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A COURSE IN MIRACLES
CH 4 "THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL"
II. RIGHT TEACHING AND RIGHT LEARNING

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1 A theoretical foundation such as the text is necessary as a background to make these exercises meaningful. Yet it is the exercises which will make the goal possible. An untrained mind can accomplish nothing. It is the purpose of these exercises to train the mind to think along the lines which the course sets forth.

 

2 The exercises are very simple. They do not require more than a few minutes, and it does not matter where or when you do them. They need no preparation. They are numbered, running from 1 to 365. The training period is one year. Do not undertake more than one exercise a day.

 

3 The purpose of these exercises is to train the mind to a different perception of everything in the world. The workbook is divided into two sections, the first dealing with the undoing of what you see now and the second with the restoration of sight. It is recommended that each exercise be repeated several times a day, preferably in a different place each time and, if possible, in every situation in which you spend any long period of time. The purpose is to train the mind to generalize the lessons, so that you will understand that each of them is as applicable to one situation as it is to another.

 

4 Unless specified to the contrary, the exercise should be practiced with the eyes open, since the aim is to learn how to see. The only rule that should be followed throughout is to practice the exercises with great specificity. Each one applies to every situation in which you find yourself and to everything you see in it. Each day's exercises are planned around one central idea, the exercises themselves consisting of applying that idea to as many specifics as possible. Be sure that you do not decide that there are some things you see to which the idea for the day is inapplicable. The aim of the exercises will always be to increase the application of the idea to everything. This will not require effort. Only be sure that you make no exceptions in applying the idea.

 

5 Some of the ideas you will find hard to believe, and others will seem quite startling. It does not matter. You are merely asked to apply them to what you see. You are not asked to judge them, nor even to believe them. You are asked only to use them. It is their use which will give them meaning to you, and show you they are true. Remember only this-you need not believe them, you need not accept them, and you need not welcome them. Some of them you may actively resist. None of this will matter nor decrease their efficacy. But allow yourself to make no exceptions in applying the ideas the exercises contain. Whatever your reactions to the ideas may be, use them. Nothing more than this is required.

    

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My holiness is my salvation.


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1 If guilt is hell, what is its opposite? Like the text for which this workbook was written, the ideas which are used for the exercises are very simple, very clear, and totally unambiguous. We are not concerned with intellectual feats nor logical toys. We are dealing only in the very obvious, which has been overlooked in the clouds of complexity in which you think you think. 

 

2 If guilt is hell, what is its opposite? This is not difficult, surely. The hesitation you may feel in answering is not due to the ambiguity of the question. But do you believe that guilt is hell? If you did, you would see at once how direct and simple the text is, and you would not need a workbook at all. No one needs practice to gain what is already his. 

 

3 We have already said that your holiness is the salvation of the world. What about your own salvation? You cannot give what you do not have. A savior must be saved. How else can he teach salvation? Today's exercises will apply to you alone, recognizing that your salvation is crucial to the salvation of the world. As you apply the exercises to your own world, the whole world stands to benefit. 

 

4 Your holiness is the answer to every question that was ever asked, is being asked now, or will be asked in the future. Your holiness means the end of guilt and therefore the end of hell. Your holiness is the salvation of the world and your own. How could you to whom your holiness belongs be excluded from it? God does not know unholiness. Can it be He does not know His Son? 

 

5 A full five minutes are urged for the four longer practice periods for today. Longer and more frequent practice sessions are encouraged. If you want to exceed the minimum requirements, more rather than longer sessions are recommended, although both are encouraged. 

 

6 Begin the practice periods as usual by repeating today's idea to yourself. Then with closed eyes search out your unloving thoughts in whatever form they appear: uneasiness, depression, anger, fear, worry, attack, insecurity, and so on. Whatever form they take, they are unloving and therefore fearful. And so it is from them that you need to be saved. 

 

7 Specific situations, events, or personalities you associate with unloving thoughts of any kind are suitable subjects for today's exercises. It is imperative for your own salvation that you see them differently. And it is your blessing on them that will save you and give you vision. 

 

8 Slowly, without conscious selection and without undue emphasis on any one in particular, search your mind for every thought that stands between you and your salvation. Apply the idea for today to each one of them in this way: 

 

9 My unloving thoughts about ___ are keeping me in hell. My holiness is my salvation

 

10 You may find these sessions easier if you intersperse the applications with several short periods during which you merely repeat today's idea to yourself slowly a few times. You may also find it helpful to include a few short intervals in which you just relax and do not seem to be thinking of anything. Sustained concentration is very difficult at first. It will become much easier as your mind becomes more disciplined and less distractible. 

