IX. THE CLOUD OF GUILT, P 6
6 See no one, then, as guilty, and you will affirm the truth of guiltlessness unto yourself. In every condemnation that you offer the Son of God lies the conviction of your own guilt. If you would have the Holy Spirit make you free of it, accept His offer of Atonement for all your brothers. For so you learn that it is true for you. Remember always that it is impossible to condemn the Son of God in part. Those whom you see as guilty become the witnesses to guilt in you, and you will see it there, for it is there until it is undone. Guilt is always in your mind, which has condemned itself. Project it not, for while you do, it cannot be undone. With everyone whom you release from guilt great is the joy in Heaven, where the witnesses to your fatherhood rejoice.
Journal
“Guilt is always in your mind, which has condemned itself. Project it not, for while you do, it cannot be undone.”
This sentence says it all. As I let go of guilt in all its forms, I undo the ego in myself and in the Sonship. It is the only way to undo the ego. Every time I forgive (or accept the Atonement for a brother) there is great joy in Heaven. Every time I fail to forgive, there is more suffering in my life and within the Sonship. This is unequivocal and there is no compromising. It makes the choice simple and straight forward.
Do I want to be happy? Do I want to be at peace? Do I want to wake up? Do I want to return Home, to know my Self, to know God? This is the way it is done. I accept the Atonement for all guilt thoughts. I forgive the very idea of guilt. If I think that someone else is guilty or if I think that some situation is guilty, then I have perpetuated the illusion and I have condemned myself to suffering and death, along with all my brothers.
Does this mean that Donald Trump is not guilty? How about Hillary? The people who are responsible for the inhuman treatment of protesters? Those who destroy the environment to satisfy greed? The killers of baby whales and dolphins. The people who are deliberately or thoughtlessly cruel to helpless animals. How about pedophiles, murderers, and thieves? What if it hits home? What if the murderer kills someone I love and now will never touch again in this life? What about the little things, the careless driver, the nosy neighbor, the bossy co-worker? Even them?
And how can situations be guilty? Well, if I think that I am unhappy because I am devastated by a natural phenomenon, like a hurricane or forest fire, I am saying that circumstances are the cause of my unhappiness, I have projected my unhappiness onto the world and said the world is at fault. If I am upset because my house burnt down and all is lost, or because my company went out of business and now I don’t have a job; if something happens in the world and I think it hurts me, then that is an example of thinking the situation is guilty, that is I am projecting guilt onto the situation.
The ones that I notice these days are the quick judgments when I hear something sad or scary in the news. I think it is sad that so many people were lost to a warehouse fire. I don’t know them but I can imagine their last terrified moments and their families’ grief. How could that not be a bad thing? How could I possibly see this differently?
Ego argues that fate is guilty, circumstances are guilty, life is unpredictable and devastating. And ego life certainly is. But there is another way to see even these kinds of things, and I can know that other way if I am willing to let go of the ego interpretation, and ask for the Holy Spirit’s interpretation. I will see reflected in the world what is in my mind, While fear is in my mind, fearful incidents will happen. If I continue to project and believe the cause is outside of me, then fear will stay in my mind, and fearful circumstances will continue to occur. Let me take responsibility for everything, and allow it to be healed, and I will help the happy dream to become our reality.
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