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…you believe that in the presence of truth you will turn on yourself and destroy yourself.
Little children, this is not so. Your "guilty secret" is nothing, and if you will but bring it to the light, the light will dispel it. And then no dark cloud will remain between you and the remembrance of your Father, for you will remember His guiltless Son, who did not die, because he is immortal. And you will see that you were redeemed
with him and have never been separated
from him. In this understanding lies your remembering, for it is the recognition of love
without fear.”
Par 8, 9
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CH 12 THE PROBLEM OF GUILT
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Part I
Lesson 137
When I am healed,
I am not healed alone.
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1 Today's idea remains the central thought on which salvation rests. For healing is the opposite of all the world's ideas which dwell on sickness and on separate states. Sickness is a retreat from others and a shutting off of joining. It becomes a door that closes on a separate self and keeps it isolated and alone.
2 Sickness is isolation. For it seems to keep one self apart from all the rest to suffer what the others do not feel. It gives the body final power to make the separation real and keep the mind in solitary prison, split apart and held in pieces by a solid wall of sickened flesh which it can not surmount. The world obeys the laws that sickness serves, but healing operates apart from them.
3 It is impossible that anyone be healed alone. In sickness must he be apart and separate. But healing is his own decision to be one again and to accept his Self with all its parts intact and unassailed. In sickness does his Self appear to be dismembered and without the unity that gives it life. But healing is accomplished as he sees the body has no power to attack the universal oneness of God's Son.
4 Sickness would prove that lies must be the truth. But healing demonstrates that truth is true. The separation sickness would impose has never really happened. To be healed is merely to accept what always was the simple truth and always will remain exactly as it has forever been. Yet eyes accustomed to illusions must be shown that what they look upon is false. So healing, never needed by the truth, must demonstrate that sickness is not real.
5 Healing might thus be called a counter-dream which cancels out the dream of sickness in the name of truth but not in truth itself. Just as forgiveness overlooks all sins that never were accomplished, healing but removes illusions that have not occurred. Just as the real world will arise to take the place of what has never been at all, healing offers restitution for imagined states and false ideas which dreams embroider into pictures of the truth.
6 Yet think not healing is unworthy of your function here. For anti-Christ becomes more powerful than Christ to those who dream the world is real. The body seems to be more solid and more stable than the mind. And love becomes a dream, while fear remains the one reality that can be seen and justified and fully understood.
7 Just as forgiveness shines away all sin and the real world will occupy the place of what you made, so healing must replace the fantasies of sickness which you hold before the simple truth. When sickness has been seen to disappear in spite of all the laws that hold it cannot but be real, then questions have been answered. And the laws can be no longer cherished nor obeyed.
8 Healing is freedom. For it demonstrates that dreams will not prevail against the truth. Healing is shared. And by this attribute, it proves that laws unlike the ones which hold that sickness is inevitable are more potent than their sickly opposites. Healing is strength. For by its gentle hand is weakness overcome. And minds which were walled off within a body free to join with other minds, to be forever strong.
9 Healing, forgiveness, and the glad exchange of all the world of sorrow for a world where sadness cannot enter, are the means by which the Holy Spirit urges you to follow Him. His gentle lessons teach how easily salvation can be yours, how little practice you need undertake to let His laws replace the ones you made to hold yourself a prisoner to death.
10 His life becomes your own as you extend the little help He asks in freeing you from everything that ever caused you pain. And as you let yourself be healed, you see all those around you or who cross your mind or whom you touch or those who seem to have no contact with you healed along with you. Perhaps you will not recognize them all, nor realize how great your offering to all the world when you let healing come to you. But you are never healed alone. And legions upon legions will receive the gift which you receive when you are healed.
11 Those who are healed become the instruments of healing. Nor does time elapse between the instant they are healed and all the grace of healing it is given them to give. What is opposed to God does not exist. And who accepts it not within his mind becomes a haven where the weary can remain to rest. For here is truth bestowed, and here are all illusions brought to truth.
12 Would you not offer shelter to God's Will? You but invite your Self to be at home, and can this invitation be refused? Ask the inevitable to occur, and you will never fail. The other choice is but to ask what cannot be to be, and this cannot succeed. Today we ask that only truth will occupy our minds, that thoughts of healing will this day go forth from what is healed to what must yet be healed, aware that they will both occur as one.
13 We will remember, as the hour strikes, our function is to let our minds be healed that we may carry healing to the world, exchanging curse for blessing, pain for joy, and separation for the peace of God. Is not a minute of the hour worth the giving to receive a gift like this? Is not a little time a small expense to offer for the gift of everything?
14 Yet must we be prepared for such a gift. And so we will begin the day with this and give ten minutes to these thoughts with which we will conclude today at night as well:
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When I am healed, I am not healed alone. And I would share my healing with the world, that sickness may be banished from the mind of God's one Son, Who is my only Self.
16 Let healing be through you this very day. And as you rest in quiet, be prepared to give as you receive, to hold but what you give, and to receive the Word of God to take the place of all the foolish thoughts that ever were imagined. Now we come together to make well all that was sick and offer blessing where there was attack. Nor will we let this function be forgot as every hour of the day slips by, remembering our function with this thought:
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When I am healed, I am not healed alone. And I would bless my brothers, for I would be healed with them as they are healed with me.