 

11 Meanwhile, you should feel free to introduce variety into your practice periods in whatever form appeals to you. Do not, however, change the idea itself in varying the method of applying it. However you elect to use it, the idea should be stated so that its meaning remains that your holiness is your salvation. 

 

12 End each practice period by repeating the idea in its original form once more, and adding: 

 

13 If guilt is hell, what is its opposite?

 

14 In the shorter applications, which should be made some three or four times an hour and more if possible, you may ask yourself this question, repeat today's idea, or preferably both. If temptations arise, a particularly helpful form of the idea is: 

 

15 My holiness is my salvation from this.                                  

 

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What are we being saved from here? The answer is our guilt. When our guilt is released, we will know our holiness, which is the opposite of guilt. Thus, salvation is the opposite of hell. Our guilt is what keeps us in hell. There is no hell, with the exception of that which is experienced as a result of our guilt and our fear. There is so much to say about guilt, and, because it will come up in future Lessons, I will try to keep this somewhat brief.

First I went to the Circle of Atonement glossary where I found this on "Guilt":

"Guilt's ultimate basis is the belief that a) we attacked and separated from God, thus b) murdered our divine innocence and turned ourselves into egos, who now c) deserve death and hell. This belief is utterly false, for a) we are incapable of sinning or separating, b) cannot remake ourselves and c) cannot die. Hence, there is no such thing as the state of guilt. There is only the unfounded feeling of guilt. Guilt is at the core of our experience here. It maintains linear time, for it rests on past mistakes and demands future punishment. (see T.13.I.8-9) It made the physical world, which is why the world constantly seems to be punishing us. (see T.13.IN.2-4) It is the essence of our perception of the world. It is the sole cause of all pain. We think that feeling guilt is honest humility which motivates us to obey God's laws. Yet guilt is purely an ego device for arrogantly demonstrating that we are separate from God and should fear Him. Guilt maintains the ego's existence. For this reason, the ego is attracted to guilt. Thus, the ego tells us to "sin" in order to obtain certain pleasures, to attack in order to find safety, and to project guilt onto others in order to rid ourselves of guilt. Yet the real motivation behind all of these, and their real result, is the accumulation of more guilt. Since guilt is the only thing that keeps us from God, the journey home consists entirely of teaching and learning the unreality of guilt through forgiveness." [Circle of Atonement Glossary on Guilt]

"If you identify with the ego, you must perceive yourself as guilty. Whenever you respond to your ego you will experience guilt, and you will fear punishment. The ego is quite literally a fearful thought. However ridiculous the idea of attacking God may be to the sane mind, never forget that the ego is not sane." (T.5.V.3.5-8)(ACIM OE T.5.VII.62)
 
The foundation of guilt is that we believe that we separated from God and thus killed our divine innocence, turned ourselves into egos, and we now believe that we deserve death and hell. While we can't consciously connect with that foundational event, we can and do experience guilt as a result of things we have done, not done, thought, and felt. In fact, we live in a constant state of underlying guilt.

Now Jesus comes to the core question in this Lesson, which is to ask, "If guilt is hell, what is its opposite?" (W.39.2.1) He responds by saying, "This is not difficult, surely." (W.38.2.2) He says it is not a difficult question because it is not at all ambiguous. What is our hesitation about? He says we hesitate because we don't believe guilt is hell. If we did, we would not choose it. We would not even need this Course, if we believed that guilt is hell. In fact, "If you did, would see at once how direct and simple the text is, and you would not need a workbook at all. No one needs practice to gain what is already his." (W.39.2.5-6) It is clear that while we know ourselves in this separated state of guilt, we don't know who we really are.
  
We think that we don't want the guilt. Yet we do want our individuality and the body and the world. With them comes guilt. That is what the Course means by attraction to guilt. Unquestionably we don't want it in ourselves. We want our separate identity, but we don't want the guilt. The ego has an answer for that. It says, "fine, all that you need to do is see in your brother the guilt you don't want to see in yourself." and that is what we love to do. We are very attracted to seeing it in others, but the only reason we want to see it in others is because we want to keep it real in ourselves. Of course this strategy is hidden from our awareness, which is why Jesus is bringing it to our attention. Only when we see it are we motivated to change. When we don't see our own strategy that keeps us in hell, we will continue to listen to the ego's counsel, which is to keep our guilt hidden by projecting it on others. What the ego does not tell us is precisely how we keep it.

