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Freeing Ourselves from Fear and Guilt

Let us look closer at the whole illusion that what you made has power to enslave its maker. This is the same belief that caused the separation. It is the meaningless idea that thoughts can leave the thinker’s mind, be different from it and in opposition to it. …Only if it were possible the Son of God could leave his Father’s Mind, make himself different and oppose His Will, would it be possible that the self he made, and all it made, should be his master.

Behold the great projection, but look on it with the decision that it must be healed, and not with fear. Nothing you made has any power over you unless you still would be apart from your Creator, and with a will opposed to His. For only if you would believe His Son could be His enemy does it seem possible that what you made is [your enemy]. You would condemn [God’s] joy to misery, and make Him different. And all the misery you made has been your own. Are you not glad to learn it is not true? Is it not welcome news to hear not one of the illusions that you made replaced the truth? (A Course in Miracles, T-22.II.9:1-3,6;10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our true Self is a Thought in the Mind of Love. This Self is God’s one Son. We share this Self with every brother. It is the unified Thought of Love in God’s Mind. The recognition of this Self requires inner vision, Christ’s vision. Christ’s vision sees with Love and therefore sees only innocence. When we accept Christ’s vision in place of what we seem to see through the body’s eyes, we see the innocence and Love that is the truth in everyone.

When we accept the images of bodies and what they see as true, we are believing that we have separated from our Creator. The belief that separation is real makes attack and loss seem possible. Within that belief, fear and guilt are constant companions. The key to release from this imaginary world is to let the Holy Spirit in our minds show us Christ’s vision.

Each time we bring a fear or guilt thought to the Holy Spirit, He will show us that there is no cause for concern because illusions cannot cause anything. He will help us look past these mistaken images to the reality of Love’s innocence everywhere. When we accept His vision, we take another step closer to the experience of the Heaven of God’s Love. When no one is excluded from Christ’s vision of innocence, we are welcomed Home where we belong.

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