2024 Astrology Predictions: Eclipses, Retrogrades & Notable Astrological Transits

2024 Astrology Predictions: Eclipses, Retrogrades & Notable Astrological Transits

By Narayana Montufar

October 16, 2023

A completely new era is afoot! In more ways than one, 2024 functions as a gigantic portal to a brand-new epoch, as the three outer planets work in tandem to assist us in creating a new reality. In the second part of the year, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto will work together to elevate mass consciousness, anchoring the Age of Aquarius. Technology and spirituality will assist this shift into a completely new paradigm that triumphs individuality and personal growth as more of us unplug from the oppressive mental matrix of capitalism. 

Still, we must stay aware that for a brand-new epoch to be birthed, the old structures will, simultaneously, continue their process of collapsing, as they have been since 2021. With its thorough touch, master teacher Saturn continues this process as it remains in Pisces, being assisted by Jupiter in the Spring and Fall. The worlds of media and commerce, in particular, are set to change and evolve as Jupiter enters Gemini in May. 

But before this shift, Jupiter has an epic meeting with Uranus in Taurus, which is bound to enliven the financial and real estate markets in the early Spring. According to mundane astrologer Jessica Adams, this combination could see some countries introduce universal basic income, a real estate buyer’s market, and huge personal profits for some. 

At a personal level, the cardinal signs wrap up a fifteen-year cycle of transformation as Pluto ends its transit in Capricorn. The mutable signs are set to experience a few wake-up calls as the planet of illusion begins its retrograde at the critical degree of Pisces. Collectively, we all continue the work we began in the summer of 2023 as the Lunar Nodes of Destiny in Aries and Libra continue to end toxic and co-dependent relationships. 

Luckily, we get the hardest part of the year out of the way by doing deep and personal growth between January and April. During these months, the Nodes activate Chiron in Aries, following up on a journey that we first walked at the beginning of 2023. Through spiritual, energetic, or psychological work, heal the area  of your chart ruled by Aries and you can make 2024 a huge success! 

Below are all the 2024 astrological aspects you need to know—from eclipses to retrogrades to major notable transits.

2024 Eclipses

Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Libra: March 25

A relationship or situation that began at the October 14, 2023 Ring of Fire eclipse could come to an end now. With Venus now in Pisces conjunct Saturn, there might be a contraction in relationships in the case that we have over-extended ourselves. 

New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aries: April 8

Healing “the relationship with the self” becomes the theme now with this fiery eclipse being exactly conjunct Chiron in Aries. New doors will open for those who can clearly see the way in which they have abandoned their dreams for the sake of keeping other people happy. 

Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Pisces: September 17

The dissolution of structures that was set in motion during the Spring of 2023 when Saturn first entered Pisces hits climax now. Collectively, we could see this in the field of news as well as media, with Jupiter in Gemini forming a T-square with the eclipse, and Neptune in Pisces later in the year. 

New Moon Solar Eclipse in Libra: October 2

This is the last eclipse in the Aries/Libra axis, meaning the work we’re doing in cleaning and clearing up relationships is almost over. Featuring asteroid Juno and Black Moon Lilith, this eclipse will squeeze out of us any repressed emotions that might be lurking in the shadows, waiting to be exposed.

2024 Retrogrades

Mercury: 

April 1 – April 25

August 4 – August 28

November 25 – December 15

In 2024, Mercury will go retrograde in fire signs, with a short detour in the sign of Virgo. The themes the cosmic messenger will have us review include creativity, drive, ambition, and giving birth to ideas. Since Mercury can move incredibly fast in Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, the highs and lows will be extreme. The lows will include a feeling of dried-up creativity and maybe even libido. But the highs will be exciting and exhilarating, to say the least. To make the best of the Grand Fire Trine that Mercury will form in the sky, we must explore our creativity as well as different ways to chase our goals. The retrogrades of Mercury will also be crucial in teaching us how to use our words within relationships, as all three retrogrades make astrological connections with Venus and Chiron in Aries. Overall, there will be an underlying healing tone to these retrogrades, so seek true rapport in all of them.

Mars: December 26 – February 23

In the heart of Winter, this retrograde will help us clear out the confusing energy that lies underneath family dynamics. If used correctly, it can be positive in helping us heal generational trauma. 

Jupiter: October 9 – February 4

Involving a square with Saturn in Pisces, the 2024 retrograde of Jupiter will be very mental, as our old belief system gets tested. Changing our minds about big life subjects is not only necessary—it’s a must! 

