THE  GREAT  AWAKENING

 PART I

CHAPTER 11

Forgiveness is the end of specialness.  Only illusions can be forgiven, and then they disappear.  The acceptance of guilt into the mind of God's Son was the beginning of the separation, as the acceptance the Atonement  (At-One-ment) is its end.  You will learn the lesson God's Son is Innocent, and see another world in which there is no fear, and everything is lit with hope, and sparkles with a gentle friendliness.  The Atonement is the bridge that lifts you from time into Eternity.  Your Home is built upon your brother's innocence and purity, and everything His Father promised him, being One with Him.  The world will wash away and yet his Home will stand forever, for its strength lies not within itself alone.  It is an ark of safety, resting on God's promise that His Son is safe forever in Himself.

The state of sinlessness is merely this:  The whole desire to attack is gone and so there is no reason to perceive the Son of God as other than he is.  You will be healed of sin and all its ravages the instant that you give it no power over your brother.  You do not use anything your brother has done before to condemn him NOW.  You freely choose to overlook his errors, looking past all barriers between yourself and him and seeing them as One.  Heaven is shining on the Son of God.  Deny him not, that YOU may be released.

Atonement is for all, because it is the way to undo the belief that anything is for you alone.  The Atonement is the recognition of the part as the whole, and of the whole in every part.  By accepting the Atonement for yourself, you are affirming your true identification with the whole Kingdom as literally part of you.  This identification is as beyond doubt as it is beyond belief.  The Atonement but calls your ancient Name, which you will recognise because the Truth is in your memory.  Your ancient Name belongs to everyone, as theirs to you.

The Atonement is the means of restoring guiltlessness to minds that have denied it, and thus denied Heaven to itself.  It is but the way back to what was never lost.  It is the final lesson, for it teaches that never having sinned, there is no need for salvation.  God's Son will always be as he was created.  What can remain unhealed and broken from a Unity that holds all things within Itself?  Those who accept the Atonement are invulnerable.  The full awareness of the Atonement then, is the recognition that the separation never occurred.