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Chapter 12
The Problem of Guilt
I. Introduction
Par 1-2
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1 The ultimate purpose of projection, as the ego uses it, is
always to get rid of guilt. Yet, characteristically, the ego attempts to get rid of guilt from
its viewpoint only, for much as the ego wants to retain guilt,
you find it intolerable, since guilt stands in the way of your remembering God, Whose pull is so strong that you
cannot resist it. On this issue, then, the deepest split of all occurs, for if you are to retain guilt, as the ego insists,
you cannot be you. Only by persuading you that
it is you could the ego possibly induce you to project guilt and thereby
keep it in your mind.
2 Yet consider how strange a solution the ego's arrangement is. You project guilt to get rid of it, but you are actually merely concealing it. You
do experience guilt feelings, but you have no idea why. On the contrary, you associate them with a weird assortment of ego ideals which the ego claims you have failed. Yet you have no idea that you are failing the Son of God by seeing him as guilty. Believing you are no longer you, you do not realize that you are failing
yourself.
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Chapter 12
The Problem of Guilt
II. Crucifixion by Guilt
Par 3-9
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3 The darkest of your hidden cornerstones holds your belief in guilt from your awareness. For in that dark and secret place is the realization that you have betrayed God's Son by condemning him to death. You do not even suspect this murderous but insane idea lies hidden there, for the ego's destructive urge is so intense that nothing short of the crucifixion of God's Son can ultimately satisfy it. It does not know who the Son of God is because it is blind. Yet let it perceive guiltlessness anywhere, and it will try to destroy it because it is afraid.
4 Much of the ego's strange behavior is directly attributable to its definition of guilt. To the ego,
the guiltless are guilty. Those who do not attack are its "enemies" because, by not valuing its interpretation of salvation, they are in an excellent position
to let it go. They have approached the darkest and deepest cornerstone in the ego's foundation, and while the ego can withstand your raising all else to question, it guards this one secret with its life, for its existence
does depend on keeping this secret. So it is this secret that we must look upon calmly, for the ego cannot protect you against truth, and in
its presence the ego is dispelled.
5 In the calm light of truth, let us recognize that you believe you
have crucified God's Son. You have not admitted to this "terrible" secret because you
still wish to crucify him if you could
find him. Yet the wish has hidden him from you because it is very fearful, and you are
afraid to find him. You have handled this wish to kill
yourself by
not knowing who you are and identifying with something
else. You have projected guilt blindly and indiscriminately, but you have
not uncovered its source. For the ego
does want to kill you, and if you identify
with it, you must believe
its goal is
yours.
6 We once said that the crucifixion is the symbol of the ego. When it was confronted with the
real guiltlessness of God's Son, it
did attempt to kill him, and the reason it gave was that guiltlessness is blasphemous to God. To the ego
the ego is god, and guiltlessness
must be interpreted as the final guilt which fully justifies murder. You do not yet understand that all your fear of this course stems ultimately from this interpretation, but if you will consider your reactions to it, you will become increasingly convinced that this is so.
7 This course has explicitly stated that its goal for you is happiness and peace. Yet you are
afraid of it. You have been told again and again that it will make you free, yet you react as if it is trying to imprison you. Most of the time you dismiss it, but you do
not dismiss the
ego's thought system. You have
seen its results and you
still lack faith in it. You
must, then, believe that by
not learning the course, you are
protecting yourself. And you do not realize that it is only your guiltlessness which
can protect you.
8 The Atonement has always been interpreted as the release from guilt, and this is correct if it is understood. Yet even when I have interpreted it
for you, you have rejected it and have
not accepted it for yourself. You have recognized the futility of the ego and its offerings, but though you do not want the ego, you do not look upon the alternative with gladness. You are
afraid of redemption, and you believe it will kill you. Make no mistake about the depth of your fear. For you believe that in the presence of truth you will turn on yourself and destroy yourself.
9 Little children, this is not so. Your "guilty secret" is nothing, and if you will but bring it to the light, the light will dispel it. And then no dark cloud will remain between you and the remembrance of your Father, for you will remember His guiltless Son, who did not die, because he is immortal. And you will see that you were redeemed
with him and have never been separated
from him. In this understanding lies your remembering, for it is the recognition of love
without fear. There will be great joy in Heaven on your homecoming, and the joy will be
yours. For the redeemed son of man
is the guiltless Son of God, and to recognize him
is your redemption.
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Sarah's Reflections
Lesson 137
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Sarah's Commentary:
This Lesson reminds us once again that this world is about separation. At no time do we feel this more and at no time do we feel more shut off and alone than when we are not feeling well, whether physically or emotionally. When we are in this state, there is a tendency to withdraw into ourselves and look only for those special relationships where our need for relief from our perceived condition might be met. This is precisely the purpose of sickness, which is to focus our attention on the body and our specialness and to keep us from awareness of the love we are. Thus, it is a defense. It keeps us in separation by establishing the body as real and proves that God is not. With sickness, the body becomes the whole focus of our attention. Our challenge is to learn that the mind has the power to choose again.
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