T-15.I

The Two Uses of Time

Time is reinterpreted: the ego uses it to prove guilt and death, while the Holy Spirit uses it to open the Holy Instant and restore joining.

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▲ MilestoneTime serves guilt or awakening, depending on purpose.	▲ Milestone
Holy Instant named: a clean present shared in holiness.
Give the Holy Spirit one instant, and time is healed.
Pillar
The ego uses time to make death feel inevitable and near.
Fear belongs to past and future; the present undoes it.
Ego-time runs on guilt, promising endless punishment and fear.
Time can teach fear or peace—offer it to the Holy Spirit.
Supporting
Holy present: absolved now, you escape guilt by giving release.
One teacher uses time to deepen guilt; the other to undo it.
Time serves learning until the holy instant reveals the unchanging.
Ego uses time to aim at death; the Holy Spirit uses time for life.
Heaven is given now; trade a tiny instant of fear for it.
Use time to learn peace: this instant absolves and steadies the mind.
Minor
The holy instant cannot be private: give release, receive release.
An offered instant becomes release shared: time serves the holy instant.
Give a little instant; receive salvation from change and eternity’s remembrance.
The holy instant is real only as one shared release.
A tiny holy instant restores the remembrance of eternity now.
Believing in hell makes vengeance feel endless and inevitable.
Give one instant; share it with your brother and let Heaven enter.
Withholding your brother’s release keeps you in time’s attack cycle.
Asking how long it will take and attacking are both temptations—return to this instant.
Echo
Change is an ego story told to disturb the holy present.
Purity is outside time; nothing in the dream can stain it.

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