God is my Father, and He loves His Son.
1. My true Identity is so invulnerable, so exalted and innocent, so glorious and magnificent, so utterly loving and guiltless that Heaven looks to it to give it light.
²And it gives light to the world as well.
³My true Identity is the Gift my Father gave to me, and the one I too give to the world.
⁴It is the only gift that can be given or received.
⁵My true Identity is Reality, and nothing else.I
⁶This is the end of illusion.
⁷This is the Truth.
2. Oh Father,
You still remember my Name.
²I have forgotten it,
and I do not know where I am going,
who I am,
or what I am doing.
³Remind me now,
Father,
for I am weary of the world I see.
4Reveal to me what You would have me see instead. II
I I am Reality. I am Existence Itself. I am what Is, and Who Is. God the Father and I, God the Son, are One. God is One, because Existence is One.
What is not the One Existence does not exist; it is nothing but a perspective of the impossible.
Every illusion—all illusions—are but one idea seen in countless ways, perspectives, and forms; and that single idea is the idea of separation.
The idea of not being the One Being is the black ink with which a thousand landscapes are drawn upon the white slate of Existence, dimming the Light of Its Love.
Illusion: stories built of absences of Light—absences of Love.
The world is a story of the impossible, in which those who call themselves “human beings” are its characters, though only to themselves.
The impossible is immeasurable, because it does not exist.
Everything that has a beginning must also have an end—but the beginning was fictional, just as its end will be; therefore, it is an illusion.
What has never happened can only make sense within its own impossibility.
The Love of God is in me. That is what I am, and that is the only Reality.
II This Lesson moves between two levels of consciousness: that of full Knowledge, which Jesus represents, and the still-transitory level in which the student finds himself. In the first paragraph, the invulnerability, glory, and purity of our true Identity are affirmed with complete certainty: this is the Vision of Christ, which beholds Reality as it is. But that Knowledge is not yet fully ours. Hence the second paragraph, in the form of a prayer, expresses the experience of the soul longing to remember. “I have forgotten” is a confession of humility, acknowledging its lostness in the world of forms and pleading for a revelation to replace it.
The Lesson thus outlines the complete journey—from the recognition of ignorance and existential weariness (“I am tired of the world I see”) to the plea for a different vision, the Vision that only God can give. True identity is not a concept but a revelation, reached only to the extent that one relinquishes personal judgment and accepts to see through the eyes of Love.
This plea becomes a prayer of surrender—a deep yielding that paves the way for true knowledge. It is not about imagining what we are, but about allowing it to be revealed by the One Who knows. Knowledge, in the language of the Course, is not built or attained through effort: it is simply received when the mind falls silent and releases its need to control.
God is my Father, and He loves His Son.
In His Love, I remember my true identity.