| ACIM
CONFERENCE
April 26,27,28 2013
Register NOW for 31% OFF
[until December 31, 2011]
Course in Miracles Society (CIMS), is pleased to be a co-sponsor of the CHICAGO 2013
ACIM Conference | |
*When you register please tell them that you were referred by Course In Miracles Society (CIMS).* | |
|
| | | | |
JOIN Mailing LIST
[click phone] | | | | |
|
LARGE PRINT ACIM on sale now! | |
| |
|
| LIMITED EDITION |
 | | Deluxe Gift Set |
Distinctive Black Cloth Hardcover,
with Gold Embossed Lettering
Pocket Sized with Slip Cover
Only 500 published | |
|
|
CIMS
NEWSLETTER |  | |
Monthly Newsletter from CIMS
|
| MUSIC from mARTin |  | |
|
|
ACIM GATHER PALTALK
STUDY GROUP |  |
" ACIM:The Original Edition,
Cover to Cover "
with REGINA DAWN AKERS
Every Friday, 2:00-3:30 PM ET on ACIM GATHER / PalTalk LISTEN to PREVIOUS SESSIONS
If you have never attended a chat room study group or need a refresher on how to access this room, please visit the following site:
|
|
Now Available |  | |
Now you can read The Course in Miracles ~ Original Edition on your KINDLE!
This Kindle Edition contains the Text, Workbook and Manual.
|
| E-Book
Text
Workbook
Manual |  | |
The electronic PDF
version of
A Course in Miracles
original edition
is now available.
BUY NOW
$9.95 |
 | |
REVIEW
A Course in Miracles is a self-study course. In the beginning it tells us, "This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean
you can establish the curric...
 | |
|
| About CIMS |  |
Course in Miracles Society (CIMS) is an international group of Course students and teachers organized to discover, authenticate and propagate the Divine Teachings of A Course in Miracles.
As students, we seek to increase our knowledge of Jesus' words and to deepen our experience of His teachings.
As teachers, we work to circulate the message of
A Course in Miracles throughout the world by our words, by our deeds, and by the example of our lives.
|
|
|
Namaste!
"Each miracle is an example of what justice can accomplish when it is offered to everyone alike. It is received and given equally. It is awareness that giving and receiving are the same. Because it does not make the same unlike, it sees no differences where none exist. And thus it is the same for everyone because it sees no differences in them. Its offering is universal, and it teaches but one message:
88 What is God's belongs to everyone and
is his due." A COURSE IN MIRACLES CH 25 THE REMEDY, X "The Justice of Heaven" paragraph 87
|
|
L e s s o n 275
God's healing Voice protects all things today.
<AUDIO>
Hear Today's Lesson~Voice & Music by Martin Weber-Caspers[maz]
IAMBIC PENTAMETER
Let us today attend the Voice of God,
Which speaks an ancient lesson, no more true
today than any other day. Yet has
this day been chosen as the time when we
will seek and hear and learn and understand.
Join me in hearing. For the Voice of God
tells us of things we cannot understand
alone, nor learn apart. It is in this
that all things are protected, and in this
the healing of the Voice of God is found.
Your healing Voice protects all things today.
And so I leave all things to You. I need
be anxious about nothing. For Your Voice
will tell me what to do and where to go;
to whom to speak, and what to say to him;
what thoughts to think; what words to give the world.
The safety that I bring is given me.
~ Original Handscript of ACIM November 23, 1970 |
|
|
What is the Christ?
<AUDIO>
Voice & Music by Martin Weber-Caspers [maz]
IAMBIC PENTAMETER
Christ is God's Son as He created him.
He is the Self we share, uniting us
with one another, and with God as well.
He is the Thought Which still abides within
the Mind Which is His Source. He has not left
His holy home, nor lost the innocence
in which He was created. He abides
unchanged forever in the Mind of God.
