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365 Days Through A Course in Miracles

A Daily Devotional

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This document is dedicated to all spiritual seekers everywhere.

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Preface

The idea for this document came to me in a flash one afternoon. Knowing that the Holy Spirit communicates in many ways, including flashes of insight, I immediately began compiling and editing the material in this 365 day format. Every day includes a portion of the text, a portion of the supplemental material, and the workbook lesson for the day. The prologue is a rough transcription (due to the difficulty in reading Helen’s writing) of the stream of consciousness journaling and dialogue she was beginning to have with the Voice in the three days leading up to the scribing of the course. The words in black italic are taken from Helen’s shorthand notebooks and are interspersed with the text where they appeared in her notes. The italicized words are from the urtext, which is the earliest version of the course available. In editing the Course, I have approached it with the aim of maximizing readability, yet also with a great hesitation to change anything from what the Author intended.

This project has been a labor of love, and I am offering it freely as a gift to the Sonship, as I received the material freely from online sources. It is my sincere hope that you enjoy the material and find it as helpful and as fascinating as I have. May you be blessed abundantly on your

journey Home.

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Miracles abound!

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Jeff Nance

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Introduction What It Says

The Course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.

The course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:

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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the Peace of God.

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This is howA Course in Miraclesbegins. It makes a fundamental distinction between the real and the unreal; between knowledge and perception. Knowledge is truth, under one law, the law of love or God. Truth is unalterable, eternal and unambiguous. It can be unrecognized, but it cannot be changed. It applies to everything that God created, and only what He created is real. It is beyond learning because it is beyond time and process. It has no opposite; no beginning and no end. It merely is.

The world of perception, on the other hand, is the world of time, of change, of beginnings and endings. It is based on interpretation, not on facts. It is the world of birth and death, founded on the belief in scarcity, loss, separation and death. It is learned rather than given, selective in its perceptual emphases, unstable in its functioning, and inaccurate in its interpretations.

From knowledge and perception respectively, two distinct thought systems arise which are opposite in every respect. In the realm of knowledge no thoughts exist apart from God, because God and His Creation share one Will. The world of perception, however, is made by the belief in opposites and separate wills, in perpetual conflict with each other and with God. What perception

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sees and hears appears to be real because it permits into awareness only what conforms to the wishes of the perceiver. This leads to a world of illusions, a world which needs constant defense precisely because it is not real.

When you have been caught in the world of perception you are caught in a dream. You cannot escape without help, because everything your senses show merely witnesses to the reality of the dream. God has provided the Answer, the only Way out, the true Helper. It is the function of His Voice, His Holy Spirit, to mediate between the two worlds. He can do this because, while on the one hand He knows the truth, on the other He also recognizes our illusions, but without believing in them. It is the Holy Spirit's goal to help us escape from the dream world by teaching us how to reverse our thinking and unlearn our mistakes. Forgiveness is the Holy Spirit's great learning aid in bringing this thought reversal about. However, the Course has its own definition of what forgiveness really is just as it defines the world in its own way.

The world we see merely reflects our own internal frame of reference the dominant ideas, wishes and emotions in our minds. Projection makes perception. We look inside first, decide the kind of world we want to see and then project that world outside, making it the truth as we see it. We make it true by our interpretations of what it is we are seeing. If we are using perception to justify our own mistakes—our anger, our impulses to attack, our lack of love in whatever form it may take—we will see a world of evil, destruction, malice, envy and despair. All this we must learn to forgive, not because we are being good and charitable, but because what we are seeing is not true. We have distorted the world by our twisted defenses, and are therefore seeing what is not there. As we learn to recognize our perceptual errors, we also learn to look past them or forgive. At the same time we are forgiving ourselves, looking past our distorted self-concepts to the Self that God created in us and as us.

Sin is defined as lack of love. Since love is all there is, sin in the sight of the Holy Spirit is a mistake to be corrected, rather than an evil to be punished. Our sense of inadequacy, weakness and incompletion comes from the strong investment in the scarcity principle that governs the whole world of illusions. From that point of view, we seek in others what we feel is wanting in ourselves. We love another in order to get something ourselves. That, in fact, is what passes for love in the dream world. There can be no greater mistake than that, for love is incapable of asking for anything.

Only minds can really join, and whom God has joined no man can put asunder. It is, however, only at the level of Christ Mind that true union is possible, and has, in fact, never been lost. The little I seeks to enhance itself by external approval, external possessions and external love. The Self that God created needs nothing. It is forever complete, safe, loved and loving. It

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seeks to share rather than to get; to extend rather than project. It has no needs and wants to join with others out of their mutual awareness of abundance.

The special relationships of the world are destructive, selfish and childishly egocentric. Yet, if given to the Holy Spirit, these relationships can become the holiest things on earth... the

miracles that point the way to the return to Heaven. The world uses its special relationships as a final weapon of exclusion and a demonstration of separateness. The Holy Spirit transforms them into perfect lessons in forgiveness and in awakening from the dream. Each one is an opportunity to let perceptions be healed and errors corrected. Each one is another chance to forgive oneself by forgiving the other. And each one becomes still another invitation to the Holy Spirit and to the remembrance of God.

Perception is a function of the body, and therefore represents a limit on awareness.

Perception sees through the body's eyes and hears through the body's ears. It evokes the limited responses which the body makes. The body appears to be largely self-motivated and

independent, yet it actually responds only to the intentions of the mind. If the mind wants to use it for attack in any form, it becomes prey to sickness, age and decay. If the mind accepts the Holy Spirit's purpose for it instead, it becomes a useful way of communicating with others,

invulnerable as long as it is needed, and to be gently laid by when its use is over. Of itself it is neutral, as is everything in the world of perception. Whether it is used for the goals of the ego or the Holy Spirit depends entirely on what the mind wants.

