August 25, 2015
Guilt is the result of condemnation which is the judgement of one mind by another as unworthy of love and thus deserves punishment. This is the birth of the split mind. The mind that judges perceives itself separate from the mind it judges, believing that by punishing another, it escapes punishment itself. The fault of this “logic” is that we are all One, and thus we judge and punish ourselves in order to escape punishment. It’s a vicious cycle perpetrated by the egoic thought system – the result of the split mind – that keeps us aligned with the idea of separation and thus keeps us in misery. In doing so we have turned away from the awareness of who we really are and hidden our true nature from ourselves.
We seem to be trapped in this world of guilt. As a direct result of our belief in the idea of separation, we have blocked our own awareness of our own wholeness, completeness, worthiness and limitlessness. It is impossible for us to see ourselves as split or separate and whole and complete at the same time. Separation and Oneness are incompatible and irreconcilable. To see both at once would drive us insane, though one might say we are insane for believing the idea of separation at all. It goes against our nature. But there is a way out of this insanity. Just as the acceptance of guilt into our minds is the beginning of our separation, the acceptance of At-One-ment is the end of separation. The shift in our minds from the belief in separation to the belief in our Oneness – our connectedness with all Creation – is our salvation. It is the return to the awareness of who we really are. It is impossible for the One to be so cruel to subject us to this misery, for our Source is Love and Love would never punish. Love does not kill to save. Love brings together and unites. Love is the expression of Oneness. No one drove us out of Paradise, for we are and always have been and always will be in Paradise. We, by believing in separation, blocked our own awareness of our presence in Paradise. The Holy Spirit within us is present with us to guide us as we learn to remove the blocks we have placed to the awareness of who we really are.
The Introduction to Chapter 13 leaves us with this:
This world is a picture of the crucifixion of Us. And until we realize that We cannot be crucified, this is the world we will see. Yet we will not realize this until we accept the eternal fact that We are not guilty. We deserve only love because we have given only love. We cannot be condemned because we have never condemned. The At-One-ment is the final lesson we need learn, for it teaches us that, never having sinned, we have no need of salvation. T-13.in.4.1-6
Accept the guidance of Spirit right now and let go of our guilt and judgement of ourselves. The guiltless world – the real world – is there beyond it, waiting for us to allow ourselves to see and experience it. In this rests our awareness of our wholeness, our completeness, our worthiness, our limitlessness and Love.
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