Condemn and you are made a prisoner. Forgive and you are freed. Such is the law that rules perception.… To condemn is… impossible in truth. What seems to be its influence and its effects have not occurred at all. Yet must we deal with them a while as if they had. Illusion makes illusion. Except one. Forgiveness is illusion that is answer to the rest.
Only my condemnation injures me.
Only my own forgiveness sets me free.Do not forget today that there can be no form of suffering that fails to hide an unforgiving thought. Nor can there be a form of pain forgiveness cannot heal.
Accept the one illusion which proclaims there is no condemnation in God’s Son, and Heaven is remembered instantly; the world forgotten, all its weird beliefs forgotten with it, as the face of Christ appears unveiled at last in this one dream. This is the gift the Holy Spirit holds for you from God your Father. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 198, W-pI.198.2:1-3,5-10;9:3-10:2. See also ACIM Lesson 198 Insights.)
Because Love is one and cannot change, everyone is included in God’s Love. In Reality everyone is innocent, because the only truth about everyone is that they are one with God’s Love.
This world of being separate from God’s Love comes from the mistaken idea that we could separate from God, or be different from God. This false premise creates illusions of separate bodies that can harm or be harmed. None of this is true or has ever happened in truth. Only in illusions could it have the appearance of happening.
Forgiveness brings us back to the truth that nothing can ever really happen to change God’s one united Son. This means that everyone is still innocent. In reality, we all remain as God created us. Forgiveness is the key to seeing past dreams to innocence. Through forgiveness we are freed from the hell of believing that we could separate or be different from Love’s innocence.
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