The opposite of seeing through the body's eyes is the vision of Christ, which reflects strength rather than weakness, unity rather than separation, and love rather than fear. The opposite of hearing through the body's ears is communication through the Voice for God, the Holy Spirit, which abides in each of us. His voice seems distant and difficult to hear because the ego, which speaks for the little, separated self, seems to be much louder. This is actually

reversed. The Holy Spirit speaks with unmistakable clarity and overwhelming appeal. No one who does not choose to identify with the body could possibly be deaf to His messages of release and hope, nor could he fail to accept joyously the vision of Christ in glad exchange for his miserable picture of himself.

Christ's vision is the Holy Spirit's gift, God's alternative to the illusion of separation and to the belief in the reality of sin, guilt and death. It is the one correction for all errors of perception; the reconciliation of the seeming opposites on which this world is based. Its kindly light shows all things from another point of view, reflecting the thought system that arises from knowledge and making return to God not only possible but inevitable. What was regarded as injustices done to one by someone else now becomes a call for help and for union. Sin, sickness and attack are seen as misperceptions calling for remedy through gentleness and love. Defenses are laid down

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because where there is no attack there is no need for them. Our bothers' needs become our own, because they are taking the journey with us as we go to God. Without us they would lose their way. Without them we could never find our own.

Forgiveness is unknown in Heaven, where the need for it would be inconceivable. However, in this world, forgiveness is a necessary correction for all the mistakes that we have made. To offer forgiveness is the only way for us to have it, for it reflects the law of Heaven that giving and receiving are the same. Heaven is the natural state of all the Sons of God as He created them. Such is their reality forever. It has not changed because it has been forgotten.

Forgiveness is the means by which we will remember. Through forgiveness the thinking of the world is reversed. The forgiven world becomes the gate of Heaven, because by its mercy we can at last forgive ourselves. Holding no-one prisoner to guilt, we become free. Acknowledging Christ in all our brothers, we recognize His Presence in ourselves. Forgetting all our

misperceptions, and with nothing from the past to hold us back, we can remember God. Beyond this, learning cannot go. When we are ready, God Himself will take the final step in our return to Him.

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(Prologue – Pre-canonical Notes)

I think there is an error about this not noticing and not remembering names, etc. I don’t think it’s only or even primarily projection. It may be more a fear of involvement or

interaction due to an interpretation of interaction as one dominating and the other subservient or one getting and the other losing. You avoid this if you don’t meet. Or even see. About the idea of “who even bothers about me” syndrome seems to be more than a way of denying error. While it does serve as a rationalization for exploiting one another (ex: I called Harold before Elkin who wouldn’t know me) It may also be a denial of my own strength which, I fear, has been misused. I may even have suffered a lot for misusing it. (you too Bill) The fallacy now is if I don’t use anything of mine I won’t hurt anybody so I won’t be hurt myself. The obvious answer is that paralysis won’t get you anywhere literally as well as figuratively. (P.M.) ??? ? real depression is very rare now distantiation is the right word, but the distantiation is between the soul and the body. It represents a remaining inability. I think under the projection and all that stuff is a hidden nostalgia for the soul. We want it back so we like to identify with it because that is what we are really and somewhere we know it.

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Dream—Host for the soul—the body is a temple and we know ours are unworthy – the crucifixion was a total rejection of the body by ourselves (projection) and its “destruction” which was really a purification. As a result, the soul could enter entirely into the temple, heal it, and use it only constructively. But I still think that we have to place the soul outside until the temple is ready. Maybe that’s what the “Sword for God” cleansing meant but I do not think it should really be so literal.

Dream: I was telling Bill in front of some sort of Board that I knew some people very well whom they needed to help them with something. Bill told me very gently, that perhaps I should be careful about contacting them because they did not like me. I had been their teacher but he knew that there was a ?general???? feeling of dissatisfaction about me as a teacher among my students, but these two in particular? Both? Men? They felt very strongly about is it. All I remember is that I was concerned about their major, as a means of identification ((later, or perhaps ???? Psychology evaluate their threat value. If they were not Psychology majors, chances are it did not matter too much)) Apparently one was majoring in Egyptology which was a passionate interest of his. ((I think now he was preparing himself to d? go to Egypt on an archaeological mission)) I dismissed him as a threat because his interests were obviously not related to psychology. ((as now constituted anyway)). So I was safe. ((Bill

thought this was a mistake.)) The other one I did not know about but I think I was much more afraid of him. But you said I shouldn’t give in to fear.

Tell Bill (urgent)—it’s odd that I couldn’t remember the correct quotation “in as much as you do it to the least of these my children/brother…” I first decided the quote probably stopped with “the least of these” and I was merely confused about an addition I was sticking in but which was not really there. Then I couldn’t decide whether it was children ?or? brothers, and I was told to ask you. It is odd that you apparently couldn’t decide between the same two terms.

The Order is to be sure you know this is important for both of us.

Note: I am afraid of Cornell today. ?any very serious??? consultations there Re: date handling. If I can get my soul in place it will be all right though.

I was really quite depressed this A.M, which is now very unusual (I used ??? to all the time) But he says “Be of good cheer – I have overcome the world.”

I was very glad you called, because even though my I don’t think I was upset beyond a brief moment. I went briefly and very inappropriately into shock when you said “Dotty is waiting and you can get into a cab alone, can’t you?” There is no competition at all between Dotty and me, and I thought chances were she did need you more at the time. I know you’ll never abandon me. So the cab was waiting at the corner.

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A rather surprising thing happened while I was meditating after your call. I said just what you suggested: “I am quite distressed about something which is probably an error in perception of some sort, and would you please straighten me out.”

So he said “in dying I live.” But be sure you understand what it means.” I got terribly frightened because I thought I must be dying, and then I figured it’s not a bad way to go – just relax and enjoy it. So I just got resigned and very calm.

And then it happened. I suddenly realized that this was terribly selfish, and I decided that I really loved you very much and if I just died off you would be terribly shocked and your progress might even be arrested, and after you had gone so far too.

(H: Please let me stay and help him a while longer)

And Jonathan would never get over it, because he is not ready yet, either, and neither is Chip. (not the small “c” and also Chip’s remark on the train “the chips have to go” – his name is Charles.

