I. GUILTLESSNESS AND INVULNERABILITY, P 1
1 Earlier, I said that the Holy Spirit shares the goal of all good teachers, whose ultimate aim is to make themselves unnecessary by teaching their pupils all they know. The Holy Spirit wants only this, for sharing the Father’s Love for His Son, He seeks to remove all guilt from his mind that he may remember his Father in peace. Peace and guilt are antithetical, and the Father can be remembered only in peace. Love and guilt cannot coexist, and to accept one is to deny the other. Guilt hides Christ from your sight, for it is the denial of the blamelessness of God’s Son.
Journal
We are told some very important things in this paragraph. The most important to me is that the Holy Spirit wants to remove all guilt from our mind. Thank God that I don’t have to do that by myself. By myself means with ego. No decision made alone has power, so we make all decisions with either ego or Holy Spirit. Those are our only two choices. If I try to rid myself of guilt with the ego’s assistance, I will fail.
When I have asked the ego how to be rid of guilt I am told to deny it or to project it. I see that neither of these two suggestions works. My daughter is pregnant with her first child and she was expressing her fear of not being able to be a good mother to a newborn. She just doesn’t know how. I reassured her, but I noticed fear rising in me. When I looked at that fear I saw that it was really guilt. It was guilt for not doing a better job with my own first child.
I thought that guilt was gone, but it had been merely repressed. I had pushed it down so deeply that I could not see it anymore until now when it was triggered by my daughter’s fear. This is the best the ego has to offer when it comes to fear and guilt, temporary repression. Now I am looking at it again, and this time I am asking the Holy Spirit to look with me and to remove the guilt from my mind.
It is absolutely essential that the guilt be undone, not just for this one situation, but the belief in guilt itself must be undone. I am not just innocent of my errors with my firstborn, but I am innocent. I am innocence itself, and so is everything created by God. If I start trying to justify my behavior, I will find circumstances that cannot be justified. But if I know that guilt is an illusion and that innocence is reality, then no justification is needed. In fact the idea of justification is seen as part of the illusion of guilt, and has no place in the innocent mind of the Son.
The peace of God is everything I want, and I cannot have the peace of God and keep the idea of guilt. I cannot have love and guilt. I must choose. This is the fact that I must accept if I am to be free. Once accepted, the thing I must do is release the belief in guilt to the Holy Spirit so that my innocence will be restored to my awareness. I choose to do that now with the rules for decision.
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