Nothing gives meaning where no meaning is. And truth needs no defense to make it true. Illusions have no witnesses and no effects. Who looks on them is but deceived.

Forgiveness is the only function here...

and serves to bring the joy this world denies to every aspect of God’s Son where sin was thought to rule.

Perhaps you do not see the role forgiveness plays in ending death and all beliefs that rise from mists of guilt.

Sins are beliefs which you impose between your brother and yourself. They limit you to time and place and give a little space to you, another little space to him. This separating off is symbolized in your perception by a body which is clearly separate and a thing apart. Yet what this symbol represents is but your wish to be apart and separate.

Forgiveness takes away what stands between your brother and yourself. It is the wish that you be joined with him and not apart.

We call it “wish” because it still conceives of other choices, and has not yet reached beyond the world of choice entirely.

Yet is this wish in line with Heaven’s state and not in opposition to God’s Will.

Although it falls far short of giving you your full inheritance, it does remove the obstacles which you have placed between the Heaven where you are and recognition of where and what you are.

Facts are unchanged. Yet facts can be denied and thus unknown, though they were known before they were denied.

Whatever way the game of guilt is played, there must be loss. Someone must lose his innocence that someone else can take it from him.... Chap 26 Remaining Task

It is inevitable that those who suffer guilt will attempt to displace it ... Their main concern is to perceive the source of guilt outside themselves... Chap 13 Release

(The wish for) separation is the source of guilt... For to experience yourself as (separate) is to deny the Oneness of the Father and His Son, and thus to attack reality. Chap 15 Holy Instant & Special

God's Spirit teaches only that the "sin" of self-replacement on the throne of God (wish for separation) is not a source of guilt. What cannot happen can have no effects to fear. Chap 13 Decision for Guiltlessness

The body could not separate your minds unless you wanted it to be a cause of separation and of distance seen between you. Chap 29 Closing of the Gap