A Course in Miracles

by Helen Schucman

Yet it is impossible not to use the content of any situation on behalf of what you really teach, and therefore really learn. To this the verbal content of your teaching is quite irrelevant.

you. Teaching but reinforces what you believe about yourself.

Except for God’s teachers there would be little hope of salvation, for the world of sin would seem forever real.

They are not perfect, or they would not be here. Yet it is their mission to become perfect here, and so they teach perfection over and over, in many, many ways, until they have learned it.

1. WHO ARE GOD’S TEACHERS?

VII. Generosity

The term generosity

To the teachers of God, it means giving away in order to keep.

The teacher of God is generous out of Self interest. This does not refer, however, to the self of which the world speaks.

Here is the self mentioned. Ken talks about the course not being for this self

II. The Shift in Perception

“There is no gain at all to me in this” and he is healed.

First, it is obvious that decisions are of the mind, not of the body.

Terms like “instincts,” “reflexes” and the like represent attempts to endow

the body with non-mental motivators. Actually, such terms merely state or describe the problem. They do not answer it.

Special agents seem to be ministering to him, yet they but give form to his own choice.

There is no form of sickness that would not be cured at once.

mind. For with this recognition is responsibility placed where it belongs; not with the world, but on him who looks on the world and sees it as it is not. He looks on what he chooses to see. No more and no less. The world does nothing to him.

These patients do not realize they have chosen sickness. On the contrary, they believe that sickness has chosen them.

Not once do the advanced teachers of God consider the forms of sickness in which their brother believes. To do this is to forget that all of them have the same purpose, and therefore are not really different.

Healing is always certain. It is impossible to let illusions be brought to truth and keep the illusions.

This is not a course in philosophical speculation, nor is it concerned with precise terminology. It is concerned only with Atonement, or the correction of perception. The means of the Atonement is forgiveness.

The structure of “individual consciousness” is essentially irrelevant because it is a concept representing the “original error” or the “original sin.”

To study the error itself does not lead to correction, if you are indeed to succeed in overlooking the error. And it is just this process o...

in.2. All terms are potentially controversial, and those who seek controversy will find it. Yet those who seek clarification will find it as well. They must, however, be willing to overlook controversy, recognizing that it is a defense against truth in the form of a delaying maneuver. Theological considerations as such are necessarily controversial, since they depend on belief and can therefore be accepted or rejected. A universal theology is impossible, but a universal experience is not only possible but necessary. ...

This course remains within the ego framework, where it is needed. It is not concerned with what is

It is merely the ego that questions because it is only the ego that doubts.

Yet there is no answer; only an experience. Seek only this, and do not let theology delay you.

1. MIND–SPIRIT

The term mind is used to represent the activating agent of spirit, supplying its creative energy.

Spirit is the Thought of God which He created like Himself.

In this illusory state, the

described in the course as if it has two parts; spirit and ego.

Spirit is the part that is still in contact with God through the Holy Spirit, Who abides in this part but sees the other part as well.

The mind can be right or wrong, depending on the voice to which it listens. Right-mindedness listens to the Holy Spirit, forgives the world, and through Christ’s vision sees the real world in its place. This is the final vision, the last perception, the condition in which God takes the final step Himself. Here time and illusions end together.

Bhere

Both this world and the real world are illusions because right-mindedness merely overlooks, or forgives, what never happened.

Therefore it is not the One-mindedness of the Christ Mind, Whose Will is One with God’s.

And

this world the only remaining freedom is the freedom of choice;

always between two choices or two voices.

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THE EGO–THE MIRACLE

Who asks you to define the ego and explain how it arose can be but he who thinks it real, and seeks by definition to ensure that its illusive nature is concealed behind the words that seem to make it so.

The ego’s unreality is not denied by words nor is its meaning clear because its nature seems to have a form. Who can define the undefinable? And yet there is an answer even here.

We cannot really make a definition for what the ego is, but we can say what it is not.

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

Where is the ego? In an evil dream that but seemed real while you were dreaming it.

What is the ego? Who has need to ask? Where is the ego? Who has need to seek for an illusion now that dreams are gone?

What is a miracle? A dream as well. But look at all the aspects of this dream and you will never question any more. Look at the kindly world you see extend before you as you walk in gentleness. Look at the helpers all along the way you travel, happy in the certainty of Heaven and the surety of peace. And look an instant, too, on what you left behind at last and finally passed by.

The miracle forgives; the ego damns.