What is the name of God I am supposed to call upon? Q #859: Lesson 183 asks that we call upon Gods Name, and to repeat His Name while sitting silently. I need to have a Name to do this lesson. A: It is not unintentional that God’s Name does not appear anywhere in this lesson, although we are asked to call upon It repeatedly. This helps us realize something we don’t want to miss about Jesus’ teaching: everything in the world of specifics symbolizes in some way the content we have chosen to identify with in our minds, which is either that of the ego’s thought system or the Holy Spirit’s thought system. Applied to this lesson, this means that to call upon God’s Name or to repeat His Name means to call upon the thought system that reflects His Love. And for us as students of A Course in Miracles, that love is symbolized in Jesus. Speaking in the third person in the manual, Jesus discusses calling on his name: The name of Jesus Christ as such is but a symbol. But it stands for love that is not of this world. It is a symbol that is safely used as a replacement for the many names of all the gods to which you pray. It becomes the shining symbol for the Word of God, so close to what it stands for that the little space between the two is lost, the moment that the name is called to mind (M.23.4:1,2,3,4). So calling upon God’s Name shifts our perspective from specialness, specifics, and the offerings and demands of the world, to the perception of our shared interests and our oneness as God’s Son -- and that everything other than this is of no worth or meaning. Jesus does not want us to turn our calling upon God’s Name into a ritual or magical incantation of some kind, or to use it as a mantra or a formula for success. Set in the context of the entire Course, calling on God’s Name could have no meaning other than to be a means of helping us bring everything of our egos to the loving presence in our minds, beyond the world and the body, and back to our selfless identity as expressions of that Love. facimoutreach.org/qa/questions/questions168.htm#Q859
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