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Forgiveness Relieves the Burden of Guilt

Forgiveness, properly understood, looks upon all things and judges not. It recognizes all judgment as meaningless. To judge is to condemn, and to condemn is to attack. To forgive is to refuse all condemnation, to lay down all attack. Forgiveness sees the Truth in all and offers each a miracle of Love. It cannot do otherwise for that is its function, given unto you that you might offer it to all and thereby receive it for yourself. The forgiven offer only forgiveness to their brothers, for the mind free of guilt can offer only what it has received. To heal the guilt in your mind is to release the world from the burden of guilt you have laid upon it. The guiltless see only innocence everywhere, for they see truly. (From the Christ Mind, p. 51)

To see anyone or anything as separate from ourselves is to condemn them and ourselves to isolation and lovelessness. Love is unified, whole and indivisible. Belief that separation is real is the denial of our unity in Love. With this belief guilt is inevitable, for it is seen as an attack upon Love.

Yet what is indivisible cannot be attacked. So experiencing a world of separate images is simply a projection of a belief in what could never be real. This projection makes the illusion of reality but has no effect whatsoever on the unity of Love. This illusion carries with it the inevitable burden of guilt because we unconsciously believe we have really damaged the unity of Love. The release from this guilt is forgiveness.

As we practice reminding ourselves that the forms we see in the world are false images and beyond them is nothing but Love, the seeming impenetrability of the world fades. The veil is lifted through forgiveness. We see a forgiven world, free of condemnation and the experience of the unity, safety and joy of Love returns to our awareness. We are relieved of the burden of guilt and remember that we are in Heaven now.

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