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A COURSE IN MIRACLES
CH 12 "THE PROBLEM OF GUILT"
II. CRUCIFIXION BY GUILT
 

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 still wish to crucify him if you could find him. Yet the wish has hidden him from you because it is very fearful, and you are afraid to find him. You have handled this wish to kill yourself by not knowing who you are and identifying with something else. You have projected guilt blindly and indiscriminately, but you have not uncovered its source. For the ego does want to kill you, and if you identify with it, you must believe its goal is yours.

 

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 L e s s o n 134
Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.

 
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   Let us review the meaning of "forgive,"

   for it is apt to be distorted and

   to be perceived as something which entails

   an unfair sacrifice of righteous wrath,

   a gift unjustified and undeserved,

   and a complete denial of the truth.

   In such a view, forgiveness must be seen

   as mere eccentric folly, and this course

   appears to rest salvation on a whim.|

 

   This twisted view of what salvation means

   is easily corrected when you can

   accept the fact that pardon is not asked

   for what is true. It must be limited

   to what is false. It is irrelevant

   to everything except illusions. Truth

   is God's creation, and to pardon this

   is meaningless. All truth belongs to Him,

   reflects His laws and radiates His Love.

   Does this need pardon? How can you forgive

   the sinless and eternally benign?|

 

   The major difficulty that you find

   in genuine forgiveness on your part

   is that you still believe you must forgive

   the truth and not illusions. You conceive

   of pardon as a vain attempt to look

   past what is there; to overlook the truth

   in an unfounded effort to deceive

   yourself by making an illusion true.

   This twisted viewpoint but reflects the hold

   that the idea of sin retains as yet

   upon your mind as you regard yourself.|

 

   Because you think your sins are real, you look

   on pardon as deception. For it is

   impossible to think of sin as true

   and not believe forgiveness is a lie.

   Thus is forgiveness really but a sin,

   like all the rest. It says the truth is false,

   and smiles on the corrupt as if they were

   as blameless as the grass; as white as snow.

   It is delusional in what it thinks

   it can accomplish. It would see as right

   the plainly wrong; the loathsome as the good.|

 

   Pardon is no escape in such a view.

   It merely is a further sign that sin

   is unforgivable, at best to be

   concealed, denied, or called another name,

   for pardon is a treachery to truth.

   Guilt cannot be forgiven. If you sin,

   your guilt is everlasting. Those who are

   forgiven from the view their sins are real

   are pitifully mocked and twice condemned;

   first by themselves for what they think they did,

   and once again by those who pardon them.|

 

   It is sin's unreality which makes

   forgiveness natural and kind and sane,

   a deep relief to those who offer it;

   a quiet blessing where it is received.

   It does not countenance illusions, but

   collects them lightly, with a little laugh,

   and gently lays them at the feet of truth.

   And there they disappear entirely.|

    

   Forgiveness is the only thing that stands

   for truth in the illusions of the world.

   It sees their nothingness, and looks right through

   the thousand forms in which they may appear.

   It looks on lies but it is not deceived.

   It does not heed the self-accusing shrieks

   of sinners mad with guilt. It looks on them

   with quiet eyes, and merely says to them,

   "My brother, what you think is not the truth."|

 

   The strength of pardon is its honesty,

   which is so uncorrupted that it sees

   illusions as illusions, not as truth.

   It is because of this that it becomes

   the undeceiver in the face of lies,

   the great restorer of the simple truth.

   By its ability to overlook

   what is not there, it opens up the way

   to truth, which had been blocked by dreams of guilt.

   

   Now are you free to follow in the way

   your true forgiveness opens up to you.

   For if one brother has received this gift

   of you, the door is open to yourself.|

   There is a very simple way to find

   the door to true forgiveness, and perceive

   it open wide in welcome. When you feel

   that you are tempted to accuse someone

   of sin in any form, do not allow

   your mind to dwell on what you think he did,

   for this is self-deception. Ask instead,

   "Would I accuse myself of doing this?"|

 

   Thus will you see alternatives for choice

   in terms which render choosing meaningful,

   and keep your mind as free of guilt and pain

   as God Himself intended it to be,

   and as it is in truth. It is but lies

   which would condemn. In truth is innocence

   the only thing there is. Forgiveness stands

   between illusions and the truth, between

   the world you see and that which lies beyond,

   between the hell of guilt and Heaven's gate.|

 

   Across this bridge, as powerful as Love

   Which laid Its blessing on it, are all dreams

   of evil and of hatred and attack

   brought silently to truth. They are not kept

   to swell and bluster and to terrify

   the foolish dreamer who believes in them.

