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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
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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.
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Namaste!
 MANUAL for TEACHERS " Life and death seem to be opposites because you have decided that death ends life. Forgive the world, and you will understand that everything which God created cannot have an end, and nothing He did not create is real. In this one sentence is our course explained. In this one sentence is our practicing given its one direction. And in this the Holy Spirit's whole curriculum is specified exactly as it is."
A COURSE IN MIRACLES ~ MANUAL FOR TEACHERS #20 "What Is The Peace of God?" 5
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L e s s o n 360
Peace be to me, the holy Son of God.
Peace to my brother, who is one with me.
Let all the world be blessed with peace through us.
<AUDIO> <VIDEO>
Hear Today's Lesson~Voice & Music by Martin Weber-Caspers[maz]
IAMBIC PENTAMETER
Format from URTEXT by Lee Flynn
"Father, it is Your peace that I would give,
receiving it of You. I am Your Son,
forever just as You created me,
for the Great Rays remain forever still
and undisturbed within me. I would reach
to them in silence and in certainty,
for nowhere else can certainty be found.
Peace be to me, and peace to all the world.
In holiness were we created, and
in holiness do we remain. Your Son
is like to You in perfect sinlessness,
and with this thought we gladly say 'Amen'."
~ Original Handscript of ACIM
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 What Am I? <AUDIO> <VIDEO>
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IAMBIC PENTAMETER
Format from URTEXT by Lee Flynn
"I am God's Son, complete and healed and whole,
shining in the reflection of His Love.
In me is His creation sanctified
and guaranteed eternal life. In me
is love perfected, fear impossible,
and joy established without opposite.
I am the holy home of God Himself.
I am the Heaven where His Love abides.
I am His holy Sinlessness Itself,
for in my purity abides His own."
Our use for words is almost over now.
Yet in the final days of this one year
we gave to God together, you and I,
we found a single purpose that we shared.
And thus you joined with me. So what I am
are you as well. The truth of what we are
is not for words to speak of nor describe.
Yet we can realize our function here,
and words can speak of this, and teach it, too,
if we exemplify the words in us.
We are the bringers of salvation. We
accept our part as Saviours of the world,
which through our joint forgiveness is redeemed.
And this, our gift, is therefore given us.
We look on everyone as brother, and
perceive all things as kindly and as good.
We do not seek a function that is past
the gates of Heaven. Knowledge will return
when we have done our part. We are concerned
only with giving welcome to the truth.
Ours are the eyes through which Christ's vision sees
a world redeemed from every thought of sin.
Ours are the ears which hear the Voice of God
proclaim the world as sinless. Ours the minds
which join together as we bless the world.
And from the oneness that we have attained
we call to all our brothers, asking them
to share our peace and consummate our joy.
We are the holy messengers of God,
who speak for Him. And carrying His Word
to everyone whom He has sent to us,
we learn that It is written on our hearts.
And thus our minds are changed about the aim
for which we came and which we seek to serve.
We bring glad tidings to the Son of God,
who thought he suffered. Now is he redeemed.
And as he sees the gate of Heaven stand
open before him, he will enter in
and disappear into the Heart of God.
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ACIM Edmonton - Sarah's Reflections
Lesson 360
Peace be to me, the holy Son of God.
Peace to my brother, who is one with me.
Let all the world be blessed with peace through us.
Sarah's Commentary:
It was 5AM several years ago when the radio came on and I vaguely heard the news of a Tsunami hitting Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and Malaysia. At that point this news was in the background of my mind and did not register that I should be concerned. Then later the CNN report showed the magnitude of the devastation and my panic arose at the thought that my son and his girlfriend planned to be on Phi Phi Island which was reported to be probably completely washed away. Not hearing anything from him and not having a clue of where he was at that time, I turned my attention to the lesson for this day, looking to find some solace. This lesson seemed so very appropriate that only in the Great Rays within could silence and certainty be found. It is so apparent how the ego so readily manufactures all kinds of scenarios of devastation.
Fear and doubt thoughts arose and fell like waves of the ocean to be released to the Holy Spirit. And as all of us have found, our belief in these teachings get put to the test when we are confronted by threats which linger in our own minds. Fears arise that we project onto these events but the fear is already there in the mind just waiting to be triggered. So in this situation, as in others like this, it gave me an opportunity to look at my fear. I had absolutely no evidence on which to base this fear. It was all manufactured in my mind with all kinds of scenarios arising with no specific information on which to base it, yet it was so obsessive.
Having said that, I found moments of complete silence and surrender as I reflected on this lesson which assured me that the Great Rays "remain forever still and undisturbed within me." The challenge now was to reach deep past the fear thoughts into this quiet stillness of the Great Rays. Peace would reach my mind until the next image of devastation would come to disturb it. More work to be done. Holy Spirit, help me. Then friends showed up and the supportive presence of these mighty companions bolstered my wavering resolve to focus on the message of this lesson and the course.
