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"There is no surer proof idolatry is what you wish than a belief there are some forms of sickness and of joylessness forgiveness cannot heal. This means that you prefer to keep some idols, and are not prepared as yet to let all idols go. And thus you think that some appearances are real and not appearances at all. Be not deceived about the meaning of a fixed belief that some appearances are harder to look past than others are. It always means you think forgiveness must be limited. And you have set a goal of partial pardon and a limited escape from guilt for you. What can this be except a false forgiveness of yourself and everyone who seems apart from you? A COURSE IN MIRACLES CH 30 THE NEW BEGINNING, VII "The Justification For Forgiveness" 75
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L e s s o n 320
My Father gives all power unto me.
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IAMBIC PENTAMETER
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The Son of God is limitless. There are
no limits on his strength, his peace, his joy,
or any attributes his Father gave
in his creation. What he wills with his
Creator and Redeemer must be done.
His holy will can never be denied
because his Father shines upon his mind,
and lays before it all the strength and love
in earth and Heaven. I am he to whom
all this is given. I am he in whom
the power of my Father's Will abides.
"Your Will can do all things in me, and then
extend to all the world as well through me.
There is no limit on Your Will. And so
all power has been given to Your Son."
~ Original Handscript of ACIM
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What is the Last Judgment?
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Christ's Second Coming gives the Son of God
the gift to hear the Voice for God proclaim
that what is false is false, and what is true
has never changed. And this the judgment is
in which perception ends. At first you see
a world which has accepted this as true,
projected from a now corrected mind.
And with this holy sight, perception gives
a silent blessing and then disappears,
its goal accomplished and its mission done.
The final judgment on the world contains
no condemnation. For it sees the world
as totally forgiven, without sin,
and wholly purposeless. Without a cause,
and now without a function in Christ's sight,
it merely slips away to nothingness.
There it was born, and there it ends as well.
And all the figures in the dream in which
the world began go with it. Bodies now
are useless, and will therefore fade away,
because the Son of God is limitless.
You who believed that Gods last judgment would
condemn the world to hell along with you,
accept this holy truth: God's judgment is
the gift of the Correction He bestowed
on all your errors, freeing you from them,
and all effects they ever seemed to have.
To fear HIs saving grace is but to fear
complete release from suffering, return
to peace, security and happiness,
and union with your own Identity.
God's final judgment is as merciful
as every step in His appointed plan
to save His Son, and call Him to return
to the eternal peace He shares with him.
Be not afraid of Love. For It alone
can heal all sorrow, wipe away all tears,
and gently waken from his dreams of pain
the Son whom God acknowledges as His.
Be not afraid of this. Salvation asks
you give it welcome. And the world awaits
your glad acceptance, which will set it free.|
This is God's final judgment: "You are still
My holy Son, forever innocent,
forever loving and forever loved,
as limitless as Your Creator, and
completely changeless and forever pure.
Therefore awaken and return to Me.
I am Your Father, and you are My Son.
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ACIM Edmonton - Sarah's Reflections
Lesson 320
My Father gives all power unto me.
Sarah's Commentary:
In the Bible, in Mathew 28.18 Jesus speaks the words "all power is given unto me" which he spoke shortly after his resurrection. These words are now being spoken by us in this lesson which is that acknowledgement that we are the same as Jesus which is something he keeps reminding us. In the Clarification of Terms, he says "The name of Jesus is the name of one who was a man but saw the face of Christ in all his brothers and remembered God." (C.5.2.1) He walked this path before and went all the way home, listening only to the Voice for God (the Holy Spirit) being free of the ego's voice. Freedom from the ego is indeed the reality of the mind of the mystic who, while still in this dream, is nevertheless in true perception. To be in true perception is to be in the real world.
That is where our journey takes us. That is our goal! We, together with Jesus, are all equal as the Sons of God although Jesus explains that he is further in time, though there is no time. Nevertheless he is at the top of the ladder, guiding us, step by step, to where he is. Again in the Clarification of Terms he says that "there is no need for help to enter Heaven for you have never left". (C.5.1.1) Our true reality is limitless and that reality has all of the characteristics of God. But we don't know that. That is not our experience currently. Therefore, "there is need for help beyond yourself as you are circumscribed by false beliefs of your Identity Which God alone established in reality." (C.5.1.2) And Jesus is a symbol in our minds of that help.
How can we not be this perfect, unlimited Self if God is God and calls us His Son? How can we not be if God's Will is limitless? How is it then possible that He cannot do all things in us and through us? It is simple logic. It is undeniable even though our minds want to deny it. The ego asks "where is the proof?" Jesus keeps reasoning with us to accept the truth by making space for it by bringing our doubt thoughts, our fears, our questions to the truth so that we can experience the peace and happiness is assures us is in us. We have been wrongly taught. We have come to believe that we have made ourselves rather than that we are a Son of God with all His attributes.
