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True denial is a powerful protective device. ²You can and should deny any belief that error can hurt you. ³This kind of denial is not a concealment but a correction. ⁴Your right mind depends on it. ⁵Denial of error is a strong defense of truth, but denial of truth results in miscreation, the projections of the ego. ⁶In the service of the right mind the denial of error frees the mind, and re-establishes the freedom of the will. ⁷When the will is really free it cannot miscreate, because it recognizes only truth.

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syncro said:

The devil to make us better though is a logic loop. Would we need improvement without the devil?

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It takes great learning to understand that all things, events, encounters and circumstances are helpful. ⁶It is only to the extent to which they are helpful that any degree of reality should be accorded them in this world of illusion. ⁷The word “value” can apply to nothing else.

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There's the idea of darkness in matter itself, like vengeance, for it to exist. So any idea of separation must bring a package deal. Then it's thought there could be no manifestation without the darkness, or no ripples, just the stillness.

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Asante said:

The Devil is a completely different archetype as Shiva. Still, what the Devil stands for, our universe cannot do without. We need -1 so we can have a +1, and without fluctuation no masturbation. , or, no universe without ripples. A perfectly rippleless pond would be pointless.

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syncro said:

Why we would want power depends on what it means and what we want. It is enough I think, as there is nothing of us but mind, to recall complete power over our mind.

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III. Sin as an Adjustment

1. The belief in sin is an adjustment. ²And an adjustment is a change; a shift in perception, or a belief that what was so before has been made different. ³Every adjustment is therefore a distortion, and calls upon defenses to uphold it against reality. ⁴Knowledge requires no adjustments and, in fact, is lost if any shift or change is undertaken. ⁵For this reduces it at once to mere perception; a way of looking in which certainty is lost and doubt has entered. ⁶To this impaired condition _are_ adjustments necessary, because it is not true. ⁷Who need adjust to truth, which calls on only what he is, to understand?

2. Adjustments of any kind are of the ego. ²For it is the ego’s fixed belief that all relationships depend upon adjustments, to make of them what it would have them be. ³Direct relationships, in which there are no interferences, are always seen as dangerous. ⁴The ego is the self-appointed mediator of all relationships, making whatever adjustments it deems necessary and interposing them between those who would meet, to keep them separate and prevent their union. ⁵It is this studied interference that makes it difficult for you to recognize your holy relationship for what it is.

3. The holy do not interfere with truth. ²They are not afraid of it, for it is within the truth they recognize their holiness, and rejoice at what they see. ³They look on it directly, without attempting to adjust themselves to it, or it to them. ⁴And so they see that it was in them, not deciding first where they would have it be. ⁵Their looking merely asks a question, and it is what they see that answers them. ⁶You make the world and then adjust to it, and it to you. ⁷Nor is there any difference between yourself and it in your perception, which made them both.

4. A simple question yet remains, and needs an answer. ²Do you like what you have made?—a world of murder and attack, through which you thread your timid way through constant dangers, alone and frightened, hoping at most that death will wait a little longer before it overtakes you and you disappear. ³_You made this up._ ⁴It is a picture of what you think you are; of how you see yourself. ⁵A murderer _is_ frightened, and those who kill fear death. ⁶All these are but the fearful thoughts of those who would adjust themselves to a world made fearful by their adjustments. ⁷And they look out in sorrow from what is sad within, and see the sadness there. (https://acim.org/acim/en/s/244#1:1-4:7 | T-20.III.1:1–4:7)

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Nothing can hurt you unless you give it the power to do so. ²Yet _you_ give power as the laws of this world interpret giving; as you give you lose. ³It is not up to you to give power at all. ⁴Power is of God, given by Him and reawakened by the Holy Spirit, Who knows that as you give you gain. ⁵He gives no power to sin, and therefore it has none; nor to its results as this world sees them,—sickness and death and misery and pain. ⁶These things have not occurred because the Holy Spirit sees them not, and gives no power to their seeming source. ⁷Thus would He keep you free of them. ⁸Being without illusion of what you are, the Holy Spirit merely gives everything to God, Who has already given and received all that is true. ⁹The untrue He has neither received nor given.

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