Notes on the Text of A Course in - Stephen Wingate

<strong>Notes</strong> on Chapter Twenty-Eight – The Undoing of Fear
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By returning to the holy instant more and more
throughout your day, you are able to rise above the
battleground you call your body and world, and
realize the truth of your eternal Self; that is the
miracle and the purpose of this Course.
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Forgiveness of our brothers facilitates the memory of
our Identity with God coming back to our awareness
by showing us the face of Christ in our brother.
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Your world is the outward picture of your inward
wish.
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The mind is the cause; the world is the effect.
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The body is irrelevant in healing. Healing is of the
belief in separation in the mind. The ego will
continue to look to the body for proof of healing or
sickness which keeps us asleep in our nightmare. The
miracle facilitates the shift from body identification
to identification with the observer and dreamer in the
mind of the Son, above the illusory battleground
where sickness or health of the body are both seen to
be illusory.
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The statement "not to give support to someone's
dream of sickness and death" in this chapter does not
mean you do not seek medical treatment for the
body. The statement refers to the belief in the sin of
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separation and sickness in the mind. To cite
metaphysical principles as a reason to avoid medical
treatment for the body is a mistake because it makes
the body important, again missing the purpose of the
teachings of the Course. This Course has nothing to
do with the body, except to take us beyond it. To
avoid treatment for the body is to deal in the realm of
effect. This is a Course in cause and not effect.
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With our brothers we share the same illusory identity
as separate egos, and we share the same real Identity
as God's one Son.
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Forgiveness facilitates the healing of the broken
fragments of the Sonship. With the help of the Holy
Spirit, forgiveness is our function in the world of
broken pieces.
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The Sonship is the whole, infinite, eternal, universal
Being. Nothing exists apart from the Sonship of
universal spirit.
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Our problem is not in the illusory world, but in the
belief that separation, the body and world are real.
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God's promise is unity. The ego's promise is
separation.
End Chapter Twenty-Eight