He is the link that keeps you one with God,
and guarantees that separation is
no more than an illusion of despair,
for hope forever will abide in Him.
Your mind is part of His, and His of yours.
He is the part in Which God's Answer lies;
where all decisions are already made,
and dreams are over. He remains untouched
by anything the body's eyes perceive.
For though in Him His Father placed the means
for your salvation, yet does He remain
the Self Who, like His Father, knows no sin.
Home of the Holy Spirit, and at home
in God alone, does Christ remain at peace,
within the Heaven of your holy mind.
This is the only part of you that has
reality in truth. The rest is dreams.
Yet will these dreams be given unto Christ,
to fade before His glory, and reveal
your holy Self, the Christ, to you at last.
The Holy Spirit reaches from the Christ
in you to all your dreams, and bids them come
to Him to be translated into truth.
He will exchange them for the final dream
which God appointed as the end of dreams.
For when forgiveness rests upon the world
and peace has come to every Son of God,
what could remain to keep things separate,
for what remains to see except Christ's face?
And how long can this holy face be seen,
when it is but the symbol that the time
for learning now is over, and the goal
of the Atonement has been reached at last?
So therefore let us seek to find Christ's face,
and look on nothing else. As we behold
His glory, will we know we have no need
of learning or perception or of time,
or anything except the holy Self,
the Christ Whom God created as His Son.
~ Original Handscript of ACIM
|
|
ACIM Edmonton - Sarah's Reflections
Lesson 275
God's healing Voice protects all things today.
Sarah's Commentary:
When the lesson says "God's healing Voice protects all things today" the things that he is talking about is our eternal gifts-gifts like peace of mind, joy, .....all those things that are eternal and that are always with us. What God's healing Voice does is call to us to awaken to the truth of who we are. And we will "seek and hear and learn and understand". (1.2) With the experience of awakening to the truth, we will understand the ancient lesson which is changeless, "an ancient lesson no more true today than any other day." (1.1) Of course this ancient lesson taught over and over in the course is that we have never separated from God and are still as we were created, one with Him. It is what the Atonement Principle is about which is that we have not and cannot change who we are as we were created. Yes, we can experience a self that has changed into one with a separate will and separate thoughts, but that experience is not the truth. That is the illusion. The truth is that our will is still One with God.
In this lesson we are invited to join with Jesus in hearing the Voice for God. "Join me in hearing" (1.3). "For the Voice for God tells us of things we cannot understand alone, nor learn apart". (1.4) It is only "in this that all things are protected". (1.5) and only "in this the healing Voice for God is found". (1.6) So as I read this I think that Jesus is saying that when we connect to our right mind where Truth/HolySpirit abides then we will know that we are safe, we are love, we are invulnerable, we are innocent and we are complete. When we continue to listen to the voice of the ego and its rantings and ravings, its constant chatter of what to do, what to think, where to go, what plans to make, what to worry about etc etc. we will remain in a state of anxiety. The good news is that we can bring all of these thoughts to the Truth and see their unreality. The cause is always in our minds. The mind is the source and thus the power is in us. We need to join with Jesus because he tells us that we cannot understand alone. To be alone is to exclude and the course tells us again and again that there can be no exceptions to our forgiveness. Everyone must be included in it. To be alone is to be separate. It is in joining with him which is to join with our brothers and sisters and see that indeed we are the same. And it is in this that understanding of our Oneness comes and we know then that we are protected.
Once we have heard the call to come home and once we have decided that there is a better way to find happiness than what the ego has tried to convince us about, then we have started on the road to peace. We have tried all kinds of things to try to make life work for us, but when we choose to give up on trying to find our own answers for happiness in this world and recognize that we don't know and that we are wrong about everything then we can start on the road to true peace. That is what the Course calls the invitation to the Holy Spirit. As long as we believe that there is anything in this world that will work for us, then we get distracted from our spiritual goals and look for our happiness in the world. Our motivation is still divided. But tolerance for pain is not without limit and sooner or later we get more serious and more willing to listen to the call of the spirit and thus learn what is being presented here.
