Healing and Atonement are not related;
they are identical. There is no order of difficulty in miracles because
there are no degrees of Atonement. It is the one complete concept
possible in this world, because it is the source of a wholly unified
perception. Partial Atonement is a meaningless idea, just as special
areas of hell in Heaven are inconceivable. Accept Atonement and you are
healed. Atonement is the Word of God. Accept His Word and what remains
to make sickness possible? Accept His Word and every miracle has been
accomplished. To forgive is to heal. The teacher of God has taken
accepting the Atonement for himself as his only function. What is
there, then, he cannot heal? What miracle can be withheld from him?
(ACIM:T-22.1)
Simply put then there's only one job to be
done, and that is to accept the Atonement - which completely cancels out
the ego's "tiny, mad idea" of the separation. The path of forgiveness
which Jesus teaches thus is nothing more than the practice that gets us
there from within our time-bound experience, and gives us experiential
glimpses of our immortal reality as spirit in eternity, and it is those
experiences, the miracles, which can convey more than words can ever
hold, so that increasingly the very same words open up, since having had
the experience the real meaning of what Jesus taught becomes readily
evident. Many people throughout the ages have known that experiences,
and in our own time teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Jeff Foster have
also reported this experience of suddenly understanding the words of
Jesus on a whole different level, because they now understand him based
on their own inner experience. So if accepting the Atonement, i.e. total
and complete forgiveness, is our one function, then Logion 76 becomes understandable as a reminder of that, it says (as always in the Pursah version from chapter 7 of Gary Renard's Your Immortal Reality:J said, "God's Divine Rule is like a merchant who had a supply of merchandise and then found a pearl. That merchant was prudent; he sold the merchandise and bought the single pearl for himself. So also with you, see the treasure that is unfailing, that is enduring, where no moth comes to eat and no worm destroys."
All
your past except its beauty is gone, and nothing is left but a
blessing. I have saved all your kindnesses and every loving thought you
ever had. I have purified them of the errors that hid their light, and
kept them for you in their own perfect radiance. They are beyond
destruction and beyond guilt. They came from the Holy Spirit within
you, and we know what God creates is eternal. You can indeed depart in
peace because I have loved you as I loved myself. You go with my
blessing and for my blessing. Hold it and share it, that it may always
be ours. I place the peace of God in your heart and in your hands, to
hold and share. The heart is pure to hold it, and the hands are strong
to give it. We cannot lose. My judgment is as strong as the wisdom of
God, in Whose Heart and Hands we have our being. His quiet children are
His blessed Sons. The Thoughts of God are with you.
(ACIM:T-5.IV.82-15)
So what he promises here,
is that he issues HS Green Stamps (as opposed to S&H Green Stamps
at the supermarket), and he is pasting everyone of them in your little
savingsbook, until you are ready to come and claim the award. As a side
note, we might notice that this logion finds a close parallel in Logion 8.
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