A Course In Miracles: CHAPTER 13: THE GUILTLESS WORLD
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CHAPTER 13: THE GUILTLESS WORLD
Introduction
“If you did not feel guilty you could not attack, for condemnation is the root of attack. It is the judgment of one mind by another as unworthy of love and deserving of punishment.” (1:1-2)
“All this is but the delusional attempt of the mind to deny itself, and escape the penalty of denial.” (1:5)
“The acceptance of guilt into the mind of God’s Son was the beginning of the separation, as the acceptance of the Atonement is its end.” (2:1)
“Love does not kill to save. If it did, attack would be salvation, and this is the ego’s interpretation, not God’s.” (3:3)
“The world is a picture of the crucifixion of God’s son. And until you realize that God’s Son cannot be crucified, this is the world you will see. Yet you will not realize this until you accept the eternal fact that God’s Son is not guilty. He deserves only love because he has given only love.” (4:1-4)
In summary, the “Introduction” is saying:
Guilt is embodied in this world through our bodies. And it is the words and actions committed through our bodies that we wish to condemn if we decide we are unhappy. Yet we are accusers of nothing and no one, for no one is truly their body or what they think they can do with it. No one can be killed, for we cannot die. Love knows this, for it knows you are eternal and cannot be crucified in any way. Love knows you are not guilty – being in a body cannot change Who You Are in truth. Until we realize this and extend only love to one another, the real world, the guiltless world, will escape our vision.
I. Guiltlessness and Invulnerability
“Guilt hides Christ from your sight, for it is the denial of the blamelessness of God’s Son.” (1:5)
“For the blamelessness of Christ is the proof that the ego never was, and can never be. Without guilt the ego has no life, and God’s Son is without guilt.” (2:4-5)
“As you look upon yourself and judge what you do honestly, you may be tempted to wonder how you can be guiltless. Yet consider this: You are not guiltless in time, but in eternity.” (3:1-2)
“For the Son of God is guiltless now, and the brightness of his purity shines untouched forever in God’s Mind. God’s Son will always be as he was created. Deny your world and judge him not, for his eternal guiltlessness is in the Mind of his Father, and protects him forever.” (5:6-8)
“When you have accepted the Atonement for yourself, you will realize there is no guilt in God’s Son. And only as you look upon him as guiltless can you understand his oneness.” (6:1-2)
“As you perceive the holy companions who travel with you, you will realize that there is no journey, but only an awakening.” (7:1)
“You are immortal because you are eternal, and “always” must be now. Guilt, then, is a way of holding past and future in your mind to ensure the ego’s continuity.” (8:5-6)
“The ego teaches you to attack yourself because you are guilty, and this must increase the guilt, for guilt is the result of attack. In the ego’s teaching, then, there is no escape from guilt.” (11:1-2)
“The Holy Spirit dispels it simply through the calm recognition that it has never been.” (11:4)
In summary, section 1: “Guiltlessness and Invulnerability” is saying:
If we substitute the word “guilt” anywhere in “A Course In Miracles,” with the word “body,” a clearer understanding comes forth. Take this sentence for example: “Without guilt (the body) the ego has no life, and God’s Son is without guilt (a body).” (2:4-5). And this example: “As you look upon yourself and judge what you do honestly, you may be tempted to wonder how you can be guiltless (bodiless). Yet consider this: You are not guiltless (bodiless) in time, but in eternity.” (3:1-2). With this substitution things make a lot more sense, for we get confused with the world’s definition of “guilt” as something deserving of punishment. Here it is redefined as merely the decision to be in physical form – certainly not something deserving of punishment. The Holy Spirit dispels all guilt (body identification) through the calm recognition that it has never been. We are still the invulnerable beings He created us as and we are still One. This recognition of our guiltlessness or “bodiless-ness” is the acceptance of the Atonement.