So I prayed that I could stay as long as I could help, and wouldn’t it be wonderful! I can only be alright then.

I was very happy about this for a while, and then got frightened, but I thought Chip was there so I got up. In the session we got onto Chip’s father. He spoke of a whole series of episodes he never mentioned before which occurred after his mother went, and which clearly emphasized that his ??? father was a bastard. He recounted these (and things were really awful) with no emotion at all, and was surprised to hear that he had never told me about any of these, even though he was not lying or hiding any more to the best of his knowledge.

I said a prayer for him which he was sort of stumbling around verbally, and then asked him why he obviously wanted to hang on to what was obviously real and very intense hatred and insisted on hiding it for reasons of his own which is undoubtedly bad.”

I was quite surprised with how quickly he got the idea that he was doing his part, aside from whatever his father had to answer for, which was a very different issue.

Chip said he wanted to get rid of this and meant it, too, after I said “why don’t you just release him from this, because you don’t need it.” And Chip said he wants to let his father rest in peace and also find salvation of himself, but that this was interfering.

Maybe I made a mistake by taking the “mental health” role here, especially in view of my own dream, but I don’t think so. The mistake may have been for me rather than for Chip.

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Dream: being very scared and tired and upset, I doped myself up and went to sleep early, but I did ask Him to pray while I knocked myself out for a short pause.

This morning it occurred to me that I had no right to waste anything – money, clothes, or my own life, because those everything has to be used right. It all has a place in the Plan. And you must not throw gifts away.

Life is a gift you receive to help you gain eternal life. It is the major way He can help you now.

Life insurance—and really what you should say it is that you want to live as long as you are any use to Him, and then you will do just that. And only good will come of it to everybody —Amen.

So I decided to die soon, which I would have done. This was not a decision I should make, because it may be a terrible waste which I would have to answer for. But you can change prophecies if you change your mind, so maybe I should say I‘d rather leave it up to Him.

(Bill—I’m upset about this, but I know it’s right)

P.S. I keep forgetting the dream. You and Jonathan came with me to evaluate my own therapy with Dr. K. After the session, you and Jonathan agreed that the work was going well and K. was good enough, not ? pedestr,? limited

Armstrong Vol. 1 C.D.P. John. W’s paper

Ask what is interfering with Bill’s ??? and how to overcome this. Bill’s list

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The cab driver asked if I minded music and I thought maybe it would help me pray for Dave, so we started with a march and I thought “come on Dave, join us—we are all marching together.” And then it was a ballet, and I thought “come on Dave, God has room for lighter moments too.” Dave, don’t give in—you have a real mission—don’t lose your chance— miracles are the natural law. Then I asked Christ to help Dave know He was there and to see Him and know the truth so he could be free.”

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“If any two come together in my name—Dave, you must be the other—we need you—life heals, not death…”

Maybe while Dave is sleeping our unconscious minds can reach Christ and He will unite us in prayer—we can do it, Dave.

((Dave once stood in Arnie Gold’s way and somehow interfered with his progress. Gold knows he must forgive him and do everything he can to release him. That’s why Gold loved Dave on sight and has been pathetically devoted to him. Gold is afraid to “let Dave die” because he knows this is his karmic debt. Dave is in this position now because of what he did to Arnie. And they are both in prison. Dave—listen to me now and let Christ help you – leave it to him and rest—Don’t hurt Arnie again by walking out on him. Arnie needs a miracle to teach him that the brain is not the seat of life but God is. He can learn this if you are willing to stay and teach him. Help save us all, Dave. Please cooperate.

You once denied the truth to Arnie Gold—please release him and yourself now. You taught him wrong Dave, but remember how good you always were in teaching the emotionally disturbed and teach him right now. Dear Dave, show Arnie that the spirit does not live in the brain. Turn this statement the right way, and know that the Spirit can heal the brain which it made. It is not the other way. Release the children this time, Dave—please, for Christ’s sake, Amen.

Dave—remember your little girl—she is unmarked even though she was conceived by accident in a uterus that was supposed to be sterile because it was so damaged by fibroid tumors they said it had to be removed. But it was still a temporary home for a perfect child, against all odds according to human medicine.

Please, Dave, don’t identify with your brain. Know your own immortality, and break the prison for Arnie Gold. Listen, please, Dave – you can destroy your enemies by making them your friends.

You hurt Arnie, but he loves you. Thank God you can help him now—I am awed by your mission, and I pray I can help Christ to help you—Dave—sooner or later you will have to settle this, and you can save thousands of years right now.

We must call the children back—Christ will give you the most now, if you will take it, because you have reduced yourself to the least. Take it for Him, who wants to give you all power in Heaven and Earth.

Dave, help Christ to reach your Spirit and don’t depend on your brain. Help us Dave, and hear Him…

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Dave, change your identification from Diamond to Pearl of Great Price, and claim your right to forgiveness now. Your Spirit and mine can unite and then two of us have come

together in Christ’s name. Jesus promised to be there, Dave. Your brain does not matter if you will understand life as Jesus did. When He said “Father into Thy Hands I commend My Spirit” He was referring to his Resurrection, not His death. Remember and understand that because it can save you now.

The anoxia of His death did not hurt his brain. Please, Dave—hear him say “I am the resurrection and the life, and whosoever believes in me shall not perish.

Dave, it means something that your names are Diamond and Gold. Remember where your real treasures are. Gold has the whole N.I. watching you. But they all think life is brain. Help them Dave—you are a teacher.

Renee—Abraham—patriarch.

Dave, you can still hear the call “Come forth”—Lazarus was already dead; you’re not. If you do not get any answer it is always because you ask amiss. I said He promised to come when He was called on and Bill ?? asks and does not receive and has really tried to ask and it has not been granted? to him. I think the door is ajar a bit, but I really wouldn’t call it very open. Is it all right if I ask for him since he wants me to.

