Some people become angry with and even permanently bitter towards the Creator for seemingly letting a world come about that allows those in it to have horrendous experiences. “Everyone who has experienced this (world’s) delusional system and thought it real has also thought that the Divine is cruel. If this were the real world, the Divine would be cruel.” Isn’t the Creator, Who is the Source of Everything, ultimately responsible for this insane world where such terrible experiences befall countless beings? How could anything like this have ever happened in the creation of a loving Creator? These are legitimate questions similar to the question of how the ego could have ever come into existence in the first place.
If the Creator created all that is, then It must have created at least the possibility of this tragic world. If, on the other hand, the Creator didn’t create this world, perhaps because in Its Omniscience It knew how a world like this would be experienced by Its Children, then how did this world arise?
Logically, this world is one of an infinite number of possible worlds that the Divine Children could have brought about through their own creative power, which is the same power as that of their Creator. If their creative power is the source of this world, then responsibility for this world would only be the Creator’s for giving Its Children creative power that included the potential for miscreation.
The Course makes it clear that this world isn’t real, but only an illusion and dream, so in that regard the Creator didn’t will or create this world. “The Divine created only a meaningful world, and so a meaningless world is not real.” “A world perception rules . . . could not have been created by the Mind to which perception has no meaning.” This world’s existence stands outside of Creation and of every Attribute of the Divine. Therefore, direct responsibility for bringing this world into experience must rest solely with us. One way of looking at it is that if we hadn’t had the possibility of bringing about such a world of illusions, then our creative power would have been limited, and we wouldn’t have been limitless. The Course refers to this: “It is a wrong use of denial to doubt that the mind can seem to miscreate. If one denies this unfortunate aspect of its power, one is also denying the Creative Power of Thought Itself.” Fortunately, the antidote to this “unfortunate aspect” of our minds and creative power is also referred to: “The miscreations of the mind do not exist in Truth, as that was a limit put on the mind’s creative activity in its creation by the Divine.”
A loving Creator would have ended this world the instant it seemed to arise in the minds of any of Its Children, which is exactly what the Creator did through Its creation of the Holy Spirit and, through Spirit, the creation of the Plan of Atonement. However, because of the creative power of the Children of the Divine and the sanctity of their minds and creative activity, once this dream world was set into motion it had to run its course because the Creator cannot counter what Its Children will without violating Its Own Laws and Will. The Divine provided the Remedy for this miscreation the instant its idea came into the minds of some of Its Children. Now it is the Children’s direct responsibility to accept this Remedy – the Atonement – when they will, at which point the unreal world – the world of illusions – will end in the experience of each one accepting its Remedy.
The good news is that it appears that once we awaken from the dream of this world, through Spirit’s Grace the Divine Family will be forever free from the possibility of falling into miscreation again. That possibility will have been explored and remedied, and so will never again enter into our holy minds. Now what matters is not using the experience of this world as another reason to stay stuck in it, but forgiving ourselves and our Creator for our nightmares, and awakening from them by accepting their Remedy.
“You will be released, and you will not remember anything you made that was not created for you, and by you in return. For how can you remember what was never true, or fail to remember what has always been? It is this Reconciliation with Truth, and only Truth, in which the Peace of Heaven is.”