II. The Guiltless Son of God
“The ultimate purpose of projection is always to get rid of guilt.” (1:1)
“Only by persuading you that it is you could the ego possibly induce you to project guilt, and thereby keep it in your mind.” (1:4)
“Yet consider how strange a solution the ego’s arrangement is. You project guilt to get rid of it, but you are actually merely concealing it. You do experience the guilt, but you have no idea why.” (2:1-3)
“Yet you have no idea that you are failing the Son of God by seeing him as guilty. Believing you are no longer you, you do not realize that you are failing yourself.” (2:5-6)
“The darkest of your hidden cornerstones holds your belief in guilt from your awareness.” (3:1)
“It does not know who the Son of God is because it is blind.” (3:4)
“To the ego, the guiltless are guilty. Those who do not attack are its “enemies” because, by not valuing its interpretation of salvation, they are in an excellent position to let it go. They have approached the darkest and deepest cornerstone in the ego’s foundation, and while the ego can withstand your raising all else to question, it guards this one secret with its life, for its existence depends on keeping this secret.” (4:1-4)
“In the calm light of truth, let us recognize that you believe you have crucified God’s Son. You have not admitted to this “terrible” secret because you would still wish to crucify him if you could find him.” (5:1-2)
“You have handled this wish to kill yourself by not knowing who you are, and identifying with something else.” (5:4)
“I have said that the crucifixion is the symbol of the ego. When it was confronted with the real guiltlessness of God’s Son it did attempt to kill him, and the reason was that guiltlessness is blasphemous to God. To the ego, the ego is God, and guiltlessness must be interpreted as the final guilt that fully justifies murder.” (6:1-3)
“Atonement has always been interpreted as the release from guilt, and this is correct if it is understood.” (8:1)
“In this understanding lies your remembering, for it is the recognition of love without fear. There will be great joy in Heaven on your homecoming, and the joy will be yours. For the redeemed son of man is the guiltless Son of God, and to recognize him is your redemption.” (9:5-7)
In summary, section 2: “The Guiltless Son of God” is saying:
Guilt is synonymous with the body. When we decided to forget our “bodiless” life and come into physical form, we felt guilty for doing this. And so, the body became the symbol of our guilty choice. And just as we are not guilty in God’s eyes, neither are we really bodies. This is the greatest secret the ego holds against us, the darkest cornerstone of our beliefs we are afraid to give up: we are not bodies. The instant we truly believe this, we are released from guilt. This is the Atonement; the knowing of our Unity in Love. Yet until then, we will believe we crucified God’s Son; condemning Him to an experience of separated bodies. Let us cease to crucify God’s Son; let us cease to see bodies as our true identity. The guiltless Son of God is the bodiless Son of God.
III. The Fear of Redemption
“You may wonder why it is so crucial that you look upon your hatred and realize its full extent. You may also think that it would be easy enough for the Holy Spirit to show it to you, and to dispel it without the need for you to raise it to awareness yourself.” (1:1-2)
“We have said that no one will countenance fear if he recognizes it. Yet in your disordered state of mind you are not afraid of fear. You do not like it, but it is not your desire to attack that really frightens you. You are not seriously disturbed by your hostility.” (1:4-7)
“Your real terror is of redemption.” (1:11)
“Under the ego’s dark foundation is the memory of God, and it is of this that you are really afraid. For this memory would instantly restore you to your proper place, and it is this place that you have sought to leave. Your fear of attack is nothing compared to your fear of love.” (2:1-3)
“For this wish caused the separation, and you have protected it because you do not want the separation healed.” (2:5)
“In honesty, is it not harder for you to say “I love” than “I hate”? You associate love with weakness and hatred with strength, and your own real power seems to you as your real weakness.” (3:1-2)
“You are afraid it would sweep you away from yourself and make you little, because you believe that magnitude lies in defiance, and that attack is grandeur.” (4:2)
“Therefore, you have used the world to cover your love, and the deeper you go into the blackness of the ego’s foundation, the closer you come to the Love that is hidden there. And it is this that frightens you.” (4:4-5)
“Beneath all the grandiosity you hold so dear is your real call for help.” (8:1)
“In that place which you have hidden, you will only to unite with the Father, in loving remembrance of Him. You will find this place of truth as you see it in your brothers, for though they may deceive themselves, like you they long for the grandeur that is in them. And perceiving it you will welcome it, and it will be yours.” (8:3-5)
“But seek this place and you will find it, for Love is in you and will lead you there.” (12:10)
In summary, section 3: “The Fear of Redemption” is saying:
It seems unbelievable to hear that we are actually afraid of love. Isn’t this what we have been seeking for with all of our hearts combined? Yet we have been led by the ego on this hunt, and it has led us only deeper into darkness; and this is exactly where we need to go in order to find the Love that we have hidden there. We cannot skim the surface of life, looking for love outside of us – this is exactly where the ego would have us endlessly waste our time. It would have us seek for it in relationships, ownership of various things and perhaps in a specific location in the world. We need go nowhere and seek no one. We carry the sacred space where Love resides within us. And whence we see it in all those around us, we will have found it within ourselves. Let go of the fear of redemption; the fear of seeing only love instead of hate; and you will find what was never lost.
