A Course in Miracles Is Brotherhood

[Micheal Jorden]

Among the prominent themes in A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is approximately others being your brother. Theoretically, this sounds great but it could be difficult to put into practice. It is a very important factor to love your brother when they are being lovable; but it's quite another to love them when they're not. Whenever you make a judgment they've done something amiss or harmed you in some manner, you won't be willing to share love with them. The ego will judge them not worth love because they have caused you harm. This originates from the first separation and not being worth God's love. You cannot give another what you think you don't have.

ACIM is clear: No error has occurred. No separation has happened. Since you visually see another body, you assume (judgment) that this person differs, and difference means separation to the ego mind. The illusion of another identity is thus made real. Specialness now exists freeing the ego to create a God who'll "give" you the special love another vengeful God denied through the sin of the first separation. Specialness also also includes your brothers whom the ego uses replace the love of the vengeful God.

What does it take to see another as your brother? Let's breakdown the components but remember that even with one of these understandings, it will probably drop to your willingness to forget about judgment and doing the actual work of undoing the ego.

Special Relationships:

These special relationships replace the love of God. They may be love or hate relationships, but in any event, they are based on the "wrong" or "right" mind of the ego. If you do one little thing an ego judges wrong, it goes from love to hate faster compared to the blink of an eye. To believe God would do this really is to trust the lie of the ego that God is vengeful and He attacks. You would only attack others because you think the exact same lie about yourself. These are judgments you must be willing to hand over for correction (forgiveness). Only the ego judges and attacks. You're not your ego.

Absolutely all relationships are special and soon you choose to make them Holy. You cannot see others as your brother if you're associated with judgment and projection. The darkness blinds you to their light in addition to your own. Holy Relationships are employed by the Holy Spirit for correction of your brain (forgiveness). This makes the option to see another as a brother an experience which becomes real.

The only path any relationship becomes a Holy Relationship is, for one or more of you, to be practicing forgiveness. Seeing someone as a brother means doing this even although you are the only one in the partnership willing to relinquish judgment a course in miracles That which you do as cause will be your effect.