IV. The Holy Spirit’s Plan of Forgiveness, P 2
2 You have a part to play in the Atonement, but the plan of the Atonement is beyond you. You do not understand how to overlook errors, or you would not make them. It would merely be further error to believe either that you do not make them, or that you can correct them without a Guide to correction. And if you do not follow this Guide, your errors will not be corrected. The plan is not yours because of your limited ideas about what you are. This sense of limitation is where all errors arise. The way to undo them, therefore, is not of you but for you.
I don’t see the real world; I see only the images I have made based on my beliefs. But I can see the real world, and I will see that world as my beliefs are corrected. This is the purpose of the Atonement, to guide me out of my errors and their effects. It is important for me to first acknowledge the error, and to desire to be free of it, and then to realize that what I have made cannot be undone by me alone.
This is my only way to freedom. Right now I am trapped in an illusory world of my own making, but that is temporary. I have been given the plan for escape. The Atonement is that plan. The thought occurred to me that a being with the power to make this world in all its complexity could surely figure out how to stop making it.
But the whole point of the dream world is to give us a place to experience ourselves as mortal. This world we made is where we discover what it would be like to be limited. From the belief in limitation it was impossible to believe we could be unlimited. That is why we needed a plan to extricate ourselves.
Thus we have a guide, and a plan for us but not of us, a plan made and operated outside of the belief in limitation. This plan will allow us to undo what we have done. It is so simple as to be overlooked. It really has only three simple components. We notice that what we are thinking is imprisoning us in this illusion. We decide that we are ready for the dream to end. We ask our Guide to undo what we have done.
That is all. It is simple and easy. It seems hard because our desire to awaken is not unopposed. There is still a part of the mind that values the story and is afraid to let it go. There is also a part of the mind that is afraid of change. What would it mean, how would it look? Are we in trouble for trying to change reality?
As we begin this process of awakening, the sleeping mind is reluctant to let go of its false sense of power to accept true power. In this upside down world, releasing our confused thoughts can feel like giving up, like losing. So we hesitate and try again to do it ourselves. It feels hopeless as once again we fail.
Our Guide takes all of this into account, our reticence, our doubts and uncertainties. He works with each of us individually, gently guiding us toward freedom, moving only as fast as we are willing to go, never coercing or forcing. Not that anything could force the Son of God, but even the appearance or sense of being forced is avoided.
In releasing our beliefs that we are separate and our beliefs that we are limited, our memory is going to return and reality will dawn on our minds. But we must not think that we can do this on our own. We have deliberately chosen to believe in limitation. It is this belief in limitation that limits our ability to undo what we have done.
We are not helpless, however. The Atonement Plan is in place, which uses the power of our desire to awaken us. In small simple steps, our Guide is reminding us of our power. All we have to do is follow His directions, and soon we will remember our desire to be what we are. Then it is done.
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