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Forgiveness Is the Pathway Home

Have you not wondered what the world is really like; how it would look through happy eyes? The world you see is but a judgment on yourself. It is not there at all. Yet judgment lays a sentence on it, justifies it and makes it real. Such is the world you see; a judgment on yourself, and made by you. This sickly picture of yourself is carefully preserved by the ego, whose image it is and which it loves, and placed outside you in the world. And to this world must you adjust as long as you believe this picture is outside, and has you at its mercy. This world is merciless, and were it outside you, you should indeed be fearful. Yet it was you who made it merciless, and now if mercilessness seems to look back at you, it can be corrected.

Who in a holy relationship can long remain unholy? The world the holy see is one with them, just as the world the ego looks upon is like itself. The world the holy see is beautiful because they see their innocence in it.

Such is my will for you and your brother, and for each of you for one another and for himself. Here there is only holiness and joining without limit. For what is Heaven but union, direct and perfect, and without the veil of fear upon it? Here are we one, looking with perfect gentleness upon each other and on ourselves. Here all thoughts of any separation between us become impossible. You who were a prisoner in separation are now made free in Paradise. And here would I unite with you, my friend, my brother and my Self.

The innocent see safety, and the pure in heart see God within His Son, and look unto the Son to lead them to the Father. (A Course in Miracles, T-20.III.5:-6:3;10;11:3. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Happy eyes are forgiving eyes. It is judgment that makes us fearful, angry and unhappy. Unhappiness is a sign that we are not accepting God’s Will for us, which is perfect happiness. It means that we are believing in a false image of ourselves as separate from Love’s holiness (oneness).

To forgive is to let go of belief in a false image. A false image has no power to affect reality. Belief only seems to draw a veil across the truth of What we are — God’s holy Son. When belief is let go, the veil disappears, revealing our innocence and showing us a beautiful world of kindness, free of fear and united in Love. We see our brother as our one Self at home in Paradise. Forgiveness is the pathway Home.

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The Savior’s Vision

To everyone has God entrusted all, because a partial savior would be one who is but partly saved. The holy ones whom God has given you to save are but everyone you meet or look upon, not knowing who they are; all those you saw an instant and forgot, and those you knew a long while since, and those you will yet meet; the unremembered and the not yet born. For God has given you His Son to save from every concept that he ever held.

Yet while you wish to stay in hell [separate from Love’s oneness], how could you be the savior of the Son of God? How would you know his holiness while you see him apart from yours? For holiness is seen through holy eyes that look upon the innocence within, and thus expect to see it everywhere. And so they call it forth in everyone they look upon, that he may be what they expect of him. This is the savior’s vision; that he see his innocence in all he looks upon, and see his own salvation everywhere. He holds no concept of himself between his calm and open eyes and what he sees. He brings the light to what he looks upon, that he may see it as it really is. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.VII.10:4-11:7. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

To be savior to the world, we must first save ourselves. We save ourselves by letting go of (forgiving) the image of ourselves as a separate identity. As long as we hold a wish to have a separate, special identity different from all ‘others,’ we keep ourselves in hell. The illusion of harm and justification for guilt can only appear real to a separate image of our self. Innocence is universal in the oneness of Love.

Letting go of judgment, forgiving all appearances of harm, clears the way for Christ’s vision in our holy mind. When every thought of separation is released, we have accepted our holiness in place of the wish for specialness. Now we see the face of Christ in everyone for we have seen Christ within. We release the false image of our self by bringing all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit to receive His perception in their place. His vision shows us face of Christ in every circumstance. This is how we learn to forgive and be savior to the world.

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The Key to Release from Fear

Redemption has been given you to give your brother, and thus receive it. Whom you forgive is free, and what you give you share. Forgive the sins your brother thinks he has committed, and all the guilt you think you see in him.

Give faith to your brother, for faith and hope and mercy are yours to give. Into the hands that give, the gift is given. Look on your brother, and see in him the gift of God you would receive.

Together we will disappear into the Presence beyond the veil, not to be lost but found; not to be seen but known. And knowing, nothing in the plan God has established for salvation will be left undone. This is the journey’s purpose, without which is the journey meaningless. Here is the peace of God, given to you eternally by Him. Here is the rest and quiet that you seek, the reason for the journey from its beginning. Heaven is the gift you owe your brother, the debt of gratitude you offer to the Son of God in thanks for what he is, and what his Father created him to be. (A Course in Miracles, T-19.IV.D.15:8-10;17:1-3;19. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

We give faith to our brother by seeing him as the Christ, the one Self we share as God’s one Son. As we look on our brother as Christ, he reflects the Christ back to us. He becomes the mirror that shows us the truth of What we are.

When we judge our brother as an ego and see him as guilty, he becomes a mirror showing us the ego we think we are. The ego always sees its guilt reflected in the world it perceives. The Christ in us always sees its innocence reflected everywhere.

Judgment denies innocence. That is why forgiving our brothers wholly, without exception, is the only meaningful purpose for our journey in the world. It is the key to release from fear. Forgiveness clears the way for acceptance of the Love that is our brother and ourself, united as the Son of God.

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