A Course in Miracles

Chapter 26 - The Remaining Task or The End of Injustice

What, then, remains to be undone, for you to realize Their Presence (Face of Christ and Rememberance of God)? Only this;

you have a differential view of when attack is justified, and when you think it is unfair, and not to be allowed.

When you perceive it as unfair, you think that a response of anger now is just. And thus you see what is the same as different.

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?

It means that there must be some forms in which you think it fair, 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 are senseless; equally without a cause or consequence, and cannot have effects of any kind.

Their 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.

Can innocence be purchased by the giving of your guilt to someone else?

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?

Someone must lose his innocence that someone else can take it from him, making it his own.