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Study of Text, C 14: III. The Decision for Guiltlessness, P 8. 3-7-17

III. The Decision for Guiltlessness, P 8

8 God is the only Cause, and guilt is not of Him. Teach no one he has hurt you, for if you do, you teach yourself that what is not of God has power over you. The causeless cannot be. Do not attest to it, and do not foster belief in it in any mind. Remember always that mind is one, and cause is one. You will learn communication with this oneness only when you learn to deny the causeless, and accept the Cause of God as yours. The power that God has given to His Son is his, and nothing else can His Son see or choose to look upon without imposing on himself the penalty of guilt, in place of all the happy teaching the Holy Spirit would gladly offer him.

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Now I see why my last experience with fear was so difficult for me to clear. I was teaching guilt and therefore learning guilt. I could not make the other person guilty without feeling guilty and guilt is the cause of fear. I stayed in it for so long because I was in denial. I kept projecting the guilt until I actually believed the other person was guilty and the cause of my discomfort. I confused it further by convincing myself that my reaction was a result of loving the other person.

If I had described it in this way to myself, I would have snapped out of it a lot faster. But that is not the way I did it. I let fear overwhelm me until I was totally confused and believing everything the ego said. But His happy teachings were in my mind as well as the ego justifications, and eventually the pain was so intense that I had to make a different choice.

One of the ways that helped to bring me out of it was to use the Rules for Decision process. This resulted in a post I made to my Rules for Decision group. Here is what I said.

Today I will make no decisions by myself. As if I could. (I always make all decisions with ego or with Holy Spirit.)

Today I will to live fearlessly. I will to bless everyone I think of with miracles. I will to live this day in the peace of God.

Every thought and every word is either blessing someone with a miracle or cursing them with projection. What a difference it makes when I think of it this way. Sometimes it feels very hard to let go of fear thoughts, and yet, as I hold onto them I am cursing rather than blessing myself and others. Holy Spirit, I give You the belief that it is hard to release fear thoughts and I give You the belief that any child of God is truly vulnerable. I will to join with You and share Your Vision.

If I make no decisions with the ego, this is the day I will have. If I do make decisions with the ego, I will change my mind.

In this way I was able to monitor my new decision. If I experienced fear or guilt, if I failed to bless with miracles and if I cursed with projection, if I failed to be at peace, then I knew I had made a wrong turn and I could immediately look at my thoughts and ask for another way to see.

This was very helpful. I did not stay on track perfectly, but I did notice when I was projecting guilt, and I kept asking for help. Eventually, my mind cleared and I knew what I wanted. Then when I asked for healing, I really meant it. I didn’t want to project nor justify. I just wanted the peace of God and I wanted to return to love. This experience was a very strong reminder of the penalty of making guilty.

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