I can’t answer when he asks amiss. When he asks right I have answered. He has a tendency to get part of an answer and decide himself when to disconnect. He should ask if that’s all. Since I don’t know when he’s going to ring off I have to be very short and even cryptic. It chops messages up too much. There is also interference from three major areas:

1) He doesn’t have much real confidence that I will get through. He never just claims his rights. He should begin with much more confidence. I’ll keep my promises, but you do not act as if you really expect him to.

2) There is another kind of related error which is illustrated by ??? his question about “when are you going to call the hospital?” It’s not right to interfere just to check. It’s selfish, but more than that it makes things too personal, which always implies doubt.

3) He has to learn better concentration. His mind flits about too much for good communication. Suggest a very short phrase, like “here I am, Lord,” and don’t think of anything else. Just pull in your mind slowly from everywhere else and center it on those very words. This will also give him the realization that he really is here. He’s not too sure.

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4) Tell him to be sure not to mistake your role. If he overreacts to or overevaluates you as a person, both of you will be in danger.

5) He should try to get his own list. (Armstrong) may just mean his own arm is strong! He thinks it’s time for some explanations which we are probably ready for. There are always risks in speed-ups. The whole thing was undertaken because things were getting behind schedule because so many people persistently lost more than they gained.

Stop

I’ll tear it up if you want.

No—maybe tomorrow. Now just write this: Remember you’re slip about the effect on N. I. And his asking when you were going to call up.

Be Careful

Also, tell Bill about Jonathan’s remark “I did not like you all sweetness and light .. I like you a little sharp if you get what I mean.” And again be very careful.

A .M. – It crossed my mind last night that something very wrong had happened. I got mad because I thought I shouldn’t be asked to ask for you and it was a form of exploitation which was very dangerous for me and represented an avoidance technique of you ??? I thought the whole thing was so dangerous that I had to tell you not to do it again. Briefly it crossed my mind (but with no emotional impact at all which is always suspicious) that I might just resent asking for someone else because I prefer the “exclusive” idea.

Pills?

Christ says I can tell something is wrong whenever I get a “snappy” answer. He wouldn’t say “tell him to get his own list”that way. The tone is wrong.

This morning it was very clear to me that in connecting with you I have not been right since I asked you who you wanted so I could really be asking for you. This was essential and except for the list, where I slipped, the answer should be respected.

You have every right, in fact, you should ask me to ask for you. This is not a selfish gift, and it is a real one (this upsets me too). It has to be used for others, and particularly you.

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(Note: at the moment I have serious doubts about everything. This is holding everything up). List—Joe Armstrong

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CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION TO MIRACLES

You will see miracles through your hands through Me.

It is crucial to say first that this is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what to take when. It is just because you are not ready to do what you should elect to do that time exists at all. (You should begin each day with the prayer “Help me to perform whatever miracles you want of me today.”)

Principles of Miracles

1.) The first thing to remember about miracles is that there is no order of difficulty among them. One is not harder or bigger than another. They are all the same.

(This is a course in miracles, please take notes.)

2.) Miracles do not matter. They are quite unimportant.

3.) They occur naturally as an expression of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense, everything that comes from love is a miracle.

a) check back with 1.) This explains the (first point related to the) lack of order. ALL expressions of love are maximal.

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b) check back with 2.) This is why the “thing in itself” does not matter. The only thing that matters is the Source, and this is far beyond human evaluation.

((Breaking communication by thinking it’s cute. This is not wrong, it diverts your attention. 1

The editor changed braking to breaking.

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“That’s true.”

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“Of course it’s true, and I’m really glad you get the idea. I am NOT ANGRY when this kind of thing happens, but the lesson deteriorates under lack of focus.”))

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Please read these three points ((with corollaries)) as often as you can today, because there may be a quiz this evening. This is merely to introduce structure, if it is needed. It is NOT to frighten you.

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(Question and Answer regarding first 3 points.)

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(Question: Well, would you regard this (communication) as a kind of miracle maybe? Answer: You better read that now. There is nothing special or surprising about this at all. The ONE thing that happened was the Universal Miracle which was the experience of intense love you have felt. (Don’t get embarrassed (by the idea of love)—Things that are true are NOT

embarrassing. Embarrassment is only a form of fear, and actually a particularly dangerous form

because it reflects egocentricity.

((No, don’t think of how Bill will find this fascinating, either. I told you to re-read them and you did not.))

I am now.

DO NOT feel guilty about the fact that you are doubting this. Just re-read them and their truth will come to you. I love you, and I am not afraid or embarrassed or doubtful. MY strength will support you, so don’t worry and leave the rest to me.

Do not run to Bill to tell him. There will be time, but don’t disrupt things. I’ll arrange the schedule. You have a lot to do today. Get dressed or you will be late.

But when you DO see Bill, be SURE you tell him how much he helped you through by giving you the right message, and don’t bother with worrying about how you received it. That doesn’t matter either. You were just afraid.

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In cab: long discussion—No, it’s wrong to think maybe Dave will be healed (but great fear here, because I want to separate the next thought from Dave who IS dying in human terms) and Louis’ hernia will be cured. ((Remember point 1 and re-read NOW))

4.) ALL miracles mean Life, and God is the giver of the Life. He will direct you VERY specifically.

(PLAN AHEAD is good advice in this world, where you should and must control and direct where you have accepted responsibility. But the Universal Plan is in more appropriate hands. You will know all you need to know. Make NO attempts to plan ahead in this respect.)

P.S.—You were EXACTLY right by waking Jonathan, because AT LAST you saw the right reasons.

5.) Miracles are habits, and should be involuntary. (They should not be under conscious control.) (Otherwise they may become undemocratic. (Consciously selected) Selective miracles are

dangerous (are usually misguided) and (this will make the talent useless.) may destroy the talent.)

6.) Miracles are natural. When they do NOT occur something has gone wrong. 7.) Miracles are everyone’s right, but purification is necessary first.

8.) Miracles are a form of healing. They supply a lack, and are performed by those who have more for those who have less.

9.) Miracles are a kind of exchange. Like all expressions of love, which are ALWAYS miraculous in the true sense, the exchange reverses the physical laws.

