Notes on the Text of A Course in - Stephen Wingate

not the power to manifest miracles in the world, but
to realize the power of the mind to believe in the
dream. All power that appears to be in the world's
dream was given by the mind of the dreamer (the
Son of God). All power over the dream world is in
the mind of the dreamer.
There is no power of evil in the world. The power is
in the mind that believes in evil, separation, sin, guilt
and fear. We must realize that sin, guilt and fear are
in the mind (the cause), and not in the body and
world (the effect).
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Wrong-minded thoughts "make" the physical body
and world. Right-minded thoughts "create" the
spiritual. The term "create" refers to God — God
creates. The term "make" refers to the ego — the ego
"makes" the dream world and body.
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Miracles reflect the Truth. Truth is of God. Miracles
are illusions that reflect the truth. "Magic" is the
attempt to solve problems in the world and body
rather than in the mind.
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We are free within the illusion to choose what we
believe — the ego or the Holy Spirit. Contrast our
relative freedom to choose within the illusion with
the absolute freedom of Will which is of God and
Christ. Within the illusion what we choose (the ego
or the Holy Spirit) will reflect our experience in the
world. When we choose the Holy Spirit as our guide,
we experience peace. When we choose the ego as our
guide, we experience conflict.
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Within the illusion we have the freedom to choose to
believe in the kingdom of the ego, or the Kingdom of
the Holy Spirit. We will follow up on this statement
later in the notes on this chapter.
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The proper function of the mind is to choose the
Holy Spirit not the ego, and place the mind in the
service of the Holy Spirit. The ego's goal is to
maintain our belief in separate existence. The Holy
Spirit facilitates our acceptance of the Atonement
which states the separation never happened.
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We choose between the ego's loveless expressions
and the Holy Spirit's miraculous expressions. The
medium of communication is the body which can be
destroyed. Your potential is the mind of the Son of
God which cannot be destroyed.
<strong>Notes</strong> on the Text of A Course in Miracles
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We choose either the ego or the Holy Spirit. Our
mind has the power to choose and believe, and we
experience exactly what we choose and believe.
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Do not make the mistake of trying to bring God, the
Holy Spirit, or Jesus into your dream world and ask
them to help resolve your illusory problems. Bring
the illusory problems to the light of God's Truth. Do
not bring God into your illusory world. We made the
world as a place to hide from God's Oneness. God
knows nothing of our dream world. Remember the
power of the mind to make up a world and believe it
is real. The mind has the power to make illusion
appear real.
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Within the illusion we are free to believe whatever
we want, but it does not make it real. We have the
power to make the world and believe in it. The
Course teaches us that what we want in the world is
painful, and the peace and love we truly want is of
God.
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It is important to read and study the Course,
especially the fundamental concepts illustrated in the
Chart and presented in the early chapters. The
fundamental concepts must be studied, understood
and applied in your daily life so they become
experiential. "This is not a Course in the play of
ideas, but in their practical application."
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Now we address the ego's projection of linear time
and space. Sin, guilt and fear projected out of the
mind make psychological time. Sin (the separation
from God) is the past. Guilt (of selfishness of
separation) is experienced in the present. Fear (of
punishment for the separation) is the future. As the
Son of God there is no time and space. Time and
space come after sin, guilt and fear are projected out,
which also makes the world. The holy instant is
timeless, spaceless and free of sin, guilt and fear.
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The miracle happens at the decision making point of
the mind (see the Chart) which is timeless and
spaceless. The miracle is also known as the holy
instant.
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Without sin, guilt and fear there is no psychological
time; no past, present or future.
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The horizontal plane refers to linear time which is
made by the ego's projection of sin, guilt and fear.