Category Archives: ACIM Studies

IV. Healing as Release from Fear P 2 2 A major step in the Atonement plan is to undo error at all levels. Sickness or “not-right-mindedness” is the result of level confusion, because it always entails the belief that what is amiss on one level can adversely affect another. We have referred to miracles asContinue reading “C 2: IV. Healing as Release from Fear P 2”

IV. Healing as Release from Fear P 1 1 Our emphasis is now on healing. The miracle is the means, the Atonement is the principle, and healing is the result. To speak of “a miracle of healing” is to combine two orders of reality inappropriately. Healing is not a miracle. The Atonement, or the finalContinue reading “C 2: IV. Healing as Release from Fear P 1”

III. The Altar of God, P 5 5 The children of God are entitled to the perfect comfort that comes from perfect trust. Until they achieve this, they waste themselves and their true creative powers on useless attempts to make themselves more comfortable by inappropriate means. But the real means are already provided, and doContinue reading “C 2: III. The Altar of God, P 5”

III. The Altar of God, P 4 4 Spiritual vision literally cannot see error, and merely looks for Atonement. All solutions the physical eye seeks dissolve. Spiritual vision looks within and recognizes immediately that the altar has been defiled and needs to be repaired and protected. Perfectly aware of the right defense it passes overContinue reading “C 2: III. The Altar of God, P 4”

III. The Altar of God, P 3 3 The acceptance of the Atonement by everyone is only a matter of time. This may appear to contradict free will because of the inevitability of the final decision, but this is not so. You can temporize and you are capable of enormous procrastination, but you cannot departContinue reading “C 2: III. The Altar of God, P 3”

C 2: III. The Altar of God, P 2 2 For perfect effectiveness the Atonement belongs at the center of the inner altar, where it undoes the separation and restores the wholeness of the mind. Before the separation the mind was invulnerable to fear, because fear did not exist. Both the separation and the fearContinue reading “C 2: III. The Altar of God, P 2”

III. The Altar of God, P 1 1 The Atonement can only be accepted within you by releasing the inner light. Since the separation, defenses have been used almost entirely to defend against the Atonement, and thus maintain the separation. This is generally seen as a need to protect the body. The many body fantasiesContinue reading “C 2: III. The Altar of God, P 1”

II. The Atonement as Defense, P 7 7 The Atonement is a total commitment. You may still think this is associated with loss, a mistake all the separated Sons of God make in one way or another. It is hard to believe a defense that cannot attack is the best defense. This is what isContinue reading “C 2: II. The Atonement as Defense, P 7”

II. The Atonement as Defense, P 6 6 Evolution is a process in which you seem to proceed from one degree to the next. You correct your previous missteps by stepping forward. This process is actually incomprehensible in temporal terms, because you return as you go forward. The Atonement is the device by which youContinue reading “C 2: II. The Atonement as Defense, P 6”

II. The Atonement as Defense, P 5 5 The Atonement was built into the space-time belief to set a limit on the need for the belief itself, and ultimately to make learning complete. The Atonement is the final lesson. Learning itself, like the classrooms in which it occurs, is temporary. The ability to learn hasContinue reading “C 2: II. The Atonement as Defense, P 5”