   He has been gently wakened from his dream

   by understanding what he thought he saw

   was never there. And now he cannot feel

   that all escape has been denied to him.|

 

   He does not have to fight to save himself.

   He does not have to kill the dragons which

   he thought pursued him. Nor need he erect

   the heavy walls of stone and iron doors

   he thought would make him safe. He can take off

   the ponderous and useless armor made

   to chain his mind to fear and misery.

   His step is light, and as he lifts his foot

   to stride ahead, a star is left behind

   to point the way to those who follow him.|

 

   Forgiveness must be practiced, for the world

   cannot perceive its meaning, nor provide

   a guide to teach you its beneficence.

   There is no thought in all the world which leads

   to any understanding of the laws

   it follows, nor the Thought which it reflects.

   It is as alien to the world as is

   your own reality. And yet it joins

   your mind with the Reality in you.|

 

   Today we practice true forgiveness that

   the time of joining be no more delayed.

   For we would meet with our Reality

   in freedom and in peace. Our practicing

   becomes the footsteps lighting up the way

   for all our brothers, who will follow us

   to the Reality we share with them.

 

   That this may be accomplished, let us give

   a quarter of an hour twice today,

   and spend it with the Guide Who understands

   the meaning of forgiveness, and was sent

   to us to teach it. Let us ask of Him:

  
   "Let me perceive forgiveness as it is."|

 

   Then choose one brother as He will direct,

   and catalog his "sins" as one by one

   they cross your mind. Be certain not to dwell

   on any one of them, but realize

   that you are using his offenses but

   to save the world from all ideas of sin.

   Briefly consider all the evil things

   you thought of him, and each time ask yourself

   "Would I condemn myself for doing this?"|

 

   Let him be freed from all the thoughts you had

   of sin in him. And now you are prepared

   for freedom. If you have been practicing

   thus far in willingness and honesty,

   you will begin to sense a lifting up,

   a lightening of weight across your chest,

   a deep and certain feeling of relief.

   The time remaining should be given to

   experiencing the escape from all

   the heavy chains you sought to lay upon

   your brother, which were laid upon yourself.|

 

   Forgiveness should be practiced through the day,

   for there will be so many times when you

   forget its meaning and attack yourself.

   When this occurs, allow your mind to see

   through this illusion as you tell yourself:

 

   "Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.

    Would I accuse myself of doing this?

    I will not lay this chain upon myself."

 

   In everything you do remember this:

 

   "No-one is crucified alone, and yet

    No-one can enter Heaven by himself."

 
 
 
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Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.
      
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This is a very important Lesson, as forgiveness is at the core of the Course teaching, and it is important to understand how it is described in the Course. It is not the forgiveness that we typically think of, where we see that someone has actually done something that justifies our attack and judgment for their guilt. If we are feeling charitable, we try to overlook it in the name of our own goodness, and "forgive" them for what they have actually done. In fact, this kind of forgiveness is actually an attack. Why? As Jesus explains, what we are seeing is our sin projected onto others, and seen there because we find it too horrific to see it in ourselves. This is the sin that the ego has told us we are guilty of because we stole our separate existence from God.  The sin and guilt we think are now in us are so horrific that the ego counsels that we really don't need to see it in ourselves, but can project it onto others. In this view, we believe that they will get the punishment that we think we deserve. In turn, we can see ourselves as innocent. In this scenario, forgiveness may be given or withheld by us for what the other has seemingly done based on our elevated position or assumed spirituality. Thus, "In such a view, forgiveness must be seen as mere eccentric folly, and this course appear to rest salvation on a whim." (W.134.1.2)
 
This is a very long Lesson and there is so much that can be said about it. Thus, it will be difficult to keep this short and concise, which I will try to do by touching on the highlights as I see them. The idea is that forgiveness should actually become easy and natural, and this can be the case when we truly see that nothing real has happened. "Truth is God's creation, and to pardon that is meaningless." (W.134.2.4) "How can you forgive the sinless and eternally benign?" (W.134.2.7)
 
