A Course in Miracles: Based on the Original Handwritten Notes of Helen Schucman—Complete & Annotated Edition

by Helen Schucman

7I will only for God and His Kingdom.

3The Holy Spirit will enable you to go on if you follow Him. 4Your vigilance is the sign that you want Him to guide you.

3Following Him is therefore the easiest thing in the world, and the only thing which is easy, because it is not of the world and is therefore natural.

Divinity is simple. Following the Divine path is not complicated!

2 Grace is the natural state of every Son of God.

6A Son of God is happy only if he knows he is with God.

4Nothing is as easy to perceive as truth. 5This is the perception which is immediate, clear, and natural.

receives it. But it can still be returned by that mind to other minds through the attitudes which the knowledge

5Knowledge is not the motivation factor for learning this course. 6Peace is.

5 Your past learning must have taught you the wrong things, simply because it has not made you happy.

VII. I Need Do Nothing16

12 How can a battle be perceived as nothingness when you engage in it? 2How can the truth of miracles be recognized if murder is your choice? 3When the temptation to attack rises to make your mind darkened and murderous, remember you can see the battle from above. 4Even in forms you do not recognize, the signs you know. 5There is a stab of pain, a twinge of guilt, and above all, a loss of peace. 6This you know well. 7When it occurs, leave not your place on high, but quickly choose a miracle instead of murder. 8And God Himself and all the lights in Heaven will gently lean to you and hold you up. 9For you have chosen to remain where He would have you, and no illusion can attack the peace of God together with His Son.

2 Idle wishes and grievances are partners or co-makers in picturing the world you see. 2The wishes of the ego gave rise to it, and the ego’s need for grievances, which are necessary to maintain it, peopled it with figures which seem to attack you and call for “righteous” judgment.

Embarrassment is only a form of fear, and actually a particularly dangerous form because it reflects egocentricity.)

The karmic law demands abandonment for abandoning, but you have received mercy, not justice.

I am in charge of the process of atonement, which I undertook to begin. My atonement [which, as will be clarified later, refers to the resurrection, not the crucifixion] was for the canceling out of all sins which human beings could not otherwise correct.

“In as much as you do it unto the least of these my children” [Matthew 25:40] really ends with “you do it unto yourself and Me.”

(The word “atone” really means “undo.”)

Revelation is the Course’s term for the wordless, formless experience of union with God, usually called the mystical experience. More specifically, revelation is the introvertive mystical experience, in which all sensory experience is withdrawn

Some slips reach consciousness from the un-Christ-controlled subconscious, and betray a lack of love.

You are wholly lovely—a perfect shaft of pure light. Before your loveliness the stars stand transfixed, and bow to the power of your will.

When you believe you are lacking inside, of course you try to fill your lack with things from the outside.

The right answer to the SCT [Sentence Completion Test] item is: When they told me what to do, I: “referred the question to the only Real Authority.”

This implies that, even though Dave is no longer in the body, Jesus can still help him learn that crucial lesson of loving “everybody in return” via the same principles that he is imparting to Helen.

Now Helen is told to pray for her husband while he sleeps. It’s as if, during his sleep, the wall of his conscious defenses comes down, allowing her to get a message through to a deeper level of his mind.

Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood

“this world has two who made it. To each it has a different purpose, and to each it is a perfect means to serve the goal for which it is perceived” (T-25.III.3:3-4).

The world became a classroom in which we could learn our way out of separation.

(Beliefs are thoughts, and thus come under Christ-guidance, not control).

very late. The idea that giving her the cab would

You should know that all God’s children are fully worthy of complete courtesy. You should never join with one at the expense of another.

There are ways of treating others in which only consistent courtesy, even in very little things, is offered. It is a very healing habit to acquire.

there is nothing he needs or wants to escape from.

Nothing is lovely to the unloving.

The goal, in other words, is for them to police their minds and thus keep their thoughts free of anything except love.

In Jesus’ vision of the day, then, Helen and Bill are meant to police the mind even in very little things, ask for guidance even in very little things, and behave lovingly even in very little things.

As a result, he gave several times the number of readings per day that his trance source had said was safe for him.

The Course does not encourage the seeing of auras. Rather, its ideal is for us to see in others the light of holiness, which is the mind’s true characteristic (as opposed to the more superficial characteristics reflected in auras). And it wants us to see this not as a visual light, but as an inner knowing.

Whenever we move from one instant to the next, the previous one no longer exists.

“You should begin each day with the prayer ‘Help me to perform whatever miracles you want of me today’”—T-1.15.2:4).

Jesus, however, says that people’s presumed hurtfulness toward Helen is actually irrelevant. “It does not matter whether the people you think have hurt you have really thought hurtfully.” What matters, he says, is that she has thought hurtfully of them. That is what has really hurt her. And that is why it is so urgent that she give them miracles. By doing so, she will not only be healing them, she will also be wiping away her own past lovelessness, through which she had injured herself.