Saturn: June 29 – November 15 

Unlike other planets, Saturn does not lose its powers during its retrograde motion. Karmic adjustments will take place now, especially concerning any mutable sign placements: Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces. 

Uranus: September 1 – January 30

This retrograde will allow us to take a breather after the accelerated change Uranus provided personally and collectively, after being magnified by Jupiter in the Spring. Big collective change will continue to occur, but at a more digestible level, for the rest of the year. 

Neptune: July 2 – December 7 

Massive epiphanies will occur during this retrograde as Neptune loses its hypnotic powers. We will realize why certain structures needed to dissolve, as we begin creating a completely new world based on true compassion. 

Pluto: May 2 – October 1

Similarly to 2023, the retrograde of Pluto means the power will be changing hands, as Pluto retrogrades from Aquarius to Capricorn for the last time. Meaningful changes in government, big companies, and financial elites are bound to occur now.

2024 Notable Astrological Influences

Lunar North Node conjunct Chiron in Aries

From January 1 to May 15, all healing modalities and spiritual advancements will experience quantum leaps as deep healing is required for many of us now. 

Jupiter conjunct Uranus in Taurus 

From March 20 to May 20, Jupiter magnifies the innovative, creative, and unexpected energy of Uranus. We can expect to see changes in the financial market, as well as in climate change now. 

Jupiter enters Gemini

On May 25, the planet of abundance, growth, and expansion goes under the rulership of Mercury. Since Jupiter will square Saturn two times this year, the world of media is set for a huge overhaul in 2024. Some parts of this industry will dissolve, opening new and different channels of growth. 

Uranus sextile Neptune

From June to December, many of us will experience spiritual awakenings as the world of dreams, intuition, and the occult receive a supercharged injection of adrenaline and excitement. A highly inventive and creative time, collectively and personally. 

Uranus sextile Pluto

From mid-July to mid-November, unique opportunities to create a new life are available to us as big breakthroughs occur in the fields of technology, astrology, creativity, and art take place. 

Jupiter in Gemini square Saturn in Pisces

On August 19 and December 4, Jupiter assists Saturn’s three-year-long process of destroying the established structures and social beliefs, so new ones can be built. The financial markets could suffer at this time, so good dates to keep in mind concerning investments. 

Pluto enters Aquarius

The beginning of a new era, a completely new epoch, is heralded as Pluto stays in Aquarius for good, from November 19, 2024, to March 8, 2043. This magnanimous shift anchors the Age of Aquarius, which was set in motion by the 2020 Jupiter-Saturn Great Conjunction and the Saturn-Uranus 2021 squares.

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Source

https://www.astrology.com/article/2024-astrology-predictions/

This Thing Called You...Chapter 10

This Thing Called You...Chapter 10 

"Who loses his life shall find it." Since the whole teaching of Jesus was that God is Life, he could not have meant that you should actually lose your life, but that you should let go of the lesser in order to experience the greater. This is not a bad bargain. If you lose a sense of unhappiness, you will become happy. If you lose a sense of confusion, you will be at peace. If you could become consciously and subjectively aware, even for one moment, of your true spiritual perfection, there would come such a conversion of your mind as instantly to heal your physical body. 

This is not the easiest thing to do. When you are in pain it is difficult to affirm peace. When you are in want it is hard to affirm abundance. But this is the true meaning of losing your life. What you lose is a false sense of being. You are trading the unreal for the real, the false for the true. If you wish to be happy, take all unhappiness out of your mind and bury it. If you want God, stop thinking about the devil. If you wish to live in the kingdom of heaven, forget hell. 

You are to find the roots of your life in pure Spirit, to see the basic unity of all— the fundamental, mathematical and logical necessity of such a unity. Lose your sense of being separated from your good and you will find that you are united with it. This is the secret you have with the God who is ever with you. He already knows what you are trying to find out. The next time any obstacle appears on your path, try to realize that it is not an entity, person or self-created condition. It is not true to the larger Life within you. Satisfy your mind that it is not a thing in itself. Cease fighting it and begin to realize its opposite. Know there are no obstructions in Spirit and that you already are Spirit. Begin to identify yourself with the Truth which knows no obstruction. Begin to claim your divine inheritance. Say: 

I know there is no negation in God. I know that God is always right where I am. I know that at the center of my being there is a positive affirmation of life. My word erases anything within me that denies the presence of this Life. There is One Life, that Life is God, that Life is my life now. There is nothing in me that can deny the presence of this Life. Everything within me affirms Its presence. I have an inward sense and feeling of this Divine Presence at all times. 

