What is Forgiveness? · Wb.pII.1

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v1.0 · Course text used under CIMS license

Workbook for Students

Contents

Opening

Introduction

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Part I

Lessons 1 - 50

50 lessons

Part I

Review I [51 - 60]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 61 - 80

20 lessons

Part I

Review II [81 - 90]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 91 - 110

20 lessons

Part I

Review III [111 - 120]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 121 - 140

20 lessons

Part I

Review IV [141 - 150]

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Part I

Lessons 151 - 170

20 lessons

Part I

Review V [171 - 180]

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Part I

Lessons 181 - 200

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Part I

Review VI [201 - 220]

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Part II

Introduction

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Part II

Lessons 221 - 230

10 lessons

What is Forgiveness?

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221.Peace to my mind. Let all my thoughts be still.

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222.God is with me. I live and breathe in Him.

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223.God is my life. I have no life but His.

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224.God is my Father, and He loves His Son.

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225.God is my Father, and His Son loves Him.

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226.My home awaits me. I will hasten there.

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227.This is my holy instant of release.

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228.God has condemned me not. No more do I.

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229.Love, Which created me, is what I am.

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230.Now will I seek and find the peace of God.

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Part II

Lessons 231 - 240

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Part II

Lessons 241 - 250

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Part II

Lessons 251 - 260

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Part II

Lessons 261 - 270

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Part II

Lessons 271 - 280

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Part II

Lessons 281 - 290

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Part II

Lessons 291 - 300

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Part II

Lessons 301 - 310

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Part II

Lessons 311 - 320

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Part II

Lessons 321 - 330

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Part II

Lessons 331 - 340

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Part II

Lessons 341 - 350

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Part II

Lessons 351 - 360

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Part II

Lessons 361 - 365

5 lessons

Closing

Epilogue

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Part II · Question 1

What is Forgiveness?

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1Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. It does not pardon sins and make them real. It sees there was no sin. And in this view are all your sins forgiven. What is sin except a false idea about God's Son? Forgiveness merely sees its falsity and therefore lets it go. What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.

2An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that it will not raise to doubt, although it is not true. The mind is closed and will not be released. The thought protects projection, tightening its chains so that distortions are more veiled and more obscure, less easily accessible to doubt, and further kept from reason. What can come between a fixed projection and the aim that it has chosen as its needed goal?

3An unforgiving thought does many things. In frantic action, it pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path. Distortion is its purpose and the means by which it would accomplish it as well. It sets about its furious attempts to smash reality, without concern for anything that would appear to pose a contradiction to its point of view.

4Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still and quietly does nothing. It offends no aspect of reality nor seeks to twist it to appearance that it likes. It merely looks and waits and judges not. He who would not forgive must judge, for he must justify his failure to forgive. But he who would forgive himself must learn to welcome truth exactly as it is.

5Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do through Him Who is your Guide, your Savior and Defender, strong in hope, and certain of your ultimate success. He has forgiven you already, for such is His function given Him by God. Now must you share His function and forgive whom He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honors as the Son of God.