A Beginning without an Ending

By Ron Rasmussen

The journey we are all on never began and it will never therefore end. We walk this journey with an ego we made with only a thought within our mind. Being a thought it is nothing and being nothing it has no meaning. Reading this book may help you on your journey but providing some thoughts you may not have previously had. Any results you achieve are strictly yours from within. I am only here as a messenger, delivering a message we are will hear soon or later - might as well be now.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ron Rasmussen
• Release date: May 21, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310232640

Ron Rasmussen

I was born in Racine, Wisconsin in 1935, that makes me 80years young. I had 3 years in the Army, married for 32 years ending when my first wife died. I am currently married coming on 20 plus years. I worked for a manufacturing company in Wisconsin for 20 years, went to a Community College for 2 years and then worked in the legal profession for 7 years. I retired and moved to Grand Raids, MN and lived there for 7 years, moving back to Minnesota a few years ago. My spiritual path probably started at birth and is an on-going process for me. I was raised a Catholic but long ago left that thinking and moved to a more open mind concerning God.

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Chapter 20 The Path

Chapter 21Prayers

Interpretations of Material from A Course in Miracles

What is the Last Judgment

What is the Real World

What is the Second Coming

What is the World

What is a Miracle

What is Creation

What is Forgiveness

What is Salvation

What is Sin

What is the Body

What is the Christ

What is the Ego

What is the Holy Spirit

EPILOGUE – Clarification of Terms

EPILOGUE – Daily Lessons

FINAL LESSONS Introduction

BEGINNING

In the very beginning was the Word and it was of God for it was God and God was before it. God was, is and always will be – God had no beginning, will have no ending for God is, was and always will be.

Of God I am. I am His thoughts, His idea, His creation – a part of Him yet whole as God is whole. I am a part of God yet not separate from Him. He is complete as I am complete, and I am complete as He is complete.

I was created to learn of God, yet I have all knowledge now and always will. I was created to be like God and I am as I was created, yet I am to be like God.

The body was chosen for the dream of life that is also a dream for to be in a dream, you also must be a dream. In the dream I can think apart from God and yet I am one with Him. I am never alone or separated from God.

In the dream I want to learn more of the dream and yet being of God, I know all knowledge. There is nothing I do not know. Learning is experienced by doing actions and discovering if they are favorable or not favorable in my dream state. Experiences can be held within the dream as the past by which the continuation of the dream is seen. The knowledge of God within me knows this is a dream and I am trying to wake from it, to shake it off, to open my eyes and be where I always was.

But within the dream is an illusionary force called ego which appears to be the opposite of God and yet there can be no opposite of God, for only God is. This only proves this is a dream, for anything can happen in a dream. All are from God, like God and of Himself He cannot oppose. The ego attempts to rule the dream and attempts to show me items that it feels I will choose over God.

And in the dream I do choose things that are not of God. I choose things of the dream and I have a knowing that they are but part of the dream, not real, not eternal and yet within the dream, I choose them.

How ridiculous, how foolish is the dream and it’s gifts that are offered. And yet I continue dreaming.

I am looking for the way to wake up from the dream. I feel pulled between wanting to go back to where it is I came from, and from staying with the dream to see if I can make it peaceful and serene.

Flashes of my knowledge will appear every now and then as clues to show me how to accomplish the peace and serenity. God’s directions are shown to me throughout the dream is various ways; written, oral, feelings and knowing.

Although I communicate with God within the dream, I still accept the gifts the ego offers me from time to time. God always responds to me and yet I do not always listen. This is the frustration of the dream. This is the maddening part – this is the point where I want to be awakened.

Is there a key to the awakening? Will I find it within the dream, or does it exist outside the dream? Can it be brought into the dream, if is there?

God is Love

God is love as you are love. God is only love as you are only love. When you are not thinking you are love, as when you are abused, you are not thinking God, but relating to the ego.

In the beginning was the Word… there was no before the beginning.. God was, is and always will be.

We think we know what it is to be loved by God, that which we are experiencing now, is God’s love. Yet, God tells us that we have forgotten what His love really feels like. How powerful must the feeling be, if what we are now experiencing is not God’s love.