This lesson assures us that the truth about us as the Son of God is that we are limitless. We can't limit our strength, our peace, our joy nor any other of the attributes that are natural to us because they have been given us by God in our creation. And His Will must be done so we can't change that about ourselves. To be limitless is to recognize our Reality which we can't change and have not changed. Sure we can mess up, experience pain and grief and unworthiness. But these thoughts in our mind are not the truth. We have come to believe in our own thoughts about ourselves so thoroughly that we need this constant work and vigilance where we are told again and again that we have made what is false and have denied the truth about ourselves. That is what keeps the ego intact. We believe that we have done terrible things and that we deserve to suffer. And we choose to listen to that incessant voice and to believe what it tells us.
Yet in this lesson, once again, we are told that "My holy will can never be denied because my Father shines upon my mind, and lays before me all the strength and love in earth and Heaven." (1.4) And what He wills must be done. So again we are told that nothing we have done or still can do, will ever change the truth about us.
How do we ever experience this limitless nature? Again and again, we are told that we will know our innocence when we offer forgiveness so that we will see only innocence in our brothers and sisters. The innocence in our mind is now extended where we see everyone as we see ourselves. To forgive is to release our judgments and grievances and all the ways that we keep ourselves separate through our specialness. By now we understand the process of forgiveness. It requires that we start by looking at our own mind. Our nature is love and therefore being unloving brings us pain. We have to admit that we were wrong when we thought we could gain something through our attacks, judgments, comparisons. When we do this we are aiming for pleasure, the pleasure of putting someone down, seeing ourselves as superior, yet all we got was more pain and more guilt. We have betrayed our true loving nature and that always hurts us. We think that by seeing guilt in them, we will feel more innocent but we are wrong. All that happens is we feel more pain. When I see something that I have anger, frustration, judgments about in someone, I ask myself what is my version of this same thing that I am judging in you? Before reacting, stop and investigate. How do I try to get away with something? How do I protect myself and defend myself? How do I do my best to look after my own interests? What do I get impatient with others about?
It does not matter what misbehaviors a brother is engaged in. When we make a judgment about it, we can be assured that we have judged ourselves for the very same thing first. But if we take responsibility for our judgments, and are prepared to look at our own version of what we are judging, then the healing can begin. In our self acceptance we will find acceptance of others. Pay attention to what is going on inside of you not what is going on outside. Watch your thoughts and ask for help to release them. This is how we release all the comparisons we make with others, all of the judgments, all of the jealousies, all of the attack thoughts and truly surrender our will. We must take responsibility for everything. We are not victims of anyone or any circumstance. Forgiveness as defined in the course is not about forgiving anything real but only our interpretation of an event, person or situation. The truth is that we are all innocent in our reality. We share the same nature as Jesus.
We recently watched the movie Quantum Activist where Amit Goswami says that the reality is that we can't attack anyone without attacking ourselves. If we really got that, would we ever judge anyone? We are only hurting ourselves. We have first judged ourselves for some version of what we are seeing out there, in another. But there are benefits to seeing ourselves in these situations when we are willing to step aside from our behaviors and be curious about our own process. Only by shining a light on our ego, can the healing happen. Amit acknowledged in this movie that it is indeed hard to get out of our conditioning. Our habit patterns are hard to break. But through preparation of our minds through teachings such as this course, followed by what he calls an incubation period, shift can happen. Our incubation may be seen as a quiet focus on these lessons and recognition that "I need do nothing" to make myself into the truth of what I am. So why is it so difficult? We need to understand how invested we are in our individuality. This self that we have made is very threatened by the truth. Recognize that and be gentle with yourself in this journey to the Self that we all are.
As long as we maintain that the way we see things, the way we rationalize our anger, the way we defend our perceptions is the truth, we will not know of our changeless nature and of our power. Because we want so much to be right about the way we see things, we have agreed to forsake our own happiness, crazy as that is!
So, today ask yourself "what limitations am I putting myself? Our first limitation is to believe in the reality of the body. Thus we think we are these separate individuals fighting for our survival in the world and competing with every other body. We feel vulnerable. We may be feeling anger, pain, distress, sadness, disappointment, anticipation, stress, grief, or even pleasure...it is all incorrect perception. It is all a reminder of that which is false. It is all limiting. So bring all of these thoughts today to the Holy Spirit and be willing to have Him undo them so you can know the truth about yourself. What we are doing is bringing these thoughts to the light of Truth which is already in us. Through this process we will increasingly recognize that all God's power is given unto us because we are God's Son. As the previous lesson said, this is not arrogance because this power is not mine alone. We can only know this power when we realize we all share the same power and the same Self.