Later that morning there was a message that my son's father got on his answering machine....short but enough to know that my son and his girlfriend had survived the devastation. With that, and my work on surrendering my fear, I now was able to focus on the part of the lesson that says "peace to my brother, who is one with me. Let all the world be blessed with peace through us" I felt deep compassion for the suffering of those who were struggling with the after effects of this situation and experienced the opening of my heart to reaching out in prayer with a deeper level of compassion and sincerity having just gone through this questioning time.
This lesson really reminds us of how we need to get in touch with our holiness to know peace. But only by addressing the blocks to peace can this be revealed to us. The blocks are the fears, the obsessive thoughts, the imagination conjuring pictures of death and disaster. To know God's peace is to be truly willing to want it above all else. To know it is to let these kind of interfering thoughts be released. We have all been in these kinds of situations. Increasingly as I let my mind accept that the illusion is never the truth, and there is no death, and the script is written, we are only reviewing the past, the story is over....with each thought comes release. Yes we are given lots of opportunities like this in this classroom that we call life. The magnitude of the situations may seem different yet there is no difference in them just as there is no difference in the power of the miracle to solve any problem big or small. All problems are the same. There is no order of difficulty in the illusion and none in miracles.
The lesson also reminds us that extending peace to our brother and seeing his sinlessness is to know our own. It is a reminder that we can only bring blessing to the world through our own peace. And I truly want to be the instrument of that blessing. And I know that is the intention that we all share. And as we embrace the peace by using opportunities such as this to heal our minds, we become the peace that we want to see in the world. It is the only way to "Let all the world be blessed with peace through us".
We have learned that spirituality is not just adding something spiritual to our everyday lives but it is a wholesale retraining of the mind and that is what makes it so very challenging. But every step we take on this path, opens a new level of understanding and making space for the truth. Sometimes it seems that we take two steps forward and one back, but trust is called for to know that with each step we take we are making progress up this ladder until the ladder is no longer there.
Today I received a lovely reminder too of what Christmas is about. It came from a friend and it is too beautiful not to share. So I do so anonymously since I have not asked her permission to include her name but here it is.
Dearest Sarah...just awakened with such a peace, such a joy and such a gratitude .I thought of the gifts I'm awakening to...the course, my 'new birthing' experiences, the gift YOU Sarah, of all my brothers and sisters. It's all I've ever needed for Christmas. All I've ever really wanted!!! I've never been so happy. Perhaps because this Christmas I haven't bought as much of the illusion and haven't given as much of this hopeLESS rubbish away, because I'm not kidding myself anymore about what's true and isn't true...about so many meaningless attachments, desires, false fantasies. About Santa Claus. I really do feel like a child, who woke up Christmas morn, found out the real truth of who was who, and what was what...feeling so glad my intuitive hunches are confirmed, feeling undeceived, forgiving the ones who told me the lie, forgiving myself for believing it and finally setting us all free from the foolishness of it all! What more could a person ever want and ever get? Because I've received and unwrapped these gifts, I'm one of the happiest kids on the block!!
Celebrating today with you, and yours too! EnJOY!
So if this is not how you are feeling this day, know that Christmas is every day and that you can wake to this kind of peace and joy as you do your forgiveness work and remember that we can all experience the miracle when we release that which is blocking it. And we want to remember today that if we are to achieve peace, then everyone must be included in it. To exclude anyone is to reflect belief in differences and specialness. We ask for help in letting go that which separates us today. Love and blessings, Sarah
Sarah's Home Page
Quotes in this article are from Foundation for Inner Peace edition; To locate the same quotes in the 'Original Edition', use this link: http://www.jcim.net/acim_us/Acim.php
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A Course in Miracles
MANUAL FOR TEACHERS
19. What Is Justice?
1 Justice is the divine correction for injustice. Injustice is the basis for all the judgments of the world. Justice corrects the interpretations to which injustice gives rise and cancels them out. Neither justice nor injustice exists in Heaven, for error is impossible and correction meaningless. In this world, however, forgiveness depends on justice since all attack can only be unjust. Justice is the Holy Spirit's verdict upon the world. Except in His judgment, justice is impossible, for no one in the world is capable of making only just interpretations and laying all injustices aside. If God's Son were fairly judged, there would be no need for salvation. The thought of separation would have been forever inconceivable.
