Remember always that it is impossible to condemn the Son of God in part. Those whom you see as guilty become the witnesses to guilt in you, and you will see it there, for it is there until it is undone. Guilt is always in your mind, which has condemned itself. Project it not, for while you do, it cannot be undone. With everyone whom you release from guilt great is the joy in Heaven, where the witnesses to your fatherhood rejoice.
Do not be afraid to look within. The ego tells you all is black with guilt within you, and bids you not to look. Instead, it bids you look upon your brothers, and see the guilt in them. Yet this you cannot do without remaining blind. For those who see their brothers in the dark, and guilty in the dark in which they shroud them, are too afraid to look upon the light within. Within you is not what you believe is there, and what you put your faith in. Within you is the holy sign of perfect faith your Father has in you. He does not value you as you do. He knows Himself, and knows the truth in you. He knows there is no difference, for He knows not of differences. Can you see guilt where God knows there is perfect innocence? You can deny His knowledge, but you cannot change it. Look, then, upon the light He placed within you, and learn that what you feared was there has been replaced with love. (A Course in Miracles, T-13.IX.6:5-9;8:1-13. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
When we choose to identify with the ego image of our self, a body and personality, we devalue our self. We are identifying with an illusion that is nothing. When we accept the Self that God knows us to be, we accept our true value. Our one Self is all that is real and all that is valuable.
We accept our Self by letting go of identifying with the ego. Forgiveness is the way we let go of the false beliefs that tie us to the ego thought system. The ego thought system proclaims our guilt by showing us what perceptions of guilt in others. This is the ego’s mechanism for hiding the guilt we believe is in us. As we practice letting the Holy Spirit help us forgive the guilt perceived in others, we release the guilt we believe is in us.
As we succeed in forgiving others, the ego has another ploy. It turns the guilt on ourselves. Now we become the tarnished ones who are to blame for all our pain and sorrow. But God sees only innocence in us, so believing we are guilty at all is a mistake to be corrected. We must let the Holy Spirit help us forgive ourselves. This is how we will learn to see the Light of innocence in us that God knows is there.
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