we continue today with chapter 13 the
cloud of guilt guilt remains the only
thing that hides the father for guilt is
the attack upon his son
the guilty always condemned and having
them so they will still condemn linking
the future to the past as is the egos
law fidelity to this law let's no light
in for it demands fidelity to darkness
and forbids awakening
Viggo's laws are strict and breaches are
severely punished therefore give no
obedience to his laws for they are laws
of punishment and those who follow them
believe they are guilty and so they must
condemn between the future and the past
the laws of God must intervene if you
would free yourself atonement stands
between them like a lamp shining so
brightly that the chain of darkness in
which you bound yourself will disappear
release from guilt is the egos whole
undoing make no one fearful for his
guilt is yours and by obeying the egos
harsh Commandments you bring its
condemnation on yourself and you will
not escape the punishment it offers
those who obey it the ego rewards
fidelity to it with pain for faith in it
is pain and faith can be rewarded only
in terms of the belief in which the
faith was placed faith makes the power
of belief and where it is invested
determines its reward for faith is
always given what is treasured and what
is treasured is returned to you the
world can give you only what you gave it
for being nothing but your own
protection
it
no meaning apart from what you found in
it and placed your faith in be faithful
up to darkness and you will not see
because your faith will be rewarded as
you gave it you will accept your
treasure and if you place your faith in
the past the future will be like it
whatever you hold dear you think is
yours the power of your valuing will
make it so
atonement brings a reevaluation of
everything you cherish for it is the
means by which the Holy Spirit can
separate the false and the true which
you have accepted into your mind without
distinction therefore you cannot value
one without the other
and guilt has become as true for you as
innocence you do not believe the Son of
God is guiltless because you see the
past and see him not when you condemn a
brother you are saying I who was guilty
choose to remain so you have denied his
freedom and by so doing you have denied
the witness unto yours you could as
easily have freed him from the past and
lifted from his mind the cloud of guilt
that binds him to it and in his freedom
would have been your own lay not his
guilt upon him for his guilt lies in his
secret thoughts that he has done this
unto you would you then teach him he is
right in his delusion the idea that the
guiltless son of God can attack himself
and make himself guilty is insane in any
form in anyone believe this not for sin
and condemnation are the same and the
belief in one is faith in the other
calling for punishment instead of love
nothing can justify insanity and to call
for punishment
Paul yourself must be insane see no one
then is guilty and you will affirm the
truth of guiltlessness unto yourself in
every condemnation that you offer the
Son of God lies the conviction of your
own guilt if you would have the Holy
Spirit make you free of it accept his
offer of atonement for all your brothers
for so you learn that it is true for you
remember always that it is impossible to
condemn the Son of God in part those
whom you see as guilty become the
witnesses to guilt in you and you will
see it there for it is there until it is
undone guilt is always in your mind
which has condemned itself projected not
for while you do it cannot be undone
with every one whom you release from
guilt great joy is in heaven
where the witnesses to your fatherhood
rejoice guilt makes you blind for while
you see one spot of guilt within you you
will not see the light and by projecting
it the world seems dark and shrouded in
your guilt you throw a dark veil over it
and cannot see it because you cannot
look within you are afraid of what you
would see there but it is not there the
thing you fear is gone if you would look
within you would see only the atonement
shining and quiet and in peace upon the
altar to your father do not be afraid to
look with him the ego tells you all is
black with guilt with
you and bid you not to look instead at
bids you look upon your brothers and see
the guilt in them yet this you cannot do
without remaining blind for those who
see their brothers in the dark and
guilty in the dark in which they shroud
them are too afraid to look upon the
light within within you is not what you
believe is there and what you put your
faith in within you is the holy sign of
perfect faith your father has in you he
does not value you as you do he knows
himself and he knows the truth in you he
knows there is no difference for he
knows not of differences
can you see guilt where God knows there
is perfect innocence you can deny his
knowledge but you cannot change it look
then upon the light he placed within you
and learned that what you fear was there
has been replaced with love and from the
workbook lesson 102 I share God's will
for happiness for me you do not want to
suffer you may think it buys you
something and may still believe a little
that it buys you what you want get this
belief is surely shaken now at least
enough to let you question it and to
suspect it really makes no sense it has
not gone as yet but lacks the roots that
once secured it tightly to the dark and
hidden secret places of your mind today
we try to loose this weekend hold still
further
and to realize that pain is purposeless
without a cause and with no power to
accomplish anything
it cannot purchase anything at all
it offers nothing and does not exist and
everything you think it offers you is
lacking in existence like itself you
have been a slave to nothing be you free
today to join the happy will of God for
several days we will continue to devote
our practice periods to exercise this
plan to help you reach the happiness
God's Will has placed in you here is
your home and here your safety is here
is your peace and here is no fear here
is salvation here is rest at last begin
your practice periods today with this
acceptance of God's will for you I share
God's will for happiness for me and I
accept it as my function now then seek
this function deep within your mind for
it is there awaiting but your choice you
cannot fail to find it when you learn it
is your choice and that you share God's
will be happy for your only function
here is happiness you have no need to be
less loving to God's Son
then he whose love created him as loving
as himself
besides these hourly five minute rest
pause frequently today to tell yourself
that you have now accepted happiness as
your one function and be sure that you
are joining with
we'll in doing this I share God's will
for happiness for me today I would go
past the cloud of guilts that has
shrouded me from the atonement today I
am not afraid to look with him and to
see the innocence the sinlessness the
guiltlessness of my mind today I go past
all beliefs in future and past today I
will not allow guilt to link the future
to the past I let them go the past is
gone the future but imagined no longer
would I call upon these defenses to the
holy instant I open instead to the
bright light of pure innocence that the
holy spirit holds out to me the world
can give you only what you gave it for
being nothing but your own projection it
has no meaning apart from what you found
in it and placed your faith in what I
have believed I have perceived when I
have asked for something from the world
the world has asked for something from
me today I let this go I will accept my
brothers and sisters exactly as they are
accepting the atonement
and myself guilt once made me blind but
atonement gentleman sets me free to see
with a vision of Christ I will not be
afraid of love today I can be hurt by
nothing but my thoughts and I let these
thoughts of guilt go forever today I am
open I will to see the Christ in my
brother my sister and myself today I
practice extending love and forgiveness
and perceiving what I have found within
myself divine innocence today is the end
of suffering the end of pain today there
are no more hidden secret places in the
mind I loose the world from what I
thought it was if I release the belief
that made it today I let the ego go and
open to the happiness that is God's will
for me
today I will share this happiness I will
share what is God's will for me today is
a day to be happy for my only function
is happiness to experience God's Son as
God created him to experience spirit I
practiced today with the lesson of the
day
I share God's will for happiness for me
amen