Notes on the Text of A Course in - Stephen Wingate

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You made the face of innocence to cover your face
of sin and guilt. You made your world of special
relationships to defend against the wholeness of
God's love in Heaven.
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And now we turn to the heart of this chapter which is
the power of our mind to learn and choose. Learning
is really the unlearning of what the ego taught us
about who we are. Who we are as Christ is not
learned, but remembered when we unlearn who we
are not.
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We love evil doers in the world, because without
them we would have to face the evil within
ourselves, and realize it does not exist. Without evil,
sin and guilt, the ego is killed dead on the spot. We
would rather kill the evil doers in the world, than
have our special separate ego-self be dissolved. We
will not kill all the evil doers in the world, because
we put them in the world so we can "live." We made
the world as a projection of the evil we believe is in
us. Without evil you will be melted in the eternal
love of God.
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Forgiveness of your brother forgives the sin in you,
and dissolves the ego-self which cannot live without
evil, sin and guilt. That is why you would rather kill
the evil doers than forgive them. Without an evil
enemy, you are dead. Evil doers are your savior and
your salvation; and you love to hate them so!
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You do not want to learn what this Course is
teaching because you will have to face your hidden
belief in sin and guilt which are based on the illusion
of separation from God. The separation from God
never happened which means your special separate
identity never happened. "You," the special separate
ego-self, do not exist; why would you learn a Course
that strips off the veil of your special, illusory self?
Learning the ego's complex and distorted thought
system was a tremendous accomplishment of a
powerful mind. Your mind made the world and the
whole universe. This Course is not too difficult for
you to learn. You will learn exactly what you want to
learn.
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The reason you are not learning what this Course
teaches (in this form or another) is that you do not
want to learn it.
<strong>Notes</strong> on the Text of A Course in Miracles
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The "You" who is your Self as the Son of God, the
decision maker or the dreamer who makes your egoself,
the body and the world, is the "You" to whom
the whole Course is addressed; the "You" who
chooses the ego or the Holy Spirit.
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It is the Son of God as the decision maker who
chooses between the ego's guilt and the Holy Spirit's
innocence. Your world arises out of the choice you
make: the illusory world of separation, sin and guilt;
or the real world of wholeness, forgiveness and
innocence.
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Your world is your state of mind. In the state of
forgiveness and innocence, your world is the real
world. In the state of sin and guilt, your world is the
illusory world.
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Everyone in the world is either expressing love or
calling for love. Expressions of hate are really
expressions of the fear of loss of the special separate
ego-self, which is ultimately a desperate call for the
wholeness and love of God. Some people express
fear in socially acceptable ways; others in socially
unacceptable ways. But all of us are either
expressing love or calling for love.
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The temptation is to believe the ego's story that
peace, love and happiness are to be gained through
maintaining our separate existence.
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All roads to love and peace in the world lead to
death. For love and peace we must go to the source
of the world which is our own mind; where we can
choose again.
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The purpose of the world is to learn there is no
separate world apart from the mind.
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Our choices in the world are between hell and hell.
Heaven is only found through forgiveness and
acceptance of the Atonement in the mind.
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Salvation undoes the identification with the ego and
body, and facilitates the realization of our true
Identity as Christ in Spirit.
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Forgiveness facilitates salvation as it undoes the
projection of sin and guilt, and leads us back to the
decision making part of our mind where we can
choose for the Holy Spirit rather than the ego. God