10.) A miracle is a reversal of the physical order because it brings more love to the GIVER and the receiver.

A miracle is misunderstood when it is regarded as a spectacle.

11.) The use of miracles as a spectacle to induce belief is wrong. They are really used for and by believers. (Helen has some fear about 11) and doubt about 9) and 10). Probably doubt induced

by fear of 11.)

11) makes me nervous, and 9) and 10) were very hard to arrange. I think I understand that as I should but I’m not sure.

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I think this is SLIGHTLY true because something IS bothering him, but he certainly is not VERY snappy. So why not try to help him instead of blowing it up into an obstruction? He helps you all the time.

(I resent this.) He is supposed to help ME but I think I resent a reciprocal arrangement, because he is a man. Men are supposed to give to me, but this is not possible.

Note: I don’t always feel this way. It’s a danger signal now and just means something’s wrong. Anyway, presumably this Course is an elective.

NO IT ISN’T. It’s a definite REQUIREMENT. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does NOT mean you establish the curriculum. It only means you elect what to take WHEN. It is just because we are not ready to do what we should that time exists at all.

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Urtext – Use of Terms Introduction

This is not a course in theoretical philosophy, nor is it concerned with precise terminology in connection with origins. 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 of overlooking at which the course aims.

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URTEXT – Workbook for Students

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Workbook Part 1

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Introduction

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A theoretical foundation such as the text is necessary as a background to make these exercises meaningful. Yet it is the exercises which will make the goal possible. An untrained mind can accomplish nothing. It is the purpose of these exercises to train the mind to think along the lines which the course sets forth.

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The exercises are very simple. They do not require more than a few minutes, and it does not matter where or when you do them. They need no preparation. They are numbered, running from 1 to 365. The training period is one year. Do not undertake more than one exercise a day.

The purpose of these exercises is to train the mind to a different perception of everything in the world. The workbook is divided into two sections, the first dealing with the undoing of what you see now, and the second with the restoration of sight. It is recommended that each exercise be repeated several times a day, preferably in a different place each time, and if possible in every situation in which you spend any long period of time. The purpose is to train the mind to

generalize the lessons, so that you will understand that each of them is as applicable to one situation as it is to another.

Unless specified to the contrary, the exercise should be practiced with eyes open, since the aim is to learn how to see. The only rule that should be followed throughout is to practice the exercises with great specificity. Each one applies to every situation in which you find yourself, and to everything you see in it. Each day's exercises are planned around one central idea, the exercises themselves consisting of applying that idea to as many specifics as possible. Be sure that you do not decide that there are some things you see to which the idea for the day is inapplicable. The aim of the exercises will always be to increase the application of the idea to everything. This will not require effort. Only be sure that you make no exceptions in applying the idea.

Some of the ideas you will find hard to believe, and others will seem quite startling. It does not matter. You are merely asked to apply them to what you see. You are not asked to judge them, or even to believe them. You are asked only to use them. It is their use which will give them meaning to you, and show you they are true. Remember only this; you need not believe them, you need not accept them and you need not welcome them. Some of them you may actively resist. None of this will matter, nor decrease their efficacy. But allow yourself to make no exceptions in applying the ideas the exercises contain. Whatever your reactions to the ideas may be, use them. Nothing more than this is required.

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1. “Nothing I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place) means anything.”

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Now look slowly around you, and practice applying this idea very specifically to whatever you see:

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“This table does not mean anything.” “This chair does not mean anything.” “This hand does not mean anything.” “This foot does not mean anything.” “This pen does not mean anything.”

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Then look farther away from your immediate area, and apply the idea to a wider range:

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“That door does not mean anything.” “That body does not mean anything.” “That lamp does not mean anything.” “That sign does not mean anything.” “That shadow does not mean anything.”

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Notice that these statements are not arranged in any order, and make no allowance for differences in the kinds of things to which they are applied. That is the purpose of the exercise. The statement is merely applied to anything you see. As you practice applying the idea for the day, use it totally indiscriminately. Do not attempt to apply it to everything you see, for these exercises should not become ritualistic. Only be sure that nothing you see is specifically excluded. One thing is like another as far as the application of the idea is concerned.

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Dreams: 1) One was of great distress—Esther left Amy with us (the us is ambiguous) and we were stuck. I was VERY tired after an incredible day, in which a lot of stress was involved, and wanted to go to sleep but couldn’t on account of Amy. I was trying not to get angry at Esther, because I THINK I was aware that she had a VERY good reason for having to go away just then, and I should help her even though she didn’t know the reason or maybe was offering her usual show of maximal impulsiveness and no sense, but really did know the reason but was hiding it because she didn’t want to take credit for herself.

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((That’s how you see people as they SHOULD be and that helps. BE that way)) Anyway, the whole dream was one big frustration.

(Problem, I was not listening) Aside: Regarding the course

Yes indeed, the WAY the course is given you is quite unusual, but as Bill says you are NOT the average American woman, which is merely a fact. Your experience in this life has been atypical, and so has my evolutionary map.

(There was a dream a while back which I keep forgetting – about a long winding tunnel, like they have in those very big garages so that they can drive cars up efficiently. ((They LOOK as though they’re going ‘round and ‘round but actually they are a VERY efficient means of getting up smoothly ((there are no sharp turns)), evenly ((the grade is maximal but not sharp)) and has great space economy)). On top was an American flag.)

Back to the dreams of last night: There was also one in which three animals, little ones, were in the same room, and I knew that I had to keep them apart because they hated each other. Being so busy, this was a great additional strain on me. One of them was pregnant, and the other two wanted to kill her, but the other two also hated each other too. Oddly enough, I was quite sorry for all of them because they were all three mixed up, but in different ways. I felt I had to get the pregnant one out first, though, because of the child. (I thought this an improvement on the recurrent dream I had for years about animals starving to death, and me sometimes grieving, sometimes trying desperately to help them (at times also realizing I had starved them and feeling very guilty), but never saving them.)