IV. The Function of Time
“And now the reason why you are afraid of this course should be apparent. For this is a course on love, because it is about you.” (1:1-2)
“For you believe that attack is your reality, and that your destruction is the final proof that you were right.” (2:5)
“Under the circumstances, would it not be more desirable to have been wrong, even apart from the fact that you were wrong?” (3:1)
“And even though you know not Heaven, might it not be more desirable than death?” (3:6)
“The ego invests heavily in the past, and in the end believes that the past is the only aspect of time that is meaningful. Remember that its emphasis on guilt enables it to ensure its continuity by making the future like the past, and thus avoiding the present.” (4:2-3)
““Now” has no meaning to the ego. The present merely reminds it of past hurts, and it reacts to the present as if it were the past.” (5:1-2)’
“It dictates your reactions to those you meet in the present from a past reference point, obscuring their present reality.” (5:4)
“The shadowy figures from the past are precisely what you must escape. They are not real, and have no hold over you unless you bring them with you.” (6:1-2)
“Unless you learn that past pain is an illusion, you are choosing a future of illusions and losing the many opportunities you could find for release in the present. The ego would preserve your nightmares, and prevent you from awakening and understanding they are past.” (6:5-6)
“It is evident that the Holy Spirit’s perception of time is the exact opposite of the ego’s.” (7:1)
“The Holy Spirit interprets time’s purpose as rendering the need for time unnecessary.” (7:3)
“For only “now” is here, and only “now” presents the opportunities for the holy encounters in which salvation can be found.” (7:7)
“If you accept your function in the world of time as one of healing, you will emphasize only the aspect of time in which healing can occur.” (9:2)
“It must be accomplished in the present to release the future.” (9:4)
In summary, section 4: “The Function of Time” is saying:
The ego would use time to perpetuate its own existence. It needs time in order to keep past memories of hurtful images in your mind, in order to keep you focused on this reality. Without the focus on such thoughts of the past, the future would be open to a new reality; the only other reality that can be experienced: God’s Reality of Love. So, we unknowingly allow the ego to poison our present with its hateful, painful thoughts of past events which only manifests a future that accommodates such thinking. If we cut off such thoughts, we cut off the ego’s seeming power to manifest more of what we say we do not want. We then use time in the way the Holy Spirit uses it: see no past in anyone and you render the effects of time undone. And when time is used in this way, time itself is undone. You will be living purely in the present moment, and it is only in the present moment you can be healed of the past. This is our only function in time; to be healed now through true forgiveness; the letting go of all we think or know about what we see in the here and now.