When everyone believed the world to be flat, they did not flatten the round world. When one man made up his mind that the world was really round, he did not resist the flat world because he knew there was no such world. He set out to sail around the world he knew to be round. Through his act of faith, he discovered the truth about the round world. The fear and superstition of others did not deter him. The accumulated experience of the race could not bind him. The belief that the unknown oceans were filled with monsters did not frighten him. He knew the world was round and that he could sail around it. 

You have discovered the spiritual universe. Many others have discovered this same world, but each must make the discovery for himself. You are going to have a lot of joy sailing around this world of yours. Don't fight the opinions of others, or waste your time arguing over these things. Follow the inward gleam of your consciousness and you will arrive. 

Whatever you identify yourself with you will become like. Whatever you resist until you make it a reality, you will also become Like. Therefore, ". . .resist not evil and it will flee from you." Don't fight your fears, see through them. There is nothing in God's world to be afraid of. Say: 

I know there is a spiritual center within me which is perfect. I am now telling my own consciousness automatically to ward off any thoughts of doubt or uncertainty. I sense that every state of doubt, every consciousness of negation is leaving me. Every doubt is being converted into certainty. Fear is being converted into faith. I have an abiding sense of happiness and peace. I am the very essence of peace. I have an inward confidence in my oneness with Good. I rest in sublime trust. 

Jesus spent little time in negative thought—only enough to see through it, to reverse the false sense of life with a true realization of man's union with God. This glorious figure, like a shaft of light, shot across the bewildered consciousness of man, proving every claim he made, leaving behind him a breath of heaven, fragrant with love. As he identified himself with the Source of his being, so you must identify yourself with that Spirit which is ever with you. 

Remember the little boy who brought a few loaves and fishes, all the food there was in that vast multitude crying out for bread. The disciples of Jesus identified the possibility of being fed only with the meagre amount in the boy's pocket. Jesus identified the loaves and fishes with Eternal Substance, forever flowing, manna from heaven. Does not the boy symbolize a childlike faith and expectancy, the vision so newly born from the Kingdom of God? Can you not imagine his countenance shining with joy, his eyes glistening with inward vision? Can you not imagine his enthusiasm as he passed his small offering into the hands of love which multiplied his idea through God's law of abundance? 

Jesus and the little boy had faith, the childlike consciousness which had not been caught in the prison walls of experience—the little boy, and the man who had grown to full spiritual stature. Giving thanks, the bread was broken, the loaves were multiplied, the fish were distributed, the multitude was fed.

Nothing has happened to Reality since that little boy brought the loaves and fishes to Jesus. God has not changed, nature has not changed, law has not changed, truth has not changed. Where shall you look for this man and this little boy, for the loaves and fishes? Jesus took the multitude out in the desert. There was no food there, no bakeries. It was far from the shores where fish were caught. Shall you not also look to the desert place of your own thought where it seems most unlikely that you will find substance?

Perhaps the little boy is still standing there with outstretched hands and glistening eyes. Perhaps you are that boy. The man is there also—the man of Divine Wisdom, the God-intended man. Let the little boy hand the few loaves and fishes to this Divine Man within you, while the intellect gives thanks and the Spirit performs its miracle of love. 

Your search is after something great enough to lose your littleness in, something within you worthy of immortality and eternal expansion. The world has not looked for God where He may be found. Here is the great secret. There is only one God, one Divine Mind. This One is undivided, hence all of It is present everywhere. 

God is not only where you are, He is what you are. In a sense, you might say, “Since God is all there is, the only Presence there is, and since the Spirit is manifest through everything, then everything I see is a manifestation of God. That within me which enables me to see, know and understand this, also is God. Since God does not go in search after Himself, I need no longer go in search after Him. Rather, I shall now live and think from the union which I already have." Say: 

There is That within me which knows. I am not only one with this Power, this Power is actually flowing through me now. I am not only unified with the Divine Presence around me, this Presence is my presence. It is the presence of my real and true self. I am forever one with Life. 

Your endeavor is not to locate the Divine Presence or awaken the activity of the Law. It is, rather, to become aware of this Presence and of Its activity flowing through you. 

It will be well to consider the difference between outlining and choosing. As an individual, you have the right to choose. Being an individual, you cannot escape the necessity of choice. You are not an automaton. You are not a mental mechanism. You are not merely an aggregation of mental reactions. You are a person, a divine being in your own right. The Spirit has set the stamp of individuality upon Itself and called it you. What God has done you cannot undo. When you think, it is the Divine Mind in you willing Itself into action, thinking Itself into manifestation, realizing Itself as the object of Its own thought. 