We fear looking at our guilt because we still want our individual self. That is why Jesus helps us to see how afraid we are of love. That is what our resistance to this teaching is all about. It does not seem simple to our complex minds that are filled with guilt and fear. Thus, the undoing process must be slow and gentle. We are assured that we will not be thrust into Heaven, but will go only as quickly or slowly as our fear will allow. As long as we are invested in our individual existence, we will think that this world of guilt is a better alternative than to wake up to the truth of who we are.

Jesus says that every time we cry, regardless of the situation, we are actually crying for our lost innocence. The truth is that we have not lost our innocence, our divinity, or our holiness, but we think we have. As long as we continue to feel guilty, we are showing Jesus that he is wrong about us. The whole task of the Course teaching is to show us the way that will free us from our guilt. "The ego is the choice for guilt; the Holy Spirit the choice for guiltlessness. The power of decision is all that is yours." (T.14.III.4.2-3)(ACIM OE T.13.VIII.68) Later we are told, "You are guilty or guiltless, bound or free, unhappy or happy." (T.14.III.4.6)(ACIM OE T.13.VIII.68)
  
"The miracle teaches you that you have chosen guiltlessness, freedom and joy. It is not a cause, but an effect. It is the natural result of choosing right, attesting to your happiness that comes from choosing to be free of guilt. Everyone you offer healing to returns it. Everyone you attack keeps it and cherishes it by holding it against you. Whether he does this or does it not will make no difference; you will think he does." (T.14.III.5.1-6)(ACIM OE T.13.VIII.69) Yet we yearn to know our divine goodness, and long to return home to our Self. "You have not lost your innocence. It is for this you yearn. This is your heart's desire. This is the voice you hear, and this the call which cannot be denied. The holy Child remains with you. His home is yours." (W.PI.182.12.2-6) There is no substitute for the divine innocence of our true nature even though the ego is quite prepared to offer substitutes. It tries to show us how we might achieve self-esteem, respect, worthiness, power, status, special relationships, and things of this world to make us happy, but none of it will take the place of our desire to know our holiness.
  
We have become so used to our underlying anxiety that we are mostly not even aware of the thoughts that are there. We need to start attending to them by being vigilant in watching our thoughts. The reason for this is that we can't bring any thought for healing that we deny to ourselves. But we have been previously cautioned in the Lessons that we should look at these thoughts and feelings casually. In other words, don't judge them or yourself as wrong, and just notice without judging. Jesus tells us that unhealthy denial is when we attempt to conceal these thoughts and feelings. Our unloving thoughts are just mistakes. It is not helpful to crucify ourselves for them. That will just hinder the healing process. To look at our thoughts without judgment is to look from above the battleground. From this perspective, we are looking at them with the Holy Spirit, and from this place, we recognize the thoughts as illusory. This is what forgiveness does. "Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing." (W. P.II.Q.1.4.1)
 
Remember we are not trying to make ourselves into more loving people. Holiness is already ours. That is why the Lesson reminds us that "my holiness is my salvation." We have just hidden our holiness behind a cloud of guilty, fearful thoughts. Those thoughts can be released with the help of the Holy Spirit and then the love that we are comes streaming through. There is nothing we need to do.

Why the resistance? The ego depends on our continuing to feel guilty. It has taught us to project our guilt outside ourselves, but we just end up feeling more guilty. Then we think we deserve punishment and create situations that will deliver it to us. We think that if we can get the world to do it to us, we can relieve some of our guilt. It is like feeling better after we were spanked when we were kids because we knew we had done wrong and deserved punishment. Until we take full responsibility for our guilt and our attacks, the cycle continues. Trying to manage our guilt by denying it, projecting it, or diminishing it will still keep us in hell.

We are being asked to look at these episodes of attack as mistakes only to be corrected, and that is what forgiveness is in the Course. It is about complete release from our mistakes and doing the same for others by recognizing their innocence. But won't this exonerate them from the terrible deeds they have done? That is our fear isn't it? That is why we keep ourselves and others in this game of guilt. We think that it is guilt that keeps us and others from doing wrong, when, in fact, it just keeps us feeling guilty. Jesus reminds us that we can't give the world what we don't have. "You cannot give what you do not have. A savior must be saved." (W.39.3.3-4) It is important to remember that the world is just a reflection of what is in our minds. Therefore, to see our brother's innocence is to know our own. Giving and receiving are the same. The world is saved when we are saved because it is just a projection of our own thoughts. When our thoughts are healed, there is no world to be saved.
 
