22/01/2024
The World of Guilt.
The world you see is the delusional system of those made mad by guilt.
Look carefully at this world, and you will realize that this is so.
For this world is the world of punishment, and all the laws that seem to govern it, are the laws of death.
Children are born into it through pain and in pain.
Their growth is attended by suffering, and they learn of sorrow and separation, and death.
Their minds are trapped in their brain, and its power declines if their bodies are hurt.
They seem to love, yet they desert and are deserted.
They appear to lose what they love, perhaps the most insane belief of all.
And their bodies wither and gasp and are laid in the ground and are no more.
Not one of them but has thought that God is cruel.
If this were the real world, God would be cruel, for no father could subject his children to this as the price of salvation and be loving.
Love does not kill to save.
For if it did, attack would be salvation, and this is the ego's interpretation, and not God's.
Only the world of guilt could demand this, for only the guilty could conceive of it.
Adam's "sin" could have touched none of you had you not believed that it was the Father who drove him out of paradise.
For it is in that belief that "KNOWLEDGE" of the Father was lost, since it is only those who do not understand Him that could believe it. ACIM