4-5. Forgiveness for yourself, first, in an expanding cycle of self-reinforcing self-love will lead to greater and deeper levels of compassion for others, so many of whom refuse to forgive themselves.
That which you refuse yourself you will be unable to give to others, for all that is Given is also Received. This is one of the most valuable Laws of God, and it will never be altered, no matter how much you might wish to be able to erect some form of structure that is oppositional to God and the majesty of Love. Because of this unerringly accurate Law, all forgiveness that you withhold from yourself will remain unavailable for you to genuinely provide to any other Child of God, not because they are undeserving, but simply because you have elected to judge yourself as unworthy, an error that calls not for further condemnation, but simply for correction. What is it to correct an error? It is but to realize that a mistake has been committed, without regard for the reasoning or rationale that was employed to effect such an error, and then to allow the mistake to be released, so that the space that remains after its absence can be filled by the Truth of Love. None of this is at all difficult, but it will decidedly appear to be when the ego is venerated and the Love of God is rejected as being too vast, too perfect or too overwhelming for you to allow entry into your heart. This is not to say that it is actually possible to reject or eliminate the Love of God from retaining its singular and eternal occupancy within the purified and sacred center of your heart - that is an illusion. But it is very much possible to allow yourself to become wholly and seemingly irretrievably excommunicated from your own heart, a most unfortunate belief indeed, for from such a state, forgiveness is the lie and love the greatest and most bitter of illusions. This is the exact upending and desperate reversal of the Truth of God that the ego has forever sought, for from such a state of perversion and malcontentment, the ego believes that it can overthrow God, supplanting all that is Real with all that is illusion, ruling over you with an iron manacle of the greatest misery possible. The ego is, of course, wholly incorrect in its presumptions, but that is of no matter when you elect to believe them anyway - your power to create as God Creates is without limit, and so you can fashion a world that seems so very able to accurately reflect whatever it is that you believe to be true, even if what you have assembled is the most outrageous alteration of Truth that could possibly be imagined. What is gained from all of this? Are you content to live in your castle of prevarications, a storm tossed and wind battered barrenness that has no foundation? Perhaps that is suitable for you, but if that is the case, you can be eternally assured that you have elected to judge yourself as this not because it was the Will of God that you be condemned to isolation and pain, but because you have chosen to believe that you are undeserving of Love, and by the most horrific extension, that all others must be equally unworthy of the Grace that is forever available to them all, equally and completely. Perhaps you will find yourself, now or in the future, willing to counter the madness of the ego with acceptance and tolerance. Perhaps you will reach a great and massively influential inflection point, one upon which all else will turn, a great genuflection towards God as the ultimate and infallible Creator of All, setting aside the spite of the ego in favor of the acceptance of Love. Perhaps you are ready now - it is not at all important when you make this final surrender and allowance to God as the only source of Guidance that cannot be incorrect, for when you do, absolutely everything else will follow along behind you, great legions of support and endless certainty, for you will become willing to forgive yourself for all that you previously believed to be condemnatory of Love, and by inexorable extension, of yourself as well. For be assured, most infinitely precious Child of God - you cannot separate yourself from Love, or Love from who you are in Truth, no matter how much you wish to condemn yourself to a hell that only you have any desire to create. God Forgives All, for only Love will remain when all else has passed long and far beyond all meaningfulness and utility in any form. Because Love was both the genesis and will be the final destination of All That Is, you are already one and the same with Love, and so you are already Forgiven, no matter what it is that you believe your “sin” to be. Yet this principle of universal relent, this great miracle of salvation from all separation, this cannot be accepted in isolation from All That Is, for you cannot uptake but one fledgling hope of relief from your self-inflicted wounds while continuing to withhold that same Grace from any other aspect of Creation. And do not allow yourself to believe for even a moment that any of the other Children of God that you have ever or will ever know are somehow not integral with your own existence. All are aspects of God, and all are equally sacred, no matter how they elect to present themselves within these dream-like worlds that are the structure of form that encase your consciousness for as long as you retain a life in form, and in this world, being so very derivative thereof. What you cannot forgive in yourself, you will not forgive in them, and both you and they suffer as a result, for you will remain in pain and they will be relegated to an existence in a world that remains temporarily devoid of your Light and Love. Do you genuinely want that for them, or for yourself? In your corrected and allowing mind, the Mind of God that you share with all else that Lives, you do not want pain or suffering, for it is not at all reflective of Love. But in the ego-mind that you inhabitat whilst you remain willing to nourish any lingering beliefs in disharmony, pain will be your constant companion, a loyalist to your illusions and a supporter of your separation, for you have breathed life into its sullen loins, and it will continue to seek out opportunities to reproduce its besmirched offspring of desolation until you are no longer willing to nurture its insanity. Knowing yourself as once unwilling to forgive, what is it really to recognize in others their own unwillingness to accept the Grace of God? It is a simple thing, in truth, to see such a reflection shining in their eyes, and then to forgive them of all that they hold out against themselves, and by extension, against in God in the Highest. What it is that you accept for yourself, you accept for them as well, holding it safe and eternally protected from all assault, until they are willing to take up again what it is that you have Remembered, joining you in Peace and Love, now healed of all wounds and resplendent in their own Light, so perfectly reflective of your own. That which you cannot accept, they cannot be Given. What you would wish to provide for them, were you to be wholly freed of all illusions, is only Love, for there is nothing less than everything that they, and you, genuinely deserve. Do but this, and all other conflict will resolve. Do but this, and you will be freed forevermore to dwell in the Heart of God. Do but one seemingly mighty task, and all other efforts will naturally resolve themselves. Forgive yourself for all that you believed to be at all imperfect, and the Perfection of Creation will become so very evident and undeniable that you will no longer see any mark of shame counted against any other Child of God, for knowing your own heart completely and without reservation will enable you to See them as well, and through Seeing them Completely, all that will be left to regard will be God, eternal and perfect, just as Love has always been.