T-14.IV

Your Function in the Atonement

Your function is to make Atonement visible by seeing your brother guiltless, choosing the Holy Spirit’s interpretation, and letting forgiveness undo guilt until perception yields to knowledge.

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Atonement See Atonement by granting a brother guiltlessness—your only function here. Guiltlessness Your brother’s innocence is your Atonement and way to God.

Pillar

Forgiveness Stop asking to be forgiven; learn to grant guiltlessness instead. Holy Spirit Decision-making rests in the Holy Spirit’s remembered function.

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Decision Decide against deciding alone; let God’s Voice make choice effortless. Oneness No second source exists; holiness cannot be withheld from any brother. Perception—Knowledge Feeling God’s Presence isn’t knowing; judgment blocks recognition. Sonship Your function is to offer the blameless Son in every brother. Guilt Teaching a brother guilt burdens you; Atonement lifts the load. Love Your task is to extend Love where lovelessness seems to teach. Giving / Receiving Proclaiming a brother guiltless makes that innocence yours to see.

Minor

Separation Guilt’s blocks make Presence seem absent until guiltlessness is accepted. Teaching–Learning Your only lesson is Atonement: receive truth, then teach forgiveness. Communication Guilt makes selves unintelligible; life is communication with God. Creation / Extension Accept the First Cause: you are created within God, not self-made. Will of God Knowing God requires guiltlessness; judgment denies what He placed in you. Authority Problem Don’t manufacture reality from ignorance; let Guidance decide. Memory of God Let the Holy Spirit remember reality for you. Sinlessness Atonement restores awareness of the sinlessness already given.

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