To forgive is to overlook. Look, then, beyond error and do not let your perception rest upon it, for you will believe what your perception holds. Accept as true only what your brother is [Son of God], if you would know yourself. Perceive what he is not and you cannot know what you are, because you see him falsely. Remember always that your Identity is shared, and that Its sharing is Its reality.
You do not understand how to overlook errors, or you would not make them. It would merely be further error to believe either that you do not make them, or that you can correct [errors] without a Guide to correction. And if you do not follow this Guide, your errors will not be corrected. The plan is not yours because of your limited ideas about what you are. This sense of limitation [what you think you are] is where all errors arise. The way to undo them, therefore, is not of you but for you.
The Atonement is a lesson in sharing [Love], which is given you because you have forgotten how to do it. The Holy Spirit merely reminds you of the natural use of your abilities. By reinterpreting the ability to attack into the ability to share, He translates what you have made into what God created. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.IV.1:2-7;2:2-3:3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
Our true Self is the Son of God, which is shared with every brother even though our brothers appear as many. The appearance of many different identities is an illusion made by the ego to hide our true Identity. When we accept the ego’s thoughts, founded in the belief in separation, we cannot truly see our brother or our true Self.
The Holy Spirit’s mission in God’s plan for our atonement is to teach us to overlook the ego’s decoys of separate identities. Forgiveness relieves our mind of the ego’s judgments which maintain separation. Without judgment, we accept Christ’s vision which sees our unity with every brother.
Love does not condemn; It joins in peace in the unity of God’s Love. In this unity, we share God’s joy and peace with everyone. When forgiveness is complete, we have accepted our Self without limitation as God’s one Son.
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