V. The Two Emotions
“I have said you have but two emotions, love and fear. One is changeless but continually exchanged, being offered by the eternal to the eternal.” (1:1-2)
“The other has many forms, for the content of individual illusions differs greatly. Yet they have one thing in common; they are all insane.” (1:4-5)
“They make up a private world that cannot be shared.” (1:7)
“In this world their maker moves alone, for only he perceives them.” (1:9)
“Each one peoples his world with figures from his individual past, and it is because of this that private worlds do differ. Yet the figures that he sees were never real, for they are made up only of his reactions to his brothers, and do not include their reactions to him.” (2:1-2)
“It is through these strange and shadowy figures that the insane relate to their insane world.” (3:1)
“You have but two emotions, yet in your private world you react to each of them as though it were the other.” (5:1)
“Everyone draws nigh unto what he loves, and recoils from what he fears. And you react with fear to love, and draw away from it. Yet fear attracts you, and believing it is love, you call it to yourself. Your private world is filled with figures of fear you have invited into it, and all the love your brothers offer you, you do not see.” (5:4-7)
“As you look with open eyes upon your world, it must occur to you that you have withdrawn into insanity.” (6:1)
“But let the darkness go and all you made you will no longer see, for sight of it depends upon denying vision.” (8:5)
“Dreams disappear when light has come and you can see.” (8:9)
“You have but two emotions, and one you made and one was given you. Each is a way of seeing, and different worlds arise from their different sights. See through the vision that is given you, for through Christ’s vision He beholds Himself.” (10:1-3)
“And all who would behold Him can see Him, for they have asked for light.” (11:2)
“In the sanity of His vision they looked upon themselves with love, seeing themselves as the Holy Spirit sees them.” (11:6)
In summary, section 5: “The Two Emotions” is saying:
We look upon the world and it never occurs to us that we are seeing only half the picture. The part we are missing, is everyone else’s experience of us. We have no idea what anyone else is going through or what they are dealing with. And so, we walk this world with our one-sided egocentric perspective, completely ignorant of any other world but the small one we have inside our head. This narrow vision stems from fear; the ego. Yet, we have another choice in seeing. We can choose to see through the eyes of the Holy Spirit Who sees that we are one, and what we do to another we do to ourself. We may not know the story someone else is carrying around inside their head, but do we need to? Is it not enough to know we share an eternal Love in our beingness with them? The only sane thing to do in this insane world of one-sided perception is to ask for the light; to see sanely. The light is our understanding of our unity and it will shine away all dark thoughts of separate existences.
VI. Finding the Present
“To perceive truly is to be aware of all reality through the awareness of your own.” (1:1)
“This means that you perceive a brother only as you see him now.” (1:3)
“If you remember the past as you look upon your brother, you will be unable to perceive the reality that is now.” (1:7)
“You consider it “natural” to use your past experience as the reference point from which to judge the present.” (2:1)
“When you have learned to look on everyone with no reference at all to the past, either his or yours as you perceived it, you will be able to learn from what you see now. For the past can cast no shadow to darken the present, unless you are afraid of light.” (2:3-4)
“The Christ as revealed to you now has no past, for He is changeless, and in His changelessness lies your release.” (3:2)
“To be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present.” (3:5)
“Time can release as well as imprison, depending on whose interpretation of it you use.” (4:1)
“You would anticipate the future on the basis of your past experience, and plan for it accordingly. Yet by doing so you are aligning past and future, and not allowing the miracle, which could intervene between them, to free you to be born again.” (4:7-8)
“The miracle enables you to see your brother without his past, and so perceive him as born again.” (5:1)
“Judgment and condemnation are behind you, and unless you bring them with you, you will see that you are free of them.” (6:1)
“The present offers you your brothers in the light that would unite you with them, and free you from the past.” (7:1)
“In timeless union with them is your continuity, unbroken because it is wholly shared.” (8:3)
“Child of Light, you know not that the light is in you. Yet you will find it through its witnesses, for having given light to them they will return it.” (10:1-2)
“Love always leads to love.” (10:4)
“Awakening unto Christ is following the laws of love of your free will, and out of quiet recognition of the truth in them. The attraction of light must draw you willingly, and willingness is signified by giving.” (12:1-2)
“You dream of isolation because your eyes are closed. You do not see your brothers, and in the darkness you cannot look upon the light you gave to them.” (12:6-7)
“Even in sleep has Christ protected you, ensuring the real world for you when you awake.” (13:3)
In summary, section 6: “Finding the Present” is saying:
If we are truly being present-minded, that is, living fully in the present moment, then no thoughts about another’s past can intrude upon our mind. This seems like an impossible task. How can we simply just forget about the past we have had with people? Yet, here we are only being asked to let go of the pain we remember and understand that the situation that caused it, is now done and over with. We need not hold onto such charged negative emotions. Here in the present, we remain as God created us: united, whole and completely unharmed. There is no sense in hanging onto what is gone. To let go of the past, is to forgive. And to forgive is to allow the present moment to dawn into reality without the past imposing itself upon it. And now a miracle can happen because you have made space for it in the present moment by clearing away the past. The real world, as God created it out of His Love, is then free to come into your awareness.
