To perceive errors in anyone, and to react to them as if they were real, is to make them real to you. You will not escape paying the price for this, not because you are being punished for it, but because you are following the wrong guide and will therefore lose your way.
Your brother’s errors are not of him, any more than yours are of you. Accept his errors as real, and you have attacked yourself. If you would find your way and keep it, see only truth beside you for you walk together. The Holy Spirit in you forgives all things in you and in your brother.
The Holy Spirit forgives everything because God created everything. Do not undertake His function, or you will forget yours. Accept only the function of healing in time, because that is what time is for. God gave you the function to create in eternity. You do not need to learn [to create, extend Love], but you do need to learn to want it. For that all learning was made. This is the Holy Spirit’s use of an ability that you do not need, but that you made. Give [learning] to Him! You do not understand how to use it. He will teach you how to see yourself without condemnation, by learning how to look on everything without it. Condemnation will then not be real to you, and all your errors will be forgiven. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.III.6:7-7:4;8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
We do not need to learn what we already know. Our true Self already knows that we are Love and nothing else, for that is what God created His Son to be. But we do need to learn to let go of the denial of what we know. This denial makes the world of illusions seem real. The ego teaches that lack of Love, fear and guilt are real. We cannot use the teacher of illusions, which could never be true, to learn the truth.
But God has given us an inner Teacher Who is not deceived by the ego’s lessons. As we follow the Holy Spirit’s teaching, we learn to overlook the ego’s false images. The Holy Spirit’s vision looks past the illusions of form to the Love that unites us eternally with our Creator. We want to learn this lesson because it is the way to happiness, peace and the Love we are. Holy Spirit’s lessons free us from fear and return us to Love.
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