When we understand the basis for true forgiveness, we will be very motivated to apply it, because our healing and happiness depends on it. As I said, the way that the world defines forgiveness is by pointing out that the injustice actually happened and did real harm, was totally unfair and unjustified, was done on purpose and meant to hurt, therefore we have a right to our anger. Yet in forgiving in the traditional understanding, we try to let go of our resentment of what was really done and try instead to feel love for the person. It is an impossible situation. We can't forgive what we have made real. How do you go from resentment to love? We can only do so by recognizing that it is only our own minds that need healing. By bringing our judgments to the Holy Spirit, the resentments we are holding in our minds are released. Otherwise, we are saying that "you are the object of my justified and righteous wrath, but I will assume a mantle of spirituality and pardon you for your sin."

Thus, we try to make ourselves the good people that we want to be, but to do that we have to overlook some terrible deeds that we see as having truly happened. If we feel that the other person really has done something that is a sin, particularly something that we consider a major assault, then to offer forgiveness, in the usual sense, feels like an "unfair sacrifice" (W.134.1.1) or a "gift unjustified" (W.134.1.1) or a "vain attempt to look past what is there." (W.134.3.2) We can't simply try to see as right that which is "plainly wrong" (W.134.4.6) or desperately try to see innocence where there is real sin as we perceive it. So Jesus acknowledges that this view of forgiveness is very hard indeed. Jesus refutes this way of seeing forgiveness and offers us his version, which is showing us that nothing real has happened. In The Song of Prayer, the world's version of forgiveness is called forgiveness-to-destroy. It is just another way to attack and make it look like love. Elsewhere in the Course it is called false forgiveness.
 
Now Jesus explains to us that forgiveness is not about overlooking the truth. "This twisted view of what forgiveness means is easily corrected, when you can accept the fact that pardon is not asked for what is true." (W.134.2.1) So let's look at this from the perspective of what the Course has to say about how this was all set up in the first place. This is necessary, if we are to understand how we have deceived ourselves into thinking that what we perceive is the truth. It starts with the idea that we have done something terrible in separating from God and establishing our own kingdom as individuals, separate from each other and rulers of our own lives. This required that God be destroyed, because how could we exist as separate from Oneness, if that were all there is? Thus, we now experience guilt, anxiety, fear, and distress at the idea that we have destroyed love. No, this is not in our conscious mind, yet the effects are something we can all relate to. It is our experience of never having complete ease and a sense of not being at home in ourselves. It is an underlying anxiety and a feeling that we have done something wrong and will be found out.
 
This guilt, that is in our minds, is so overwhelming that the ego mind found a solution for us, which is to project it, and now instead of seeing it in ourselves, we find it in others. That is why the world was made, as a defense against our own guilt. The whole physical universe is a projection of our sin and guilt.

In truth, we are all "sinless and eternally benign" (W.134.2.7) and, in fact, have never changed our reality. "I am as God created me." (W.94) No matter what the behavior in the world of illusion, it is not real and has no real effects. Therefore, when we forgive according to this Lesson, we are not forgiving the truth. (W.134.3.1) In fact, we are only letting go of the illusion that a sin has actually been committed. "For it is impossible to think of sin as true and not believe forgiveness is a lie." (W.134.4.2) Because sin is unreal, in whatever form it takes, we can simply lay it gently at the feet of truth, and there it disappears. When we do "not heed the self-accusing shrieks of sinners mad with guilt," (W.134.7.4) we make space for the truth of who we are and who our brother is. What we do in Course-based forgiveness is recognize that nothing happened in truth, and that everything is a call for love and understanding. Yet this can't happen until we are willing to look at our judgments and our own attack thoughts and take responsibility for them in our own minds. We need to see how we are constantly looking for sin and guilt in others. It is this we need to forgive in ourselves. It is an opportunity to heal our own minds by taking responsibility for our projections. If everything is a projection of the guilt in our own minds, then what we are seeing in the world is a reflection of our minds. Thus, the power is in us to choose to see our own judgments and attacks and bring them to the light of truth to be healed. Jesus is not asking us to deny our experience of what we perceive as attacking behaviors, but we are asked to look at our interpretations that we give to those behaviors and recognize that they are ours. Now we look at them with Jesus and see that what we think about ourselves is not the truth.
 
