Notes on the Text of A Course in - Stephen Wingate

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We are free to believe we are separate from God and
deceive ourselves, but not Him.
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The Holy Spirit is our Friend and Guide Who helps
us choose the Atonement through our holy
relationship with Him instead of separation in our
special relationships.
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To dissuade us from getting back to the decision
making part of our mind and choosing the Holy
Spirit as our true Friend and guide, the ego's strategy
is to keep us identified with the body, and distracted
by the world of special relationships. The ego warns
us not to go back to the mind, for the mind is the
battleground of the original sin, and God is waiting
to strike us dead. Rather than face the source of sin,
guilt and fear in the mind, the ego hides it by making
a world of bodies and projecting the sin and guilt
onto the world. The ego's fear is that we will get
back to our mind, realize our mistaken belief in
separation and choose the Holy Spirit's Atonement
which means the end of the ego.
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The ego made the world of bodies as a depository for
sin, guilt and fear. But ideas leave not their source,
so we still feel the effects of sin and guilt, but now
we do not remember their true cause as it is hidden
from our awareness.
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Sin is the belief that separation from God is real.
Making a separate body and identifying with it gives
form to the belief in separation from God. Seeing our
body as separate from God and separate from our
brothers is the symbol of sin as it represents the wish
and the belief in separation in the mind.
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The ego sees itself as a victim in an unjust world
because sinful, evil, hateful people do vicious things
to "me" or groups with whom I identify, and so the
sinful, evil people must be brought to the ego's
justice which is punishment.
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My attack on you is justified because I am innocent
and you are guilty. Your attack on me is not justified
because I attacked you merely in self defense, and
you are the guilty one, not me!
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To maintain its innocence and its special separate
existence, the ego needs a villain to blame, hate,
attack and punish. This applies to us as individuals,
social groups, political groups, religious groups, and
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nation states; we need someone or some group onto
whom we can project our unconscious self disdain,
sin and guilt. If this Course does not make you feel
uncomfortable you are probably not reading it. It is
crucial to look within at our own unconscious guilt
and shame whose root lies in the belief in our
original, sinful separation from God. By bringing our
dark, unconscious guilt to the light of awareness, it
can be healed. If it is left in the dark it will continue
to fester, you will continue to suffer, but you will not
know why; so you will blame the "villains, betrayers
and evil doers;" all characters in the dream world you
made. Is it time for you to wake up from this selfmade
nightmare?
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The ego made the entire world to fulfill our
temptation to perceive ourselves as unfairly treated.
The Holy Spirit's purpose for the world and our
relationships is Atonement through forgiveness.
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Sickness is of the mind; symptoms appear to be of
the body. Healing is of the sickness of the belief in
separation in the mind, not the body.
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The world is your own mind. Your body is your own
mind. There is no separate body or world apart from
your mind's ideas of them. When the ideas of a body
and world are gone, the body and world are gone.
When the idea of a sick body is gone, the sick body
is gone.
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The world of separation and sin we made and live in
is a reflection of the original sin of separation within
our mind. The original sin of separation from God is
an illusion, as is the world of sin and separation we
made. When we realize the sin of separation from
God and the world is illusory, the ego dissolves
along with the world we made. And what remains is
the real world, the reflection of Heaven in the healed
mind.
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The ego makes linear space-time through the
projection of sin, guilt and fear onto the world of
bodies. Sin is the past. Guilt is the present. Fear is
the future. The world of sinful, guilty, fearful bodies
makes the ego's time and space.
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The holy instant collapses time and space by
forgiving sin, guilt, fear and the world of bodies.
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Our real fear is not of tomorrow's crucifixion, but of
today's redemption. The present cause of fear is sin.