your eyes from the subject until you have completed the statement about it. ⁸Then move on to the next subject, and apply today’s idea as before.

✨ Inspired by the core message of the Course:

"Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."

This lesson comes from (A Course in Miracles). Hemelbewus presents it in Afrikaans as part of a path of inner healing and forgiveness. The translation was done with great care and dedication over several years by Henri Theron, and brings the deep spiritual teachings of the Course to Afrikaans-speaking readers.

📚 Read more about the Course: www.acim.org

Lesson 25: I do not know what anything is for. (ACIM, W-25)

Lesson 14 - God did not create a meaningless world.

July 29, 2025 /

1. The idea for today is, of course, the reason why a meaningless world is impossible. ²What God did not create does not exist. ³And everything that does exist exists as He created it. ⁴The world you see has nothing to do with reality. ⁵It is of your own making, and it does not exist.

2. The exercises for today are to be practiced with eyes closed throughout. ²The mind-searching period should be short, a minute at most. ³Do not have more than three practice periods with today’s idea unless you find them comfortable. ⁴If you do, it will be because you really understand what they are for.

3. The idea for today is another step in learning to let go the thoughts that you have written on the world, and see the Word of God in their place. ²The early steps in this exchange, which can truly be called salvation, can be quite difficult and even quite painful. ³Some of them will lead you directly into fear. ⁴You will not be left there. ⁵You will go far beyond it. ⁶Our direction is toward perfect safety and perfect peace.

4. With eyes closed, think of all the horrors in the world that cross your mind. ²Name each one as it occurs to you, and then deny its reality. ³God did not create it, and so it is not real. ⁴Say, for example:

              5God did not create that war, and so it is not real.

              6God did not create that airplane crash, and so it is not real.

            7God did not create that disaster [specify], and so it is not real.

5. Suitable subjects for the application of today’s idea also include anything you are afraid might happen to you, or to anyone about whom you are concerned. ²In each case, name the “disaster” quite specifically. ³Do not use general terms. ⁴For example, do not say, “God did not create illness,” but, “God did not create cancer,” or heart attacks, or whatever may arouse fear in you.

6. This is your personal repertory of horrors at which you are looking. ²These things are part of the world you see. ³Some of them are shared illusions, and others are part of your personal hell. ⁴It does not matter. ⁵What God did not create can only be in your own mind apart from His. ⁶Therefore, it has no meaning. ⁷In recognition of this fact, conclude the practice periods by repeating today’s idea:

              8God did not create a meaningless world.

7. The idea for today can, of course, be applied to anything that disturbs you during the day, aside from the practice periods. ²Be very specific in applying it. ³Say:

4God did not create a meaningless world. 5He did not create [specify the situation which is disturbing you], and so it is not real.

✨ Inspired by the core message of the Course:

"Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."

This lesson comes from (A Course in Miracles). Hemelbewus presents it in Afrikaans as part of a path of inner healing and forgiveness. The translation was done with great care and dedication over several years by Henri Theron, and brings the deep spiritual teachings of the Course to Afrikaans-speaking readers.

📚 Read more about the Course: www.acim.org

Lesson 14: God did not create a meaningless world. (ACIM, W-14)

Lesson 13 - A meaningless world engenders fear.

July 28, 2025 /

1. Today’s idea is really another form of the preceding one, except that it is more specific as to the emotion aroused. 2Actually, a meaningless world is impossible. 3Nothing without meaning exists. 4However, it does not follow that you will not think you perceive something that has no meaning. 5On the contrary, you will be particularly likely to think you do perceive it.

2. Recognition of meaninglessness arouses intense anxiety in all the separated ones. 2It represents a situation in which God and the ego “challenge” each other as to whose meaning is to be written in the empty space that meaninglessness provides. 3The ego rushes in frantically to establish its own ideas there, fearful that the void may otherwise be used to demonstrate its own impotence and unreality. 4And on this alone it is correct.

