A Course in Miracles Chapter 26 - The Transition Remaining Task or End of Injustice What, then, remains to be undone, for you to realize Their (Father & Son's) Presence? Only this...
Confusion is not limited. If it occurs at all, it will be total. And its presence, in whatever form, will hide Their Presence. They are known with clarity, or not at all. Confused perception will block knowledge. It is not a question of the size of the confusion, or how much it interferes. Its simple presence shuts the door to Theirs, and keeps Them there unknown. What does it mean if you perceive attack in certain forms to be unfair to you?
For otherwise, how could some be evaluated as unfair? Some (forms of attack), then, are given meaning, and perceived as sensible. And only some are seen as meaningless. And this denies the fact that all...
Their (Father & Son's) Presence is obscured by any veil which stands between Their shining innocence, and your awareness it is your own, and equally belongs to every living thing along with you. God limits not. And what is limited can not be Heaven. So it must be hell. Unfairness and attack are one mistake, so firmly joined that where one is perceived, the other must be seen. You cannot be unfairly treated. The belief you are is but another form of the idea you are deprived by someone not yourself. Projection of (responsibilty for) the cause of sacrifice is at the root of everything perceived to be unfair, and not your just deserts. Yet it is you who ask this of yourself, in deep injustice to the Son of God. You have no enemy except yourself. And you are enemy indeed to him, because you do not know him as yourself. What could be more unjust than that he be deprived of what he is, denied the right to be himself, and asked to sacrifice his Father’s Love and yours as not his due? Game of Guilt Beware of the temptation to perceive yourself unfairly treated. In this view, you seek to find an innocence which is not Theirs but yours alone, and at the cost of someone else’s guilt.
And is this innocence, which your attack on him attempts to get? Is it not retribution for your own attack upon the Son of God you seek? Is it not safer to believe that you are innocent of this, and victimized despite your innocence? 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, making
it his own.
You think your brother is unfair to you, because you think that one must be unfair to make the other innocent. And in this game do you perceive one purpose for your whole relationship, and this you seek to add unto the purpose given it (by God). The Holy Spirit’s purpose is to let the Presence of your holy Guests be known to you. And to this purpose nothing can be added, for the world is purposeless except for this. To add or take away from this one goal is but to take away all purpose from the world and from yourself. And each unfairness that the world appears to lay upon you, you have laid on it, by rendering it purposeless, without the function that the Holy Spirit sees. And simple justice has been thus denied to every living thing upon the earth. What this injustice does to you who judge unfairly, and who see as you have judged, you cannot calculate. The world grows dim and threatening, and not a trace of all the happy sparkle that salvation brought can you perceive, to lighten up your way. And so you see yourself deprived of light, abandoned to the dark, unfairly left without a purpose in a futile world. The world is fair because the Holy Spirit has brought injustice to the light within, and there has all unfairness been resolved, and been replaced with justice and with love. If you perceive injustice anywhere, you need but say:
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