Notes on the Text of A Course in - Stephen Wingate

alive. God's life is eternal life and the only life. There
is no life apart from God. The original death was in
the belief in separation from God which is the
original sin. God's Son never died and never sinned.
You are God's Son. You were never born and will
never die.
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The world's dream is made to veil the mind's secret
dream of separation from God. The idols of the
world are the body and our special relationships, and
were made to veil the idol in our mind which is the
special separate ego.
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You do not want salvation because you believe you
are dissolved by love and peace. You love fear and
conflict because without them you die. You will do
anything to remain in hell.
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It is crucial to be fully aware of and understand the
purpose your special love and hate relationships
serve.
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Being one with everything as Christ in God was not
enough for us; we wanted more than everything. And
so we made a world of nothing, and wonder why we
suffer.
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The shift in the purpose we give to our relationships
in the world helps us make the shift from the ego's
dreams of idols to the forgiving dreams of the Holy
Spirit.
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The original change was from unity to separation in
the secret dream of the ego's original separation from
God. The Holy Spirit changes the nightmare of the
ego to the happy dreams of forgiveness which
facilitate our awakening from the dream completely.
When given to the Holy Spirit, the body becomes the
vehicle through which we learn to forgive.
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Perceptions are interpretations. As we are awakening
from the dream, our perception changes, not
necessarily the characters or behaviors in the dream.
The purpose we assign to characters in our dream
determines our perception of them. The characters
remain the same, our purpose for them changes, and
thus our perception and experience of them changes.
With the Holy Spirit as our teacher the purpose of
our whole world of special relationships is to serve
as a classroom to learn forgiveness and acceptance of
the Atonement. The Holy Spirit does not know or
help the illusory dream figure in your dream world.
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The Holy Spirit helps you as the Son of God, the
decision maker, the dreamer of the dream, to wake
up from your nightmare and realize the truth of your
Identity as Christ, the one Son of God.
Do not ask the Holy Spirit, or Jesus or God to help
you as the dream figure; the ego-body. God knows
nothing of dreams. It is the ego that tries desperately
to bring God into its nightmare of suffering and ask
Him to heal its illusory problems of the body in the
world. If God were to come into your nightmare He
would be a deluded dreamer just like you, and you
would have no way out of your deluded dreams. Be
thankful God is sane and offers you a way out of
your insanity with the help of the Holy Spirit.
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The ego's purpose for its world of special
relationships is to maintain its special separate
existence. When we choose the Holy Spirit as our
Guide, the purpose of our idols is to facilitate the
Atonement through forgiveness. When we choose to
identify with the ego, we choose death. When we
choose to identify with the Holy Spirit, we choose
eternal life.
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Everything in the world has one of two purposes; the
ego's purpose is to keep us imprisoned in a body and
sentenced to death; the Holy Spirit's purpose is to
awaken us from the world's dream and to eternal life.
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When our purpose in the world is to learn to forgive
and awaken from the dream, we become happy
learners, and our nightmares become happy dreams.
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There is no order of difficulty in miracles. There is
no hierarchy of illusions. There is no reality in
dreams.
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As you wake up to the real world your perception of
the body changes or disappears; not the physical
body. Now you see your brother's body through the
vision of the Holy Spirit's innocence; where before
you saw him through the ego's eyes of sin and guilt.
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You cannot survive without conflict and fear; this is
why you pretend to forgive your brothers, but refuse
to forgive completely. Your brother's innocence
means your guilt and your death.
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The ego's world and linear time are the projection of
sin, guilt and fear. Sin is the past. Guilt is the present.
Fear is the future. As sin is forgiven, guilt and fear