A Course In Miracle Workbook For Dummies
LESSON 127
There is no love but God's.
W-127.1.
Perhaps you think that different kinds of love are possible. 2 Perhaps you think
there is a kind of love for this, a kind of love for that; a way of loving one, another way of loving
still another. 3 Love is one. 4 Love has no separate parts and no degrees; no kinds nor levels, no
divergencies and no distinctions. 5 Love is like itself, unchanged throughout. 6 Love never alters
with a person or a circumstance. 7 Love is the Heart of God, and also Love is the Heart of
God’s Son.
W-127.2.
Love's meaning is obscure to anyone who thinks that love can change. 2 He who
does not understand that love is changeless does not see that changing love must be
impossible. 3 And thus he thinks that he can love at times, and hate at other times. 4 He who
does not understand that love is changeless also thinks that love can be bestowed on one, and
yet remain itself although love is withheld from others. 5 To believe these things of love is not to
understand love. 6 If love could make such distinctions, love would have to judge between the
righteous and the sinner, and perceive the Son of God in separate parts.
W-127.3.
Love cannot judge. 2 As love is one itself, love looks on all as one. 3 Love’s
meaning lies in oneness. 4 And love’s meaning must elude the mind that thinks of love as partial
or in part. 5 There is no love but God's love, and all of love is God’s love. 6 There is no other
principle that rules where love is not. 7 Love is a law without an opposite. 8 Love’s wholeness is
the power holding everything as one. Love is the link between the Father and the Son. It is love
which holds the Father and the Son both forever as the same.
W-127.4.
No course whose purpose is to teach you to remember what you really are could
fail to emphasize that there can never be a difference in what you really are which is your big
“S” Self and what love is. 2 Love's meaning is your own meaning, and shared by God Himself.
3 For what you are, which is only love, is what God is. 4 There is no love but God’s love, and
what God is, is everything there is. 5 There is no limit placed upon God, Himself, and so are
you, your big “S” Self, unlimited as well.
W-127.5.
No law the fear-based egoic world obeys can help you grasp love's meaning. 2
The laws that seem to govern this world are what the world believes and were made by the
ego to hide love's meaning, and to keep the love of God dark and secret. 3 There is not one
principle the fear-based egoic world upholds but violates the truth of what God’s love is, and
what you, your big “S” Self is as well.
W-127.6.
Seek not within the fear-based egoic world to find your big “S” Self. 2 Love is
not found in darkness and in death. 3 Yet love is perfectly apparent to the eyes that see and ears
that hear love's Voice. 4 Today we practice making free your mind of all the laws of the egoic
world that your split mind thinks you must obey; of all the limits under which you live, and all
the changes that you think are part of human destiny. 5 Today we take the largest single step this
course requests in your advance towards this course’s established goal of reawakening you to
the truth of your big “S” Self.
W-127.7.
If you achieve the faintest glimmering of what love means today, you have
advanced in distance without measure and in time beyond the count of years to your release. 2
Let us together, then, be glad to give some time to God today, and understand there is no better
use for time than discovering what God’s love means.
W-127.8.
For fifteen minutes twice today escape from every law of your ego’s world in
which you now believe. 2 Open your mind and rest. 3 The world that seems to hold you prisoner
can be escaped by anyone who does not hold the world of your ego dear. 4 Withdraw all value
you have placed upon the world of your ego’s meager offerings and senseless gifts, and let the
gift of God replace them all.
W-127.9.
Call to your Father, certain that His Voice, the Holy Spirit, will answer. 2 Your
Father, Himself has promised this answer. 3 And Your Father, Himself will place a spark of
truth within your big “S” Self’s mind wherever you give up a false belief, a dark illusion of your
own little “s” self’s reality and what love means according to your ego. 4 The Holy Spirit will
shine through your ego’s idle thoughts today, and help you understand the truth of God’s love. 5
In loving gentleness your Father will abide with you, as you allow God’s Voice to teach love's
meaning to your clean and open mind. 6 And the Holy Spirit will bless the lesson with God’s
Love.
W-127.10.
Today the legion of the future years of waiting for salvation disappears before the
timelessness of what you learn. 2 Let us give thanks today that we are spared a future like the
fear-based past. 3 Today we leave the fear-based past behind us, nevermore to be remembered.
4 And we raise our eyes upon a different present, where a future dawns unlike the fear-based
past in every attribute.
W-127.11.
The world in infancy is newly born. 2 And we will watch a new loving world
grow in health and strength, to shed its blessing upon all who come to learn to cast aside the
fear-based world they thought was made in hate to be love's enemy. 3 Now are they all made
free, along with us. 4 Now are they all our brothers in God's Love.
