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Never forget that [[the Sonship]] is your [[salvation]], for the Sonship is your [[self]]. As God's creation it is yours, and belonging to you it is his. [[Your self]] does not need salvation, but [[your mind]] needs to [[learn]] what salvation is. You are not saved from anything, but you are saved for [[glory]]. Glory is your [[inheritance]], given you by your creator that you might [[extend]] it. Yet if you [[hate]] part of your [[Self]] all your [[understanding]] is lost, because you are looking on what God created as yourself without [[love]]. And since what he created is part of him, you are denying him his place in his own [[altar]].

Could you try to make [[God]] [[homeless]] and know that you are at [[home]]? Can the Son deny [[the Father]] without believing that the Father has denied him? God's laws hold only for your [[protection]], and they never hold in vain. What you [[experience]] when you deny [[your Father]] is still for your protection, for the [[power]] of your will cannot be lessened without the [[intervention]] of God against it, and any limitation on your power is not the [[Will of God]]. Therefore, look only to the power that God gave to save you, remembering that it is yours because it is his, and join with your brothers in his [[peace]].

Your peace lies in its limitlessness. [[Limit]] the peace you [[share]], and [[your self]] must be unknown to you. Every [[altar]] to God is part of you, because the [[light]] he created is one with him. Would you cut off a brother from the light that is yours? You would not do so if you realized that you can [[darken]] only your own [[mind]]. As you bring him back, so will you return. That is the [[law of God]], for the protection of the wholeness of his Son.

Only you can deprive yourself of anything. Do not [[oppose]] this [[realization]], for it is truly the beginning of the [[dawn]] of light. Remember also that the denial of this simple [[fact]] takes many forms, and these you must learn to recognize and to oppose [[steadfastly]], without exception. This is a crucial [[step]] in the reawakening. The beginning phases of this [[reversal]] are often quite painful, for as [[blame]] is withdrawn from without, there is a strong tendency to harbor it within. It is difficult at first to realize that this is exactly the same thing, for there is no distinction between within and without.

If your brothers are part of you and you [[blame]] them for your [[deprivation]], you are blaming yourself. And you cannot blame yourself without blaming them. That is why blame must be undone, not seen elsewhere. Lay it to yourself and you cannot know yourself, for only the [[ego]] blames at all. Self-blame is therefore ego identification, and as much an ego [[defense]] as blaming others. You cannot enter God's presence if you [[attack]] his Son. When his Son lifts his [[voice]] in [[praise]] of his Creator, he will hear [[Ta|the Voice for his Father]]. Yet the Creator cannot be praised without his Son, for their glory is [[shared]] and They are glorified together.

Christ is at God's altar, waiting to welcome his Son. But come wholly without condemnation, for otherwise you will believe that the door is barred and you cannot enter. The door is not barred, and it is impossible that you cannot enter the place where God would have you be. But love yourself with the Love of Christ, for so does your Father love you. You can refuse to enter, but you cannot bar the door that Christ holds open. Come unto me who hold it open for you, for while I live it cannot be shut, and I live forever. God is my life and yours, and nothing is denied by God to his Son.

At God's [[altar]] [[Christ]] waits for the [[restoration]] of himself in you. God knows his Son as wholly blameless as himself, and he is approached through the [[appreciation]] of his Son. Christ waits for your [[acceptance]] of him as yourself, and of his wholeness as yours. For Christ is the Son of God, Who lives in his Creator and [[shines]] with his glory. Christ is the [[extension]] of the Love and the loveliness of God, as perfect as his Creator and at peace with him.

[[Blessed]] is the Son of God whose [[radiance]] is of his Father, and whose [[glory]] he wills to [[share]] as his Father shares it with him. There is no [[condemnation]] in the Son, for there is no condemnation in [[the Father]]. Sharing the perfect Love of the Father the Son must share what belongs to him, for otherwise he will not know the Father or the Son. [[Peace]] be unto you who rest in God, and in whom [[the Sonship|the whole Sonship]] rests. 




[[Category: Chapter 11 - God or the Ego]]
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