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Forgiveness Brings the End of Illusions

Can what has no beginning really end? ²The world will end in an illusion, as it began. ³Yet will its ending be an illusion of mercy. ⁴The illusion of forgiveness, complete, excluding no one, limitless in gentleness, will cover it, hiding all evil, concealing all sin and ending guilt forever. ⁵So ends the world that guilt had made, for now it has no purpose and is gone. ⁶The father of illusions is the belief that they have a purpose; that they serve a need or gratify a want. ⁷Perceived as purposeless, [illusions] are no longer seen. ⁸Their uselessness is recognized, and they are gone. ⁹How but in this way are all illusions ended? ¹⁰They have been brought to truth, and truth saw them not. ¹¹It merely overlooked the meaningless.

Until forgiveness is complete, the world does have a purpose. ²It becomes the home in which forgiveness is born, and where it grows and becomes stronger and more all-embracing. ³Here is [forgiveness] nourished, for here it is needed. ⁴A gentle Savior, born where sin was made and guilt seemed real. ⁵Here is His home, for here there is need of Him indeed. ⁶He brings the ending of the world with Him. ⁷It is His Call God’s teachers answer, turning to Him in silence to receive His Word. ⁸The world will end when all things in it have been rightly judged by His judgment. ⁹The world will end with the benediction of holiness upon it. ¹⁰When not one thought of sin remains, the world is over. ¹¹It will not be destroyed nor attacked nor even touched. ¹²It will merely cease to seem to be.

⁹To turn hell into Heaven is the function of God’s teachers, for what they teach are lessons in which Heaven is reflected. ¹⁰And now sit down in true humility, and realize that all God would have you do you can do. ¹¹Do not be arrogant and say you cannot learn His Own curriculum. ¹²His Word says otherwise. ¹³His Will be done. ¹⁴It cannot be otherwise. ¹⁵And be you thankful it is so. (A Course in Miracles, M-14.1:1–2:12;5:9-15)

There is only one meaningful purpose for our seeming existence in the world. It is a purpose God assigned to the Holy Spirit and to His Son. We are to forgive every illusion. Only illusions obscure the reality of Heaven as our Home. Illusions make it seem that we are not in Heaven. They support the belief that separation from God is real.

God calls to us through the Holy Spirit to forgive the illusions that seem to separate His Son, our true Self, from His Love. His Love for His Son remains untouched. It is all that is true. Forgiveness peels away the false beliefs that make us feel unloved, abandoned, powerless and limited. They are unreal and therefore untrue.

Today let’s focus on accepting the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive the ego-made illusions and let the Love we are be revealed. Together we teach the world and ourselves that only Love is real.

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