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The Foundation of Forgiveness

The sight of innocence makes punishment impossible, and justice sure. The Holy Spirit’s perception leaves no ground for an attack. Only a loss could justify attack, and loss of any kind He cannot see. …for only justice can set up a state in which there is no loser; no one left unfairly treated and deprived, and thus with grounds for vengeance.

The Holy Spirit’s problem solving is the way in which the problem ends. It has been solved because it has been met with justice. Until it has it will recur, because it has not yet been solved. The principle that justice means no one can lose is crucial to this course. For miracles [change of mind] depend on justice. Not as it is seen through this world’s eyes, but as God knows it and as knowledge is reflected in the sight the Holy Spirit gives.

No one deserves to lose. And what would be unjust to [a brother] cannot occur. Healing must be for everyone….

What is God’s belongs to everyone, and is his due. (A Course in Miracles, T-25.IX.4:1-3,6;5:1-6:3;10:10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

ACIM lesson 133 has us affirm, “I will not value what is valueless.” This is a key to forgiveness. The only meaningful value is Love because nothing else is real [thus valueless]. The ego cannot show us justification for forgiveness because it denies Love.

Yet we can be just to our brothers only by giving no value to the form he seems to take and treasuring only the Love he Is. The innocence of his Love sees no call for vengeance or punishment. It seeks to join with all in Love’s oneness. As this is accepted, it becomes clear that nothing happened to change our brother’s reality. He is only Love, united with us in the one Self Love created. Being created by Love, we remain one with God. Nothing but His Love exists.

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