…pardon is not asked for what is true. ²It must be limited to what is false. 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?
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. ³It 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-134.2:1–3:1;6:1–7:3;8:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 134 Insights.)
The ego is not going to give up its territory without a fight. It accurately perceives itself as powerless, but puffs itself up with bluster to hide its weakness. It actually fights itself with images it believes are separate and different. It is a meaningless battle that does nothing except to occupy a mind that mistakenly believes illusions are true. This is its only defense to maintain illusions.
The antidote to the ego’s chaos is learning to recognize illusions for what they are — nothing and nowhere. The ego will never reveal this fact. But the Holy Spirit in our mind is ever-ready to help us learn to distinguish illusions from truth.
When we learn the Holy Spirit’s lessons in truth, forgiveness is natural. It simply dismisses what has been recognized as nothing and meaningless. Now the Light of Love that surrounds us and keeps us united with our Creator shines brightly. Forgiveness is natural to those who see the truth as it is.
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