3. It is essential, therefore, that you learn to recognize the meaningless, and accept it without fear. 2If you are fearful, it is certain that you will endow the world with attributes that it does not possess, and crowd it with images that do not exist. 3To the ego illusions are safety devices, as they must also be to you who equate yourself with the ego.

4. The exercises for today, which should be done about three or four times for not more than a minute or so at most each time, are to be practiced in a somewhat different way from the preceding ones. 2With eyes closed, repeat today’s idea to yourself. 3Then open your eyes, and look about you slowly, saying:

              4I am looking at a meaningless world.

5Repeat this statement to yourself as you look about. 6Then close your eyes, and conclude with:

              7A meaningless world engenders fear because I think I am in competition             with God.          

5. You may find it difficult to avoid resistance, in one form or another, to this concluding statement. 2Whatever form such resistance may take, remind yourself that you are really afraid of such a thought because of the “vengeance” of the “enemy.” 3You are not expected to believe the statement at this point, and will probably dismiss it as preposterous. 4Note carefully, however, any signs of overt or covert fear which it may arouse.

6. This is our first attempt at stating an explicit cause and effect relationship of a kind which you are very inexperienced in recognizing. 2Do not dwell on the concluding statement, and try not even to think of it except during the practice periods. 3That will suffice at present.

✨ Inspired by the core message of the Course:

"Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."

This lesson comes from (A Course in Miracles). Hemelbewus presents it in Afrikaans as part of a path of inner healing and forgiveness. The translation was done with great care and dedication over several years by Henri Theron, and brings the deep spiritual teachings of the Course to Afrikaans-speaking readers.

📚 Read more about the Course: www.acim.org

Lesson 13: A meaningless world engenders fear. (ACIM, W-13)

Lesson 12 - I am upset because I see a meaningless world.

July 27, 2025 /

1. The importance of this idea lies in the fact that it contains a correction for a major perceptual distortion. 2You think that what upsets you is a frightening world, or a sad world, or a violent world, or an insane world. 3All these attributes are given it by you. 4The world is meaningless in itself.

2. These exercises are done with eyes open. 2Look around you, this time quite slowly. 3Try to pace yourself so that the slow shifting of your glance from one thing to another involves a fairly constant time interval. 4Do not allow the time of the shift to become markedly longer or shorter, but try, instead, to keep a measured, even tempo throughout. 5What you see does not matter. 6You teach yourself this as you give whatever your glance rests on equal attention and equal time. 7This is a beginning step in learning to give them all equal value.

3. As you look about you, say to yourself:

            2Ek dink ek sien ’n angswekkende wêreld, ’n gevaarlike wêreld, ’n vyandige wêreld,             ’n treurige wêreld, ’n bose wêreld, ’n mal wêreld,

and so on, using whatever descriptive terms happen to occur to you. 3If terms which seem positive rather than negative occur to you, include them. 4For example, you might think of “a good world,” or “a satisfying world.” 5If such terms occur to you, use them along with the rest. 6You may not yet understand why these “nice” adjectives belong in these exercises but remember that a “good world” implies a “bad” one, and a “satisfying world” implies an “unsatisfying” one. 7All terms which cross your mind are suitable subjects for today’s exercises. 8Their seeming quality does not matter.

4. Be sure that you do not alter the time intervals between applying today’s idea to what you think is pleasant and what you think is unpleasant. 2For the purposes of these exercises, there is no difference between them. 3At the end of the practice period, add:

              4But I am upset because I see a meaningless world.

5. What is meaningless is neither good nor bad. 2Why, then, should a meaningless world upset you? 3If you could accept the world as meaningless and let the truth be written upon it for you, it would make you indescribably happy. 4But because it is meaningless, you are impelled to write upon it what you would have it be. 5It is this you see in it. 6It is this that is meaningless in truth. 7Beneath your words is written the Word of God. 8The truth upsets you now, but when your words have been erased, you will see His. 9That is the ultimate purpose of these exercises.

