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A Course in Miracles Chapter 28 - The Undoing of Fear Reversing Effect & Cause
An empty storehouse, with an open door, holds all your shreds of memories and dreams. Yet if you are the dreamer, you perceive this much at least: that you
have caused the dream, and can accept another dream as well.
But for this change in content of the dream, it must be realized that it is you who dreamed the dreaming that you do not like. It is but an effect which you have caused, and you would not (do not want to) be cause of this effect. In dreams of murder and attack are you the victim in a dying body slain. But in forgiving dreams is no one asked to be the victim and the sufferer. These are the happy dreams the miracle exchanges for your own. It does not ask you make another (dream); only that you see you made the one you would exchange for this.
This world is causeless, as is every dream that anyone has dreamed within the world. No plans are possible and no design exists that could be found and understood. What else could be expected from a thing that has no (real) cause? Yet if it has no (real) cause, it has no purpose. You may cause a dream, but never will you give it real effects, for that would change its cause, and it is this you cannot do. The dreamer of a dream is not awake, but does not know he sleeps. He sees illusions of himself as
but without a stable (real) cause with guaranteed effects.
The miracle establishes you dream a dream, and that its content is not true. This is a crucial step in dealing with illusions. No
one is afraid of them when he perceives he made them
up. The fear was held in place because he did not see
that he was author of the dream, and not a figure in the dream.
He gives himself the consequences which he dreams he gave his brother. And it is but this the dream has put together and has offered him, to show him that his wishes have been done. Thus does he fear his own attack, but sees it at another’s hands. As victim, he is suffering from its effects, but not their cause. He authored not his own attack, and he is innocent of what he caused. The
miracle does nothing but to show him that he has done nothing.
What he fears is cause, without the consequences which would make it (real) cause, and so it never was.
The separation started with the dream the Father was deprived of His Effects, and powerless to keep them, since He was no longer their Creator. In the dream, the dreamer made himself. But what he made has turned against him, taking on the role of its creator, as the dreamer had. And as he hated his Creator, so the figures in the dream have hated him. His body is their slave, which they abuse because the motives he has given it (the body) have they adopted as their own. And hate it for the vengeance it would offer them. It is their
vengeance on the body which appears to prove the dreamer
could not be the maker of the dream.
Effect and cause are first split off, and then reversed, so that effect becomes a cause; the cause, effect.
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do not realize what you have done to sabotage the holy peace of
God by your defensiveness. For you behold the Son of God No one asleep and dreaming in the world remembers his attack upon himself. No one believes there really was a time when he knew nothing of a body, and could never have conceived this world as real. Chap 27 The "Hero" of the Dream
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