The Power of Truth

"The power of Truth, of divine Spirit, must break the dream of the material senses." -- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy; page 412, Lines 16-18

"Truth will correct all errors in my mind, and I will rest in Him Who is my Self." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook Lesson 107, 9:5

In yesterday's blog we explored the tool of inquiry, and how it cuts through illusion to reveal Truth. And this is an important tool as we move through life, because it's so easy to get caught up in our own stories. But Truth, the unchanging Reality, is not dependent on our inquiry or on human belief or on anything at all. It is unmoving Principle, and is the Ground of All Being, our True Self. It is not the product of anything, but rather is the Source of All. Truth is the infinite, radiant Being of the Allness of God.

What this means is that when Truth becomes our focus, it automatically clears away the mists of illusion. When A Course in Miracles says that Truth will correct all errors, it speaks literally, not poetically. It's not speaking about the specific, relative truths that we bandy about in the dream we call life. It's speaking of Principle ItSelf. And Principle is abstract, inclusive, and unchanging. In other words, it includes everyone and everything, and has limitless self-organizing power. Truth radiates, Truth IS. And we are all a part of that IS. So as soon as we give our attention, our consciousness back to PRINCIPLE, back to SOURCE, we are filled with awareness of TRUTH as the only force and power in that IS.

Our human, dreaming minds want to know specifics. What does a life of truth look like? What are we wearing? What will we eat? How will we amuse ourselves? Will it be fun? Will it hurt? Will I be alone? Such is the realm of the relative that occupies our time and attention. We don't have to give up our human occupations... we simply have to want to know the inclusive Truth more than anything else. We have to be committed, married to Truth. More than any form, more than any identity, more than any longing to have... Truth becomes the beacon that shines through it all, that leads us ultimately out of the many-storied dream of a separate self.

Once the light of Truth shines again through our sleeping minds, there is no more hiding in delusional stories of egoic dreams. The Power of Truth shines away every shadow and every sense of lack and every imagined loss, revealing One Eternal Self, forever Whole, Holy and Beloved in the Allness of God. We still walk in the dream, and we still dream.... but the dream is daily returned to Source, and the Power of Truth transforms every dream of separation into a dream of union and awakening. Such is the transformative Power of Truth.

"When Truth has come it does not stay a while, to disappear or change to something else. It does not shift and alter in its form, nor come and go and go and come again. It stays exactly as it always was, to be depended on in every need, and trusted with a perfect trust in all the seeming difficulties and the doubts that the appearances the world presents engender. They will merely blow away, when Truth corrects the errors in your mind." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook Lesson 107, 4:1-4

"Truth spares all that is true. The unreal vanishes, while all that is Real is eternal." -- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy; Page 474, Lines 24 & 28