PART 3 & 4 Course on Miracles PART 3: But the separation occurred only in our minds; in reality it never happened. * The separation had no effect, for nothing can change the Will of God. * We did not actually separate; we merely withdrew our awareness from reality into a private mental state. * The world is not an objective reality; it is only a dream, a projection of our belief in separateness. * We are not who we think we are; we are the Sons of God with amnesia. * We are not here in this world or in these bodies. We are in Heaven dreaming that we are here. * The instant the separation seemed to occur, God created the Holy Spirit, Who awakened us that same instant. We are now only reviewing a journey that is over. PART 4. Yet we believed we had really done it. We thought we had sinned and had thereby thrown our happiness away forever. * We thought that we had separated ourselves from all that we loved and consequently experienced a state of lack. * We thought that we had sinned against God, that we had launched a real attack which caused real destruction. * The result of sin was a massive sense of guilt, which we denied and so pushed into the unconscious. * Guilt says that we deserve punishment. This belief is the source of all of our suffering. * We project our belief that we deserve punishment onto God and so perceive a punitive, fearful God. * Guilt, then, gives rise to fear, which really is the expectation of punishment. Fear is the dominant emotion of this world.