Library of Christ Mind Teachings
ACIM Original Edition
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Justice is the divine correction for injustice. Injustice is the basis
for all the judgments of the world. Justice corrects the interpretations
to which injustice gives rise and cancels them out. Neither justice nor
injustice exists in Heaven, for error is impossible and correction
meaningless. In this world, however, forgiveness depends on justice
since all attack can only be unjust. Justice is the Holy Spirit’s
verdict upon the world. Except in His judgment, justice is impossible,
for no one in the world is capable of making only just interpretations
and laying all injustices aside. If God’s Son were fairly judged, there
would be no need for salvation. The thought of separation would have
been forever inconceivable.
2 Justice, like its opposite, is an interpretation. It is,
however, the one interpretation that leads to truth. This becomes
possible because, while it is not true in itself, justice includes
nothing that opposes truth. There is no inherent conflict between
justice and truth; one is but the first small step in the direction of
the other. The path becomes quite different as one goes along. Nor could
all the magnificence, the grandeur of the scene and the enormous opening
vistas that rise to meet one as he travels on, be foretold from the
outset. Yet even these, whose splendor reaches indescribable heights as
one proceeds, falls short indeed of all that awaits one when the pathway
ceases and time ends with it. But somewhere one must start. Justice is
the beginning.
3 All concepts of your brothers and yourself, all fears of
future states, and all concern about the past stem from injustice. Here
is the lens which, held before the body’s eyes, distorts perception and
brings witness of the distorted world back to the mind that made the
lens and holds it very dear. Selectively and arbitrarily is every
concept of the world built up in just this way. “Sins” are perceived and
justified by this careful selectivity in which all thought of wholeness
must be lost. Forgiveness has no place in such a scheme, for not one
“sin” but seems forever true.
4 Salvation is God’s justice. It restores to your awareness
the wholeness of the fragments you perceive as broken off and separate.
And it is this that overcomes the fear of death. For separate fragments
must decay and die, but wholeness is immortal. It remains forever and
forever like its Creator, being one with Him. God’s Judgment is His
justice. Onto this—a judgment wholly lacking in condemnation, an
evaluation based entirely on love—you have projected your injustice,
attributing to God the lens of warped perception through which you look.
Now it belongs to Him and not to you. You are afraid of Him and do not
see you hate and fear your Self as enemy.
5 Pray for God’s justice, and do not confuse His mercy with
your own insanity. Perception can make whatever picture the mind desires
to see. Remember this. In this lies either Heaven or hell, as you elect.
God’s justice points to Heaven just because it is entirely impartial. It
accepts all evidence that is brought before it, omitting nothing and
assessing nothing as separate and apart from all the rest. From this one
standpoint does it judge, and this alone. Here all attack and
condemnation becomes meaningless and indefensible. Perception rests, the
mind is still, and light returns again. Vision is now restored. What had
been lost has now been found. The peace of God descends on all the world
and we can see. And we can see!