VII. Looking Within, P 14
14 The ego is not a traitor to God, to Whom treachery is impossible. But it is a traitor to you who believe that you have been treacherous to your Father. That is why the undoing of guilt is an essential part of the Holy Spirit’s teaching. For as long as you feel guilty you are listening to the voice of the ego, which tells you that you have been treacherous to God and therefore deserve death. You will think that death comes from God and not from the ego because, by confusing yourself with the ego, you believe that you want death. And from what you want God does not save you.
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The ego thought system is built on guilt and without guilt it has no foundation on which to stand. So the lesson is always one that leads us to understand that guilt is not real and we are innocent. With that healing the mind will naturally turn to God. It is only the belief that we have somehow betrayed God that keeps us clinging to this illusion.
We believe we have been treacherous to God and therefore deserve death. God will not save us from what we want, so we must change our minds about what we want. That is our only function here. We must accept the Atonement for ourselves. All that means is that we forgive the idea that the Son of God is guilty for anything. We remember that we are innocent.
For awhile we do this one guilty thought at a time, coming to understand that it does not matter if we see ourselves as guilty or the other one as guilty. The ego thought system says that we are guilty but that we can get rid of the guilt by seeing it elsewhere. The Holy Spirit is showing us that trying to get rid of guilt is what convinces us that guilt is real and frightening.
To be healed is to know that guilt is all smoke and mirrors. It is nothing made to appear threatening. It is a prison we made to keep our brothers separate from us and to keep ourselves separate from God. All that it takes to be free from this prison is to want to be free. In our desire for freedom we receive freedom. But we must desire it for everyone. We must free all of our brothers if we want to be free.
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