Notes on the Text of A Course in - Stephen Wingate

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are dissolved; and the world and linear time are collapsed into the timeless holy instant of the real world. • The world is one loud, raucous shriek whose purpose is to drown out the still small Voice of the Holy Spirit who speaks softly of forgiveness and the Atonement. • All power to choose Heaven or hell is in the mind of the Son as the decision maker. When we choose the Holy Spirit, the Son realizes his Identity as Christ, God's one Son, and remembers His Home in Heaven. When we choose to identify with the ego, the Son <strong>Notes</strong> on the Text of A Course in Miracles 100 becomes the son of the ego, and is imprisoned in his self-made hell, forgetting his true Home in Heaven. • Our toys are our beliefs in separation, sin, guilt, fear, judgment, hate, conflict, special relationships, the body and the entire world we made. • Forgiveness of our brother allows us to see the face of Christ in him and remember our shared Identity with God. End Chapter Twenty-Nine
Main Theme: The original "beginning" of the ego is the instant we believe in the original separation from God. The "new beginning" is the holy instant in which we realize our mistake and choose to identify with the Holy Spirit instead of the ego. An important theme in this chapter and throughout the Course is the power of our mind to choose. Introduction: We begin again by looking at the Atonement. The Atonement principle is the Holy Spirit's Answer to the ego's separation principle. • When we choose to identify with our special egoself, we are choosing against our true Self. • Choosing to identify with the ego has no affect on reality, but does affect our experience of ourselves as we lose awareness of God's love. • Nothing exists separate from God. God knows nothing of an ego separate from Him because nothing separate from Him exists. God is perfect, eternal oneness. • Our Identity as Christ is eternally unchanged, regardless of our experience of ourselves as separate egos. • Idols are anything we use to attempt to take the place of God's love and wholeness, and reinforce our separate special existence. In the original separation we chose to be a tiny little fragment of the infinite wholeness of God's Kingdom. • Our temptation is to identify with the special separate ego rather than the Holy Spirit. As we turn to the Holy Spirit, the purpose of the world shifts from specialness to forgiveness which facilitates the Atonement. • Forgiveness and Atonement are the symbols we each can understand. We can only get home together. Forgiveness and Atonement are in the mind, and have nothing to do with behavior or communication between people in the world. • The ego's purpose of the world is to form special relationships with people who can meet our needs, fulfill our desires and keep us identified with and CHAPTER THIRTY THE NEW BEGINNING 101 attached to the body. The Holy Spirit's purpose of the world is to use our special relationships as a classroom to learn forgiveness and to facilitate the acceptance of the Atonement for ourselves so we will remember our true Identity as Christ in Spirit, the one Son of God. • The section in this chapter entitled "Rules for Decision" is a practical guide that is given to facilitate our choice for the Holy Spirit rather than the ego in our daily lives. Once we realize our mistake of choosing to identify with the ego, we have made the "new beginning" in our lives, and the rules for decision help us continue on the path back Home with the Holy Spirit as our teacher. • There are seven rules for decision that are all really only one; throughout the day we actively choose to be guided by the Holy Spirit rather than the ego. • Our first mistake is that generally we determine what our problem is and then ask God for help in resolving it. "Please help me get a job; cure my cancer; or find a partner." • Once we choose for the Holy Spirit, the purpose of our special relationships shifts to forgiveness and Atonement; from blame, conflict, specialness and separation. • As we see our brothers with the vision of the Holy Spirit's forgiveness, we begin to see ourselves with the vision of the Holy Spirit's forgiveness. As our brother's are forgiven we realize the reality of our oneness through forgiveness of the illusion of separation. • The ego tells us we can be complete by joining with other egos outside of ourselves. The Holy Spirit tells us we can be complete by remembering our oneness with God within ourselves (in our mind). • With the help of the Holy Spirit we observe the ego in action, and learn to choose forgiveness instead of blame and guilt. • True forgiveness sees no sin and no separation at all.
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