Notes on the Text of A Course in - Stephen Wingate

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guilt. The true perception of Jesus or the Holy Spirit is of innocence. The ego's perception is of judgment, one or the other — if I am innocent, you are guilty. True perception of the Holy Spirit is of oneness. The whole Course is set on the principle of Jesus' saying, "My brother, choose again." Choose for the Atonement, not for separation. Choose the Holy Spirit as your teacher, not the ego. <strong>Notes</strong> on the Text of A Course in Miracles 12 We must realize we are the decision maker, the Son of God. We have the power to choose the wholeness of God, or the separation of the ego. In the ego's world our choice is who shall I attack or defend today; who shall I love or hate? All choices are among illusions in the ego's world. The whole Course is about returning our awareness to the power to choose in the mind; the power to choose the ego or the Holy Spirit. One is Heaven, the other is hell. End Chapter Three
Main Themes: This chapter introduces and provides a detailed examination of the ego and its thought system. Also, two principles that form the foundation of the Course are the Atonement principle, and the ego's fear of the Atonement. This chapter addresses both principles. The Course says we are free to accept or reject our inheritance, but not free to determine what our inheritance is. Our inheritance as God's Son is perfectly safe and secure. The ego's thought of separation had no effect on our eternal oneness with God's love — "not one note in Heaven's song was missed." That is the Atonement principle. The separation from God never happened. The ego can only exist if we maintain our belief in separation; hence its fear of the Atonement, and its strategy to keep us identified with the body and world and ignorant of the Holy Spirit. • The reality of our identity with spirit remains unchanged regardless of the ego's belief in separation. • Our eternal home in Heaven is forever unchanged — the ego has no effect on our oneness with God. • We are the Kingdom of Heaven. Our true Identity as Christ is unaffected by any of the "mad thoughts" of the ego. The separation never happened. The thought system of the world is an illusion. The only reality is Heaven's oneness. • Within the illusion we are free to believe anything we want, but our belief in illusion has no effect on reality. You, as the Son of God, have all power over the world. You limit your power by choosing to identify with the ego. You assert your power by choosing to identify with the Holy Spirit. • The ego cannot stop God's love from shining on us, but through our belief in the ego it can block the awareness of love's presence. We remain one with God even as we are identified with the ego. • The ego's thought system of separation had no effect on who we truly are as spirit. Later in these notes we will address the dynamics of the split mind's CHAPTER FOUR THE ILLUSIONS OF THE EGO 13 "dissociation" of the Holy Spirit in the right mind from the ego in the wrong mind. • Being is a synonym for Spirit. "Communicate" means to share or extend God's love. The Holy Spirit and Jesus remind us of our ability to communicate the love of God. • The Atonement principle allows us to understand the underlying idea of the whole Course which is the first miracle principle: there is no order of difficulty in miracles. Because the separation from God never happened, the entire world is an illusion; therefore it is simple to heal any problem in the world. We go back to the source of separation in our mind that made all problems, choosing the ego, and choose the Holy Spirit instead, thus healing all illusory problems. The Atonement principle, the fact that the separation from God's perfection never happened, is the reason there is no order of difficulty in miracles. This is the first major theme that forms the foundation of the whole Course. The second major theme is the ego's fear of the Atonement. The ego's fear of Atonement gives rise to the entire thought system of separation, specialness, individuality, sin, guilt, fear, death and the necessity to flee the mind and make up a body and world. The Atonement principle, and the ego's fear of the Atonement form the foundation for the whole thought system of the Course. It is important to be clear about this to understand the Course, and to express and demonstrate its teaching in your life. Scarcity is a major theme in the ego's thought system. The ego's scarcity is contrasted with the Holy Spirit's abundance. Specificity is another aspect of the ego's thought system and is contrasted with the Holy Spirit's abstraction. Abstract means nonspecific. The Spirit is whole, complete non-specific and abstract. The ego's world is made of separate specifics. The ego is dependent on specifics for its existence. The ego is born in the moment the Son of God believes he has a specific identity, separate from the whole, complete, non-specific and abstract reality of God and Christ. The world of specifics is the seeming witness to the apparent reality of the ego's specificity. The ego's fear is that if the Son chooses Knowledge or abstraction, the ego will disappear.
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alive. God's life is eternal life a
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CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE THE FINAL VISION
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