Notes on the Text of A Course in - Stephen Wingate

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The divided ego-self, and the body and world with
which we identify are unknown to God, as God
knows only our perfect, undivided wholeness as
Christ. When we choose to be separate from the
unconditional love of God in spirit, we seek for
substitutions in the form of special love in the world
of separation we made.
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Once we believe the ego's mythology of separation,
sin and guilt, God is not the God of love, but
becomes the god of fear.
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Once we believe in the original separation from God,
the whole universe is projected and seen as separate
fragments unrelated to the whole. The entire universe
arises out of the one original thought of separation
from God. This is why there is no order of difficulty
in miracles, and no hierarchy of illusions; by healing
the one original illusory thought of separation, the
whole universe is healed — in your mind.
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The original error of separation is in the mind, and is
projected out making the world, and making the
world appear to be divided and in need of healing.
But the healing can only take place at the source of
separation and sickness, which is in the mind. The
body and world cannot be healed and united because
they are not sick or divided. Seeking for love and
healing in the world or for the world is to seek
endlessly in darkness for nothing. The world does
not exist apart from the mind that made it. The mind
must be healed, not the body or world.
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The resolution of sin and guilt is in the realization
that they are not real because separation from God
never happened. Guilt says sin is real and must be
punished which evokes fear — it is all illusory.
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Our pathetic substitutions for God's unconditional
love are our special love and hate relationships.
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Now we will look at the world through the
symbolism of the dream, and show that our sleeping
dreams and our waking dreams are the same.
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In our dreams we want to prove the separation is
real, and we want someone else to be punished for it.
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The cause of the dream is guilt, and the purpose of
the dream is to provide someone onto whom you can
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project your guilt to maintain your innocence in the
eyes of your god of fear.
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Your original sleeping dream is that you have
separated from God; and in your waking dreams the
people in your special relationships serve as dumping
grounds for your sin and guilt, so you can sustain
your dream of separation from God and have your
innocence too.
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The Holy Spirit's use of the body and world is to help
us wake up from the nightmare we made.
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The Holy Spirit does not punish the body, as the ego
claimed, but respects the power of our mind and
what it made, and uses the body for a loving purpose
to help wake us from our nightmare.
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By choosing the holy instant the imaginary shackles
of the body are dissolved, and the peace we had been
seeking through the body and world is found in our
timeless identity with the love of the Holy Spirit.
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The body is the effect of the original thought of
separation. Through accepting the Atonement, the
original thought of separation is undone, and with it
the experience of the separate body. In the holy
instant there is no thought of the body, and therefore
no separation; there is only the wholeness of our true
self as spirit. The body does not physically
disappear, but your identity has shifted from the
body to spirit.
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The holy instant is a shift in identity from the body to
spirit, and happens in the mind; not in the body or
the world.
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Sin, guilt and fear form the ego's projection of linear
time: sin is the past, guilt is the present, and fear is
the future. In the holy instant linear time collapses
along with sin, guilt and fear. In their place is the
eternal present — the love of God.
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The Holy Spirit uses the body as a communication
device in the world for reflecting the love of God
through forgiveness and the Atonement.
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Through the holy instant, the Holy Spirit leads us out
of the illusory body and world, back within to our
right mind where we choose the holy relationship
rather than the special relationship.