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2The Holy Spirit leads me unto Christ,48 and where else would I go? 3What need have I but to awake in Him?
3If you would have the Holy Spirit make you free of it, accept His offer of Atonement for all your brothers.
7 Guilt makes you blind, for while you see one spot of guilt within you, you will not see the light. 2And by projecting it,56 the world seems dark, and shrouded in your guilt. 3You throw a dark veil over it, and cannot see it because you cannot look within.
“Guilt, then, is a way of holding past and future in your mind to ensure the ego’s continuity.”
clearly
3You can learn to bless, and cannot give
what you have not.
7If what you offer is complete forgiveness, you must have let guilt go, accepting the Atonement for yourself and learning you are guiltless.
teach you not to deny it. 3Undoing is indirect, as doing is. 4You were created only to create, neither to see nor do.
8What I experience I will make manifest. 9If I am guiltless, I have nothing to fear. 10I choose to testify to my acceptance of the Atonement, not to its rejection. 11I would accept my guiltlessness by making it manifest and sharing it. 12Let me bring peace to God’s Son from his Father.
3It is not true that you can make decisions by yourself or for yourself alone. 4No thought of God’s Son can be separate, or isolated in its effects.
Peace abides in every mind that quietly accepts the plan that God has set for his Atonement, relinquishing
6Madness may be your choice, but not your reality.
2He leadeth me and knows the way, which I know not.9
3Yet He will never keep from me what He would have me learn. 4And so I trust Him to communicate to me all that He knows for me.
5Ask rather how to learn forgiveness and restore what always was to your unforgiving mind. 6Atonement
becomes real and visible to them that use it. 7On earth it is your only function, and you must learn that it is all you want to learn.
Decide that God is right and you are wrong about yourself.
2Your function here is only to decide against deciding what
possible. 4Would you deny His yearning to be known? 5You yearn for Him, as He for you. 6This is forever changeless. 7Accept, then, the immutable. 8Leave the world of death behind, and return quietly to Heaven.
4He may not yet have learned how to exchange his guilt for innocence, nor realize that only in this exchange can freedom from pain be his. 5Teach him that this is so. 6Those who have failed to learn need teaching, not attack.
7To attack those who have need of teaching is to fail to learn from them.
me within it, as a teacher of Atonement, not of guilt. 2Blessed are ye who teach with me.19 3Our power comes not of us, but of our Father. 4In guiltlessness we know Him, as He knows us guiltless.
The only judgment involved at all is in the Holy Spirit’s one division of thoughts into two categories, one of love and the other the call for love.
thought for yourself,35 for no thought you hold is for yourself. 4If you would remember your Father, let the Holy Spirit order your thoughts, and give only the answer with which He answers you.
2Where there is love, your brother must give it to you, because of what it is. 3But where there is need for love, you must give it, because of what you are. 4Long
Atonement teaches you how to escape forever from everything that you have taught yourself in the past, by showing you only what you are now.
sure as God, by which to recognize if what you learned is true: If you are wholly free of fear of any kind, and if all those who meet or even think of you share in your perfect peace, then you can be sure that you have learned God’s lesson and not yours.
6I do not know what anything, including this, means. 7And so I do not know how to respond to it. 8And I will not use my own past learning as the light to guide me now.
14 Those who remember always that they know nothing, but who have become willing to learn everything, will learn it.
4Think not you understand anything until you pass the test of perfect peace,
for peace and understanding go together, and never can be found alone.
Luke 9:62 (RSV): “Jesus said to him, ‘No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.’”
“First Cause” is a term that was originally used by ancient Greek philosophers and from there passed into the Judeo-Christian tradition. It refers to a being that is the top of all chains of causation—the ultimate cause of everything—but which is itself uncaused. The first cause argument (also called the cosmological argument) for God’s existence states that, since everything must have a cause, and since the chain of causation cannot stretch back infinitely, there must have been an uncaused first cause. God, therefore, must exist.
5Believe the little can content you, and by limiting yourself you will not be satisfied. 6For your function is not little, and it is only by finding your function and fulfilling it that you can escape from littleness.
4All your striving must be directed against littleness, for it does require vigilance
to protect your magnitude in this world.
2Search for the little and you deny yourself His power.
3God is not willing that His Son be content with less than everything.
is not sacrifice to awake to glory, but it is a sacrifice to accept anything less than glory. 3Learn that you must be worthy of the Prince of Peace,
Holy child of God, when will you learn that only holiness can content you and give you peace? 2Remember that you learn not for yourself alone, no more than I did.
When you have learned to accept what you are, you will make no gifts to offer to yourself. 2For you will know you are complete, in need of nothing, and unable to accept anything for yourself. 3But you will gladly give, having received.
5I stand within the holy instant, as clear as you would have me. 6And the extent to which you learn to be willing to accept me is the measure of the delay in which the holy instant will be yours. 7I call to you to make the holy instant yours at once, for the release from littleness in the mind of the host of God depends on willingness,
and am I wholly willing to let everything that interferes with it go forever?
2We said before that to limit love to part of the Sonship is to bring guilt into your relationships, and thus make them unreal.
3If you seek to separate out certain aspects of the totality and look to them to meet your imagined needs, you are attempting to use separation to save you. 4How,
6Under His teaching, every relationship becomes a lesson in
Him. 4You can place any relationship under His care and be sure that it will not result in pain, if you offer Him your willingness to have it serve no needs but His.
4Perfect faith in each one for its
ability to satisfy you completely arises only from perfect faith in yourself.
