A Course in Miracles

by Helen Schucman

activating agent of spirit, supplying its creative energy.

Spirit retains the potential for creating, but its Will, which is God’s, seems to be imprisoned while the mind is not unified.

Nothingness,

Yet could God’s Son as He created him abide in form or in a world of form?

The ego’s opposite in every way,–in origin, effect and consequence–we call a miracle.

Look at the kindly world you see extend before you as you walk in gentleness.

“Are you ready yet to help Me save the world?”

And what it is, is wholly uncondemned and wholly pure.

Whoever looks on this no longer sees the world.

We can but go from nothingness to everything; from hell to Heaven. Is this a journey? No, not in truth, for truth goes nowhere. But illusions shift from place to place; from time to time.

How lovely does the world become in just that single instant when you see the truth about yourself reflected there.

The one correction possible for false perception must be true perception.

Forgiveness, salvation, Atonement, true perception, all are one.

The world stands like a block before Christ’s face. But true perception looks on it as nothing more than just a fragile veil, so easily dispelled that it can last no longer than an instant.

A world forgiven cannot last. It was the home of bodies.

This is the shift that true perception brings: What was projected out is seen within, and there forgiveness lets it disappear.

Here He leans down to lift you up to Him, out of illusions into holiness; out of the world and to eternity; out of all fear and given back to love.

And Christ needed his form that He might appear to men and save them from their own illusions.

He leads you back to God because he saw the road before him, and he followed it.

He offered you a final demonstration that it is impossible to kill God’s Son; nor can his life in any way be changed by sin and evil, malice, fear or death.

He will remain with you to lead you from the hell you made to God. And when you join your will with his, your sight will be his vision, for the eyes of Christ are shared.

Nothing you can do can change Eternal Love.

He perceives because He was sent to save humanity. He is the great correction principle; the bringer of true perception, the inherent power of the vision of Christ.

The Holy Spirit abides in the part of your mind that is part of the Christ Mind.

He seems to be whatever meets the needs you think you have.

Alone he cannot be the Helper of God’s Son for he alone is functionless.

When you forget, remember that you walk with Him and with His Word upon your heart. Who could despair when hope like this is his?

We have begun again upon a road we travelled on before and lost our way a little while. And now we try again.

Each one must share one goal with someone else, and in so doing, lose all sense of separate interests.

Healing is limited by the limitations of the psychotherapist, as it is limited by those of the patient.

It is in the instant that the therapist forgets to judge the patient that healing occurs.

Yet it is when judgment ceases that healing occurs, because only then it can be understood that there is no order of difficulty in healing.

It is not easy to realize that prayers for things, for status, for human love, for external “gifts” of any kind, are always made to set up jailers and to hide from guilt.

Only in someone else can you forgive yourself,

do not ever think you can see sin in anyone except yourself.

great deception of the world, and you the great deceiver of yourself.

Forgiveness, truly given, is the way in which your only hope of freedom lies.

He does not know of shadows.

Ask, then, His help, and ask Him how to learn forgiveness as His vision lets it be.

Who sees no evil in it sees like Him.

Let it then be clear to you exactly what forgiveness means to you, and learn what it should be to set you free.

Forgiveness-for-Salvation has one form, and only one. It does not ask for proof of innocence, nor pay of any kind.

Do not, then, seek to understand what is beyond you yet, but let it be a way to draw you up to where the eyes of Christ become the sight you choose.

Are you not weary of imprisonment? God did not choose this sorry path for you.

Someone knows better, has been better trained, or is perhaps more talented and wise. Therefore, he can give healing to the one who stands beneath him in his patronage. The healing of the body can be done by this because, in dreams, equality cannot be permanent.