It is then that we turn more consistently to the Holy Spirit for guidance when we recognize that our way has never brought the peace and joy that we are looking for and think we can find in the things of this world. As we release our thoughts of aloneness, our victim stories, our sadness and our frustrations and simply come with "wholly open hands" to this place of respite, we demonstrate a willingness to be taught. It is a recognition that we have been wrong about everything. We have been wrong about who we think we are. Now we open ourselves to guidance where every question is answered about "what to do and where to go; to whom to speak and what to say to him, what thoughts to think what words to give the world." (2.3) We thus bring this light of our being, this safety and salvation to our brothers and in turn join with them.
"Who assumes a power that he does not possess is deceiving himself. Yet to accept the power given him by God is but to acknowledge his Creator and accept His gifts. And His gifts have no limit. To ask the Holy Spirit to decide for you is simply to accept your true inheritance. Does this mean that you cannot say anything without consulting Him? No, indeed. That would hardly be practical, and it is the practical with which this course is most concerned. If you have made it a habit to ask for help when and where you can, you can be confident that wisdom will be given you when you need it. Prepare for this each morning, remember God when you can throughout the day, ask the Holy Spirit's help when it is feasible to do so, and thank Him for His guidance at night. And your confidence will be well founded indeed" (Manual for Teachers. 29.5)
So what is there to truly to be anxious about? What is there to fear? What is there to plan? What is there to worry about? If we feel attacked it is only our mistaken perceptions about ourselves, in the belief that we are vulnerable and can be hurt. We are wrong about the way we see everything that seems to happen to us. Everyone of us is in this world for one purpose which is to wake up from this dream of separation. We share one goal which is to know ourselves as the innocent Son of God that we are. This world is the classroom where we can learn this about ourselves and teach it through our demonstration. When we perceive our own attack thoughts or attacks seemingly coming at us, we need not get defensive and counterattack. Instead we can choose to bring our fear thoughts for healing knowing that our perception about any situation is always wrong; so there is never anything to be afraid of. I am safe and protected always and as I come to know this, I can bring safety to everyone I meet in every holy encounter.
We don't know the answers and we don't need to figure anything out. We really just need do nothing and simply allow the Answer to come. He knows. And in His healing Voice we are protected and guided. You may say that you don't hear this Voice. But you do. You get prompts, and inspired thoughts when you stop planning and figuring. In the stillness is the Answer. It comes in many forms, a thought, a sense of knowing, a prompt to be somewhere, a notion, a voice, a sign. We will sense some kind of inner prodding and it is here in the right mind where the truth abides where it emanates. This Christ Self is in us and is the link to God. It is in our right mind where it can be accessed when the ego voice is still. The Atonement Principle assures us that we could never separate from God although we believe that we have.
Also notice who and what shows up in your life as a perfect answer for some situation. It may not look like a perfect answer but you can't be the judge of that. We simply don't know "The Holy Spirit is invisible, but you can see the results of His Presence, and through them you will learn that He is there". (T.12.VII.3.1) Initially we will find Him in the specifics of our lives where the Holy Spirit supports what we think are our needs, even though they may be foolish. He offers us help with them as long as they don't delay us in time. But later when the loving thoughts are our only guide and the only voice we listen to, we experience as a constant state of peace and joy and the specifics no longer matter.
So today the choice is ours, to hear the voice of the ego or to hear the Holy Spirit's Voice. Clearly we go back and forth in this process but it is valuable to remember today that any fear, anxiety, concern, frustration, issue of any kind is a choice you are making and you can change your mind and find refuge in the truth that is always present in the sane right mind where the Holy Spirit dwells.