You do the choosing, the Law does the outlining. This is the distinction between choice and outline. If you choose to plant a tomato seed you have chosen a tomato plant, but you do not outline how many leaves shall grow on the plant, how many stalks it shall have. That belongs to the Law of cause and effect. 

When you say, "I know that the Divine Intelligence is attracting certain conditions to me," and when you have affirmed your union with good, you can go about the business of everyday life with no sense of anxiety, knowing that the Law is working for you. The Law can only operate on your images of thought since the Law is a doer and not a knower. Therefore, it is up to you to keep these images clear that they may reflect themselves in the Law, which is a mirror. Say: 

The Kingdom of God, the Glory of God, is here and now. I am forever a part of Its being. The perfect Law of God is now operating in my affairs. There is no strain, stress or fear in my life. I am in the presence of radiant Joy, of Divine Love and perfect Power. 

You have been told that you should fast and pray. Perhaps true fasting is a determination no longer to entertain negative thoughts, perhaps it means continually to be affirming the good. The act of physical fasting is merely a symbol of this inward grace. The need for the symbol disappears when you understand its meaning. It is a good practice to fast, so far as the negative is concerned, and feast on affirmations only. Why not fast from the idea of lack and feast on the idea of abundance? 

In no way does this mean that you need to withdraw from the world and its activities. You should enter into these activities with a new sense of reality, with a penetrating spiritual vision which sees through the effect to its cause and knows this cause to be good. You will be practicing an uncommon common sense, a spiritual common sense, so rare and so creative that the only man who ever completely tried it was mistaken for God. 

It is certain that you must fast from fear if you wish to establish faith. You must fast from confusion if you hope to enter into tranquility. It matters not if your transition from the negative into the affirmative seems slow, if the ascent from your valley of negation to the mountain top of realization seems difficult. Each step will bring you nearer the summit. 

There is a Divine awareness within you which will lead you upward and onward. Prepare yourself for the ascent, then, filling your mental life with spiritual realization. Your bread is manna from heaven, your meat the living word, your fruit the inspiration of hope, your wine the essence of joy. Say: 

I am aware of the Divine within me. Peace, quiet and confidence flow through my thought. I know that inspiration and guidance are mine. I permit myself to be moved upon by Divine Intelligence. Laying aside every sense of burden or false responsibility, loosening all fear and uncertainty from my thought, I enter into my kingdom of good today. I know that this kingdom is accessible to all. 

You should always expect instantaneous and permanent results from your treatments. Unless you expect such results, you cannot attain them, since your denial of such results would be using the Law in reverse. Practice a complete abandonment to faith. This you must do for yourself. No one else can do it for you. If someone else could do this for you, you would not be you, you would be someone else. You cannot live outside yourself and no one can live for you. You alone can be yourself. Every great soul has known this. This is the greatest of all truths, the apex of all summits. Say: 

I see through all physical and mental obstructions to the one perfect Presence within me. I see through all apparent contradictions to the one perfect Being in every person. I see through all confusion to the one Divine Presence at the center of everything. 

When you say that your body is spiritual, you are not denying your physical body. The physical is included within, and is part of, the spiritual universe. You do not say, "I have no eyes, or feet, or stomach." They are part of the spiritual body. 

God's world is not a world of illusion but of realities. Everything that is exists for the purpose of expressing Life. You are able to recognize the things around you because they are in the same Mind in which you live, the one Mind which is everywhere present. This means the Presence in everything—a tree, a rose, everything in nature, your own physical body. Nothing can be excluded from this omnipresence. It was this Presence that Moses communed with by the burning bush, the Divine Flame which surrounded the bush with an aura of light and color. This flame of Divinity penetrates everything.

If the Spirit has seen fit to express Itself through a physical universe and to give you a physical body, it would be absurd to think of this body or environment as an illusion unworthy of your attention. Rather, you should think of them as things of joy. Know that even the physical universe will respond to you when you respond to it. Say: 

My body is a temple of the living Spirit. It is spiritual substance. Every part of my body is in harmony with the living Spirit within me. The life of this Divine Spirit flows through every atom of my being, revitalizing, reinvigorating and renewing every particle of my physical body. There is a pattern of perfection at the center of my being which is now operating through every organ, function, action and reaction. My body is a Divine Idea forever renewed by the Spirit. 

