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Celebrating Our Unity in God

Anger is never justified. Attack has no foundation. It is here escape from fear begins, and will be made complete. Here is the real world given in exchange for dreams of terror. For it is on this forgiveness rests, and is but natural. You are not asked to offer pardon where attack is due, and would be justified. For that would mean that you forgive a sin by overlooking what is really there. This is not pardon. For it would assume that, by responding in a way which is not justified, your pardon will become the answer to attack that has been made. And thus is pardon inappropriate, by being granted where it is not due.

Pardon is always justified. It has a sure foundation. You do not forgive the unforgivable, nor overlook a real attack that calls for punishment. Salvation does not lie in being asked to make unnatural responses which are inappropriate to what is real. Instead, it merely asks that you respond appropriately to what is not real by not perceiving what has not occurred. If pardon were unjustified, you would be asked to sacrifice your rights when you return forgiveness for attack. But you are merely asked to see forgiveness as the natural reaction to distress that rests on error, and thus calls for help. Forgiveness is the only sane response. It keeps your rights from being sacrificed.

This understanding is the only change that lets the real world rise to take the place of dreams of terror. (A Course in Miracles, T-30.VI.1:1-3:1. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The seeming existence of the ego depends on judgment and the maintenance of guilt. The ego is incapable of true forgiveness because that would mean the end of the ego. All the ego’s judgments are based upon perception of illusions that are not real and never had any real effect. The experiences we have of fear and guilt, pain and suffering, are based solely on our belief that illusions are real.

The foundation of true forgiveness is the recognition that what is unreal can have no real effect, and therefore never happened. This recognition requires the help of the Holy Spirit, Who does not believe the ego’s lies. The Holy Spirit’s vision, Christ’s vision, shows us that behind the ego’s false façades is the changeless Love of God. Nothing else exists.

As we learn this lesson, we recognize more clearly that, in truth, there is nothing to forgive. Only the perfect safety and joy of Love’s eternal extension is real. This is our natural habitat where we join with every brother in celebration of our unity in God

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