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A Course in Miracles Chapter 28 - The Undoing of Fear Reversing Effect & Cause
Without a cause there can be no effects, and yet without effects there is no cause. The
cause a cause is made, by
its effects;
the Father
is a father, by His Son.
Effects do not create their cause, but they establish (show) its causation. Thus, the Son gives fatherhood to his Creator, and receives the gift that he has given Him. It is because he is God’s Son, that he must also be a father, who creates as God created him. The circle of creation has no end. Its starting and its ending are the same. But in itself it holds the universe of all creation, without beginning and without an end.
Fatherhood is creation. Love must be extended. Purity is not confined. It is the nature of the innocent to be forever uncontained, without a barrier or limitation. Thus is purity (innocence) not of the body. Nor can it be found where limitation is. The body can be healed by Its (Love's) Effects, which are as limitless as is Itself. Yet must all healing come about because the mind is recognized as not within the body, and its (mind's) innocence is quite apart from it (the body), and where all healing is. Where, then, is healing? Only where its cause is given its effects. For sickness is a meaningless attempt to give effects to causelessness, and make it be a cause.
Always in sickness does the Son of God attempt to make himself his cause (create himself) , and not allow himself to be his Father’s Son. For this impossible desire, he does not believe that he is Love’s (God's) Effect, and must be cause (of himself) because of what he is. The cause
of healing is the only Cause of everything. It has but one effect.
And in that recognition, causelessness is given no effects, and
none are seen.
A mind within a body, and a world of other bodies, each with separate minds, are your (ego) “creations.” You the “other” mind, creating with effects unlike yourself. And as their “father,” you must be like them.
Nothing at all has happened but that you have put yourself to sleep, and dreamed a dream in which you were an alien to yourself, and but a part of someone else’s dream. The miracle does not awaken you, but merely shows you who the dreamer is.It teaches you there is a choice of dreams while you are still asleep, depending on the purpose of your dreaming. Do you wish for dreams of healing, or for dreams of death? A dream is like a memory in that it pictures what you wanted shown to you.
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