God created us in His image and likeness, meaning a soul, a spirit, a piece of God, and a thought of God. When we created our separateness from God by our thinking we were better than God (enter the ego), we created our body as vehicle to experience life. When we see God in other bodies, we are seeing the Christ in others, not the bodies, but the soul, the spirit, the image of God.

Although we are created as love, are love and always (all ways) will be love, unless we love ourselves, we cannot love others nor accept love from others. We give out love in order for it to return. First we acknowledge that we are love, we do love ourselves, we forgive ourselves, then we give out love to all we see, and receive love from all we see; and the cycle goes on. It is certainly true that love is forever, never ending, always flowing, and ever growing. But if we do not love ourselves, it becomes stagnant with us.

Boredom can never come from love nor can it exist where love is present.

God is love and therefore we are love. We can be nothing else, so why even try? This is what we are, what we will be and what we always will be. And it don’t get any better than that. We are love, and love is what we are!

Let’s look past our dream and realize that we need no defenses because nothing can get to us. We have no fears. We are love. That’s all there is in our world, love or fear, and we choose love, but yet not really choosing, as much as remembering, that love is what we are.

Today and everyday, I see God in everyone I look upon or even think of. I leave no one out of my thoughts. God has told me that all of my brothers are my savior, as I am theirs. With all that help, how could I possibly doubt my return, my remembrance?

My heart, your heart, our hearts, are beating in the peace of God, in the love of God, in the light of God. What a wonderful thought that it is not just for today, but everyday. Knowing that we are all beating with the energy of God; it is our connection to our home, our connection with God.

God always says yes, we say no; God always says right, we say wrong; God always observes, we judge; God always has no need to forgive, we always do. God always loves, we sometimes don’t; but God is, we are and we and God are One, so we are like God, now we have to work on the all the things we do that are not God-like.

Someone once said God does nothing first. There again, we have the play on words, first as opposed to second. God does nothing means to me that God is and since there was no beginning, God is says it all for me. It is only from the ego that we have to be told that God says yes, etc. There is no opposite of God; therefore there is nothing else.

There is nowhere, no place where love is not. Think on that for a minute, no place in this world we created where love is not. Do we see it? Do we feel it? Can we experience it? Love is all there is, there is nothing else, for if love is everywhere, what else could also be in the same place? Now do we understand how we often feel connected with others? How often we feel we are a part of another person. How often we feel someone is within ourselves. Love is, God is, We are One.

Love is the dominant force, the only force in the universe, and love is God, and so God is the dominant force in the universe. God is. Plain and simple; God is. I am. We are; One.

No one, but no one can love more than someone else. Impossible! We are created by God is His image and likeness, God is Love, therefore we are love. There is no degree of love possible, for God knows no degrees of anything. We all have the powers of God as gifts from God, not some of us, but all of us. Not all of us are aware of all the gifts and powers we have, but that is what this is all about…remembering who we really are and where we really belong.

Love of God, my love or your love, is not comparable to the emotional love we feel towards others. Emotional love does come in degrees and most of our life we have been spent trying to express it or describe it. But the love of God, your love and my love, is not describable, not able to be put into categories or words. It is a love that is boundless, ageless, everlasting and eternal.

God is here for us and we are not abandoned. Holy Spirit is here for us, and we are not abandoned. We are guided by God; we are guided by Holy Spirit. We receive love from God for we are love, for God is love, and we are created in the image and likeness of God. We are only love therefore that is all we have to offer at anytime. We cannot offer what we are not. We cannot offer what we don’t have. We will never be punished for we cannot do anything that is punishable. We can never punish another, for that is not love.

God is telling us to Go for the Gold and accept nothing less. There is no vision, no dream, no expectations, no desire that is not obtainable in this "life Believe it, know it, live it, then we will experience it.

