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Forgiveness Returns Us to Our True Self

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 its name, forever one with God and with your Self.

³Forgiveness represents your function here.

…God created One Who has the power to translate in form the wholly formless. ⁶What 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. ²Forgiveness is the means by which the fear of death is overcome, because it holds no fierce attraction now and guilt is gone. ³Forgiveness 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. (A Course in Miracles, W-192.1:1;2:3;3:5–4:3. See also ACIM Lesson 192 Insights.)

This lesson begins with a clear statement about the Self we were created to be. If we had not convinced ourselves that we successfully separated from the oneness of God’s Love, there were would be no need for forgiveness. But it is needed in the dream we think is real.

Forgiveness is the way to release our mistaken beliefs that are the cause of our dream of separation. We cannot use our own thinking to forgive. Our engagement with the ego keeps us locked within its thought system.

We must open to the Holy Spirit’s guidance. With His help, we will learn to recognize the ego’s false images as illusions and meaningless. With this recognition the illusions are dispelled and the truth is returned to our mind. Forgiveness dispels the ego’s barriers to Love’s presence and we awaken to the Self God created as His Son.

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