2 Justice, like its opposite, is an interpretation. It is, however, the one interpretation that leads to truth. This becomes possible because, while it is not true in itself, justice includes nothing that opposes truth. There is no inherent conflict between justice and truth; one is but the first small step in the direction of the other. The path becomes quite different as one goes along. Nor could all the magnificence, the grandeur of the scene and the enormous opening vistas that rise to meet one as he travels on, be foretold from the outset. Yet even these, whose splendor reaches indescribable heights as one proceeds, falls short indeed of all that awaits one when the pathway ceases and time ends with it. But somewhere one must start. Justice is the beginning.
3 All concepts of your brothers and yourself, all fears of future states, and all concern about the past stem from injustice. Here is the lens which, held before the body's eyes, distorts perception and brings witness of the distorted world back to the mind that made the lens and holds it very dear. Selectively and arbitrarily is every concept of the world built up in just this way. "Sins" are perceived and justified by this careful selectivity in which all thought of wholeness must be lost. Forgiveness has no place in such a scheme, for not one "sin" but seems forever true.
4 Salvation is God's justice. It restores to your awareness the wholeness of the fragments you perceive as broken off and separate. And it is this that overcomes the fear of death. For separate fragments must decay and die, but wholeness is immortal. It remains forever and forever like its Creator, being one with Him. God's Judgment is His justice. Onto this-a judgment wholly lacking in condemnation, an evaluation based entirely on love-you have projected your injustice, attributing to God the lens of warped perception through which you look. Now it belongs to Him and not to you. You are afraid of Him and do not see you hate and fear your Self as enemy.
5 Pray for God's justice, and do not confuse His mercy with your own insanity. Perception can make whatever picture the mind desires to see. Remember this. In this lies either Heaven or hell, as you elect. God's justice points to Heaven just because it is entirely impartial. It accepts all evidence that is brought before it, omitting nothing and assessing nothing as separate and apart from all the rest. From this one standpoint does it judge, and this alone. Here all attack and condemnation becomes meaningless and indefensible. Perception rests, the mind is still, and light returns again. Vision is now restored. What had been lost has now been found. The peace of God descends on all the world and we can see. And we can see!
20. What Is the Peace of God?
1 It has been said that there is a kind of peace that is not of this world. How is it recognized? How is it found? And being found, how can it be retained? Let us consider each of these questions separately, for each reflects a different step along the way.
2 First, how can the peace of God be recognized? God's peace is recognized at first by just one thing-in every way it is totally unlike all previous experiences. It calls to mind nothing that went before. It brings with it no past associations. It is a new thing entirely. There is a contrast, yes, between this thing and all the past. But strangely, it is not a contrast of true differences. The past just slips away and in its place is everlasting quiet. Only that. The contrast first perceived has merely gone. Quiet has reached to cover everything.
3 How is this quiet found? No one can fail to find it who but seeks out its conditions. God's peace can never come where anger is, for anger must deny that peace exists. Who sees anger as justified in any way or any circumstance proclaims that peace is meaningless and must believe that it cannot exist. In this condition peace cannot be found. Therefore forgiveness is the necessary condition for finding the peace of God. More than this, given forgiveness there must be peace. For what except attack will lead to war? And what but peace is opposite to war? Here the initial contrast stands out clear and apparent. Yet when peace is found, the war is meaningless. And it is conflict now that is perceived as non-existent and unreal.
4 How is the peace of God retained once it is found? Returning anger in whatever form will drop the heavy curtain once again, and the belief that peace cannot exist will certainly return. War is again accepted as the one reality. Now must you once again lay down your sword, although you may not recognize that you have picked it up again. But you will learn, as you remember even faintly now what happiness was yours without it, that you must have taken it again as your defense. Stop for a moment now, and think of this: is conflict what you want, or is God's peace the better choice? Which gives you more? A tranquil mind is not a little gift. Would you not rather live than choose to die?
5 Living is joy, but death can only weep. You see in death escape from what you made. But this you do not see-that you made death, and it is but illusion of an end. Death cannot be escape because it is not life in which the problem lies. Life has no opposite, for it is God. Life and death seem to be opposites because you have decided that death ends life. Forgive the world, and you will understand that everything which God created cannot have an end, and nothing He did not create is real. In this one sentence is our course explained. In this one sentence is our practicing given its one direction. And in this the Holy Spirit's whole curriculum is specified exactly as it is.
6 What is the peace of God? No more than this-the simple understanding that His Will is wholly without opposite. There is no thought that contradicts His Will yet can be true. The contrast between His Will and yours but seemed to be reality. In truth there is no conflict because His Will is yours. Now is the mighty Will of God Himself His gift to you. He does not seek to keep it for Himself. Why would you seek to keep your tiny, frail imaginings apart from Him? The Will of God is one and all there is. This is your heritage. The universe beyond the sun and stars and all the thoughts of which you can conceive belong to you. God's peace is the condition for His Will. Attain His peace, and you remember Him.
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