The Original Error
Original Sin
A Single, Simple Mistake
The Tiny Mad Idea
“You who believe that God is fear made but one substitution. It has taken many forms, because it was the substitution of illusion for truth; of fragmentation for wholeness. It has become so splintered and subdivided and divided again, over and over, that it is now almost impossible to perceive it once was one, and still is what it was. That one error, which brought truth to illusion, infinity to time, and life to death, was all you ever made. Your whole world rests upon it. Everything you see reflects it, and every special relationship that you have ever made is part of it. You may be surprised to hear how very different is reality from what you see. You do not realize the magnitude of that one error. It was so vast and so completely incredible that from it a world of total unreality had to emerge. What else could come of it? Its fragmented aspects are fearful enough, as you begin to look at them. But nothing you have seen begins to show you the enormity of the original error, which seemed to cast you out of Heaven, to shatter knowledge into meaningless bits of disunited perceptions, and to force you to make further substitutions. That was the first projection of error outward. The world arose to hide it, and became the screen on which it was projected and drawn between you and the truth “(T-18.I.4:1-6:2).
The Error: Perception of Separation
“ACIM says we only made one mistake, which was the choice to be separate. “
“Let us consider what the error is, so it can be corrected, not protected.”
“What you think you are is a belief to be undone.”
Original Sin
- the feeling of guilt, shame fear because deep down you feel and believe you sinned and betrayed god
- The feeling that you aren’t loved and good enough
- The backlash of the rupture in heaven