Notes on the Text of A Course in - Stephen Wingate

The ego is happy to be redeemed tomorrow, but not
today!
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Here and now in the holy instant there is no sin, no
guilt, no fear, no time, no space, no ego and no
world. Here and now there is only our eternal
Identity as Christ in Spirit, the one Son of God.
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And now we turn to the important theme of purpose.
Specifically we will look at the purpose we choose to
give our relationships: To forgive and awaken from
the dream; or to attack and keep us asleep in the
dream.
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We give the world meaning through the purpose we
choose for it. When we choose the Holy Spirit as our
teacher, we see the world as a classroom in which we
learn forgiveness as a means to awakening to the
truth of our Identity as Christ. When we choose the
ego as our teacher, we see the world as a prison and a
battleground where we live in fear, conflict and hate;
and we remain identified with the body, asleep in our
nightmare of separation.
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Forgiveness, salvation, the Atonement and the
miracle are all illusions that facilitate awakening
from the original illusion, which is separation from
God. All choices are illusory. The choice to take the
Holy Spirit as our teacher rather than the ego also
facilitates our awakening from the original illusion.
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The ego's linear time is the projection of sin, guilt
and fear, and begins in the original instant we chose
to believe in separation from God. That original
instant is now. Linear time is always being made
now. In the holy instant, sin, guilt and fear are
healed, and linear time collapses into the eternal
now.
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The entire universe of time and space is a projection
of your own mind, born in the original instant, now,
that you believed you separated from the infinite,
eternal, wholeness of God. The entire universe of
time and space is undone in the holy instant, now, as
you realize you never separated from the love and
wholeness of God.
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We die each time we choose to identify with the ego.
We are born again each time we choose the Holy
Spirit.
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There is no order of difficulty in miracles. There is
one problem: the belief in separation from God; and
one solution: the realization of the Atonement. All
problems in your dream world have one cause and
one solution. If the one cause is not resolved, your
problems will recur in a new form.
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The entire world of suffering, sickness, pain and
death is born in the original instant (now) that we
believe we separated from God's eternal life; yet the
separation from God never happened.
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Our function in the world is forgiveness, and
forgiveness is for everyone with no exceptions. To
hold back forgiveness for even one person is to hold
yourself back in darkness. We are all forgiven
together or not at all; the Sonship is one. We are
crucified as one and redeemed as one.
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When we choose to take the Holy Spirit as our
teacher, we choose Heaven for ourselves and our
brothers. When we choose the ego as our teacher, we
choose hell for ourselves and our brothers.
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Forgiveness is asking Jesus or the Holy Spirit to help
us bring the problem of sin and guilt that we have
projected onto our brothers back into our mind where
it can be healed. The relationship between two
people in the world cannot be healed because sin,
guilt, sickness and discord are in the mind, not in the
relationship between two people in the world.
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It is crucial to fully understand the source of your
pain and suffering, so you can understand the source
of healing: in your mind. That is the meaning of "In
crucifixion is redemption laid" in this chapter..
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The real world is the reflection of the love of God in
the right mind of the Son.
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The real world is the state of awakening from the
nightmare of separate existence and identification
with a body in the dream world.
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The culmination of the process of forgiveness ushers
in the real world.
End Chapter Twenty-Six