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of the secret vow we each make to ourselves and each other. • I condemn you because I first condemned myself. When I forgive you, I forgive myself. We share the same need to be free of the ego's belief in sin and guilt. We share the same need to unite in our true Identity as Christ. We are the same in truth, and the same in the illusion. • By identifying with the separate ego and body we are condemning ourselves to the temporal existence of birth, suffering and death. All to prove that separation from God is real, and we are special separate egos. What a shallow "victory" indeed! • You cannot trust anyone because you believe you were born in sin, separation and selfishness; and you have projected your sin, separation and selfishness onto all your brothers — how can you trust them when you have condemned yourself, their maker? The world you made and live in is an abysmal battleground projected from your mind where you believe the original battle was won in the separation from your Creator. And in the world you made you are all alone; brotherless and Fatherless. • The ego's purpose for the body and world is as a home, and a depository of our sin and guilt, in order to maintain our separate existence. The Holy Spirit's purpose of the body and world is as a classroom to learn forgiveness, and to remember the truth of who we are as the one Son of God. • We perceive the world we have projected. The projection of a separate world serves as a means to proving our separate ego-self is real. Projection makes perception. I wish to perceive myself as a special separate self apart from God; so I project a special separate world to fulfill my wish. The world you see is the world you wish to see, and then made as you wished it be. The world serves the purpose you give it. • I destroyed God and crucified His Son so I could glorify my own special separate bodily existence. • We cherish and defend our special identity with the separate ego-body — even to the death. • Forgiveness is absolute, unconditional, and all inclusive with not even one exception. All your dark, <strong>Notes</strong> on the Text of A Course in Miracles 84 secret sins must be brought to the light of the Holy Spirit's love. All illusions must be brought to the truth. This chapter addresses the importance of our forgiveness of God. Forgiveness of our brothers is a reflection of our decision to forgive God for what He never did. • Through forgiveness, our special relationships become the holy relationship. • The purpose of our special relationships with our brothers is to maintain our separate existence. The purpose of the holy relationship is to realize our shared Identity with Christ in Spirit through our shared function of forgiveness in the world. In the world, we are one in purpose: Forgiveness and Atonement. In Spirit we are one in God. • We share the same nightmare of separation from God; and we share the same need to awaken to the truth of our Identity with God. • Forgiveness of our brothers helps us go beyond the final obstacle to peace which is our fear of God's all inclusive love. In God's all inclusive love our specialness is dissolved. • God's love excludes no one. The ego's special love excludes all except the "special" one, and in truth is not love, but hate veiled with a smile. • Salvation is seeing the holiness in our brother. Bondage is seeing the sin and guilt in our brother. • The one purpose of the world is to heal God's Son of the belief in separation and specialness through forgiveness and the Atonement. Who is God's Son? I am — God's Son is me. I see everything in my daily life as an opportunity to learn this lesson and fulfill this purpose. No longer does the world serve the purpose of keeping me asleep in the nightmare of specialness. • The laws of chaos served to keep the Son asleep in the world of separation. The laws of forgiveness and the Atonement serve to awaken the Son to the truth of his shared identity in spirit.
<strong>Notes</strong> on Chapter Twenty-Four – The Goal of Specialness • Every situation in your daily life offers you the opportunity to forgive and to accept the Atonement for yourself. • Your sin is a projection of my belief in sin. By forgiving you, I am forgiven. Your holiness is my holiness. 85 • Christ's vision allows me to see your body and look beyond it to the wholeness of Spirit. The ego's eyes sees the body as proof of separation and as a depository of sin and guilt. • The Holy Spirit perceives the truth of who we are as Christ, the one Son of God. End Chapter Twenty-Four
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