Guilt - Words used in A Course in Miracles
When
you have accepted the Atonement for yourself, you will realize there
is no guilt in God's Son. And only as you look upon him as guiltless
can you understand his oneness. For the idea of guilt brings a belief
in condemnation of one by another, projecting separation in place of
unity. T-13.I.6:1-3.
Guilt
is always disruptive. Anything that engenders fear is divisive
because it obeys the law of division. If the ego is the symbol of the
separation, it is also the symbol of guilt. T-5.V.2:6-8
You
can hold on to the past only through guilt. For guilt establishes
that you will be punished for what you have done, and thus depends on
one-dimensional time, proceeding from past to future. … Guilt,
then, is a way of holding past and future in your mind to ensure the
ego's continuity. T-13.I.8:2,3,6.2
Salvation
seems to come from anywhere except from you. So, too, does the source
of guilt. You see neither guilt nor salvation as in your own mind and
nowhere else. When you realize that all
guilt is solely an invention of your mind, you also realize
that guilt and salvation must be in the same place. In understanding
this you are saved. W-70.1:2-6. [Lesson: “My salvation comes from
me.”]
Release
from guilt is the ego's
whole undoing. Make no one fearful, for his guilt is yours,
and by obeying the ego's harsh commandments you bring its
condemnation on yourself, and you will not escape the punishment it
offers those who obey it. T-13.IX.2:1,2.
In
any union with a brother in which you seek to lay your guilt upon
him, or share it with him or perceive his own, you will feel
guilty. … You will see guilt in that relationship because you put
it there. It is inevitable that those who suffer guilt will attempt
to displace it, because they do believe in it. Yet though they
suffer, they will not look within and let it go. … Their main
concern is to perceive the source of guilt outside themselves, beyond
their own control. T-13.X.3:1,3-5,7.
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