IV. The Inheritance of God’s Son P 5
5 If your brothers are part of you and you blame them for your deprivation, you are blaming yourself. And you cannot blame yourself without blaming them. That is why blame must be undone, not seen elsewhere. Lay it to yourself and you cannot know yourself, for only the ego blames at all. Self-blame is therefore ego identification, and as much an ego defense as blaming others. You cannot enter God’s Presence if you attack His Son. When His Son lifts his voice in praise of his Creator, he will hear the Voice for his Father. Yet the Creator cannot be praised without His Son, for their glory is shared and they are glorified together.
Journal
Jesus is trying to help us to understand a very simple thing. We are all part of one Self. What we do to another we do to our self because the other is our self. He is trying to help us understand that blame, whether directed at ourselves or at others is ego identification. If I believe I am guilty, I will believe that others are guilty. If I believe others are guilty, I will believe in my own guilt. Either way, I forget who I am and accept the ego as my identity.
When blame is involved, whether we say something out loud or only think it, whether it seems to be a big grievance or just an idle thought, we are denying our true identity and choosing to align with the ego identity. It is helpful for awhile to look at each situation and let the Holy Spirit guide us to the truth about it, but eventually we must accept the Atonement for the belief in guilt and blame. Then all the stories of wrongdoing will lose their appeal, and so we will stop making them.
There is no way to be in the presence of God if we attack His Son. We cannot know God without His Son, and to see His Son as guilty is to separate His Son from Him. This is an attack on the Son and so an attack on the Father as well. There is nothing that will snap me out of my grievance faster than remembering that I cannot enter God’s Presence if I attack His Son.
It might take me a bit to completely let go of the grievance as I consider the ego justifications for holding onto it. I know that feeling of thinking that I must forgive and at the same time thinking that I can’t let this person off the hook because they really did this. If it is myself that I am blaming, I will have the same experience of thinking that I really did this bad thing and so I must be guilty.
But no matter the appearance, no matter the justification God’s Son is innocent, and no matter where I look I see only God’s Son. It’s up to me when I choose to acknowledge this indisputable fact, but until I do, I suffer the belief I am separated from God, and that is true suffering. It is the cause of all suffering and accepting that we are all innocent as God created us is the only relief we will ever get from this suffering. This is the only way to know my self.
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