Stop blaming anyone or anything— persons, circumstances or situations—for what may be happening to you. This is futile. It is a dead-end road. It is a blind alley. It is a raft adrift on an ocean of uncertainty. Today you are going to take your life in your own hands, realizing God is ever with you. You are going to identify yourself with goodness and with joy. Straight thinking is going to do this for you. Straight thinking may not be the easiest thing in the world, but it is possible for anyone. Say: 

The Spirit within me is alive, awake and aware. It is always flowing through me in perfect life. I accept my spiritual perfection. I know that my physical being is included in it. It is a manifestation of the life, the energy, the love, the peace and the power which is of the Spirit. I know that this day in which I live, this present time, which is now, is perfect. Everything in my world works harmoniously, divinely. I live in a completeness of this present moment. I know that the All-wisdom guides me, the All-power protects me. The All-presence goes with me.

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This Thing Called You,

Chapter 10,

Ernest Holmes

Self Concept Versus Self

  v. Self Concept Versus Self

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43 The learning of the world is built upon a concept of the self adjusted to the world’s reality. It fits it well. For this an image is that suits a world of shadows and illusions. Here it walks at home, where what it sees is one with it. The building of a concept of the self is what the learning of the world is for. This is its purpose—that you come without a self and make one as you go along. And by the time you reach “maturity,” you have perfected it to meet the world on equal terms, at one with its demands.

44 A concept of the self is made by you. It bears no likeness to yourself at all. It is an idol, made to take the place of your reality as Son of God. The concept of the self the world would teach is not the thing that it appears to be. For it is made to serve two purposes, but one of which the mind can recognize. The first presents the face of innocence, the aspect acted on. It is this face that smiles and charms and even seems to love. It searches for companions, and it looks at times with pity on the suffering, and sometimes offers solace. It believes that it is good within an evil world.

45 This aspect can grow angry, for the world is wicked and unable to provide the love and shelter innocence deserves. And so this face is often wet with tears at the injustices the world accords to those who would be generous and good. This aspect never makes the first attack. But every day a hundred little things make small assaults upon its innocence, provoking it to irritation and at last to open insult and abuse.

46 The face of innocence the concept of the self so proudly wears can tolerate attack in self-defense, for is it not a well-known fact the world deals harshly with defenseless innocence? No one who makes a picture of himself omits this face, for he has need of it. The other side he does not want to see. Yet it is here the learning of the world has set its sights, for it is here the world’s “reality” is set to see to it the idol lasts.

47 Beneath the face of innocence there is a lesson that the concept of the self was made to teach. It is a lesson in a terrible displacement and a fear so devastating that the face which smiles above it must forever look away, lest it perceive the treachery it hides. The lesson teaches this: “I am the thing you made of me, and as you look on me, you stand condemned because of what I am.” On this conception of the self the world smiles with approval, for it guarantees the pathways of the world are safely kept and those who walk on them will not escape.

48 Here is the central lesson that ensures your brother is condemned eternally. For what you are has now become His sin. For this is no forgiveness possible. No longer does it matter what he does, for your accusing finger points to him, unwavering and deadly in its aim. It points to you as well, but this is kept still deeper in the mists below the face of innocence. And in these shrouded vaults are all his sins and yours preserved and kept in darkness where they cannot be perceived as errors, which the light would surely show. You can be neither blamed for what you are, nor can you change the things it makes you do. And you are each the symbol of your sins to one another, silently, and yet with ceaseless urgency condemning still your brother for the hated thing you are.

49 Concepts are learned. They are not natural. Apart from learning, they do not exist. They are not given, and they must be made. Not one of them is true, and many come from feverish imaginations, hot with hatred and distortions born of fear. What is a concept but a thought to which its maker gives a meaning of his own? Concepts maintain the world. But they can not be used to demonstrate the world is real. For all of them are made within the world, born in its shadow, growing in its ways, and finally “maturing” in its thought. They are ideas of idols painted with the brushes of the world, which cannot make a single picture representing truth.

50 A concept of the self is meaningless, for no one here can see what it is for and therefore cannot picture what it is. Yet is all learning which the world directs begun and ended with the single aim of teaching you this concept of yourself, that you will choose to follow this world’s laws and never seek to go beyond its roads nor realize the way you see yourself. Now must the Holy Spirit find a way to help you see this concept of the self must be undone, if any peace of mind is to be given you. Nor can it be unlearned except by lessons aimed to teach that you are something else. For otherwise you would be asked to make exchange of what you now believe for total loss of self, and greater terror would arise in you.

