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Study of Text, Chapter 13: Introduction, P 3. 5-10-16

Introduction, P3

3 If this were the real world, God would be cruel. For no Father could subject His children to this as the price of salvation and be loving. Love does not kill to save. If it did, attack would be salvation, and this is the ego’s interpretation, not God’s. Only the world of guilt could demand this, for only the guilty could conceive of it. Adam’s “sin” could have touched no one, had he not believed it was the Father Who drove him out of paradise. For in that belief the knowledge of the Father was lost, since only those who do not understand Him could believe it.

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Do I repeat the “sin” of Adam? How about the mistake that Adam made? Do I repeat that? Do I look around and see pain, suffering and death? Do I see a world of guilty people? Even when my mind is fairly clear and I realize the guilt ridden thoughts in the mind are the product of the ego thought system and are not real, there are still subtle forms of guilt that I overlook, or call something else.

I was watching a drama on TV, and noticed that I was rooting for the good guy to overcome the bad guy. This is an example of a more subtle form of guilt. I could see one character as guilty only if I believed in guilt. Does it matter that I root for the good guy and against the bad guy? After all, it is just a movie. But the form of the belief is unimportant. It is still a belief in guilt and guilt is the foundation of separation. The structure will not fall while the foundation is still firmly in place.

Actually, that movie is a perfect example of how we keep the illusion in place. There was a good guy and a bad guy. There was no oneness, no one self. There was separation. The bad that all of us fear is part of us was projected onto one of the characters. It was his job to carry the “badness” so that the hero could be pure. This is what we do every day.

We see ourselves as separate from each other. In this way we can imagine that someone else is the bad one, and so we now believe we have preserved our goodness, at least to some degree. Then we try to “kill” the one who now represents the “bad” and so destroy all evidence that might lead back to us. Mostly we don’t actually kill them. We kill their reputation, or we kill our closeness, divorcing ourselves from that other bad one, distancing ourselves from the bad. Sometimes we do send them to the death chamber if we find them very guilty.

When we find ourselves guilty and cannot project it far enough away to destroy the belief in our guilt, we then suffer for what we did. We become isolated or depressed, or we punish ourselves with sickness or poverty. Mostly it is in smaller, less obvious ways that we punish ourselves, little accidents and little disappointments.

All the time we do these things we deny the one thing that would save us. We refuse to give up guilt as a belief. We continue to use projection and attack to defend our selves, and our belief in guilt. Now is the time to begin a new tactic, if we haven’t already done so, one that will ultimately work. Personally, this is my way of doing this: When I see guilt in any form, directed inwardly or outwardly, I remind myself that guilt is not real. I ask that my mind be healed of this unfortunate belief. I become still in my mind, if only for a moment, so that healing can occur. I will do this until there is no darkness in my mind.

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