ACIM ADVENT: December 14

ACIM ADVENT: December 14

T-27.VII.1. Suffering is an emphasis upon all that the world has done to injure you. 2 Here is the world's demented version of salvation clearly shown. 3 Like to a dream of punishment, in which the dreamer is unconscious of what brought on the attack against himself, he sees himself attacked unjustly and by something not himself. 4 He is the victim of this "something else," a thing outside himself, for which he has no reason to be held responsible. 5 He must be innocent because he knows not what he does, but what is done to him. 6 Yet is his own attack upon himself apparent still, for it is he who bears the suffering. 7 And he cannot escape because its source is seen outside himself.

T-27.VII.2. Now you are being shown you can escape. 2 All that is needed is you look upon the problem as it is, and not the way that you have set it up. 3 How could there be another way to solve a problem that is very simple, but has been obscured by heavy clouds of complication, which were made to keep the problem unresolved? 4 Without the clouds the problem will emerge in all its primitive simplicity. 5 The choice will not be difficult, because the problem is absurd when clearly seen. 6 No one has difficulty making up his mind to let a simple problem be resolved if it is seen as hurting him, and also very easily removed.

T-27.VII.3. The "reasoning" by which the world is made, on which it rests, by which it is maintained, is simply this: " You are the cause of what I do. 2 Your presence justifies my wrath, and you exist and think apart from me. 3 While you attack I must be innocent. 4 And what I suffer from is your attack." 5 No one who looks upon this "reasoning" exactly as it is could fail to see it does not follow and it makes no sense. 6 Yet it seems sensible, because it looks as if the world were hurting you. 7 And so it seems as if there is no need to go beyond the obvious in terms of cause.