W-127.12.
We will remember all our brothers throughout the day, because we cannot leave
a part of us outside our love if we would know our big “S” Self. 2 At least three times an hour
think of a brother or sister who makes the journey with you, and who came to learn what you
must learn. 3 And as he or she comes to mind, give them this message from your big “S’ Self:
4 I bless you, brother, with the Love of God, which I would share with you. 5 For I would learn
the joyous lesson that there is no love but God's and yours and mine and everyone's love.
Notes to Lesson #127
There is no love but God's.
This idea that there is no love but God’s love is a difficult concept to grasp because it conflicts
with traditional thought. We have been taught that there are numerous forms of love. Our
philosophies abound about the many different types and stages of the human experience that our
world refers to as love.
In the fear-based world of the ego, love is constantly changing. You can love someone today and
hate them tomorrow or you can love someone and then withhold your love from another. Love
appears to be in a constant state of flux. Ebbing and flowing with each emotional swing and
change in our circumstance.
In the world of time and space, both change and opposites appear to exist and be the reality of
our world. After all, time is the measure of change and the ego tells us that opposites are required
if we are to learn through the process of differentiation. If there was only one uniform substance
of which we were all part, what would there be for us to learn? We would be that one and to be is
to know.
The world we perceive was not created by God. Rather, it is the product of our mind’s own inner
imagination. Our mind’s belief system colors the world that we observe with our physical senses.
Our physical senses are mere thought confirmation devices to prove the correctness of our
mind’s point of view.
This world is the product of our egoic fear-based belief system. It is based on the ego’s belief in
lack, limitation and separation. All the laws of this world are based on the belief in separation.
Separation implies there is something you are not and differences and opposites now become our
provisional reality.
Because of this belief in separation, there is not one principle or law that our fear-based world
follows that does not violate the truth of what God’s love is. This belief in separation hides the
truth of our big “S” Self. Our current world reflects the mass collective consciousness of the split
mind that believes in lack, limitation and separation. Our belief in separation is the source of all
fear in this world.
In this world, there appears to be two emotions, love and its opposite, fear. Fear is false evidence
appearing real. Fear arises out of our ego’s belief that we are separate and different from our
Source. Although we are only love, we cannot expect to find our big “S” Self in a world that
arose from our belief in separation.
Because we believe that we are separate autonomous beings, we believe that our continued
survival is contingent on obtaining the limited resources that we perceive to be outside our
mind’s control. We value these outside resources as something that we need for our survival. It is
this valuing and acquiring of these supposed limited resources that imprison us in our fear-based
thought system and hide the unlimited nature of our big “S” Self. The transient things of this
world become our ego’s idols that replace God’s love.
The ego believes that those who give us what we need love us and those who fail to comply with
our ego’s plans for our happiness hate us. It is important to note that when you follow the laws of
this world, you will be incapable of recognizing what true love is. Due to your belief in
separation, you will always question the motives of others.
Since our egoic world teaches that you only give to get, each party believes everyone must also
be following that same principle. Because of this limiting belief, even if you were the recipient of
true unconditional love, you would fail to perceive its presence. Because of this world’s law that
each only gives to get, we believe love’s flow is contingent upon the good will of the giver or the
recipient’s ability to earn love.
When you believe love can change, you become incapable of accepting the flow of the God’s
unconditional love into your life. Within your own mind, you replace God’s unconditional love
with the notion that love must be earned. A God of conditional love must be a judgmental god.
Egoic conditional love is based on fear and is not real love. It was made to replace God’s
unconditional love with fear and specialness.
Conditional love is based on a special bartering relationship between two parties. Each gives to
the other with the expectation of some equivalent or greater return. Each is seeking a good deal.
The special relationship is the embodiment of the give to get principle that rules the world. Being
separate from God, our Source, our ego tells us that we need special alliances with other
vulnerable parties if we are to survive.
Yet, God’s love never alters based on the person or circumstance. It is changeless and does not
judge. God’s love flows endlessly and is never withheld from anyone. The Oneness of God
knows everything is perfect, whole and complete. A Oneness of All That Is has no opposites.
God’s love is the only law. In the real world there are no alternate realities since all egoic
fantasies are equally unreal. There is no difference between what you are and God is since only
love is real for love is everything.
In the next few lessons, we will continue to explore the interconnection between love, the egoic
world of provisional reality and forgiveness.
Question: If you believed love could be earned, how would you ever be sure you were the giver
or recipient of unconditional love?
Copyright © 2014 by Thomas R. Wakechild