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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)

Vrywaring / Disclaimer: This Afrikaans version is my interpretation of A Course in Miracles, which deeply inspired me. I studied the Course in English and longed to share my experience and insights in my native language, Afrikaans. The workbook lessons and terms on this website have been translated by Henri Theron. For the full translated Afrikaans version of A Course in Miracles, you are welcome to contact Henri at: (www.nkiw.org).

Originally published by the Foundation for Inner Peace in 1975, as directed by Dr. Helen Schucman and co-author Dr. William Thetford.
With their approval, the Foundation for A Course in Miracles became the teaching branch of the Course. Both organizations faithfully followed over the years how Helen wanted her manuscript to be handled.
As a universal, self-study spiritual path, the Course teaches a unique form of forgiveness—removing the obstacles in the mind and discovering the abiding presence of love.

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