Why does this seem so difficult for us to get? Clearly he is saying that we just don't get it. He says if we did, the Course would be very simple to us, and reading the text would be all we would need. As complicated as the Course may sound to us now, it is actually our native tongue! What makes it difficult is only our unwillingness to understand, and this unwillingness is because our investment in the world and body and individuality is really important to us. In fact, we could say that this investment is where we think our happiness lies.

To us, the state of guilt in which we live is what we accept as reality. Once we experience a state of defenselessness, all of a sudden something we did not understand in the Course becomes incredibly clear. It means we are no longer defending against it. When we bring this kind of healed perception to it, it resonates deeply with a new understanding. It is the ego that creates clouds of complexity. By trying to put Course teaching into our ego framework to make sense of it means that we are still trying to integrate the truth into the illusion. We need to be patient with ourselves as we learn this new language. We are still babies, and in this process we may experience some disorientation. Look at any disorientation that comes up as a sign of progress. It means we have released some of our attachment to the ego. The fear of the light that we are so defended against has now lifted somewhat.

Because of our defenses and our projections, we don't see the depth and horror of our own guilt. We have not recognized that it is our own unloving thoughts that keep us in hell. We still think that there are other reasons that make our lives difficult, whether it is our childhood difficulties, our divorces, other's attacks on us. We just don't get that guilt is hell. We have learned to live with our guilt and manage it by defending against it. We don't really experience our guilt as hell. In fact we are motivated to keep ourselves guilty. How do we know that? Because we hold onto the desire to attack just to prove that we are not who God says we are. We are proving to ourselves that we are really attacking, guilty sinners, whether we attack by thought, word or deed.

Jesus says that God does not know unholiness. It would follow that he does not know of this world, which is a world of unholiness, but then he asks us to consider logically, "Can it be that He does not know His Son?" (W.39.4.6) God knows us only in our holiness as the Son, not this illusory separated self. We hate feeling guilty and do everything not to feel this way. We deny, project, make excuses, and make others responsible. We do anything we can to not feel guilty, but the answer is to watch our thoughts and bring them to the light of healing.
 
We are asked today to "search out your unloving thoughts in whatever form they appear; uneasiness, depression, anger, fear, worry, attack, insecurity and so on." (W.39.6.2) Any unloving thought, no matter how insignificant we think it to be, will cause suffering and bring on guilt. Yet, the guilt is not real. The truth is that we are already holy and just don't know it. "My holiness is my salvation." (W.39) What we want to do is to bring our unloving thoughts for healing, so we can be released from guilt and get in touch with our holiness, but how do we do this? We are given a process here to do the practice today and you will see that it is quite involved, so I will try to summarize the practice instructions as clearly as possible.

We have four longer practice periods today of five minutes each. We are encouraged to take a longer time for each beyond the five minutes. Remember the importance of doing the Lesson first thing in the morning and last thing at night. More rather than longer sessions are preferable.

Begin by repeating the idea to yourself. Then with closed eyes, search out your unloving thoughts in any form that they appear (e.g., uneasiness, depression, anger, fear, worry, attack, insecurity, etc.) Make no exceptions and treat each thought the same. With each say, "My unloving thoughts about _____are keeping me in hell. My holiness is my salvation." (W.39.8.3-4) The practice is about searching out your unloving thoughts and bringing them to the Holy Spirit. Intersperse the practice with several periods of just repeating the idea slowly, or relaxing and not thinking about anything. Also, you may want to vary the words for this idea as long as the meaning is maintained. (he knows that sustained concentration may be difficult at this stage).

Conclude by repeating the question, "If guilt is hell, what is its opposite?" (W.39.10.5) It is my holiness.

Use frequent reminders throughout the day with variations in the form as long as the content of the Lesson remains focused on forgiveness. When you are tempted by any unloving thought today, remind yourself that your holiness is your salvation. Respond quickly to your ego's temptation to feel guilt and anger. It is much easier to change your mind with your first thought than when you get into a long story about the situation and justify your position.
 
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Chapter Four

The Root of All Evil

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1 The Bible says that you should go with a brother twice as far as he asks. It certainly does not suggest that you set him back on his journey. Devotion to a brother cannot set you back either. It can lead only to mutual progress. The result of genuine devotion is inspiration, a word which properly understood is the opposite of fatigue. To be fatigued is to be dis-spirited, but to be inspired is to be in the spirit. To be egocentric is to be dispirited, but to be Self-centered in the right sense is to be inspired, or in the Soul. The truly inspired are enlightened and cannot abide in darkness.

