Notes on the Text of A Course in - Stephen Wingate

evenge. Our sin and guilt must be dug up and
looked at so we can be free of it.
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The entire world of hate, fear, anger, conflict, and
war is a projection of your deep, dark secret of guilt
over the sin you believe you committed against God.
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The "you" the ego wants to kill is the Son of God as
the decision maker which is the power of your mind
to choose against the ego and for the Holy Spirit. The
one remaining freedom we have as a prisoner of the
world we made is our freedom to choose, but we
cannot choose until we realize we have a mind that
can choose. The ego's strategy is to keep us mindless
by identifying with the body and world so we will
not remember we have the power to choose, and in
fact made up the whole story of separation and made
up the entire world.
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Our illusions of separation, sin and guilt rest on the
foundation of the Son's power of belief — which is
your power, you are the Son of God. When your
belief is withdrawn, the illusions fall and dissolve.
The Holy Spirit's way of healing our sin and guilt is
by looking at them and realizing they are nothing.
The ego's way of "healing" our sin and guilt is by
projecting them onto others and blaming them for
our pain.
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To be free we must bring the darkness of all our
suffering, sin and guilt to the light of God's love; and
refuse to project the cause of our suffering onto our
brothers.
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You must admit the ego's strategy is absolutely
brilliant, and how well it works! Just look around
you!
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Now we will address the importance of the
acceptance and forgiveness of all our brothers to our
journey back Home.
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Everything you see out in the world, you have
projected from within; there is no separate, objective
world. The good and evil you see in your brothers
are your own projections. When you reject and
condemn your brothers, you are rejecting and
condemning yourself. When you accept and forgive
your brothers, you are accepting and forgiving
yourself. If you believe you are guilty, you will find
guilt in your brothers. When you know you are God's
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love, you will see God's love in your brothers. You
are what you see. You see what you are. There is no
separation.
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True love is absolute, unconditional and all inclusive.
Only God's love is true. The ego's "love" is relative,
conditional and exclusive. The ego's love is not love
at all; it is but hate hidden behind the mask of
specialness. When it is betrayed, its mask is
withdrawn and its true face of hate and murder is
revealed.
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To the ego, time is a function of sin, guilt and fear.
Sin is of our separation in the past. Guilt is our
experience in the present. And fear is of the future
punishment for our sin. The miracle heals as it
transcends time in the holy instant.
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Our first "birth" is when we believed in our
separation from God as an independent ego-self. We
are "born again" when we realize our true Self in the
holy instant with no past or future, but only in the
timeless present. The holy instant is the timeless
present in which our true Self is realized as we
choose the Holy Spirit rather than the ego.
•
Each time we stop for a moment and choose the
Holy Spirit, time stops and we are born again — this
is the holy instant.
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Happy dreams are the corrections for the nightmares
of sin, guilt and fear. Happy dreams are expressions
of the holy instant in the real world when we choose
innocence, forgiveness and love instead of the ego's
nightmare of guilt, blame and hate. As we choose the
guidance of the Holy Spirit in the holy instant, the
light of the real world begins to be revealed.
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We are in the state of mind called the real world
when we realize the truth of who we are is beyond
the dream of separation, beyond the illusory world of
duality, beyond time and space at the doorway to
Heaven. The real world is the reflection of Heaven in
which all is one. The real world is the end of the
journey; before God takes us back Home.
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The real world and the illusory world of separation
are mutually exclusive. Love and fear are
irreconcilable.
End Chapter Thirteen