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Study of Text, Chapter 13: The Guiltless World, Introduction, P 1. 5-5-16

Chapter 13: THE GUILTLESS WORLD
Introduction, P1

1 If you did not feel guilty you could not attack, for condemnation is the root of attack. It is the judgment of one mind by another as unworthy of love and deserving of punishment. But herein lies the split. For the mind that judges perceives itself as separate from the mind being judged, believing that by punishing another, it will escape punishment. All this is but the delusional attempt of the mind to deny itself, and escape the penalty of denial. It is not an attempt to relinquish denial, but to hold on to it. For it is guilt that has obscured the Father to you, and it is guilt that has driven you insane.

Journal
I don’t think that I am the only one that has at some point questioned why it is that I have so thoroughly forgotten who I am and cannot remember my Father at all. When I wonder about that the ego warns that there is probably a good reason, and asserts that I am so evil that I dare not look within to find myself. When I doubt that I am all that evil, the ego quickly points out all my faults and reminds me of past behaviors of which I am not proud. It seems best not to look too deeply.

Then it warns that maybe I am hiding from my Father because I know He will condemn me for my evil. All we have to do is read the Old Testament to see how man has projected his fear onto God and sees God as vengeful, punishing and pretty scary. The ego says it’s best to leave well enough alone. Then it suggests solutions to this problem through projection, pointing the finger at someone else so I go unnoticed in my guilt.

And that is the real problem, guilt. I believe in guilt and from that one belief comes unworthiness, condemnation, punishment, fear, the need to be separate, and insanity. I feel guilty, and this makes me feel unworthy of love, and fearful of punishment. Ego’s solution of projection makes me believe that God is part of all this as I project the belief in guilt onto Him. Then I believe He is the ultimate source of punishment. I made of myself something with little resemblance to creation and then I reimagined God so that He was like me. Insanity.

Guilt has made so much fear in my mind that I see enemies everywhere I look, and thus I attack and defend against everyone and everything. I attack boldly and I attack in secret, sometimes so secret I don’t even tell myself I am attacking. I attack myself and I attack others. I even attack God. I feel like I must be in a constant state of defense because when someone attacks they expect to be attacked in return. There is a solution to this madness, and that is to understand that guilt is not real, and no one is actually guilty. There is no reason to attack and no one we need to

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