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Letting Go of Belief in Guilt

The perception of sin and guilt in the world, in the figures that come and go in the dream, is always a projection of the guilt that lives in your mind. It cannot be otherwise. That is why you must forgive the world and everyone and everything in it, for only thus do you forgive yourself. Only by healing all guilt and sin, wherever you perceive it, is the sense of sinfulness and guilt in your mind healed. This naturally follows from what was stated earlier. The Sonship is One, you are a whole part of that Oneness; therefore, to heal and free your mind, you must offer healing to the Whole as It appears in little bits and pieces in the condition of separation. All these apparently separate bits and pieces are actually part of you, and you will be healed in entirety or you will not be healed at all.

Do not let guilt cloud your mind any longer. It brings you nothing but suffering and death. Guilt drives Love from your awareness and leaves you alone and friendless in an alien land. The belief in guilt has robbed you of all that is good and valuable, yet you remain a willing victim to this loss as long as you cling to guilt. It exerts a strong attraction on you; through the projection of guilt, you maintain your identity in separation and justify your attacks on your brothers. Because you are consciously unaware that you are always the first victim of your attacks, you continue to judge and condemn your brothers, thinking that attack on another brings you something of value. Attack brings you nothing! This cannot be overemphasized. If you were aware of the total loss you suffer with every attack on your brother, attack would lose its attraction for you. (From the Christ Mind Book II, p. 252-253)

When we believe in guilt and sin anywhere in the world, we are making the error real. Belief in separation is belief in illusions, because only Love is real. The rest is illusions projected from our unhealed mind. We are now at the stage of learning to distrust what our body’s eyes show us and turn instead to welcome Holy Spirit’s vision of the oneness of God’s Son. As we trust Holy Spirit’s judgment instead of our own, our minds are healed of guilt. We practice opening to Holy Spirit’s vision today to free ourselves from all suffering and pain.

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