LESSON ONE HUNDRED-TWENTY SIX

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: The Course text is in bold face. The Guidance is in normal type In His Guidance, He has asked Me to capitalize the pronouns You and We as an acknowledgement of the Divinity of All of Us, an acknowledgement of Equality, an expression of His Love and respect for You. When You see the word ‘YOU’ capitalized in the Guidance, know that He is not just speaking to YOU, He is honoring YOU.

L e s s o n  126

All that I give is given to myself.

For My Self is Infinite, something I am not aware of as I sit alone in specificity, quite ignoring all the Rest of Me!

Therefore, My Gift to Those who look like Others, yet are really part of What I truly Be, must obviously also be given unto Me.

¹ Today’s idea, completely alien to the ego and the thinking of the world, is crucial to the thought reversal which this course will bring about. If you believed this statement, there would be no problem in complete forgiveness, certainty of goal, and sure direction. – For it would really be Yourself that needs to be forgiven. – You would understand the means by which salvation comes to you and would not hesitate to use it now.

² Let us consider what you do believe in place of this idea. – if You’ll bear with Me – It seems to you that other people are apart from you and able to behave in ways which have no bearing on your thoughts, nor theirs on yours. – You take no responsibility for them or for their behavior; for They are responsible, not You! – Therefore your attitudes have no effect on them, and their appeals for help are not in any way related to your own. – Their needs are theirs and Yours are Yours.  That’s it! – You further think that they can sin without affecting your perception of yourself, while you can judge their sin and yet remain apart from condemnation and at peace.

Since They surely aren’t You, You feel quite happy to judge them.  The worse They are, the better You must be.  So You do reason.

³ When you “forgive” a sin there is no gain to you directly. You give charity to one unworthy merely to point out that you are better, on a higher plane than he whom you forgive. He has not earned your charitable tolerance, which you bestow on one unworthy of the gift because his sins have lowered him beneath a true equality with you. – Perhaps You do not yet realize just how much You gain from a Brother’s sinning.  The worse He is, the better You must be, by comparison. – He has no claim on your forgiveness. It holds out a gift to him but hardly to yourself.

Is there any Love to be found within this thinking?  Or perhaps are You just ‘better’ by Your refusal to hold a grudge?

The ego is not particularly pretty, now is it?  How many human ‘virtues’ are really self-aggrandizement?  And have You yet realized that ‘human’ is synonymous with ego?

⁴ Thus is forgiveness basically unsound-a charitable whim, benevolent yet undeserved; a gift bestowed at times, at other times withheld. Unmerited, withholding it is just, nor is it fair that you should suffer when it is withheld. The sin which you forgive is not your own. Someone apart from you committed it. And if you then are gracious unto him by giving him what he does not deserve, your gift is no more yours than was his sin.

What am I saying here but that this mindset of forgiveness is hardly forgiving a Brother or a Sister for what They did not do.  Nor does it acknowledge their Divinity or Yours, with the elevation Pope gave to forgiveness when He wrote: “To err is human, to forgive Divine.”₁ 

For where is there Divinity unless a Brother’s complete innocence is seen?  You Both remain slave to misperception.

⁵ If this be true, forgiveness has no grounds on which to rest dependably and sure. It is an eccentricity in which you sometimes choose to give indulgently an undeserved reprieve. Yet it remains your right to let the sinner not escape the justified repayment for his sin. – There You are playing ‘God’ to Him.  This is not God’s forgiveness. – Think you the Lord of Heaven would allow the world’s salvation to depend on this? Would not His care for you be small indeed if your salvation rested on a whim?

⁶ You do not understand forgiveness. As you see it, it is but a check upon overt attack, without requiring correction in your mind. It cannot give you peace as you perceive it. It is not a means for your release from what you see in someone other than yourself. It has no power to restore your unity with him to your awareness. It is not what God intended it to be for you.

The forgiveness of which I speak is truly Divine for it does allow only Good to be Your Brother or Your Sister.

⁷ Not having given Him the gift He asks of you, you cannot recognize His gifts and think He has not given them to you. Yet would He ask you for a gift unless it was for you? Could He be satisfied with empty gestures and evaluate such petty gifts as worthy of His Son? Salvation is a better gift than this, and true forgiveness, as the means by which it is attained, must heal the mind that gives, for giving is receiving. What remains as unreceived has not been given, but what has been given must have been received.

Ah, now are You getting this anew!  That forgiveness exists for You to heal Your mind of Your misperceptions of Your Others and the Kingdom, which You see as “the world” – i.e. from the ego’s point of view.

⁸ Today we try to understand the truth that giver and receiver are the same. You will need help to make this meaningful because it is so alien to the thoughts to which you are accustomed. But the Help you need is there. Give Him your faith today and ask Him that He share your practicing in truth today. And if you only catch a tiny glimpse of the release which lies in the idea we practice for today, this is a day of glory for the world.

It is now dawning, that to be able to Gift God’s Perfection to Your Brother or Yourself, first You must know and Love Our Father-Mother God.

⁹ Give 15 minutes twice today to the attempt to understand today’s idea. It is the thought by which forgiveness takes its proper place in your priorities. It is the thought that will release your mind from every bar to what forgiveness means and let you realize its worth to you.

Be here for giving.  The Kingdom is Yours when You are giving.

¹⁰ In silence close your eyes upon the world which does not understand forgiveness and seek sanctuary in the quiet place where thoughts are changed and false beliefs laid by. Repeat today’s idea, and ask for help in understanding what it really means. Be willing to be taught. Be glad to hear the Voice of truth and healing speak to you, and you will understand the words He speaks and recognize He speaks your words to you.

The Voice for Love You hear is the Holy Spirit, Your Right Mind.

¹¹ As often as you can, remind yourself you have a goal today-an aim which makes this day of special value to yourself and all your brothers. – It is a holy day for learning Love. – Do not let your mind forget this goal for long, but tell yourself:

¹² All that I give is given to myself.
The Help I need to learn that this is true
Is with me now. And I will trust in Him.

This journey without distance is a mental shift to Oneness from separation; from hatred to love.

¹³ Then spend a quiet moment, opening your mind to His correction and His Love. And what you hear of Him you will believe, for what He gives will be received by you.

We Love You so, God and I, and of course, the Holy Spirit.  Let Yourself feel Our Love, and let It transform You – and permeate You – as It is Your very Be-ing.

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¹ Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

[Thank you Dear Brother]

*Sun~Rose is the scribe of the recently published book, “YOU ARE LOVED AND SAFE: PREP NOTES FOR EXPERIENCING GOD’S LOVE“, Jesus’ Guidance on the Miracle Principles

She is also author of, “RADIANT LIFE: RAW FOOD AND THE PRESENCE OF LOVE”

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