Rockwell keeps coming in throughout, but his role is not clear. Maybe it’s because of “The Rockwellians” which is a very particular group (I’m not sure, but I THINK I invented the term myself) I was struck by Hanna Paterson’s remark, “I’m from the Minnesota group but I know there MUST be a New York chapter.” She liked the term and thought it was just right.

Rockwellians have a real sense of devotion to one another, and also to Rockwell himself. He is a VERY interesting man, who never went by his emotions and usually denied them, but they were responsible for his many blind spots and denials. We all knew this, but were very gentle about it.

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The odd thing about Rockwellians is that I THINK all of us believed in the unconscious, which Rockwell himself opposes violently. I think we were all one together under his direction or teachership, and something happened.

We owe him a lot, both good AND bad, and we’re to help him now as a way out of the bad and a means of strengthening the good.

The last dream was about a child on the C.D.P. program. It seems that I saw the child’s protocols, and suspected some sort of rather obscure diagnosis or problem. I was unwilling to go on record, because it was a medical thing and I thought Gates would disapprove. But I felt an obligation to the child and called her doctor about it. I got a letter in return, saying the physician was very grateful, and that the child’s life was saved and the information was badly needed.

((When you say “If you want me to I will” please add “and if you DON’T want me to I won’t.” This is the RIGHT use of inhibition. There has to be SOME control over learning for

channeling (channelizing) purposes. Remember retroactive inhibition which should be easy

enough for you.

Sometimes the new learning is the more important, and HAS to inhibit the old. It’s a form of correction.))

((The one more thing is Bill’s fear of punishment for what is done NOW. Everybody makes mistakes. These errors are completely trivial. Tell him that when the past has been forgiven, these minor infractions are very easily altered.))

12.) Prayer is the medium of miracles. Prayer is the natural communication of between the Created with the and the Creator. Through prayer, love is received, and through miracles love is expressed.

13.) Miracles are thought-creations. Thought can create lower-order or higher-order realities.

This is the basic distinction which constitute the essential difference between intellectualization

and thinking. One creates the physical, and the other the spiritual, and we believe in what we create.

14.) A miracle is a beginning and an ending and It thus abolishes time. It is always an affirmation of rebirth, which seems to go back, but really goes forward. By undoing the past in the present, and thus releases the future.

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15.) Every Miracle attests to truth. They are convincing because they arise from conviction. Without conviction, they deteriorate into magic, which is mindless, and therefore destructive, or rather, the uncreative use of Mind.

16.) Each day should be devoted to miracles. (God created time so that man could use it creatively, and convince himself of his own ability to create. Time is a teaching device, and a means to an end. It will cease when it is no longer useful for in facilitating learning.)

Note: I got afraid during the part in brackets. Ask Bill.

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Urtext – Use of Terms (Introduction continued)

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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. It is this this experience toward which the course is directed. Here alone consistency becomes possible because here alone uncertainty ends.

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Urtext – Workbook for Students

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2. “I have given everything I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place) all the meaning that it has for me.”

The exercises with this idea are the same as those for the first one. Begin with the things that are near you, and apply the idea to whatever your glance rests on. Then increase the range outward. Turn your head so that you include whatever is to either side. If possible, turn around and apply the idea to what was behind you. Remain as indiscriminate as possible in selecting subjects for its application, do not concentrate on anything in particular, and do not attempt to include everything in an area or you will introduce strain. Merely glance easily and fairly quickly around you, trying to avoid selection by size, brightness, color, material, or relative importance to you.

Take the subjects simply as you see them. Try to apply the exercise with equal ease to a body or a button, a fly or a floor, an arm or an apple. The sole criterion for applying the idea to anything is merely that your eyes have lighted on it. Make no attempt to include anything particular, but be sure that nothing is specifically excluded.

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Day 3

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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: Notes on this course have to be taken only under good learning conditions, and should be reviewed. (I was going to write “refused.”) The same goes for review periods. I will tell you when, but REMEMBER TO ASK.)

17.) Miracles are teaching devices for demonstrating that it is more blessed to give than to receive. They simultaneously increase the reserve strength of the giver, and supply the lack of strength in the receiver. BE VERY CAREFUL in interpreting this.

Regarding Wally’s chalice: does this mean he is on my list?

Not necessarily, only that you of all people should know that it frightens people if you hand them back their own chalice.

Whether he is or not depends on a three way readiness. I am ALWAYS ready. Your job is to take care of YOUR readiness. His readiness is up to him.

At present he is a POTENTIAL candidate. But Amy is on it now.

She is a child you hurt. The whole problem is that they threw it away and are denying it. Therefore they are now afraid of it. This should cause YOU no trouble at all in understanding.

You both have an identification problem, which makes you unstable but in different ways. He lacks confidence in his identification and needs to strengthen it. You vacillate in your identification and need better control.

Both of you needn’t worry.

You must love the children and help them. You have hated them and hurt them, but remember Azra that you once loved them very much. You were a child of light. Forget the interval of darkness and be what you were. That is your real Self.

Chip’s story triggered the abandonment of the children, guilt, and a fear of God’s abandonment as justice. I told you I forgave you and that meant all hurt and hate you have ever experienced is cancelled. I need the children of light now. And I am calling you to be what you once were and must be again.

The interval has vanished without a trace anywhere. You who lived so close to God must not give way to guilt.

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The Karmic Law demands abandonment for abandoning, but you have received mercy, not justice.

Help the children because you love them and love God.

18.) (Remember) A miracle is a spark of Life. It shines through the darkness and brings in the

light. (You must begin to forget and remember.)

This is a private point, just for you. It is not part of the course.

A miracle is love – you always wanted presents, and a closed package was intolerable. PLEASE open this one. You act like it’s a time bomb. When I said “a miracle abolishes time,” you might look back and review the point in brackets. You’re afraid there won’t be ENOUGH time for you. Forget it and remember that there is no REAL difference between an instant and eternity.

I have healed the children you hurt before, but I have some I need your help in healing NOW.

