Projection means anger, anger fosters assault, and assault promotes fear. The real meaning of the crucifixion lies in the apparent intensity of the assault of some of the Sons of God upon another. This, of course, is impossible, and must be fully understood as impossible.
Assault can ultimately be made only on the body. …Yet if destruction itself is impossible, anything that is destructible cannot be real. Its destruction, therefore, does not justify anger. …If you respond with anger, you must be equating yourself with the destructible, and are therefore regarding yourself insanely.
If you react as if you are persecuted, you are teaching persecution. …Rather, teach your own perfect immunity, which is the truth in you, and realize that it cannot be assailed. …You are merely asked to follow my example in the face of much less extreme temptations to misperceive, and not to accept them as false justifications for anger. There can be no justification for the unjustifiable. Do not believe there is, and do not teach that there is. Remember always that what you believe you will teach. Believe with me, and we will become equal as teachers. (A Course in Miracles, T-6.I.3:3-5;4:1,3-4,7;6:2,4,7-11. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
In every moment we teach with our thoughts, words and actions. What we teach is determined by what we believe we are. If we believe we are a body, we teach that separation and destructibility are real. But we are not a body.
The Course emphasizes this idea with 21 lessons that direct us to repeat this idea many times a day. It is one of the hardest truths for us to accept because we have so strongly tied our identity to the body. if we are not a body, the ego tells us we are nothing. Yet the Course is teaching us it is the body that is nothing. The Spirit we are as an extension of God’s Love is everything, for only Love is real.
This radical shift in self-identification needs to be done gently and patiently with vigilant practice under the Holy Spirit’s guidance. The ego cannot and will not lead us out of our misidentification. But the Holy Spirit knows our true Identity. He is not deceived by the ego. But He does see our self-deceptions that produce our misperceptions. He will lead us out of this confusion if we are willing to question all our perceptions and offer them to Him for His loving correction. This practice leads us to remembering our true Identity as Love and nothing else.
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