What is Wrong-minded about "Good”?
Forgiveness is relinquishment of all judgment
Posted by aplecompte on May 20th, 2009
At the Camp for Miracles David Hoffmeister pointed out the need for forgiving the good. He said, “Further into the Course we learn the ego projected out the cosmos and with it came a mechanism of rank ordering things into hierarchies, of judging, of dividing things up. This judgment mechanism of the ego keeps the illusion in place.”
So I looked in the Workbook and found:
These thoughts do not mean anything, "good" thoughts as well as "bad." None of them represents my real thoughts, which are being covered up by them. The "good" ones are but shadows of what lies beyond, and shadows make sight difficult. W-4
I am upset because I see a meaningless world. A "good world" implies a "bad" one. W-12
The images I think I see are merely the thoughts I think I think. W-15
I have no neutral thoughts. Everything I see is the result of my thoughts. Thoughts are merely true or false. W-16
I see no neutral things. This idea is a step in identifying cause and effect as it really operates in the world. I see no neutral things because I have no neutral thoughts. It is always the thought that comes first. This is the way I think. W-17
This is summed up in Lesson 325:
All things I think I see reflect ideas. This is salvation's keynote: What I see reflects a process in my mind, which starts with my idea of what I want. From there, the mind makes up an image of the thing the mind desires, judges valuable, and therefore seeks to find. These images are then projected outward, looked upon, esteemed as real and guarded as one's own. From insane wishes comes an insane world. From judgment comes a world condemned.
Thinking up and believing in an insane, condemned world is a big problem. How do I correct the problem?
A dream of judgment came into the mind that God created perfect as Himself. And in that dream was Heaven changed to hell, and God made enemy unto His Son. How can God's Son awaken from the dream? It is a dream of judgment. So must he judge not, and he will waken. For the dream will seem to last while he is part of it. Judge not, for he who judges will have need of idols, which will hold the judgment off from resting on himself. Nor can he know the Self he has condemned. Judge not, because you make yourself a part of evil dreams, where idols are your "true" identity, and your salvation from the judgment laid in terror and in guilt upon yourself. T-29.IX.2.
When I judge I make the illusion real to me. So how do I “judge not”?
In the Manual, the How is Judgment Relinquished? section says:
It is necessary for the teacher of God to realize, not that he should not judge, but that he cannot. In giving up judgment, he is merely giving up what he did not have. He gives up an illusion; or better, he has an illusion of giving up. He has actually merely become more honest. Recognizing that judgment was always impossible for him, he no longer attempts it. This is no sacrifice. On the contrary, he puts himself in a position where judgment through him rather than by him can occur. M-10.2.
My judgmental thoughts, both good and bad, are false. I think I think them because I unconsciously am still believing in the separation and wanting to maintain a world of guilt.
So now I give all my judgmental thoughts to the Holy Sprit and we have a laugh at the unreal effects, those false images, of that unreal cause, the false belief. The Holy Spirit guides me happily through each day and shows me the only judgment there is: "God's Son is guiltless, and sin does not exist."
Tags: Ego, Forgiveness, Judgment