Love and blessings, Sarah
Sarah's Home Page
SEARCH Original Edition for the above quotes
[Use 'Advanced Options' for EXACT PHRASE]:
http://www.jcim.net/acim_us/Acim.php
|
|
A Course in Miracles
TEXT
Chapter Twenty Five
The Remedy
X. The Justice of Heaven
78 What can it be but arrogance to think your little errors cannot be undone by Heaven's justice? And what could this mean except that they are sins and not mistakes, forever uncorrectable, and to be met with vengeance not with justice? Are you willing to be released from all effects of sin? You cannot answer this until you see all that the answer must entail. For if you answer "yes," it means you will forego all values of this world in favor of the peace of Heaven. Not one sin would you retain. And not one doubt that this is possible will you hold dear that sin be kept in place. You mean that truth has greater value now than all illusions. And you recognize that truth must be revealed to you because you know not what it is.
79 To give reluctantly is not to gain the gift because you are reluctant to accept it. It is saved for you until reluctance to receive it disappears, and you are willing it be given you. God's justice warrants gratitude, not fear. Nothing you give is lost to you or anyone, but cherished and preserved in Heaven, where all of the treasures given to God's Son are kept for him and offered anyone who but holds out his hand in willingness they be received. Nor is the treasure less as it is given out. Each gift but adds to the supply. For God is fair. He does not fight against His Son's reluctance to perceive salvation as a gift from Him. Yet would His justice not be satisfied until it is received by everyone.
80 Be certain any answer to a problem the Holy Spirit solves will always be one in which no one loses. And this must be true because He asks no sacrifice of anyone. An answer which demands the slightest loss to anyone has not resolved the problem but has added to it and made it greater, harder to resolve, and more unfair. It is impossible the Holy Spirit could see unfairness as a resolution. To Him, what is unfair must be corrected because it is unfair. And every error is a perception in which one at least is seen unfairly. Thus is justice not accorded to the Son of God. When anyone is seen as losing, he has been condemned. And punishment becomes his due instead of justice.
81 The sight of innocence makes punishment impossible and justice sure. The Holy Spirit's perception leaves no ground for an attack. Only a loss could justify attack, and loss of any kind He cannot see. The world solves problems in another way. It sees a resolution as a state in which it is decided who shall win and who shall lose-how much the one shall take and how much can the loser still defend.
82 Yet does the problem still remain unsolved, for only justice can set up a state in which there is no loser, no one left unfairly treated and deprived, and thus with grounds for vengeance. Problem solving cannot be vengeance, which at best can bring another problem added to the first, in which the murder is not obvious. The Holy Spirit's problem solving is the way in which the problem ends. It has been solved because it has been met with justice. Until it has, it will recur because it has not yet been solved. The principle that justice means no one can lose is crucial to this course. For miracles depend on justice. Not as it is seen through this world's eyes, but as God knows it, and as knowledge is reflected in the sight the Holy Spirit gives.
83 No one deserves to lose. And what would be unjust to him cannot occur. Healing must be for everyone because he does not merit an attack of any kind. What order can there be in miracles, unless someone deserves to suffer more and others less? And is this justice to the wholly innocent? A miracle is justice. It is not a special gift to some to be withheld from others as less worthy, more condemned, and thus apart from healing. Who is there who can be separate from salvation if its purpose is the end of specialness? Where is salvation's justice if some errors are unforgivable and warrant vengeance in place of healing and return of peace?
84 Salvation cannot seek to help God's Son be more unfair than he has sought to be. If miracles, the Holy Spirit's gift, were given specially to an elect and special group and kept apart from others as less deserving, then is He ally to specialness. What He cannot perceive He bears no witness to. And everyone is equally entitled to His gift of healing and deliverance and peace. To give a problem to the Holy Spirit to solve for you means that you want it solved. To keep it for yourself to solve without His help is to decide it should remain unsettled, unresolved, and lasting in its power of injustice and attack. No one can be unjust to you, unless you have decided first to be unjust. And then must problems rise to block your way and peace be scattered by the winds of hate.