 

2 You can speak from the Soul or from the ego, precisely as you choose. If you speak from the Soul, you have chosen "to be still and know that I am God." These words are inspired because they come from knowledge. If you speak from the ego, you are disclaiming knowledge instead of affirming it and are thus dispiriting yourself. Do not embark on foolish journeys because they are indeed in vain. The ego may desire them, but the Soul cannot embark on them because it is forever unwilling to depart from its Foundation.

 

3 The journey to the cross should be the last foolish journey for every mind. Do not dwell upon it, but dismiss it as accomplished. If you can accept it as your own last foolish journey, you are also free to join my resurrection. Human living has indeed been needlessly wasted in a repetition compulsion. It reenacts the separation, the loss of power, the foolish journey of the ego in an attempt at reparation, and finally the crucifixion of the body or death.

 

4 Repetition compulsions can be endless unless they are given up by an act of will. Do not make the pathetic human error of "clinging to the old rugged cross." The only message of the crucifixion was that we can overcome the cross. Unless you do so, you are free to crucify yourself as often as you choose. But this is not the Gospel I intended to offer you. We have another journey to undertake, and if you will read these lessons carefully, they will help to prepare you to undertake it.

 

II. Right Teaching and Right Learning

5 We have spoken of many different human symptoms, and at this level there is almost endless variation. There is, however, only one cause of all them. The authority problem is "the root of all evil." Money is but one of its many reflections and is a reasonably representative example of the kind of thinking which stems from it. The idea of buying and selling implies precisely the kind of exchange that the Soul cannot understand at all because its supply is always abundant and all its demands are fully met.

 

6 Every symptom which the ego has made involves a contradiction in terms. This is because the mind is split between the ego and the Soul, so that whatever the ego makes is incomplete and contradictory. This untenable position is the result of the authority problem which, because it accepts the one inconceivable thought as its premise, can only produce ideas which are inconceivable. The term "profess" is used quite frequently in the Bible. To profess is to identify with an idea and offer the idea to others to be their own. The idea does not lessen; it becomes stronger.

 

7 A good teacher clarifies his own ideas and strengthens them by teaching them. Teacher and pupil are alike in the learning process. They are in the same order of learning, and unless they share their lessons, they will lack conviction. A good teacher must believe in the ideas which he professes, but he must meet another condition; he must also believe in the students to whom he offers his ideas. Many stand guard over their ideas because they want to protect their thought systems as they are, and learning means change. Change is always fearful to the separated ones because they cannot conceive of it as a change towards healing the separation. They always perceive it as a change towards further separation because the separation was their first experience of change.

 

8 You believe that if you allow no change to enter into your ego, your Soul will find peace. This profound confusion is possible only if one maintains that the same thought system can stand on two foundations. Nothing can reach the Soul from the ego, and nothing from the Soul can strengthen the ego or reduce the conflict within it. The ego is a contradiction. Man's self and God's Self are in opposition. They are opposed in creation, in will, and in outcome. They are fundamentally irreconcilable because the Soul cannot perceive and the ego cannot know. They are therefore not in communication and can never be in communication. Nevertheless, the ego can learn because its maker can be misguided but cannot make the totally lifeless out of the life-given. The Soul need not be taught, but the ego must.

 

9 The ultimate reason why learning is perceived as frightening is because learning does lead to the relinquishment (not destruction) of the ego to the light of the Soul. This is the change the ego must fear because it does not share my charity. My lesson was like yours, and because I learned it, I can teach it. I never attack your egos, but I do try to teach you how their thought system arose. When I remind you of your true creation, your egos cannot but respond with fear.

 

10 Teaching and learning are your greatest strengths now because you must change your mind and help others change theirs. It is pointless to refuse to tolerate change because you believe you can demonstrate that by doing so the separation has not occurred. The dreamer who doubts the reality of his dream while he is still dreaming is not really healing the level-split. You have dreamed of a separated ego, and you have believed in a world which rests upon it. This is very real to you. You cannot undo this by doing nothing and not changing.

 

11 If you are willing to renounce the role of guardian[s] of your thought system[s] and open [them] to me, I will correct [them] very gently and lead you home. Every good teacher hopes to give his students so much of his own thinking that they will one day no longer need him. This is the one real goal of the parent, teacher, and therapist. This goal will not be achieved by those who believe that they will lose their child or pupil or patient if they succeed. It is impossible to convince the ego of this because it goes against all of its own laws. But remember that laws are set up to protect the continuity of the system in which the law-maker believes.

 

                                                  

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To GIVE and to RECEIVE are One in Truth. Lesson 108

  

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