Episode Notes:

Presented by the ForgiveNest Podcast, Alison Anton continues the 'Course Cosmology' series, focusing on the concept of the 'Son of God' as taught in A Course in Miracles. She discusses the central theme that 'God's Son is guiltless' and explores topics such as the concept of Christ as a shared universal Self and the importance of recognizing the innocence in ourselves and others. The episode emphasizes recognizing our ‘sameness’ with each other. 

Episode Timestamp:

00:00 Introduction to Course Cosmology Part Two

00:26 Central Theme: God's Son is Guiltless

01:10 Affirmation of Our True Nature

02:39 Understanding the Son of God

03:49 The Concept of Oneness

06:56 The Kingdom of God

08:57 Who is 'You' in A Course in Miracles?

11:59 Recognizing Our Sameness

14:59 Conclusion and Next Steps

Podcast Category: Spirituality and Religion

ACIM References, Quotes and Prayers Cited:

Note: Alison Anton uses the Complete and Annotated Edition (CE) of A Course in Miracles. This edition is based on the original handwritten notes of Helen Schucman, scribe of A Course in Miracles. Publisher: Circle of Atonement. 

“The course’s central theme is always ‘God’s Son is guiltless’, and in his innocence is his salvation.” [ACIM CE M-1.3:5]

“I am the holy home of God Himself. I am the Heaven where His love abides. I am His holy sinlessness itself, for in my purity abides His Own.” [ACIM CE W-WI.14.1:3-6]

“Christ—the perfect Son of God, His one creation and His happiness, forever like Himself and one with Him.” [ACIM CE C-4.3:1]

“Creation is the sum of all God’s thoughts, in number infinite, and everywhere without all limit.” [ACIM CE W-WI.11.1:1]

“…making every part container of the whole.” [ACIM CE W-WI.11.3:2]

“Ideas leave not their Source.” [CE T-26.VII.4:6] [ACIM CE W-132.4-5] [ACIM CE W-167.3:4-5] [ACIM CE W-156.1:3]

“Without you there would be a lack in God, a Heaven incomplete, a Son without a Father. For what God wills is whole and part of Him because His will is one.” [ACIM CE T-24.VI.2:2-4]

“Although there are an infinite number of individual Sons, they all share a single universal Self: Christ.” [ACIM CE Glossary-2.1:2]

“The name of Jesus is the name of one who was a man, but saw the face of Christ in all his brothers and remembered God. So he became identified WITH Christ, a man no longer, but at one with God.” [ACIM CE C-4.2:1-2]

“My sinless brother is my guide to peace. My sinful brother is my guide to pain. And which I choose to see I will behold.” [ACIM CE W-351:1]

“Christ is God’s Son as He created Him. He is the Self we share, uniting us with one another and with God as well. He is the Thought Which still abides within the Mind That is His Source. He has not left His holy home, nor lost the innocence in which He was created. He abides unchanged forever in the Mind of God.” [ACIM CE W-WI.6:1]

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