VII. Attainment of the Real World
“Sit quietly and look upon the world you see, and tell yourself: “The real world is not like this. It has no buildings and there are no streets where people walk alone and separate. There are no stores where people buy an endless list of things they do not need. It is not lit with artificial light, and night comes not upon it. There is no day that brightens and grows dim. There is no loss. Nothing is there but shines, and shines forever.”” (1:1-7)
“You do not really want the world you see, for it has disappointed you since time began.” (3:1)
“Yet the real world has the power to touch you even here, because you love it. And what you call with love will come to you.” (4:1-2)
“No one in this distracted world but has seen some glimpse of the other world about him. Yet while he still lays value on his own, he will deny the vision of the other, maintaining that he loves what he loves not, and following not the road that love points out.” (6:1-2)
“You will first dream of peace, and then awaken to it. Your first exchange of what you made for what you want is the exchange of nightmares for the happy dreams of love.” (9:1-2)
“In your world you do need things.” (10:4)
“Everything the ego tells you that you need will hurt you. For although the ego urges you again and again to get, it leaves you nothing, for what you get it will demand of you.” (11:1-2)
“Only the Holy Spirit knows what you need. For He will give you all things that do not block the way to light.” (12:1-2)
“Leave, then, your needs to Him. He will supply them with no emphasis at all upon them.” (13:1-2)
“Whenever you are tempted to undertake a useless journey that would lead away from light, remember what you really want, and say:
The Holy Spirit leads me unto Christ, and where else would I go? What need have I but to awake in Him?” (14:1-3)
“Then follow Him in joy, with faith that He will lead you safely through all dangers to your peace of mind this world may set before you.” (15:1)
“In me you have already overcome every temptation that would hold you back. We walk together on the way to quietness that is the gift of God. Hold me dear, for what except your brothers can you need?” (16:1-3)
“We cannot sing redemption’s hymn alone.” (17:1)
“Give thanks to every part of you that you have taught how to remember you.” (17:8)
In summary, section 7: “Attainment of the Real World” is saying:
Throughout the Course, we are told over and over that this world is an illusion and there is another world just beyond this one that is our true reality. We can all agree that we would love a better reality, but most of us think we have to die in order to reach it. Yet, here we are told that we can experience our true reality even before that. We can reach it through relinquishing the value we hold on this one. It is through the tight hold we have on it, that keeps it before our eyes. We hold onto it through our striving for the things within it. These “needs” supersede our one true need: to awaken to our oneness, which is our true reality. We can practice this now, here in a world that shows us anything but oneness and call the real world forth. We call it forth through appreciation of the oneness we know and believe is true, though we cannot yet see it.
VIII. From Perception to Knowledge
“All healing is release from the past.” (1:1)
“For the mind that knows this unequivocally knows also it dwells in eternity, and utilizes no perception at all.” (1:5)
“It knows that it is everywhere, just as it has everything, and forever.” (1:7)
“You are an aspect of knowledge, being in the Mind of God, Who knows you. All knowledge must be yours, for in you is all knowledge. Perception, at its loftiest, is never complete. Even the perception of the Holy Spirit, as perfect as perception can be, is without meaning in Heaven.” (2:3-6)
“Perfect perception, then, has many elements in common with knowledge, making transfer to it possible. Yet the last step must be taken by God, because the last step in your redemption, which seems to be in the future, was accomplished by God in your creation. The separation has not interrupted it.” (3:1-3)
“This is the miracle of creation; that it is one forever.” (5:1)
“Though every aspect is the whole, you cannot know this until you see that every aspect is the same, perceived in the same light and therefore one. Everyone seen without the past thus brings you nearer to the end of time by bringing healed and healing sight into the darkness, and enabling the world to see.” (5:3-4)
“They are all the same; all beautiful and equal in their holiness.” (6:1)
“Offer Christ’s gift to everyone and everywhere, for miracles, offered the Son of God through the Holy Spirit, attune you to reality.” (7:2)
“Knowledge is far beyond your individual concern. You who are part of it and all of it need only realize that it is of the Father, not of you. Your role in the redemption leads you to it be re-establishing its oneness in your mind.” (7:4-6)
“God waits your witness to His Son and to Himself. The miracles you do on earth are lifted up to Heaven and to Him. They witness to what you do not know, and as they reach the gates of Heaven, God will open them.” (10:4-6)
In summary, section 8: “From Perception to Knowledge” is saying:
We can only perceive within our minds the oneness that we share; we cannot yet “see it” any other way. We cannot know it until God takes us that last and final step into the experience of our unity. Until then, we must continually practice the mindset necessary to make the final leap; we can release everyone from their past through letting go of all the emotions we hold against them. We can learn to see all people as the same; all beautiful and equal in their unity with us. To offer this thought, is to offer a miracle, for such thoughts “attune” you to God’s reality. Exactly what that reality is like, is none of our concern. Our only job is to hold the vibration of oneness in our mind. These miraculous thoughts will literally lift us up to the gates of Heaven itself. And when God takes the final step for us, we will have moved from mere perception to total knowledge.
