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Study of Text, C 14: IV. Your Function in the Atonement, P 3. 3-29-17

IV. Your Function in the Atonement, P 3
3 When you have let all that obscured the truth in your most holy mind be undone for you, and therefore stand in grace before your Father, He will give Himself to you as He has always done. Giving Himself is all He knows, and so it is all knowledge. For what He knows not cannot be, and therefore cannot be given. Ask not to be forgiven, for this has already been accomplished. Ask, rather, to learn how to forgive, and to restore what always was to your unforgiving mind. Atonement becomes real and visible to those who use it. On earth this is your only function, and you must learn that it is all you want to learn. You will feel guilty till you learn this. For in the end, whatever form it takes, your guilt arises from your failure to fulfill your function in God’s Mind with all of yours. Can you escape this guilt by failing to fulfill your function here?

Journal
When I have let all that obscured the truth in my most holy mind be undone for me…
This is my daily practice. It now occurs almost without effort. I don’t wake up in the morning and think, today I will let my mind be healed. I don’t try to be mindful of my thoughts. I don’t even make a conscious decision to release a thought for healing when I notice it. And yet, it all happens. I think because I have been vigilant for my thoughts and their release and because I convinced myself that this is what I want, now I choose it naturally. There are still times of resistance, but past success has motivated me to push through those.

God will give Himself to me, is giving Himself to me, will always give Himself to me, because that is all He knows. This lets me know that when I fail to know God, to feel Him in me and to feel myself in Him, it is because I have blocked that knowledge with unforgiveness. I have made a world of my own through projecting from my ego mind and have chosen to believe in it instead of God. This is just a choice and I can always make a different choice, and God is the only other choice. Thus, I continue my practice.

Ask not to be forgiven, for this has already been accomplished. Ask, rather, to learn how to forgive …
Asking for forgiveness seems natural and necessary when we believe in our guilt, but it is not necessary. God has not condemned us so He sees no reason to forgive. It is only our own mind that condemns and this is why we must learn to forgive. Rather than praying, “Father, forgive me,” I say, “Holy Spirit, please help me to forgive myself.” I like to be specific when I can and often use the prayer I learned through The End of Death, by Nouk Sanchez. “Holy Spirit, please help me to forgive myself for using ______(name the situation, or _______(name the person, to attack myself. Forgiveness is how I restore the awareness of God to my holy mind.

Atonement becomes real and visible to those who use it.
Atonement is forgiveness in the sense it is undoing. It is the realization that nothing actually happened that needs forgiveness. It is the release of the blocks to Love’s Presence in our mind. The only way it becomes real to us is to use it. An example of this is when I have held a grievance against someone and when I finally let that grievance go, I have felt light and free. Then the Atonement is a felt experience for me. Having accepted the Atonement for this grievance I now have a loving relationship rather than a contentious one, and this is an example of the Atonement made visible.

On earth this is your only function, and you must learn that it is all you want to learn.
As the Lesson says, My only function is to accept the Atonement for myself. In accepting it for myself, I accept it for all, and all will experience this acceptance to whatever degree they are able at the time. It is not my responsibility to make the Atonement possible because that was done automatically when the need arose. I don’t have to do anything to set the Atonement in motion because Jesus did this and so that is done. I only need to accept it. The only part of accepting that is hard for me is to make this my only function. I keep getting distracted by the functions the ego would give me. I am learning, though, that while there are things I must do here, none of them is my function and I can perform my function as I do these things.

You will feel guilty till you learn this.
This is the way I free myself from guilt. I learn that the Atonement is my only function and I dedicate myself to that, and I will never feel guilty again. I will never feel the need to see anyone else as guilty if I do not see myself as guilty. There was a time I could not imagine seeing myself as innocent. It was frightening to even think I was not guilty as if that thought would call me to God’s vengeful attention. And I certainly couldn’t imagine others as being guilt free. I didn’t want to be the only guilty one, the only one God would punish. It seemed so very necessary that certain others were guilty and punished for their sins. I can hardly remember what that felt like anymore, only that I thought it.

Now I know this is insane thinking. Yes, I still do it sometimes, but I know that it is not right. I know that there is another way. I know that I can find that way as I forgive and accept the Atonement. I even believe that Jesus is telling us the truth that if we look within that we will see only perfect innocence. Well, I guess that I believe in the concept, but not quite yet in the actual occurrence of such a thing. Otherwise, I would have done it. But each time I forgive, I am more certain than before, and I am closer to accepting that there is only innocence.

Right now, I look without and I see the projections of a confused mind and I think that confusion is a sin. This is why I hesitate to look within. I am afraid I will see that the darkness is there and therefore I am truly condemned. But I don’t entirely believe this anymore. Accepting the Atonement for this situation and that thought and doing this over and over has loosened the ego’s hold on this mind. It is getting harder and harder to find guilt in my mind. I am dedicated to my function now and I would fulfill it. It is not hard. I’ve been doing it all along, but now I accept it as my only function.

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