6. Three or four times is enough for practicing the idea for today. 2Nor should the practice periods exceed a minute. 3You may find even this too long. 4Terminate the exercises whenever you experience a sense of strain.

✨ Inspired by the core message of the Course:

"Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."

This lesson comes from (A Course in Miracles). Hemelbewus presents it in Afrikaans as part of a path of inner healing and forgiveness. The translation was done with great care and dedication over several years by Henri Theron, and brings the deep spiritual teachings of the Course to Afrikaans-speaking readers.

📚 Read more about the Course: www.acim.org

Lesson 12: I am upset because I see a meaningless world. (ACIM, W-12)

Lesson 2 - I have given everything I see in this room all the meaning that it has for me.

July 17, 2025 /

I have given everything I see in this room

(on this street, from this window, in this place)

all the meaning that it has for me.

1. The exercises with this idea are the same as those for the first one. 2Begin with the things that are near you, and apply the idea to whatever your glance rests on. 3Then increase the range outward. 4Turn your head so that you include whatever is on either side. 5If possible, turn around and apply the idea to what was behind you. 6Remain as indiscriminate as possible in selecting subjects for its application, do not concentrate on anything in particular, and do not attempt to include everything you see in a given area, or you will introduce strain.

2. Merely glance easily and fairly quickly around you, trying to avoid selection by size, brightness, color, material, or relative importance to you. 2Take the subjects simply as you see them. 3Try to apply the exercise with equal ease to a body or a button, a fly or a floor, an arm or an apple. 4The sole criterion for applying the idea to anything is merely that your eyes have lighted on it. 5Make no attempt to include anything particular, but be sure that nothing is specifically excluded.

✨ Inspired by the core message of the Course:

"Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."

This lesson comes from (A Course in Miracles). Hemelbewus presents it in Afrikaans as part of a path of inner healing and forgiveness. The translation was done with great care and dedication over several years by Henri Theron, and brings the deep spiritual teachings of the Course to Afrikaans-speaking readers.

📚 Read more about the Course: www.acim.org

Lesson 2 – I have given everything I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place] all the meaning that it has for me. (ACIM, W-2)

Lesson 1 - Nothing I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place] means anything.

July 16, 2025 /

Nothing I see in this room

(on this street, from this window, in this place)

means anything.

1. Now look slowly around you, and practice applying this idea very specifically to whatever you see:

              2This table does not mean anything.

              3This chair does not mean anything.

              4This hand does not mean anything.

              5This foot does not mean anything.

              6This pen does not mean anything.

2. Then look farther away from your immediate area, and apply the idea to a wider range:

              2That door does not mean anything.

              3That body does not mean anything.

              4That lamp does not mean anything.

              5That sign does not mean anything.

              6That shadow does not mean anything.

3. Notice that these statements are not arranged in any order, and make no allowance for differences in the kinds of things to which they are applied. 2That is the purpose of the exercise. 3The statement should merely be applied to anything you see. 4As you practice the idea for the day, use it totally indiscriminately. 5Do not attempt to apply it to everything you see, for these exercises should not become ritualistic. 6Only be sure that nothing you see is specifically excluded. 7One thing is like another as far as the application of the idea is concerned.

4. Each of the first three lessons should not be done more than twice a day each, preferably morning and evening. 2Nor should they be attempted for more than a minute or so, unless that entails a sense of hurry. 3A comfortable sense of leisure is essential.

✨ Inspired by the core message of the Course:

"Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."

This lesson comes from (A Course in Miracles). Hemelbewus presents it in Afrikaans as part of a path of inner healing and forgiveness. The translation was done with great care and dedication over several years by Henri Theron, and brings the deep spiritual teachings of the Course to Afrikaans-speaking readers.

📚 Read more about the Course: www.acim.org

Lesson 1 – Nothing I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place] means anything. (ACIM, W-1)

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