IX. The Cloud of Guilt
“Guilt remains the only thing that hides the Father, for guilt is the attack upon His Son. The guilty always condemn, and having done so they will still condemn, linking the future to the past as is the ego’s law.” (1:1-2)
“Therefore give no obedience to its laws, for they are laws of punishment. And those who follow them believe that they are guilty, and so they must condemn. Between the future and the past the laws of God must intervene, if you would free yourself.” (1:5-7)
“Release from guilt is the ego’s whole undoing. Make no one fearful, for his guilt is yours, and by obeying the ego’s harsh commandments you bring its condemnation on yourself, and you will not escape the punishment it offers those who obey it.” (2:1-2)
“You will accept your treasure, and if you place your faith in the past, the future will be like it. Whatever you hold dear you think is yours. The power of your valuing will make it so.” (3:3-5)
“Atonement brings a re-evaluation of everything you cherish, for it is the means by which the Holy Spirit can separate the false and the true, which you have accepted into your mind without distinction.” (4:1)
“The idea that the guiltless Son of God can attack himself and make himself guilty is insane. In any form, in anyone, believe this not.” (5:3-4)
“See no one, then, as guilty, and you will affirm the truth of guiltlessness unto yourself.” (6:1)
“If you would look within you would see only the Atonement, shining in quiet and in peace upon the altar to your Father.” (7:6)
“Do not be afraid to look within. The ego tells you all is black with guilt within you, and bids you not to look.” (8:1-2)
“Can you see guilt where God knows there is perfect innocence?” (8:11)
“Look, then, upon the light He placed within you, and learn that what you feared was there has been replaced with love.” (8:13)
In summary, section 9: “The Cloud of Guilt” is saying:
Let us remember that the term “guilt” is synonymous with the word “body,” as the body is the ego’s manifestation of our seeming separation from God and each other. The body represents the “guilty secret” we keep from our memory – it is the cloud behind which we hide from God and one another. We cannot see past this “cloud” because we see nothing but the body in whomever we look upon. The only way to see beyond it, is to believe it is false, which is to forgive it. Forgive our guilt in one another and we forgive it in ourself. Forgive the bodies we see, and we forgive our own. To do this, we must re-evaluate everything we see. Believe in our innocence, our “bodiless-ness” and you will see past the “cloud of guilt” and look upon the light within instead.