The ego's plan is to see sin in our brother. Yet the fact is that we actually want people to behave in abusive, rejecting ways so that we can put our sin on them. We are afraid of our own sin, as a result of what we think we have done, so the ego's solution for us is to deny it and project it. Now they are the guilty sinners, and God will punish them instead of us. So now we think we have bought our innocence at their expense, while at our core we believe that we are the ones that are the miserable sinners and deserve to be punished. We think we can escape from that punishment by projecting our sin onto others. Our secret wish is for others to take the fall for our sins, and if we could "forgive" them for what they have done, we simply fool ourselves into believing that they truly are miserable sinners. From our superior position of being falsely innocent, we will forgive them and receive the gift of that forgiveness for ourselves. The problem is that this never heals the guilt in our own minds, but continues to keep us separate from our brothers.

That is why Jesus is telling us here that we are not asked to "forgive the truth." (W.134.3.1) We are not asked to "look past what is there." (W.134.3.2) If we were, we would be "making an illusion true," (W.134.3.2) and if sin were true, forgiveness would have to be a lie. Can you see why we have so much difficulty with forgiveness? If forgiveness is overlooking the truth of something that really happened, then forgiveness itself is a sin, because it is then a lie. "It [forgiveness to destroy] says the truth is false, and smiles on the corrupt as if they were as blameless as the grass; as white as snow." (W.134.4.4) "It would see as right the plainly wrong; the loathsome as good." (W.134.4.6) It would be like trying to imagine an evil person as good. It just can't work. We are trying to see as right something that is plainly wrong. This is our real deception. When we get that all of the behavior that we are trying to overlook takes place in a dream, has no real effect, there is no real injury, and no one has done anything real, then we are not pardoning what is true. Our pardon is only for illusion. Jesus asks us how we could forgive what is true, which is that we are all "sinless and eternally benign," (W.134.2.7) and if that is true, then what is there to forgive?
 
Jesus is not asking us to deny what our body's eyes see or what people do, but he is asking us to look at our interpretation of them as guilty sinners and thus bad people. It is not about denying our judgments, when we are in fact making them. It is simply our willingness to take responsibility for the guilt that is in our minds that we are projecting onto others so that it can be healed. Look at your guilt with the light of truth so that you are not judging yourself for it. Our job is to bring our own darkness to the light. We must take responsibility for it and look at it. We can't ask Jesus to just take it from us. Our part is to look at our belief that the guilt is out there in others and they are the sinners. Jesus wants us to see how the ego set this all up so that we have a way out of this cycle of sin, guilt and fear. It is not denying what our brother has done, or even what we have done, but now we see it being reinterpreted by Jesus, who reminds us that we are innocent as is our brother and nothing real has happened.

"Truth is God's creation, and to pardon that is meaningless. All truth belongs to Him, reflects His laws and radiates His Love." (W.134.2.4-5) No matter what it looks like in the illusion, the only truth is that we are God's Son with His nature. We simply deceive ourselves, if we believe a dream is a reality. We have deceived ourselves by believing that what we see in the illusion is the truth. "Forgiveness is the only thing that stands for truth in the illusions of the world. It sees their nothingness, and looks straight through the thousand forms in which they may appear. It looks on lies, but it is not deceived." (W.134.7.1-3) Forgiveness does not deny the truth, but stands for truth, affirming for everyone, no matter what they seem to have done. "My brother, what you think is not the truth." (W.134.7.5) And, of course, what we think is that we are guilty and sinful.
 
Traditional pardon does nothing to remove the thoughts of sin and guilt from our minds. In fact, Jesus says that this makes us twice condemned. "Those who are forgiven from the view their sins are real are pitifully mocked and twice condemned; first, by themselves for what they think they did, and once again by those who pardon them." (W.134.5.5) In other words, if you have done something to me, then you are already feeling guilty and will suffer, because you think you did something real. This is how you are first mocked. Thus, you are mocked by yourself, believing that you do not deserve to be forgiven. My suffering at your actions means you know that you don't really deserve my forgiveness. If, in my superior position, I deign to forgive you, you will feel twice mocked because you will feel the condescension of my superior position. True forgiveness says that the guilt you think is true about you is not the truth.
 
