Notes on the Text of A Course in - Stephen Wingate

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(content) in the mind, not the behavior (form) of the body in the world. • The entire world is made as a defense against the truth of who we really are. The world of separation is made as an attack on the wholeness of God. • Because we believe in two powers, us and God, rather than go back into our mind and go to war with God over our sin and guilt of separation, we project a world and body in which we can hide. There is one power in the universe. The one power cannot attack itself, as it is not separate from itself. • The term special relationships is a synonym for unholy relationships. • We are all lonely and alone because we believe we separated ourselves from each other and our Creator. We think we are together when our bodies are together, but we are alone because we have separated ourselves in our minds. • The decision making part of the mind is the observer that chooses to identify with the ego and see through the ego's eyes, rather than the vision and reason of the Holy Spirit. The Son of God as the decision maker is the "you" to whom the Course is addressed. "The eyes that are not yours" are the eyes of the ego whose perception sends messages back to you which cannot be understood because they are messages of separation, not of the wholeness of God. • The body and world were made to keep our secret sin of separation hidden, and to project our sin, guilt and fear out of ourselves and onto others in the world. The purpose of the Course is to guide us back to the decision making part of our mind where we can break our identification with the ego and the body, and choose again for the Holy Spirit and our Identity with God as His Son. • The miracle facilitates the shift in the Son's identity from the ego to the Holy Spirit where the Son remembers his Identity with the Father as Christ. • It is important to be aware of the dynamics of the ego by observing it; awareness facilitates freedom. When we look at the ego through the eyes of the Holy Spirit we see it as it truly is. <strong>Notes</strong> on the Text of A Course in Miracles 78 • The “mouse” is the tiny mad idea that we separated from God. The Holy Spirit teaches us that the separation never happened, and He helps transform our unholy relationships into the holy relationship. • We all share the same illusory egoic thought system; we all share the same Identity as the Son of God. We share the same illusion, and we share the same truth. There is no separation. And we all share the same need to awaken from the ego's nightmare of separation. • As our special relationships are being transformed into the holy relationship, we are like infants, and it will take time for us to learn to let go of our unholy relationships as they are reborn into the holy one. • The decision maker is the infant who is already Christ, but forgot, and is now remembering with the help of the Holy Spirit through the holy instant. • The holy relationship is the reflection of the oneness of Christ and Heaven. Through forgiveness of our brothers, our unholy relationships are transformed into the holy relationship, and we remember the truth of our identity and our brothers' identity as the one Son of God. All brothers are included without exception, or the Sonship remains divided. • Forgiveness is for everyone with no exception. If you leave even one person unforgiven (past, present or future) you hold yourself in hell. • To see even one sinner in the world, you are refusing forgiveness for yourself and blocking the love of God from your awareness. The Sonship is forgiven and healed as one, or not at all. • Healing is of the mind, not of the body or world. • My part in the Atonement is to look past the differences I see between us, and see our common state of mind. I release you from the projection of my own belief in sin and guilt which was predicated on my belief that I had sinned against God by separating from Him. My function in the Atonement and forgiveness is to accept them for myself. The Holy Spirit's function is to extend the Atonement and forgiveness to the whole Sonship.
<strong>Notes</strong> on Chapter Twenty-Two – Salvation and the Holy Relationship • We are to offer all of our dark thoughts, feelings and experiences to the light of the Holy Spirit for forgiveness. We are to ask Jesus or the Holy Spirit to help us look at all our sin, guilt and hate, and let go of all our grievances. • More and more we experience the peace and joy of forgiveness as our natural state. • We all share the same insane thought system of the ego, and the same sanity of the Holy Spirit. 79 • Healing is of the belief in separation in the mind only. There is no healing in the world. Passages in this chapter speak of messengers walking through the world sharing the healing love of God to all — this is beautiful, symbolic language used to paint a picture of the healing of the mind. End Chapter Twenty-Two
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