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A Course In Miracles
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... the original error [is] that one can be separated from God
A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need correct.
These related distortions [of miscreation] represent a picture of what ... occurred in the separation, or the "detour into fear." None of this existed before the separation, not does it actually exist now.
The [mythic] Garden of Eden, or the pre-separation condition, [represented] a state of mind in which nothing was needed.
If you attack another in error, you will hurt yourself. You cannot know your brother when you attack him. You are making him a stranger by misperceiving him [as something foreign], and so you cannot know him. It is because you have made him a stranger that you are afraid of him. Perceive him correctly so that you can know him. There are no strangers in God's creation... When [His children] do not recognize each other, they do not recognize Him.
The ego arose from the separation, and its continued existence depends on your continuing belief in the separation.
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