³[Forgiveness] is irrelevant to everything except illusions. ⁴Truth is God’s creation, and to pardon that is meaningless. ⁵All truth belongs to Him, reflects His laws and radiates His Love. ⁶Does this need pardon? ⁷How can you forgive the sinless and eternally benign [God’s Son]?
The major difficulty that you find in genuine forgiveness on your part is that you still believe you must forgive the truth, and not illusions.
It is sin’s unreality that makes forgiveness natural and wholly sane, a deep relief to those who offer it; a quiet blessing where it is received. ²It does not countenance illusions, but collects them lightly, with a little laugh, and gently lays them at the feet of truth. ³And there they disappear entirely.
Forgiveness is the only thing that stands for truth in the illusions of the world. ²It sees their nothingness, and looks straight through the thousand forms in which they may appear. ³[Forgiveness] looks on lies, but it is not deceived.”
The strength of pardon is its honesty, which is so uncorrupted that it sees illusions as illusions, not as truth. ²It is because of this that it becomes the undeceiver in the face of lies; the great restorer of the simple truth. ³By its ability to overlook what is not there, it opens up the way to truth, which has been blocked by dreams of guilt. (A Course in Miracles, W-134.2:3–3:1;6:1–7:3;8:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 134 Insights.)
Our insistence to believe we are a body, separate and different from everything, blocks our awareness of the changeless presence of Love in which we dwell. We must forgive the ego’s demand for specialness. We empower the ego with our wish that it be real. It has led to self deceit which binds us to a world of illusions.
The many forms of illusion hide the singular self deceit behind them all. The remedy begins with specialized forms of forgiveness that are applied to specific forms and circumstances. We may perceive a justification for anger which forgiveness will release. We may believe we have lost something; the loss needs to be forgiven.
We need to take each form that seems to disturb our peace to the Holy Spirit. We ask His help to receive His true perception in place of our own. As we accept His lessons, we gradually recognize that the core of all forgiveness is the same. There is only one problem and the solution is to accept that only Love is real.
In gratitude we welcome the many wonderful little easy steps the Holy Spirit uses to lead us to fully accept our true Self Which God created one with Himself.
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