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Study of Manual for Teachers 3-21-12

Day 81

1 Can what has no beginning really end? The world will end in an illusion, as it began. Yet will its ending be an illusion of mercy. The illusion of forgiveness, complete, excluding no one, limitless in gentleness, will cover it, hiding all evil, concealing all sin and ending guilt forever. So ends the world that guilt had made, for now it has no purpose and is gone. The father of illusions is the belief that they have a purpose; that they serve a need or gratify a want. Perceived as purposeless, they are no longer seen. Their uselessness is recognized, and they are gone. How but in this way are all illusions ended? They have been brought to truth, and truth saw them not. It merely overlooked the meaningless.

Everything I see and experience in this world is a reflection of guilt. It is an illusion because guilt is not part of God and so cannot be real. So what I need is an illusion that will end the illusion of guilt. The answer given me is forgiveness. When that illusion, that is forgiveness, is accepted completely by all, and with no exceptions, the world of guilt will disappear.

Why do we have illusions and why do we keep them? It is because they seem to have some purpose. We want them. As we question that purpose and that need, that is, as we bring the illusion to truth, we see that we were wrong. Our illusions have no purpose and we no longer want them. Yesterday I brought the grievance I held against my brother and the situation he was part of to the Holy Spirit.

I carefully explained why this man was guilty. I showed Him all the evidence against this man. No matter how high I stacked his sins, the Holy Spirit saw only his innocence. He gave me His Vision and I practiced the possibility that the Holy Spirit was right. All day when the man or any other guilty person or circumstance came to mind, I tried out the Holy Spirit’s Vision. I reminded myself that the Son of God in innocent.

Each time I did this I felt peaceful and happy. When I chose to return to my illusion, I felt contracted and anxious. I thought I needed that man to be guilty. I thought I needed that situation to be wrong. I could look in my story for reasons that I felt that need, but that would not be particularly helpful as the story is only the effect of my belief in guilt and unworthiness. My fear of God, the desire to be separate, these are the cause of the story, the reason I made the story to begin with. Forgiving the story is only useful because it stands as symbol of the true cause of my unhappiness; the belief that I am separate from God and guilty for this separation.

So I let go of the analyzing and just accepted that I felt the need to make this man guilty for my own purposes. I forgive that. I now accept that this man and the situation is innocent. I am innocent. This acceptance of innocence is limited. If you show me a different person or a different situation, I may believe for awhile that I have use of guilt again.

This is because I am not yet fully convinced that I am not guilty and have no reason to fear. But, if I could forgive the belief I needed that man and myself to be guilty yesterday, and if nothing awful happened as result of seeing us innocent, maybe I have nothing to fear after all. I am not yet convinced, but neither am I fully convicted in my belief in guilt and the necessity of projecting that guilt. Today I will again bring all guilt thoughts to truth. I am ready to practice forgiveness again.

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