Unconditional love is just that – unconditional – with no conditions, no strings attached, no expectations, nothing but love, that with which we are created, the love with which we are. It is much, much more than acceptance, it is beyond acceptance, for acceptance does not cover everything or anything forever… acceptance is a state at this time where we acknowledge something to be true for us, but we could change our minds. Unconditional love is not changeable; it is everlasting; it is whole and complete; it can withstand all time; it is eternal. Love without conditions and we shall experience the joy of God, we shall experience our real self.

Isn’t it amazing that whatever we offer others, we are offered the same in return? God is but love and therefore what is not Love is not God. What is not God has no meaning, no power for us or over us, other than what we give it ourselves. How foolish it is that we would give to ourselves something that is not of God. Worse yet, that we would accept what it is we give, when what we give does not exist. Or to give the illusion that someone can take from us that which is God’s. Impossible. That which is God’s is ours, is us. We cannot have something taken from us, even though we say we can. What God has given is love and it is only love that we can give away to another, and yet still have it.

Learning to stop passing judgments on ourselves should be our first lesson to master. If we do not judge ourselves, then we will not judge others, for what we do not have, we cannot give.

Why wait for Christmas? Today let us allow ourselves to unwrap the present that we always have, unconditional love. Enjoy it now, why wait? What are we saving it for?

We have come from Love, through fear into Love. That is where we are now in this moment.

And remember that unconditional love is not to be found anywhere outside of us, anywhere but within us. We will not find it outside because it is not there. We will not find it in another because it is not there. It is within us, it is who we really are.

When we have lived with a feeling of something being wrong with us, and we experience unconditional love, we shall feel cleansed and pure and beautiful, without flaws, without guilt, shame and fear. And the unconditional love is present all the time in our lives; it is just that we don’t accept it. God loves us with no conditions, no strings, no rules, no commandments attached. He sees no flaws in us because there are no flaws in us. He did not create us with flaws; He created us in His image.

God’s class is the only class that we have to take. His teachings are the only teachings that we need ever know. In His class we need do nothing. In His class is everything given to us. Please plan to attend.

Love is a 4 letter word, just one of many in our language of verbalization. Love that we talk about is not this 4-letter word. It is not that which is sung about, written about in poetry and novels. It is not purchased and cannot be hoarded. The love we talk about is the love from which we came, the love of which we are, the one and only substance there is. There is nothing – no thing – other than love. Love cannot be classified a feeling or an emotion. But I think it is a knowing that comes from nowhere and yet has been given us, for it is what we are. In giving this out to others, we are extending ourselves, for we are love. And the others that we extend love to are also love, but perhaps they forgot that they are for the moment. Our love extended to them is a spark that ignites the forgotten flame, and then they too, remember they are love and they extend themselves to others and the cycle goes on and on. This is what love is. This is what I extend to others. This is how I wish to view others, as love. That is all we are, and we are everything, we lack nothing, we have it all. That is you and that is me

Can we really send another love, give love to someone else and still say we do not love them? And do we not look upon all others and see love reflected back to us? Do we not see the Christ in each and every one of us? We are love, we cannot not love another, it is not who we are.

I think when God suggests anything; we should pay attention to what is being said. We cannot do it better than God’s way and as soon as we start believing that, the sooner we will experience joy and happiness.

We need love to live, to love is to live and then how do we look at the statement that we have strayed from God (separation) and/or wandered away from love (separation). If we think about what love is, we know that love is God and God is love, we are love. I had strayed from God or so the ego made me think. I had wandered away from love or so it appeared to me. But those are just illusions. I have never left God and God has never left me. God is love. I am created in His image and likeness, which is love, therefore I am love. God is, I am.

How many times have we forgotten to include ourselves in those we love?

Getting to know You is getting to trust You; getting to trust You is getting to love You; getting to love you is getting to embrace You; getting to embrace You is getting to use You; getting to use You is getting to help You; and getting to help you is why I am here. Thank you God for the seven steps to bliss.

When I think of the words love transforms I think of the simplicity of the words themselves, of the action that takes place. Transformation of anything and everything we think, see or do. Love transforms, think of this when you are sluggish, down, out of sorts. Some thought is dragging me down and I can bet it is not love. Replace that thought with love and feel the difference instantly. Rid yourself of the block and allow the energy to serge through your body and your being. Only