X. Release from Guilt
“You are accustomed to the notion that the mind can see the source of pain where it is not.” (1:1)
“Displacement always is maintained by the illusion that the source of guilt, from which attention is diverted, must be true; and must be fearful, or you would not have displaced the guilt onto what you believe to be less fearful.” (1:3)
“In any union with a brother in which you seek to lay your guilt upon him, or share it with him or perceive his own, you will feel guilty. Nor will you find satisfaction and peace with him, because your union with him is not real.” (3:1-2)
“When you maintain that you are guilty but the source of your guilt lies in the past, you are not looking inward.” (4:1)
“Determine, then, to be not as you were. Use no relationship to hold you to the past, but with each one each day be born again. A minute, even less, will be enough to free you from the past, and give your mind in peace over to the Atonement. When everyone is welcome to you as you would have yourself be welcome to your Father, you will see no guilt in you.” (5:1-4)
“Look through the cloud of guilt that dims your vision, and look past darkness to the holy place where you will see the light.” (9:6)
“Release from guilt as you would be released.” (10:1)
“You cannot enter into real relationships with any of God’s Sons unless you love them all and equally. Love is not special. If you single out part of the Sonship for your love, you are imposing guilt on all your relationships and making them unreal. You can only love as God loves.” (11:1-4)
“Behold the Son of God, and look upon his purity and be still. In quiet look upon his holiness and offer thanks unto his Father that no guilt has ever touched him.” (11:10-11)
“I thank You, Father, for the purity of Your most holy Son, whom You have created guiltless forever.” (12:6)
“Praise be to you who make the Father one with His Own Son. Alone we are all lowly, but together we shine with brightness so intense that none of us alone can even think of it.” (14:1)
“United in this praise we stand before the gates of Heaven where we will surely enter in our sinlessness.” (14:6)
In summary, section 10: “Release from Guilt” is saying:
Often, we displace our pain and suffering onto other people, believing they are the cause. And sometimes we lay blame on ourself. Both viewpoints hold us equally in the cold hard grasp of guilt. Our release from this situation is simple: see no one as a body. If guilt is represented in this world as the body, then remembering it is not who we are, will release you from it. Then you must also release every word and action that came from the body, or else no one is truly released. Without this form of release, all relationships will eventually fall apart, because you are seeing yourselves as being apart. Our union is not through the physical. Our union is in Spirit. We have set up worldly institutions that allow us to lay claim to one another through marriage and other forms of familial bonds; which all have their place and function. However, we will not see that we are all equally part of One Love, while guilt (the body) remains the only thing we see. Let us be glad and give thanks it is not the truth of our existence, and that even now, we are released from guilt, “the body.”
XI. The Peace of Heaven
“Forgetfulness and sleep and even death become the ego’s best advice for dealing with the perceived and harsh intrusion of guilt on peace.” (1:1)
“When we are all united in Heaven, you will value nothing that you value here.” (3:1)
“In Heaven is everything God values, and nothing else.” (3:7)
“Everything is clear and bright, and calls forth one response.” (3:9)
“There is a sense of peace so deep that no dream in this world has ever brought even a dim imagining of what it is.” (3:13)
“Nothing in this world can give this peace, for nothing in this world is wholly shared.” (4:1)
“Whatever your reactions to the Holy Spirit’s Voice may be, whatever voice you choose to listen to, whatever strange thoughts may occur to you, God’s Will is done. You will find the peace in which He has established you, because He does not change His Mind.” (5:4-5)
“Fear not the Holy Spirit will fail in what your Father has given Him to do. The Will of God can fail in nothing.” (6:8-9)
“Have faith in only this one thing, and it will be sufficient: God wills you be in Heaven and nothing can keep you from it, or it from you.” (7:1)
“The Communication Link that God Himself placed within you, joining your mind with His, cannot be broken.” (8:1)
“Peace will be yours because His peace still flows to you from Him Whose Will is peace. You have it now. The Holy Spirit will teach you how to use it, and by extending it, to learn that it is in you.” (8:4-6)
“Learn that even the darkest nightmare that disturbs the mind of God’s sleeping Son holds no power over him.” (9:5)
“You do not have to know that Heaven is yours to make it so. It is so. Yet to know it, the Will of God must be accepted as your will.” (10:5-7)
In summary, section 11: “The Peace of Heaven” is saying:
There is such a sharp contrast between our life in Heaven and our life here in this world, that the only way the ego can convince us to stay is through deception. We have had to completely obliterate the memory of Heaven from our minds, in order to tolerate this world of separate forms. And though we find many things here that we think we want, all of it is nothing compared to what lies in wait for us in the real world. It is a peace and joy that nothing in this world can give. And so, it is, that we will value nothing we leave behind. We are promised by God Himself that we will find our way back from whence we came. We have a Communication Link, the Holy Spirit, embedded within our very soul, linking us to God. Yet, in order to make our communication two-way – where we can hear God as well as He can hear us – we must match our thoughts to His. Our vibrations must be in accord with the Will of the Holy Spirit, the Voice for God. We do this through forgiveness. It is God’s Will that we forgive this world of guilt; this world of bodies and separate forms. Forgiveness looks beyond what is here and sees only our eternal unity. And so it is, we can live in a guiltless (bodiless) world.
This concludes CHAPTER 13: THE GUILTLESS WORLD
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