Anything that Appears to Take on a Form is Symbolic

The opposite of God is anything that is not God, but what is all-encompassing—God—cannot have an opposite. If God is perfect Love, then He is not anything else, and neither are you. You are, in fact, the Love of God, and your real life is with Him. You will come to know and experience that God is not outside of you. You will no longer identify yourself with a vulnerable body or anything else that can be limited. You will learn instead of your true reality as pure spirit that is invulnerable forever.

The meaning of love cannot be taught or learned. Love will take care of Itself. Your job is to learn how to remove the blocks to your awareness of love’s presence, along with the Holy Spirit. The Voice for God, which I will refer to as the Holy Spirit, is still with you to remind you of the truth and call you to return.

One way the Holy Spirit will awaken you is to teach you that what you think is happening is not  happening. Although your experience of this world appears to be very real, reality is your eternal and unalterable spirit and it cannot be the slightest bit threatened. Anything and everything else does exist at all in reality has been produced by a deep, hidden need to project thought. Energy is nothing but projected thought. Anything that can be perceived or observed in any way,  even measured scientifically, is idle, miscreated thought. 

Make no mistake; in order to really accept God’s helper, the Holy Spirit, you must begin to trust God. You cannot trust Him until you recognize that He is not responsible for your experiences, your thoughts are. God could not have created this world. It would not be in His nature. God is not cruel. The events in the world are of no consequence, simply because they are not really happening. 

You’ll be learning more about this situation, and you’ll realize exactly why insane actions such as genocide are a routine part of the story of man’s inhumanity toward man. You’ll also learn that true forgiveness is the only way to break the pattern.

The thought system of true forgiveness says everyone in the world, including you, is equally innocent because what you are seeing is not true. If your reality is pure invulnerable spirit, it is also the true reality of everyone. Everyone, no matter what, is totally innocent. 

You will gradually learn that what you once thought of as sin, attack, guilt, and separation are really something else. You don’t have to accept the idea that everyone is completely innocent, or any of the other Course ideas, right away. But you’ll see as you go along that forgiveness is immeasurably good for you, not just the people you are forgiving.

It will be extraordinarily helpful because the application of true forgiveness will lead you to genuine happiness, peace—and eventually Heaven.