Day 127
22. HOW ARE HEALING AND ATONEMENT RELATED?
1 Healing and Atonement are not related; they are identical. There is no order of difficulty in miracles because there are no degrees of Atonement. It is the one complete concept possible in this world, because it is the source of a wholly unified perception. Partial Atonement is a meaningless idea, just as special areas of hell in Heaven are inconceivable. Accept Atonement and you are healed. Atonement is the Word of God. Accept His Word and what remains to make sickness possible? Accept His Word and every miracle has been accomplished. To forgive is to heal. The teacher of God has taken accepting the Atonement for himself as his only function. What is there, then, he cannot heal? What miracle can be withheld from him?
I started the contemplation of this paragraph by reminding myself of the meaning of Atonement. Pathways of Light offered a very simple explanation. It said:
Miracles principal #26 tells us that, ” ‘Atoning’ means ‘undoing.’ ” So the Atonement is the undoing of the mistaken ideas in our mind.
So if healing and Atonement are identical, then healing our mind of the mistaken ideas will heal sickness. Jesus also emphasizes that Atonement is not partial. This means we cannot hold onto any part of the error and still accept our function, which is Atonement.
Jesus also tells us that to forgive is to heal. So forgiveness must also be the same as Atonement. I forgive by accepting that there is nothing to forgive. No one is guilty. Nothing has been done to hurt me. This is not a complicated or hard to understand idea, but it appears so to the ego mind.
Ego cannot accept this definition of forgiveness because it completely undoes the basic tenants that hold the ego idea in place. So the ego simply dismisses forgiveness and calls it unrealistic, undoable, nonsensical, and unfair. Instead it offers us forgiveness-to-destroy, which keeps someone guilty. It doesn’t really care whom. It can be the one you are angry with or it can be yourself, or it can even be the situation, as long as guilt is involved.
But Jesus says that forgiveness recognizes that nothing has been done to us. What is there to forgive? How do I use this form of forgiveness? I think that someone offended me and now I need to forgive him, right? No. I need to forgive the idea I am offended. I have perceived incorrectly. I have caused my own pain.
It is only a perception based on a false belief, so it can be easily dismissed as I accept a new perception based on the truth. I don’t have to discover this new perception (which I couldn’t do anyway) because when I ask for it the Holy Spirit gives me it. So really, forgiveness is the undoing of false ideas in the mind, just as is Atonement. Forgiveness and Atonement are the same thing.
As I accept my function, which is Atonement, I agree to the undoing of the ego in my mind. This facilitates complete forgiveness in which I recognize that nothing has been done to me. Now there is nothing I cannot heal.
I look at a sick body and instead of praying that the body be healed, I pray that my mind be healed. Then I look at that body and I see only the effects of a mistaken belief and I know that this is not truth. My mind is no longer clouded with guilty thoughts, or distracted by appearances. I am not confused and so I know that what the body’s eyes show me cannot be real. My certainty heals.
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