When we truly apply this teaching, it is so very freeing. We all have situations and people in our lives that we see as having hurt us and upset us in big and little ways. The ego would have us see them as the guilty ones. We justify our anger and ultimately we may "forgive" them while still holding onto what they have done. When we truly bring their "sin" back to our own minds, and are willing to have our minds released of our misperceptions, then the miracle shows up and we are all released from bondage. It is such an enlightening experience and very powerful in shifting our minds from wrong-minded to right-minded perception. Nothing has to change in anyone else. Through forgiveness we are undoing the ego thought system of hate, specialness, selfishness and attack and seeing that it is all made up in our own minds. We can withdraw our investment in it as it is not the truth. And this is what forgiveness is, from the perspective of this teaching.

When we want to accuse anyone today of something, we are given an opportunity to look at the tremendous burden and cost there is to us of accusing ourselves of this, because essentially that is what we are doing. When we perceive forgiveness as it is in truth, then we will see that this is how we save ourselves from our own guilt. "There is a simple way to find the door to true forgiveness, and perceive it open wide in welcome. When you feel that you are tempted to accuse someone of sin in any form, do not allow your mind to dwell on what you think he did, for that is self-deception. Ask instead, 'Would I accuse myself of doing this?'" (W.134.9.1-3) We are not denying what we think someone did, but we are now looking at it and asking ourselves how does what I am accusing my brother of show up in me? As Jesus says, over and over, "As you see him you will see yourself." Whenever we have judged anyone, it is impossible not to make this judgment on ourselves. Any condemnation on anyone becomes a condemnation of ourselves. If we really believed this, would we ever want to condemn anyone? That is the question that is put to us here. Would we really want to do this to ourselves, when we realize that we are hurting ourselves by condemning others?

The figures in our dream were written into our script as the recipients of our attacks so we could be off the hook. This is how the ego actually has us keep the sin while blaming someone else. Thus, someone else pays the price for my existence, but Jesus wants us to see that only we pay the price. Now we can use every situation that shows up in our lives as a classroom where we can learn to ignore the ego's urgings that we see others as guilty, and instead turn to Jesus/Holy Spirit who could bring a new interpretation to every situation, if we are willing.

I have used this practice again and again and found it helpful in situations where I found myself judging someone. Whenever I am truly willing to look at my own mind, I can see some version of that guilt that I put on others in myself. For example, I judge someone for being greedy and find that, if I ask myself if I ever put my own self-interests above anyone else's, the answer is---absolutely. If we turn every judgment around on ourselves, we can find some version of it in ourselves. Think of someone you have a grievance with and look at your own mind to see if you have some version of that in you. The fact is that we actually apply the same standard to ourselves that we do to our brother, and we will believe that we should be condemned for the same thing that we condemn him for. While we will consciously condemn him, we will unconsciously condemn ourselves for some form of the same thing. That is why we feel so bad about ourselves. We need to look at every grievance we hold against anyone and take responsibility for our own projections. We think that projecting guilt keeps us looking innocent, but as we read in the Lesson yesterday, we are simply polishing our halo while perceiving "its tarnished edges and its rusted core." (W.133.10.1)
 
There are tremendous benefits in doing this practice. We lift a tremendous burden from ourselves when we apply true forgiveness to our experiences. There is such a sense of "deep relief" (W.134.6.1) that we get by forgiving. "You will begin to sense a lifting up, a lightening of weight across your chest, a deep and certain feeling of relief. The time remaining should be given to experiencing the escape from all the heavy chains you sought to lay upon your brother, but were laid upon yourself." (W.134.16.3-4) It truly is a gift to ourselves.
 
Whoever we are upset with and whoever we are judging holds the key to our salvation because they are showing us unhealed parts of our own minds. When we judge them, we actually are laying chains upon ourselves and keeping us both imprisoned. They are our saviors because they hold the key to our release. Forgiveness truly is a gift to ourselves, and it is always fully justified for all the reasons stated. Forgiveness sees the nothingness of 'sin.' We look on behavior, which appears in a thousand different forms, (W.134.7.2) but we are not deceived that we are looking at anything real. We can thus respond with, "My brother, what you think is not the truth," (W.134.7.5) but first we must be able to look "on them with quiet eyes." (W.134.7.5) We need to ask for help to release our own judgments, so we can know that our brother is innocent as we are.

For fifteen minutes twice today we ask the Holy Spirit, Who understands the meaning of forgiveness, "Let me perceive forgiveness as it is." (W.134.14.6) Then let the Holy Spirit bring to mind someone who you need to forgive.
 