Remember that there is no order in miracles because they are always MAXIMAL

expressions of love. You DID make a maximal effort for Chip and the ONLY reason you did it was because you loved Bill.

You might tell him to think about that sometimes because he DOES need signs of love. But he doesn’t always recognize them because he does not have enough confidence. You practically gave up your life for him quite voluntarily, but you did not know then that what you were REALLY giving up was death. This is what “in dying you live” really means. And I said Myself that greater love than this no man hath.

Stop crying or you won’t be fit to live now. Don’t worry about Susie. YOU are helping Chip’s readiness, and he did better than you with this one. This is unfair to you. Remember what you told him about Bobby. Chip is almost ready.

Review your note from yesterday that your identification is strong but erratic, and that is why you have so much will power but use it wrong at times. Bill was right about that misuse of it when you were sick, and it WAS a sign of superhuman will totally misdirected. Your body does not need it, but your spirit does. And I need it too.

INSTRUCTIONS: The purpose of this course is integration. I told you that you will not be able to use it right until you have taken it. As long as your identification vacillates, (and Bill’s is weak) you cannot accept the gift that belongs to you. You are still vacillating between

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not yet know its healing power. After you have passed the course, you will accept it and keep it and use it. That is the final exam, which you will have no trouble in passing. Midterm marks are not entered on the permanent record.

(I really slipped yet BELIEVED the latter thought.)

19.) Miracles are the absence of the body. They are sudden shifts into invisibility, away from lower order reality. That is why they heal.

20.) A miracle is a service. It is the maximal service that one soul can render another. It is a way of loving your neighbor as yourself. The doer recognizes his own and his neighbor’s inestimable value simultaneously.

(This is why no areas of hatred can be retained. If you retain them, your own value is no longer inestimable because, you are evaluating it as X or infinity minus that amount. This is meaningless mathematically, which uses the term “inestimable” only in the very literal sense. Pun intended especially for Bill (who originally did not get it); intended as a special sign of love.)

He doesn’t really, but he DOES think so.

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Urtext – Use of Terms (Introduction continued)

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This course remains within the ego framework, where it is needed. It is not concerned with what is beyond all error because it is planned only to set the direction toward it. Therefore it uses words, which are symbolic, and cannot express what lies beyond symbols. It is always the ego that questions because it is only the ego that doubts. The course merely gives another Answer, once a question has been raised. However, this Answer does not attempt to resort to

inventiveness or ingenuity. These are attributes of the ego. The COURSE IS SIMPLE. It has one function and one goal. Only in that does it remain wholly consistent because only that can BE consistent.

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Urtext – Workbook for Students

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3. “I do not understand anything I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place).”

Apply this idea in the same way as the previous ones, without making distinctions of any kind. Whatever you see becomes a proper subject for applying the idea. Be sure that you do not

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question the suitability of anything for the application of the idea. These are not exercises in judgment. Anything is suitable if you see it. Some of the things you see may have emotionally-charged meaning for you. Try to lay such feelings aside, and merely use these things exactly as you would anything else.

The point of the exercises is to help you clear your mind of all past associations, to see things exactly as they appear to you now, and to realize how little you really understand about them. It is therefore essential that you keep a perfectly open mind, unhampered by judgment, in selecting the things to which the idea for the day is to be applied. For this purpose one thing is like another; equally suitable and therefore equally useful.

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Now tell him (Bill) that homosexuality is sinful only to the extent it is based on the principle of exclusion. Everybody should love everybody.

It is wrong to deny the beauty of some Souls because of body-structures of which you are afraid. This is essentially an unhealthy attempt to limit fear, but fear cannot BE limited, just as love cannot have limits.

Heterosexual attitudes can be similarly distorted but DO contain a more natural POTENTIAL. Sex relations are intended for children. You and Bill have misunderstood sex, because you both recognize it as a way of establishing human contact for YOURSELVES. This has led to body-image problems.

Children are miracles in their own right. They already have the gift of life, and their parents provide them with the opportunity to express it.

Nothing physical, mental, or spiritual should be used selfishly. The pleasure from using anything should come from utilizing it for God’s will.

You should live so that God is free to arrange temporary human constellations as He sees fit.

DO NOT interpret this in terms of guilt. Many children who are already here need spiritual parents. The poor are always with us, and many who are born have not been reborn.

Human birth, maturation, and development is a microcosmic representation of a much larger process of Creation and development of abilities. It is subject to error as long as the real purpose of free will is misunderstood and misdirected.

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The real function of parents is to be wiser than the children in this respect and to teach them accordingly. (This upsets me. Sometimes I can get through anyway...I’ll try -- but I think I’m getting sick.) ((Get that dream and give it to Bill TODAY. He will see its relevance.))

Discuss Giovanni VERY frankly with him, including the flu shot, and be SURE to tell him I DID kiss him on the forehead and am kissing him again now. He is doing VERY well, and I am deeply grateful for his efforts. I DO need help with this course.

By the way, about the flat feet. This is a slang term for “policemen” or the guardians of law and order. This was used first, before the “it has no arches” bit. Correct to read:

21.) Miracles rest on the law and order of eternity, not of time.

As long as you take accurate notes, every word is meaningful. But I can’t always get through. Whenever possible I will correct retroactively. Be SURE to note all later corrections. This means that you are more receptive than you were when I tried before.

22a.) Miracles are an industrial necessity. Industry depends on cooperation, and cooperation rests depends on miracles.

Miracles rest on flat feet. They have no arches. (Bill will be better with this than you.) (He’d better be—I don’t get it at all, and I am very suspicious about of it too. Bill—did

communication break down, or does this mean something? Clue—it has something to do with “here I am, Lord.” Bill knows. 2

The idea is that I don’t want to emphasize your specific language too much. Some of it has to be in his. (My own associations here are very bad; a Rorschach response of “footprints” to the top red on 2. No—it’s all right: it’s the arch of time. There isn’t any. So it means

“miracles do not rest on the arches of time, but on eternity.”

((I must say this is the hard way, and I’m SURE this could have been done more directly.)) I don’t see why I should get a message in a way that makes me miss the point and then have to go into a mental coma to get it.

