Notes on the Text of A Course in - Stephen Wingate

Main Theme: The miracle and the aspect of the
miracle referred to as justice. Justice is the Holy
Spirit's principle that nobody loses and everybody
gains. Justice is the Holy Spirit's answer to the ego's
goal of murder in which somebody wins and
somebody loses.
Introduction: The ego's justice is that I am innocent,
and you are guilty and must die for my sins that I
have projected onto you. I gain because I am
innocent; you lose because you are sinful and are
punished. The Holy Spirit's justice says that
separation and sin never happened; all are innocent;
everybody gains and nobody loses.
In this chapter we also address the purpose of the
body and world from the ego's perspective with its
desire to kill; and from the Holy Spirit's perspective
of forgiveness and healing.
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The ego needs to imprison us in a body and world
while keeping us unaware that it is a prison by
distracting us from our mind where we could choose
the miracle instead of murder.
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The Christ in you is the memory in your mind of
who you are as Christ, God's one Son in Spirit.
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Forgiveness, the Atonement, salvation and the
memory of our Identity with Christ are in our mind,
and are realized when the decision making part of
our mind chooses to be guided by the Holy Spirit
rather than the ego. When we are identified with the
ego we are distracted by the body and world so we
are unable to use the power of our mind to choose for
the Holy Spirit.
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Attack shows that the ego, sin and separation from
God are real, and serve to keep the love of Christ
away. All attack is a call for love.
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We have become so accustomed to living in the ego's
darkness of guilt, fear, hate and attack that we cannot
bear the light of God's love. The ego cannot survive
in the light; it must remain in darkness. This chapter
makes reference to Plato's Cave Allegory.
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Sin says that the separation from God is real and
deserves punishment; so we flee the mind, hide in
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the body and project our sin and guilt onto others in
the world.
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The original change is the original sin which is the
belief in separation from God. Believing we are
separate from God, we made a body with which we
identified, thereby becoming our own father. By
looking at the original change we realize that
separation never happened, which means there is no
original sin, no ego, no separate body and no
separate world.
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The ego's separate existence is based on the belief
that "I gained and God lost." The ego believes it
attains its innocence by projecting its sin and guilt
onto someone else and having them pay the price for
sin. "I win and you lose" is the ego's form of justice.
The Holy Spirit's justice says, "The separation from
God never happened, there is no original sin; all are
innocent!"
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The ego cannot exist without sin, guilt, conflict and
fear. Innocence is the great heresy in the ego's
thought system.
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The ego is terrified of unconditional love, as it is
dissolved in the light of the Holy Spirit's forgiveness
and declaration of the innocence of all. The ego
needs sin and guilt to maintain its existence, and a
body to call its home, proof of the ego's reality.
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The ego made the body and world as a depository for
its sin and guilt, and as a hiding place to avoid God's
punishment for sinning against Him. Can we find
love, peace and happiness in a place we made out of
sin, guilt and fear of God's vengeance?
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The ego loves when we seek for love, peace and
happiness through the body and world of special
relationships because there is no love, peace and
happiness to be found there. The ego's creed is "Seek
but do not find." If we find true love, peace and
happiness, the ego is dead. The ego can only live in
conflict, fear and seeking.
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Content is of the mind; form is of the body and
world. Cause is of the mind; effect is the body and
world. It is crucial to be clear on the relationship of
content and form; cause and effect. The content of