Now, catalog this person's "sins," one by one, without dwelling on any one of them, and ask yourself, "Would I condemn myself for doing this?" (W.134.15.3) Would I want to hold this "sin" against myself and condemn myself for it, just as I condemned him? Determine not to lay this chain upon yourself. Look at what you are condemning someone for and look inside yourself to see how you are judging yourself for the same thing.
 
Forgiveness becomes a daily practice for us, when we are willing to do the healing. It is a constant discipline of mind watching. We become vigilant with regard to our thoughts and increasingly see the benefits in increased peace and joy as we do this work. Allow any thoughts that arise to be brought to truth. With honesty, openness and willingness to look at your judgments, anger, and frustrations with anyone today, they will be easily dismissed by the Holy Spirit. Trust in His healing light to shine them away. Remind yourself: "No one is crucified alone, and yet no one can enter Heaven by himself." (W.134.17.7) We can't enter Heaven at the expense of anyone. We are not separate. We share the same Self.
        
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Chapter Twelve

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1 The ultimate purpose of projection, as the ego uses it, is always to get rid of guilt. Yet, characteristically, the ego attempts to get rid of guilt from its viewpoint only, for much as the ego wants to retain guilt, you find it intolerable, since guilt stands in the way of your remembering God, Whose pull is so strong that you cannot resist it. On this issue, then, the deepest split of all occurs, for if you are to retain guilt, as the ego insists, you cannot be you. Only by persuading you that it is you could the ego possibly induce you to project guilt and thereby keep it in your mind.

 

2 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 guilt feelings, but you have no idea why. On the contrary, you associate them with a weird assortment of ego ideals which the ego claims you have failed. 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.

 

II. Crucifixion by Guilt  

3 The darkest of your hidden cornerstones holds your belief in guilt from your awareness. For in that dark and secret place is the realization that you have betrayed God's Son by condemning him to death. You do not even suspect this murderous but insane idea lies hidden there, for the ego's destructive urge is so intense that nothing short of the crucifixion of God's Son can ultimately satisfy it. It does not know who the Son of God is because it is blind. Yet let it perceive guiltlessness anywhere, and it will try to destroy it because it is afraid.

 

4 Much of the ego's strange behavior is directly attributable to its definition of guilt. 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 does depend on keeping this secret. So it is this secret that we must look upon calmly, for the ego cannot protect you against truth, and in its presence the ego is dispelled.

 

5 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 still wish to crucify him if you could find him. Yet the wish has hidden him from you because it is very fearful, and you are afraid to find him. You have handled this wish to kill yourself by not knowing who you are and identifying with something else. You have projected guilt blindly and indiscriminately, but you have not uncovered its source. For the ego does want to kill you, and if you identify with it, you must believe its goal is yours.

 

6 We once 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 it gave was that guiltlessness is blasphemous to God. To the ego the ego is god, and guiltlessness must be interpreted as the final guilt which fully justifies murder. You do not yet understand that all your fear of this course stems ultimately from this interpretation, but if you will consider your reactions to it, you will become increasingly convinced that this is so.

 

7 This course has explicitly stated that its goal for you is happiness and peace. Yet you are afraid of it. You have been told again and again that it will make you free, yet you react as if it is trying to imprison you. Most of the time you dismiss it, but you do not dismiss the ego's thought system. You have seen its results and you still lack faith in it. You must, then, believe that by not learning the course, you are protecting yourself. And you do not realize that it is only your guiltlessness which can protect you.

 

8 The Atonement has always been interpreted as the release from guilt, and this is correct if it is understood. Yet even when I have interpreted it for you, you have rejected it and have not accepted it for yourself. You have recognized the futility of the ego and its offerings, but though you do not want the ego, you do not look upon the alternative with gladness. You are afraid of redemption, and you believe it will kill you. Make no mistake about the depth of your fear. For you believe that in the presence of truth you will turn on yourself and destroy yourself.

 

9 Little children, this is not so. Your "guilty secret" is nothing, and if you will but bring it to the light, the light will dispel it. And then no dark cloud will remain between you and the remembrance of your Father, for you will remember His guiltless Son, who did not die, because he is immortal. And you will see that you were redeemed with him and have never been separated from him. 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.

 

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