In order to understand the teaching-learning plan of salvation, it is necessary to grasp the concept of time that the course sets forth. Atonement corrects illusions, not truth. Therefore, it corrects what never was. Further, the plan for this correction was established and completed simultaneously, for the Will of God is entirely apart from time. So is all reality, being of Him. The instant the idea of separation entered the mind of God’s Son, in that same instant was God’s Answer given. In time this happened very long ago. In reality it never happened at all.
The world of time is the world of illusion. What happened long ago seems to be happening now. Choices made long since appear to be open; yet to be made. What has been learned and understood and long ago passed by is looked upon as a new thought, a fresh idea, a different approach. Because your will is free you can accept what has already happened at any time you choose, and only then will you realize that it was always there. As the course emphasizes, you are not free to choose the curriculum, or even the form in which you will learn it. You are free, however, to decide when you want to learn it. And as you accept it, it is already learned.” (M-2.2-3)
Time is the ego’s mechanism to hide the present from our awareness. Because Reality is eternal, It is always present in the now moment. The ego uses time to overlay the present with “memories” of the past. But these memories are illusions of images of separation, which were never real and cannot be real now. Even concerns about the future are built upon images from the past.
Yet behind the ego’s images of separation remains our true Self, radiating the Light of Love without limit and forever. It is the same Light of Love that God has given His Son, for this Self remains eternally united with God. We lift the veil that hides our Self from our awareness by forgiving our belief in the images of separation.
To help us forgive, the Holy Spirit was given us to transform our misperceptions. As His Light reveals the Love beyond the forms projected on the veil of separation, the veil is dispelled. The magnificent radiance of the Self of every brother joins with our own and we remember we are truly Love and nothing else. We find peace and perfect happiness here.
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