Ask: Why would we choose a script that keeps us locked out of Heaven?

 …my first reaction (ego) [to last week’s article] is that this concept (or truth rather) is very disempowering, and I’m finding it difficult to see the point of a suffering world.  Why would we choose to have an experience of separation from Love, unity, peace and joy? and choose a script that then keeps us locked out of The knowledge of Heaven?  It’s like we are emotional puppets who are tricked into thinking we have the power to pull our individual strings.  Yet there is nothing we can do to change the way the strings are being pulled…” – TR

 

God, being All, must contain the idea of Its Own opposite. But being All, God cannot have an opposite. So, the moment the idea of not-God arises it is undone. But not-God contains the idea of time (the opposite of Timelessness, or Eternity), so in time it seems the idea arose long ago and will be undone in some indefinite future (what A Course in Miracles calls the Atonement). But in God, the idea is over. In fact, it never got off the ground as it is impossible. 

So, the idea of not-God just is as God just is, but what it is, is an impossible idea. There is no intention behind it, it does not have a purpose, no one has chosen it, and it should not be taken seriously. However, you will take it seriously until you see this, if that is your part to play in the Atonement. 

Remember, you are not that which seems to be in a material world. You cannot be anything’s puppet and there are no tricks here, just a misidentification. You feel as though your mind is autonomous (ego) from a Whole (Christ) when it is the Whole. Even in its misidentification with a figure in the Atonement, the part your mind seems to play in the Atonement is one thread in a vast interconnected tapestry. As a seeming individual among many individuals, you are powerless to design your fate. But as the One Mind in which the Atonement plays out, and as the Correction in the Atonement, you are Power Itself. So, if you feel powerless, that is ego pouting.

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