The Guilt and Guiltlessness of Christ
I've come to see the ego as the reflection of Christ's belief in being guilty for creating a whole universe apart from God.
It's the universe of experience based off of the belief that separation from God is true, of being separate from God, and worthy of condemnation and punishment by our creator. So we play out this script with eachother. Projection, perception, reaction. pain. Fun isn't it?!
"You hate your mind, for guilt has entered into it, and it would remain separate from your brother’s, which it cannot do." (ACIM, T-18.VI.2:8)
But wait. hold up!
How could we deserve punishiment for something that couldn't be done without God!
And in this particular case, the core premise of our entire perceptual universes is that we did what couldn't be done, that we created the real without God.
But.... It turns out, we didn't create anything at all! I mean how could we?! If God is...., then how could anything not be?
Why is my body getting more slow and painful? Why does everything begin and end? Why does everything eventually die?
We think up universes of ideas and meaning, including space and time, and share them with others.
But what if all minds no longer believed in the same idea of reality?
"You are not guiltless in time, but in eternity. You have “sinned” in the past, but there is no past. Always has no direction. Time seems to go in one direction, but when you reach its end it will roll up like a long carpet spread along the past behind you, and will disappear. As long as you believe the Son of God is guilty you will walk along this carpet, believing that it leads to death. And the journey will seem long and cruel and senseless, for so it is." (ACIM, T-13.I.3:2-7)
Personal note: We can only be guilty through the use of ideas. But when I hold the strength and courage to say to myself:
"I forgive and release all meaning of anything and everything I have ever known. I don't what anything is or what it's for, including myself."
Then I'm fully in presence, no thoughts in the mind. I rest there for a bit sometimes. It's nice.
But when I return and the thought pops up about me being guilty. I recall the experience of presence, return to presence, and that helps me forgive the story, which I know from presence, can't be true.
When I just drop all meaning in total, it's then that I can see reality for what it actually is. And when I see that, I remember that I actually don't know anything about anything. I'm making my perception of reality what it is for me based on my held definitions, beliefs and experiences.
So, it is only because I hold a perception that I am guilty of something from the past, that am I guilty! When I "clear the mind's deck", it's no longer there... Sure it returns, but it disappeared for a moment. So if it can leave awareness, it can't be a part of eternal reality!
So if we didn't ever actually create eternal realities of the experience of not having love, then that can only mean that we never lost our Holy and Awesome relationship with God.
If Love with us always, we must surely be actually BE in Heaven, right?!
So maybe Christ is always there, hangin' out in Heaven, with his homies, in the awareness of the reality of God's perfectly and fully loving being.
We're innocent. Thank GOD, we're innocent!!!
"God, Who encompasses all being, created beings who have everything individually, but who want to share it to increase their joy. Nothing real can be increased except by sharing. That is why God created you." (ACIM, T-4.VII.5:1-3)
As nothing is outside of God, all share in the unconditionally loving, accepting and supporting, presence of God.
So let's share in and extend the joy of our awareness of it's eternal reality! It always has been and always will be.
"Divine Abstraction takes joy in sharing. That is what creation means. “How,” “what” and “to whom” are irrelevant, because real creation gives everything, since it can create only like itself. Remember that in the Kingdom there is no difference between having and being, as there is in existence. In the state of being the mind gives everything always." (ACIM, T-4.VII.5:4-8)