Chapter 13, section I, paragraphs 2, and 3
“2. In the strange world that you have made the Son of God has sinned. ²How could you see him, then? ³By making him invisible, the world of retribution rose in the black cloud of guilt that you accepted, and you hold it dear. ⁴For the blamelessness of Christ is the proof that the ego never was, and can never be. ⁵Without guilt the ego has no life, and God’s Son is without guilt.
3. As you look upon yourself and judge what you do honestly, you may be tempted to wonder how you can be guiltless. ²Yet consider this: You are not guiltless in time, but in eternity. ³You have “sinned” in the past, but there is no past. ⁴Always has no direction. ⁵Time seems to go in one direction, but when you reach its end it will roll up like a long carpet spread along the past behind you, and will disappear. ⁶As long as you believe the Son of God is guilty you will walk along this carpet, believing that it leads to death. ⁷And the journey will seem long and cruel and senseless, for so it is.” (ACIM, T-13.I.2:1–3:7)
From: “A VAST ILLUSION – Time According to A COURSE IN MIRACLES” by Ken Wapnick
Page 27: Therefore, within the world of illusion, the world of time, everything happened billions of years ago, right at the moment of the “big bang.” In reality, of course, none of it happened at all; the world is just a dream of the impossible.
Page 29: We cannot establish the curriculum now because it has already been established by us. We can choose, though, what station, film, video tape, or part of the kaleidoscope we are going to observe and reexperience at any given time. Yet what we are observing has already happened. The forms in which we are going to learn the curriculum have been chosen as well …. This means that we choose all the mistakes, (special hate and special love relationships), and we can choose now to accept all their corrections (holy relationships).
Page 50: Forgiveness has nothing to do with eternity, but rather is rooted in the world of time and space, being the means through which we began to change our minds and eventually recognize that we are the dreamer of the dream … we are not in the body at all, but are rather observing this dream… Forgiveness, practiced in the present moment, enables us to begin to accept and experience the truth. The guilt that we have made real in our minds makes time real — past, present and future.
Ken cites these Course references for the information I have taken from his book A VAST ILLUSION:
First Edition -– Text, pp 539-46, 550-53 (same information as in the 2nd edition as given below)
2ndEdition — Text, Chapter 27, VII. The Dreamer of the Dream to the end of Chapter 27.
Text, Chapter 28, II. Reversing Effect and Cause down to (but not including) the
beginning of III. The Agreement to Join.