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The Foundation of Forgiveness

It is your Father’s holy Will that you complete Himself, and that your Self shall be His sacred Son, forever pure as He, of love created and in love preserved, extending love, creating in [Love’s] name, forever one with God and with your Self.

God created One [Holy Spirit] Who has the power to translate in form the wholly form­less. What He makes are dreams, but of a kind so close to wak­ing that the light of day already shines in them, and eyes already opening behold the joyful sights their offerings contain.

Forgiveness gently looks upon all things unknown in Heaven, sees them disappear, and leaves the world a clean and unmarked slate on which the Word of God can now replace the senseless symbols written there before. Forgiveness is the means by which the fear of death is overcome, because it holds no fierce attraction now and guilt is gone. Forgiveness lets the body be perceived as what it is; a simple teaching aid, to be laid by when learning is complete, but hardly changing him who learns at all.

Only forgiveness can relieve the mind of thinking that the body is its home. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 192, W-pI.192.1:1;3:5-4:3;5:5. See also ACIM Lesson 192 Insights.)

The central error that we must all correct with the Holy Spirit’s help is the belief that we are a body. This belief brings with it the fear of death, harm and loss. The body is the ego’s core image of separation. It seems to make us weak and vulnerable, capable of harming and being harmed; it is the justification for guilt and fear.

Yet the body is an illusion. It’s unreality makes it incapable of affecting reality at all. Our true Self is Love and nothing else. it is incapable of harm or loss because only Love is real. The acceptance of this fact is the foundation of forgiveness.

The Holy Spirit teaches us that all the things we think we did or were done to us as a body and separate identity did not occur in reality. The Holy Spirit’s lessons in forgiveness free us from mistaken beliefs and open our minds to the Light of Love that is our true Self.

To every appearance in the world we can say, “I will forgive and this will disappear.” Today when anything seems to disturb our peace of mind, we will call upon the Holy Spirit in our mind to help us see as He does. Seeing with His vision, we freely release the fear and welcome the Love we are, united with our Creator.

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