being wholly pure, you are invulnerable.
- A Course in Miracles
(acim.org/acim/en/s/16... | T-13.I.6:1–11:8)
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dispels it simply through the calm recognition that it has never been. ⁵As He looks upon the guiltless Son of God, He knows that this is true. ⁶And being true for you, you cannot attack yourself, for without guilt attack is impossible. ⁷You, then, are saved because God’s Son is guiltless. ⁸And
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11. The ego teaches you to attack yourself because you are guilty, and this must increase the guilt, for guilt is the result of attack. ²In the ego’s teaching, then, there is no escape from guilt. ³For attack makes guilt real, and if it is real there _is_ no way to overcome it. ⁴The Holy Spirit
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dispelling it. ³The ego believes in atonement through attack, being fully committed to the insane notion that attack is salvation. ⁴And you who cherish guilt must also believe it, for how else but by identifying with the ego could you hold dear what you do not want?
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as yours is therefore God’s way of reminding you of His Son, and what he is in truth. ⁴For God has never condemned His Son, and being guiltless he is eternal.
10. You cannot dispel guilt by making it real, and then atoning for it. ²This is the ego’s plan, which it offers instead of
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for by accepting your guiltlessness you learn that the past has never been, and so the future is needless and will not be. ²The future, in time, is always associated with expiation, and only guilt could induce a sense of a need for expiation. ³Accepting the guiltlessness of the Son of God
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will be punished, the ego’s continuity is guaranteed. ⁸Yet the guarantee of your continuity is God’s, not the ego’s. ⁹And immortality is the opposite of time, for time passes away, while immortality is constant.
9. Accepting the Atonement teaches you what immortality is,
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understand what “always” means, and therefore guilt must deprive you of the appreciation of eternity. ⁵You are immortal because you are eternal, and “always” must be now. ⁶Guilt, then, is a way of holding past and future in your mind to ensure the ego’s continuity. ⁷For if what has been
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8. You are invulnerable because you are guiltless. ²You can hold on to the past only through guilt. ³For guilt establishes that you will be punished for what you have done, and thus depends on one-dimensional time, proceeding from past to future. ⁴No one who believes this can
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time to travel through. ⁴For God waits not for His Son in time, being forever unwilling to be without him. ⁵And so it has always been. ⁶Let the holiness of God’s Son shine away the cloud of guilt that darkens your mind, and by accepting his purity as yours, learn of him that it _is_ yours.
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always extended the Love of his Father.
7. As you perceive the holy companions who travel with you, you will realize that there is no journey, but only an awakening. ²The Son of God, who sleepeth not, has kept faith with his Father for you. ³There is no road to travel on, and no
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unity. ⁴You can condemn only yourself, and by so doing you cannot know that you are God’s Son. ⁵You have denied the condition of his being, which is his perfect blamelessness. ⁶Out of love he was created, and in love he abides. ⁷Goodness and mercy have always followed him, for he has
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outer world. ³It does not matter which you choose.
6. The idea for today should also be applied immediately to any situation that may distress you. ²Apply the idea by telling yourself:
³I have invented this situation as I see it.
(acim.org/acim/en/s/43... | W-32.1:1–6:3)
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