A Course in Miracles

by Helen Schucman

remedy through gentleness and love. Defenses are laid down because

purpose. T-1.I.11. Prayer is the medium of miracles. It is a means of communication

impossible. T-1.I.38. The Holy Spirit is the mechanism of miracles. He recognizes both God’s

God’s creations. T-1.III.4. I am the only one who can perform miracles indiscriminately,

you

is in

concept into it. I assure you that I will witness for anyone who lets me, and

miracle-minded is not to wait on time any longer than is necessary. Time can waste as well as be wasted. The miracle worker, therefore, accepts the time-control factor gladly.

This is because not doing it is a denial of Self. Denial of Self results in illusions, while correction

result of

way is most helpful to the receiver. This means that a miracle, to attain its full efficacy, must

it seems to render it out of your control. Yet any attempt to resolve the

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control over it. This is why you see it in nightmares, or in pleasant disguises in what seem

meeting. Your ego has chosen to be afraid instead of meeting it. When you awaken you will

have chosen to leave it empty by their own dispossession. Yet His home will stand forever,

spirit’s right, whose beauty and dignity are far beyond doubt, beyond perception, and stand

for your spirit. A father can safely leave a child with an elder brother who has shown himself

create, and what else but you is His Kingdom? This is the whole message of the Atonement;

Creator. This

nothing can hurt them. Their helpfulness is their praise of God, and He will return their

but it

joy. T-5.I.6. God honored even the miscreations of His children because they had made

separation you did not need guidance. You knew

right. T-5.II.8. The Holy Spirit is your Guide in choosing. He is in the part of your mind that

already understands to teach you that you do not understand it. The Holy Spirit can

Court because

betrayal. The whole message of the crucifixion was simply that I did not. The “punishment” I

therefore reject it. As a result, you will teach rejection.

are excluding yourself by the very judgment that you are different from the one on whom

perfect inclusion in Him Who alone is perfect. To deny this is to deny yourself and Him, since

the Kingdom to let this crucial concept slip away. It is a real foundation stone of the

give to all. He never takes anything back, because He wants you to keep it. Therefore, His

Thought of God, and because of the elements they share, can transfer easily to it. When a

The ego believes this totally, being fully committed to it. It is not true. The ego therefore

that

He shares His Will with you. His Voice teaches only in accordance with His Will, but that

into another. Different orders of reality merely appear to exist, just as different orders of

as a means of attack and to believe that joy could possibly result, is a clear-cut indication

His purpose, and you need salvation. You have condemned yourself, but condemnation

acknowledgment.

this world and accept nothing else, for in him you will find your creations because he created

there. Its evaluation of you, however, is the exact opposite of the Holy Spirit’s, because the ego does not love you. It is unaware of what you are, and wholly mistrustful of everything

Yet the conviction of reality will not remain with you unless you do not allow the ego to

laws,

faith, because it is the recognition that his brother can do it. It is a call to the Holy Spirit in his mind, a call that is strengthened by joining.

of the greater light, for the Rays are there unseen. Perceiving the spark

Help. T-10.V.5. I said before that of yourself you can

where

host to God? You will accept only whom you invite. You are free to determine who shall

is happiness. Upheld by fear, this is what the ego would have you believe. Yet God’s Son