The Atonement does not make holy. ²You were created holy. ³It merely brings unholiness to holiness; or what you made to what you are. ⁴Bringing illusion to truth, or the ego to God, is the Holy Spirit’s only function. ⁵Keep not your making from your Father, for hiding it has cost you knowledge of Him and of yourself. ⁶The knowledge is safe, but where is your safety apart from it? ⁷The making of time to take the place of timelessness lay in the decision to be not as you are. ⁸Thus truth was made past, and the present was dedicated to illusion.
Bringing the ego to God is but to bring error to truth, where it stands corrected because it is the opposite of what it meets [truth]. ²It is undone because the contradiction can no longer stand. ³How long can contradiction stand when its impossible nature is clearly revealed? ⁴What disappears in light is not attacked. ⁵It merely vanishes because it is not true. ⁶Different realities are meaningless, for reality must be one. ⁷It cannot change with time or mood or chance. ⁸Its changelessness is what makes it real.
²The Atonement is so gentle you need but whisper to it, and all its power will rush to your assistance and support. ³You are not frail with God beside you. ⁴Yet without Him you are nothing. ⁵The Atonement offers you God. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.IX.1:1-8;2:1-8;3:2-5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The ego cannot create anything because it is not real. It can only make illusions which blind us from the truth if we believe the illusions are real. The Atonement is the process of releasing us from our mistaken belief in illusions. Each time we bring an illusion that we believe is true to the truth, the illusion is dispelled. The Light of truth is allowed to shine brighter in our mind.
We bring illusions to the truth by choosing the Holy Spirit as our Interpreter of all our perceptions. The process is gentle and kind. It never increases fear. Rather it reduces fear and makes way for Love and peace to be experienced more fully. We help ourselves and the world each time we let the Holy Spirit heal our fear-based thoughts and beliefs. We bring Light to the world.
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