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   Miracles Are Seen In Light wrote:   
      
   > > "The first in time means nothing, but the First in eternity is God the   
   > > Father, Who is both First and One.  Beyond the First there is no other,   
   > > for there is no order, no second or third, and nothing but the First."   
   > >   
   > > "You who belong to the First Cause, created by him like unto himself and   
   > > part of him, are more than merely guiltless.  The state of guiltlessness   
   > > is only the condition in which what is not there has been removed from   
   > > the disordered mind that thought it was.  This state, and only this,   
   > > must you attain, with God beside you.  For until you do, you will still   
   > > think that you are separate from him."   
   > >   
   > > "When you have let all that obscured the truth in your most holy mind be   
   > > undone for you, and therefore stand in grace before your Father, he will   
   > > give himself to you as he has always done.  Giving himself is all he   
   > > knows, and so it is all knowledge.  For what he knows not cannot be, and   
   > > therefore cannot be given.  Ask not to be forgiven, for this has already   
   > > been accomplished.  Ask, rather, to learn how to forgive, and to restore   
   > > what always was to your unforgiving mind.  Atonement becomes real and   
   > > visible to those who use it.  On earth this is your only function, and   
   > > you must learn that it is all you want to learn."   
   > >   
   > > "You need not understand creation to do what must be done before that   
   > > knowledge would be meaningful to you.  God breaks no barriers; neither   
   > > did he make them.  When you release them they are gone.  God will not   
   > > fail, nor ever has in anything.  Decide that God is right and you are   
   > > wrong about yourself.  He created you out of himself, but still within   
   > > him.  He knows what you are.  Remember that there is no second to him.   
   > > There cannot, therefore, be anyone without his holiness, nor anyone   
   > > unworthy of his perfect love.  Fail not in your function of loving in a   
   > > loveless place made out of darkness and deceit, for thus are darkness   
   > > and deceit undone.  Fail not yourself, but instead offer to God and you   
   > > his blameless Son.  For this small gift of appreciation for his love,   
   > > God will himself exchange your gift for his."   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > "Before you make any decisions for yourself, remember that you have   
   > > decided against your function in Heaven, and then consider carefully   
   > > whether you want to make decisions here.  Your function here is only to   
   > > decide against deciding what you want, in recognition that you do not   
   > > know.  How, then, can you decide what you should do?  Leave all   
   > > decisions to the One Who speaks for God, and for your function as he   
   > > knows it.  So will he teach you to remove the awful burden you have laid   
   > > upon yourself by loving not the Son of God, and trying to teach him   
   > > guilt instead of love.  Give up this frantic and insane attempt that   
   > > cheats you of the joy of living with your God and Father, and of waking   
   > > gladly to his love and holiness that join together as the truth in you,   
   > > making you one with him."   
   > >   
   > > "Unless you are guiltless you cannot know God, Whose Will is that you   
   > > know him.  Therefore, you must be guiltless.  Yet if you do not accept   
   > > the necessary conditions for knowing him, you have denied him and do not   
   > > recognize him, though he is all around you.  He cannot be known without   
   > > his Son, whose guiltlessness is the condition for knowing him. Accepting   
   > > his Son as guilty is denial of the Father so complete, that knowledge is   
   > > swept away from recognition in the very mind where God himself has   
   > > placed it.  If you would but listen, and learn how impossible this is!   
   > > Do not endow him with attributes you understand.  You made him not, and   
   > > anything you understand is not of him."   
   > >   
   > > "Your task is not to make reality.  It is here without your making, but   
   > > not without you. You who have tried to throw yourself away and valued   
   > > God so little, hear me speak for him and for yourself.  You cannot   
   > > understand how much your Father loves you, for there is no parallel in   
   > > your experience of the world to help you understand it.  There is   
   > > nothing on earth with which it can compare, and nothing you have ever   
   > > felt apart from him resembles it ever so faintly.  Would you know of One   
   > > Who gives forever, and Who knows of nothing except giving?"   
   > >   
   > > - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 14, Section 4 (5pdf)   
   > > "Teaching for Truth," "Your Function in the Atonement"   
   > > https://tinyurl.com/A-Course-In-Miracles-pdf   
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