Love and blessings, Sarah
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Chapter Thirty
The New Beginning
VII. The Justification For Forgiveness
70 Anger is never justified. Attack has no foundation. It is here escape from fear begins and will be made complete. Here is the real world given in exchange for dreams of terror. For it is on this forgiveness rests and is but natural. You are not asked to offer pardon where attack is due and would be justified. For this would mean that you forgive a sin by overlooking what is really there. This is not pardon. For it would assume that, by responding in a way which is not justified, your pardon will become the answer to attack that has been made. And thus is pardon inappropriate, by being granted where it is not due.
71 Pardon is always justified. It has a sure foundation. You do not forgive the unforgivable nor overlook a real attack that calls for punishment. Salvation does not lie in being asked to make unnatural responses which are inappropriate to what is real. Instead, it merely asks that you respond appropriately to what is not real by not perceiving what has not occurred. If pardon were unjustified, you would be asked to sacrifice your rights when you return forgiveness for attack. But you are merely asked to see forgiveness as the natural reaction to distress which rests on error and thus calls for help. Forgiveness is the only sane response. It keeps your rights from being sacrificed.
72 This understanding is the only change that lets the real world rise to take the place of dreams of terror. Fear cannot arise unless attack is justified, and if it had a real foundation, pardon would have none. The real world is achieved when you perceive the basis of forgiveness is quite real and fully justified. While you regard it as a gift unwarranted, it must uphold the guilt you would "forgive." Unjustified forgiveness is attack. And this is all the world can ever give. It pardons "sinners" sometimes but remains aware that they have sinned. And so they do not merit the forgiveness that it gives.
73 This is the false forgiveness, which the world employs to keep the sense of sin alive. And recognizing God is just, it seems impossible His pardon could be real. Thus is the fear of God the sure result of seeing pardon as unmerited. No one who sees himself as guilty can avoid the fear of God. But he is saved from this dilemma if he can forgive. The mind must think of its Creator as it looks upon itself. If you can see your brother merits pardon, you have learned forgiveness is your right as much as his. Nor will you think that God intends for you a fearful judgment which your brother does not merit. For it is the truth that you can merit neither more nor less than he.
74 Forgiveness recognized as merited will heal. It gives the miracle its strength to overlook illusions. This is how you learn that you must be forgiven too. There can be no appearance that can not be overlooked. For if there were, it would be necessary first there be some sin which stands beyond forgiveness. There would be an error that is more than a mistake-a special form of error which remains unchangeable, eternal, and beyond correction or escape. There would be one mistake which had the power to undo creation and to make a world which could replace it and destroy the Will of God. Only if this were possible could there be some appearances which could withstand the miracle and not be healed by it.
75 There is no surer proof idolatry is what you wish than a belief there are some forms of sickness and of joylessness forgiveness cannot heal. This means that you prefer to keep some idols, and are not prepared as yet to let all idols go. And thus you think that some appearances are real and not appearances at all. Be not deceived about the meaning of a fixed belief that some appearances are harder to look past than others are. It always means you think forgiveness must be limited. And you have set a goal of partial pardon and a limited escape from guilt for you. What can this be except a false forgiveness of yourself and everyone who seems apart from you?
76 It must be true the miracle can heal all forms of sickness, or it cannot heal. Its purpose cannot be to judge which forms are real and which appearances are true. If one appearance must remain apart from healing, one illusion must be part of truth. And you could not escape all guilt, but only some of it. You must forgive God's Son entirely. Or you will keep an image of yourself that is not whole and will remain afraid to look within and find escape from every idol there. Salvation rests on faith there cannot be some forms of guilt which you cannot forgive. And so there cannot be appearances which have replaced the truth about God's Son.
77 Look on your brother with the willingness to see him as he is. And do not keep a part of him outside your willingness that he be healed. To heal is to make whole. And what is whole can have no missing parts that have been kept outside. Forgiveness rests on recognizing this and being glad there cannot be some forms of sickness which the miracle must lack the power to heal.
78 God's Son is perfect, or he cannot be God's Son. Nor will you know him if you think he does not merit the escape from guilt in all its forms and all its consequence. There is no way to think of him but this if you would know the truth about yourself:
79 I thank you, Father, for your perfect Son, And in his glory will I see my own.
80 Here is the joyful statement that there are no forms of evil which can overcome the Will of God-the glad acknowledgment that guilt has not succeeded by your wish to make illusions real. And what is this except a simple statement of the truth?
81 Look on your brother with this hope in you, and you will understand he could not make an error that could change the truth in him. It is not difficult to overlook mistakes that have been given no effects. But what you see as having power to make an idol of the Son of God you will not pardon. For he has become to you a graven image and a sign of death. Is this your savior? Is his Father wrong about His Son? Or have you been deceived in him who has been given you to heal, for your salvation and deliverance?
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