Today’s idea [I walk with God in perfect holiness] but states the simple truth that makes the thought of sin impossible. It promises there is no cause for guilt, and being causeless it does not exist. It follows surely from the basic thought so often mentioned in the text; ideas leave not their source. If this be true, how can you be apart from God? How could you walk the world alone and separate from your Source?
We are not inconsistent in the thoughts that we present in our curriculum. Truth must be true throughout, if it be true. It cannot contradict itself, nor be in parts uncertain and in others sure. You cannot walk the world apart from God, because you could not be without Him. He is what your life is. Where you are He is. There is one life. That life you share with Him. Nothing can be apart from Him and live.
Yet where He is, there must be holiness as well as life. No attribute of His remains unshared by everything that lives. What lives is holy as Himself, because what shares His life is part of Holiness…. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 156,W-pI.156.1:1-3:3. See also ACIM Lesson 156 Insights.)
Our true Self is a Thought in the Mind of God that has not left Its Source. It shares all of God’s attributes because thoughts do not leave their source. This fact is the foundation upon which release from guilt is built.
The world of separation we perceive with the body is the effect of the belief that we have separated from our Source. Since this could never be true, the world we perceive is illusion and therefore meaningless. All meaning it seems to have, all perception of loss, lack, guilt and fear, comes only from our mistaken belief separation is true. This belief that we have separated from our Source must be healed for us to experience the fact that we walk with God in perfect holiness.
The purpose of the Course is to teach us that what we have believed about ourselves and others is untrue and meaningless. As we accept this teaching under the Holy Spirit’s tutelage, we awaken to the Life we live in God. We awaken to perfect peace, boundless joy and Love without limit.
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