85 Unless you think that all your brothers have an equal right to miracles with you, you will not claim your right to them because you were unjust to one with equal rights. Seek to deny, and you will feel denied. Seek to deprive, and you have been deprived. A miracle can never be received because another could receive it not. Only forgiveness offers miracles. And pardon must be just to everyone.
86 The little problems that you keep and hide become your secret sins because you did not choose to let them be removed for you. And so they gather dust and grow until they cover everything that you perceive and leave you fair to no one. Not one right do you believe you have. And bitterness, with vengeance justified and mercy lost, condemns you as unworthy of forgiveness. The unforgiven have no mercy to bestow upon another. That is why your sole responsibility must be to take forgiveness for yourself. The miracle that you receive you give. Each one becomes an illustration of the law on which salvation rests-that justice must be done to all if anyone is to be healed. No one can lose, and everyone must benefit.
87 Each miracle is an example of what justice can accomplish when it is offered to everyone alike. It is received and given equally. It is awareness that giving and receiving are the same. Because it does not make the same unlike, it sees no differences where none exist. And thus it is the same for everyone because it sees no differences in them. Its offering is universal, and it teaches but one message:
88 What is God's belongs to everyone and is his due.
On-Line Searchable Edition of Original Edition
2011 Study Guide Schedule
|
|
 NEW LARGE PRINT BOOK
is now available!
JCIM CAFE COMMERCE
VIST our new STORE
ENTER HERE
BOOKS
eBOOK Downloads
AUDIO CDs |
|
Course in Miracles Society |
|
|
BOOK Offer
Several of you have asked about buying "A Course in Miracles - Original Edition" by the case to make it more affordable to your study group.
CIMS is announcing that ACIM - Original Edition is now available by the case at the distributor price which is 40% below retail! ♥
Hard Copy book is reg $35. A case of 10 would have been $350. However, the price for a case is $210.
[plus $20 shipping]
Our Price: $210
List Price: $350
S & H: $20 [usa]
[International shipments based on location]
Please call for more information or contact us at cims@jcim.net
800-771-5056 |
|
|
|
|
 Audio Recording of ORIGINAL EDITION!!
Kellie Love [considered the VOICE of ACIM] recorded the Original Edition.
The Full set [8 cds, 68 hours] is available for $109.
Text only [4 cds, 38 hours] is
available for $64.95
Workbook only [3 cds, 20 hours] is
available for $43.95
Manual for Teachers only [1 cd, 8 hours] is
available for $14.95
LISTEN to a PREVIEW
Order Here |
|
Stay Relaxed with Blue Moon Timer |
Gently remember the Daily Lesson.
- Gentle chimes sound to alert you when your timing period is finished.
- Volume control wheel allows you to turn the sound all the way down to silence.
- Automatic reset function.
- Can be used as a stopwatch too.
- Stand / clip / magnet back.
PRICE: $26
SHIPPING: $2.41
TOTAL: $28.41
[International Shipping available]
When you purchase the timer here, $3 goes towards sending
A Course in Miracles to those who cannot afford it.
|
|
To GIVE and to RECEIVE are One in Truth. Lesson 108
Presently all CIMS projects are wholly supported by free will gifts of time, talent, and money. If you would like to support any of the activities of the Society in any way, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Because of the international character of CIMS, the internet is our primary means of communicating and collaborating.
CIMS is a section 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, and donations are tax deductible.
ALSO, by means of your will or other estate plan, you can name "Course in Miracles Society" as the beneficiary of a portion of your estate, or of particular assets in your estate.
In this way, you are honoring your loved ones while also providing critical support to the extension of LOVE.
Namaste and Thank You!
|
|
____________________________
COURSE IN MIRACLES SOCIETY
7602 Pacific Street, Suite 200
Omaha, NE 68114 USA
Voice: 800-771-5056
Fax: 402-391-0343
|
|
|
