Wednesday Workbook: What is the World? What is Sin?

Class notes 9/9/26

Wednesday Workbook

What is the World? What is Sin? #246-252

What is the World?

          It is an illusion or a dream. The world arises from mistaken ideas. It is born of the error that you can create yourself. This foundation has not left its source, you. We created this world with our ego action. As long as we cherish ego action, the devil inside is you being possessed by your own ego action, you are edging God out. The world will remain. It is the power behind our ego thoughts that make the world. When the thought of the separation is changed into true forgiveness the world will be seen in a different light. This world can be a step away from Heaven.​​ This leads to truth, knowledge, the “I am that” territory of the Holy Trinity. From there, the world disappears and all errors vanish. The source, our ego is gone and its effects are gone as well.

          The world was made when we started to battle God over our creation. It symbolizes fear, the authority problem. Fear is the absence of love. We made a place where God couldn’t enter and we could be separate from Him. This is the birth of perception, because knowledge couldn’t create such insanity. Our bodies' eyes deceive and our bodies' ears hear things which aren’t true.  Now mistakes become possible, because certainty and knowledge have left the building.

          The invention of the illusion has been born instead. Seek and you will find, now we find what the ego was looking for. We have made it real while we believe in it. You believe in what you’ve made or created. Thoughts are things. So we believe in the illusion that we have created.

          Physical sight was made to lead away from the truth but it can be redirected. Like a race car driver we look in the direction that we want to go in. Sounds become the call of God, the kingdom is in every car honk. All perception has a new purpose by the one God appointed the savior of the world. We march along the lines of the Atonement and Jesus’ plans. Follow his light, he is a star until a brighter light appears and you remember God. Hear his voice alone in all that speaks. Let him give you back the keys to the kingdom that you thought you threw away, peace and certainty of purpose. You can’t toss out your gifts from God, they have been kept safe for you. The kingdom is your inheritance. Jesus is the only savior we need as Course students. 

          We won’t rest until everyone is onboard with the atonement that changed perception. When forgiveness is complete all will pass the Course or their curriculum of the big Om. Let’s not attempt to change our function. Who did God create you to be? We created the world and we must save it. When we see this world through the eyes of Christ, holy vision is the goal of ACIM, what was made to die will be restored to timelessness. Remember fear is love’s absence. 

What is sin?

          We have already defined a sin as an absence of love in this class. Sin, the idea of acting without enough love, is crazy. By this path madness lies and our minds look to let illusions take the place of truth. And being crazy it sees illusions where truth should be and where it really is. Only love is real. Sin gives the body eyes, sinlessness only sees perfection the sinless do not grasp. To sense with the body, using its eyes and ears and depending on this is not knowledge. The truth is filled with knowledge and nothing else. There is no perceiving when you know. 

          The separation, the thought that we could create ourselves is what we made when we tried to deceive ourselves about what we are. We made our bodies in this move, the body is the home of the ego. Its purpose is to strive and grasp. There is hope. You can use your body and time within the context of the illusion differently. We are still striving but now the goal has shifted. The only goal is God, we let other branches wither. (read Matthew 7)

          What we seek now and remember, seek and you will find, knock and the door shall be opened open for you, is chosen by the goal we have chosen instead of the ego. Our goal is to pitch it in the direction of the Holy Trinity and the Atonement.  You can aim for truth or lies but in these bodies we are always aiming for something. We use our sense to seek love and God.

          All sins are illusionary in nature. Only love is real. They stand for imagined things and come from thoughts which aren’t true. They are ‘proof’ that the unreal is real. Sin ‘proves’ God’s son is evil, that death is the end and what God has given can be taken away. God has lost his son that he adores. Now corruption is part of God, God has been defiled. God’s will has been defeated by death, hate and war. 

          Nightmares are scary. This craziness that you have created in your miscreating terrifies you. But it’s a silly game. A SOG may pretend he has become a body and a victim with a life that ends in death. But the whole time that you are having this nightmare, your true creator this all encompassing love shines on you and loves you with an all pervasive love that nothing can change. 

          How long are you going to play with sin? These are sharp edged toys, aren't you ready to drop them? When will you be ready to come home today? There is no sin. The mistakes of the past are trivial. Creation is unchanged. Then Jesus says, “When, when, when?” because you are missing there. There is a spot waiting for you in the kingdom.