Notes on the Text of A Course in - Stephen Wingate

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• Love does not impose; it reminds patiently. We must make the choice for the Holy Spirit and God, or the ego, because we are free to choose. • The Sonship is one and all inclusive — absolutely no one is excluded. • We join with the reflection of God's oneness by joining with Jesus who represents God's love and wholeness in our mind. By joining with Jesus and the Holy Spirit, we realize we share with our brothers the same Identity with God. We also share the same insanity of the ego, and further, we share the same <strong>Notes</strong> on the Text of A Course in Miracles 32 interest of awakening from our dream of separation. With the help of Jesus and the Holy Spirit we are to remember that our identity with our brothers and with Christ is one. • Our entire physical universe including our physical existence, the very life we think is our own, rests on the ego's thought that the love and wholeness of God is to be feared. More specifically, our choosing the love of God is to be feared. "Do not accept the Atonement" is the core belief of our thought system as individuals. End Chapter Eight
CHAPTER NINE THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE ATONEMENT Main Themes: Forgiveness and the Atonement. Introduction: Forgiveness is the correction for the ego's projection of sin, guilt and fear. The Atonement is the realization that the separation from God never happened. Learning the truth of who we are is remembering the truth of who we are. We unlearn what we are not, a separate ego-body, and remember what we are, the Son of God. The ego is terrified that we will remember who we are because it means the "death" of the ego. The ego's fear of "death" is projected onto the world of bodies, hence virtually everyone and everything is a threat to the ego's existence, leaving it in a constant state of panic. The ego's primary fear is that the decision maker will decide against the ego and for the Holy Spirit. • The Holy Spirit helps us go beyond the level of identity with form to our true identity with spirit. To ask Jesus or the Holy Spirit for help in the world on the level of form and behavior is exactly what the ego wants us to do because it keeps us identified with the body; asleep and buried in the world of illusion. • When we ask Jesus or the Holy Spirit for help with specific things in the world on the level of form and behavior, we are asking for "nothing." The help that Jesus and the Holy Spirit provide is to help us remember the truth of who we are beyond the world of form. They do not help us fix problems or accomplish goals in our dream world. When accepted, their help takes us beyond the illusory world to the real world. The help we ask them for is help with forgiveness and help choosing the Holy Spirit rather than the ego. By asking for help on the level of form and behavior we are doing exactly what the ego wants us to do. The ego wants to keep us focused on the body and the world, asleep under the veil of Self forgetfulness, mindless and unaware of our power to choose to remember our true Identity as Christ. The memory of our true Identity as Christ means the dissolution of the ego. Therefore the ego is ecstatically happy when we pray for help on the level of form. 33 • There are two identities from which we can choose: the ego or the Holy Spirit. When we choose the "littleness" of the ego we choose for "grandiosity." When we choose the "magnitude" of the Holy Spirit we choose for our "grandeur." The littleness of the ego's grandiosity, and the magnitude of the Holy Spirit's grandeur are referred to as the "two evaluations" of ourselves in this chapter and are further developed later in the Course. • The ego does not love us because it does not know us. The ego only knows we have the power to choose to identify with it, thereby sustaining its existence; or to choose against identifying with it, thereby dissolving it. That is why the ego is always suspicious and vicious (paranoid, neurotic and psychotic) — it fears its own dissolution. • The two evaluations of yourself are in your mind, not in the body or world. Your problem is one of identity which is in your mind, not in the body or world. You have one problem, your mistaken identity with the ego and body; and one solution, your true identity as spirit. When you begin to choose to identify with the grandeur of spirit, the ego can become extremely suspicious and vicious. It is important to be vigilant of the ego's fear, suspiciousness and viciousness, and understand its motives. The ego is spoken of here and in the whole Course in anthropomorphic terms as if it is a person. It is not a person. The ego is a thought system that is based on the belief in separation from God. When I identify with the thought system of separation it becomes "me." It is this "me" that is fearful, suspicious and vicious when its existence is threatened. And because you have identified with the ego's thought system of separation it is "you." Identified with the ego thought system, you are suspicious, vicious, paranoid, neurotic and psychotic. Identified with the thought system of the Holy Spirit, you are the Son of God. When you are beyond all thought, you are God Himself. • The Holy Spirit never looks at the past; it is always in the present. The ego never looks at the present; it is always in the past. To get beyond our identity with the ego we must get guidance from beyond the ego. The Holy Spirit is beyond the ego and can help us choose to go beyond to spirit. If we turn to the ego
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CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE THE FINAL VISION
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