Answer: You’ve been doing that all along. You have not even bothered to LOOK at the others that are very clearly stated. I just thought I’d give you this one in a way you COULDN’T overlook it. It’s an example of shock effect sometimes useful in teaching pupils whose attention wanders too much students who won’t pay attention. It compels attention. And remember to thank Bill from Me for his consistent all-out support. I NEED it, because you

See page 1008 for prayer Jesus gave Bill

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won’t listen to ANYTHING. But don’t worry, the three of us will make it. We’re nowhere near the final. By the way, this is an example of the point on cooperation. And don’t underestimate your cooperation either. You don’t listen, and you would save yourself a lot of pain if you did. But you did get Chip over his misperceptions of Wally with very creditable integrity.

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Insert: So I got quite upset and snapped very unfairly at Jonathan, but when I reread then it went on…

So I said, suddenly perfectly defenseless a little timid and VERY surprised, “You mean you think I’m NICE?” And burst into tears. And He said He must think so, really, because He keeps giving me everything, and He’s not angry because I keep on rejecting Him but He’s sorry because I suffer so much for no reason. He was really very nice about it. I told him I really do love Him, but I have trouble about it (though I DID mean it for a little while anyway, before I got embarrassed), and He said he understood very well, and would keep on trying.

Bill—PLEASE don’t let me down. (this is VERY unexpected. I don’t talk this way to men.)

24a.) Miracles are cobwebs of iron. They unite human frailty to the strength of God.

(Addition for principle 24a: Helen considered changing “iron” to “steel”. Correction: No.

Steel would NOT be a better word. Steel is very useful but it would have to be tempered by fire. Iron is the raw material. The point of miracles is that they replace fire, thus making it

unnecessary.)

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Urtext – Use of Terms (Introduction continued)

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The ego will demand many answers this course does not give. It does not recognize as questions the mere form of a question to which an answer is impossible. The ego may ask, “How did the impossible occur?”, “To what did the impossible happen?ʺ, and may ask in many forms. Yet here there is no answer; only an experience. Seek only this, and do not let theology delay you. You will notice that the emphasis on structural issues in the course is brief and early. Afterwards and soon, it drops away to make way for the central teaching. Since you have asked for clarification, however, these are some of the terms that are used.

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Urtext – Workbook for Students

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4. “These thoughts do not mean anything. They are like the things I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place).”

Unlike the preceding ones, these exercises do not begin with the idea for the day. In these practice periods, begin with noting the thoughts that are crossing your mind for about a minute. Then apply the idea to them. If you are already aware of unhappy thoughts use them as subjects for the idea. Do not, however, select only the thoughts you think are “bad.” You will find, if you train yourself to look at your thoughts, that they represent such a mixture that, in a sense, none of them can be called “good” or “bad.” This is why they do not mean anything.

In selecting the subjects for the application of today’s idea, the usual specificity is required. Do not be afraid to use “good” thoughts as well as “bad.” None of them represents your real thoughts, which are being covered up by them. The “good” ones of which you are aware are but shadows of what lies beyond, and shadows make sight difficult. The “bad” ones are blocks to sight, and make seeing impossible. You do not want either.

This is a major exercise, and will be repeated from time to time in somewhat different form. The aim here is to train you in the first steps toward the goal of separating the meaningless from the meaningful. It is a first attempt in the long-range purpose of learning to see the

meaningless as outside you, and the meaningful within. It is also the beginning of training your mind to recognize what is the same and what is different. In using your thoughts for application of the idea for today, identify each thought by the central figure or event it contains; for example:

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“This thought about __________ does not mean anything. It is like the things I see in this room [or wherever you are].”

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You can also use the idea for a particular thought which you recognize as harmful. This practice is useful, but is not a substitute for the more random procedures to be followed for the exercises. Do not, however, examine your mind for more than a minute or so. You are too inexperienced as yet to avoid a tendency to become pointlessly preoccupied. Further, since these exercises are the first of their kind, you may find the suspension of judgment in connection with thoughts particularly difficult. Do not repeat these exercises more than three or four times during the day. We will return to them later.

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Don’t worry about your autism. It’s just a misused talent, which you really need. You have to tune out this world to see another. This ability is a gift, and when it comes under involuntary control rather than involuntary LACK of control, it will be very useful.

Following the right involuntary guide will give you the means to recognize both physical AND spiritual dangers, and provide the means for avoiding each of them in the most efficient way.

This is a case in which the end DOES justify the means. It is only when means and ends are not of the same order of reality that there is fear. It arises out of the inescapable

awareness, which man was given by God for all time, that only the appropriate means will work for the different kinds of ends he must accomplish before he can achieve his One end.

This awareness is a built-in check which was necessary if man was to use the temporary expedient of time usefully. While there is time, communion and bread are both necessary. Without either, man feels deprived and he cannot escape by confusing the two. All depression and all expressions of fear ultimately stem from confusion.

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25.) Miracles are natural expressions of total forgiveness. Through miracles, man affirms his

acceptance of God’s forgiveness by extending it to others. The second step is inherent in the

first, because light cannot tolerate darkness. Light dispels darkness automatically, by definition. 26.) (EXPLANATION INSTRUCTIONS:) Miracles are associated with fear only because of the fallacy that darkness can hide. Man believes that what he cannot see does not exist, and his physical eyes cannot see in the dark. This is a very primitive solution, and has led to a denial of the spiritual eye, which always depends on light. Remember the Biblical injunction: “May I never forget that THINE eye is ever upon me, beholding the evil and the good.”

[FIP T-1.IV. Escape from Darkness]

There are two stages, one lower and one higher, which are involved in the escape from darkness:

The first is the recognition that darkness CANNOT hide. This usually does entail fear. The second is that there is nothing you WANT to hide, even if you could. This brings

escape from fear.

The reason I direct everything that is unimportant is because it is no way to waste YOUR free will. If you insist on doing the trivial your way, you waste too much time and will on it.

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