51 Thus are the Holy Spirit’s lesson plans arranged in easy steps that though there be some lack of ease at times and some distress, there is no shattering of what was learned, but just a re-translation of what seems to be the evidence on its behalf. Let us consider then what proof there is that you are what your brother made of you. For even though you do not yet perceive that this is what you think, you surely learned by now that you behave as if it were. Does he react for you? And did he know exactly what would happen? Could he see your future and ordain before it came what you should do in every circumstance? He must have made the world as well as you to have such prescience in the things to come.

52 That you are what your brother made of you seems most unlikely. Even if he did, who gave the face of innocence to you? Is this your contribution? Who is, then, the “you” who made it? And who is deceived by all your goodness and attacks it so? Let us forget the concept’s foolishness and merely think of this— there are two parts to what you think yourself to be. If one was generated by your brother, who was there to make the other? And from whom must something be kept hidden? If the world be evil, there is still no need to hide what you are made of. Who is there to see? And what but is attacked could need defense?

53 Perhaps the reason why this concept must be kept in darkness is that in the light the one who would not think it true is you. And what would happen to the world you know if all its underpinnings were removed? Your concept of the world depends upon this concept of the self. And both would go if either one were ever raised to doubt. The Holy Spirit does not seek to throw you into panic. So He merely asks if just a little question might be raised.

54 There are alternatives about the thing that you must be. You might for instance be the thing you chose to have your brother be. This shifts the concept of the self from what is wholly passive, and at least makes way for active choice and some acknowledgment that interaction must have entered in. There is some understanding that you chose for both of you, and what he represents has meaning that was given it by you. It also shows some glimmering of sight into perception’s law that what you see reflects the state of perceiver’s mind. Yet who was it that did the choosing first? If you are what you chose your brother be, alternatives were there to choose among, and someone must have first decided on the one to choose and let the others go.

55 Although this step has gains, it does not yet approach a basic question. Something must have gone before these concepts of the self. And something must have done the learning which gave rise to them. Nor can this be explained by either view. The main advantage of the shifting to the second from the first is that you somehow entered in the choice by your decision. But this gain is paid in almost equal loss, for now you stand accused of guilt for what your brother is. And you must share his guilt because you chose it for him in the image of your own. While only he was treacherous before, now must you be condemned along with him.

56 The concept of the self has always been the great preoccupation of the world. And everyone believes that he must find the answer to the riddle of himself. Salvation can be seen as nothing more than the escape from concepts. It does not concern itself with content of the mind, but with the simple statement that it thinks. And what can think has choice and can be shown that different thoughts have different consequence. So it can learn that everything it thinks reflects the deep confusion that it feels about how it was made and what it is. And vaguely does the concept of the self appear to answer what it does not know

57 Seek not your Self in symbols. There can be no concept that can stand for what you are. What matters it which concept you accept while you perceive a self which interacts with evil and reacts to wicked things? Your concept of yourself will still remain quite meaningless. And you will not perceive that you can interact but with yourself. To see a guilty world is but the sign your learning has been guided by the world, and you behold it as you see yourself. The concept of the self embraces all you look upon, and nothing is outside of this perception. If you can be hurt by anything, you see a picture of your secret wishes. Nothing more than this. And in your suffering of any kind, you see your own concealed desire to kill.

58 You will make many concepts of the self as learning goes along. Each one will show the changes in your own relationships as your perception of yourself is changed. There will be some confusion every time there is a shift, but be you thankful that the learning of the world is loosening its grasp upon your mind. And be sure and happy in the confidence that it will go at last and leave your mind at peace. The role of the accuser will appear in many places and in many forms. And each will seem to be accusing you. Yet have no fear it will not be undone.

59 The world can teach no images of you unless you want to learn them. There will come a time when images have all gone by, and you will see you know not what you are. It is to this unsealed and open mind that truth returns, unhindered and unbound. Where concepts of the self have been laid by is truth revealed exactly as it is. When every concept has been raised to doubt and question and been recognized as made on no assumptions which would stand the light, then is the truth left free to enter in its sanctuary, clean and free of guilt. There is no statement that the world is more afraid to hear than this:

60 I do not know the thing I am and therefore do not know what I am doing, where I am, or how to look upon the world or on myself. Yet in this learning is salvation born. And what you are will tell you of Itself

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Source

A Course In Miracles,

Chapter 31, The Simplicity of Salvation,

Course in Miracles Society