The Wholeness of Creation
a thought of Love
becomes manifest
a thought of Love
is you
you project
this manifestation
thru love's thought
extended...
universes are created...
another thought creeps in
"what would it be like
to be separate from my creations
and my creator's thought of Love?"
a different world is manifested...
this can not exist
with the thought of Love
One is not compatible with the other...
a split of mind is your solution
causing seeming pain
causing seeming death
as a solution to regain
the wholeness that is truth
of you as Love...
a foolish and insane and convoluted
solution...
in the "New Now" is sanity restored
the "New Now" but a return
to the original extension
a knowing of the
wholeness of creation
becomes manifest
a thought of Love
is you
you project
this manifestation
thru love's thought
extended...
universes are created...
another thought creeps in
"what would it be like
to be separate from my creations
and my creator's thought of Love?"
a different world is manifested...
this can not exist
with the thought of Love
One is not compatible with the other...
a split of mind is your solution
causing seeming pain
causing seeming death
as a solution to regain
the wholeness that is truth
of you as Love...
a foolish and insane and convoluted
solution...
in the "New Now" is sanity restored
the "New Now" but a return
to the original extension
a knowing of the
wholeness of creation
CHAPTER 8 ORIGINAL EDITION "A Course in Miracles"
Glory be to God in the highest and to you because He has so willed it.
'ASK AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN YOU' because it has already been given. Ask
for light and learn that you are light. If you want understanding and
enlightenment, you will learn it because your will to learn it is your
decision to listen to the Teacher who knows of light and can therefore
teach it to you. There is no limit on your learning because there is
no limit on your minds. There is no limit on His will to teach because
He was created to teach. Knowing His function perfectly, He wills to
fulfill it perfectly because that is His joy and yours.
T8:16 (FIP T8.III.1)
Nothing God created can oppose your will, as nothing God created can
oppose His. God gave your will its power, which I can only acknowledge
in honor of His. If you want to be like me, I will help you, knowing
that we are alike. If you want to be different, I will wait until you
change your mind. I can teach you, but only you can choose to listen
to my teaching. How else can it be, if God’s Kingdom is freedom?
Freedom cannot be learned by tyranny of any kind, and the perfect
equality of all God’s Sons cannot be recognized through the dominion
of one will over another. God’s Sons are equal in will, all being the
Will of their Father. 'THIS IS THE ONLY LESSON I CAME TO TEACH,',
knowing that it is true.
T8:32 (FIP T8.IV.6)
LISTEN TO THE STORY OF THE PRODIGAL SON, and learn what God’s treasure
is and yours: This son of a loving father left his home and thought he
squandered everything for nothing of any value, although he did not
know its worthlessness at the time. He was ashamed to return to his
father because he thought he had hurt him. Yet when he came home, the
father welcomed him with joy because only the son himself was his
father’s treasure. He wanted nothing else. God wants only His Son
because His Son is His only treasure.
T8:44 (FIP T8.VI.4)
Remember that the Bible says, “THE WORD (or thought) WAS MADE FLESH.”
Strictly speaking this is impossible, since it seems to involve the
translation of one order of reality into another. Different orders of
reality merely appear to exist, just as different orders of miracles
do. Thought cannot be made into flesh except by belief, since thought
is not physical. Yet thought is communication, for which the body can
be used. This is the only natural use to which it can be put. To use
the body unnaturally is to lose sight of the Holy Spirit’s purpose and
thus to confuse the goal of His curriculum.
T8:59 (FIP T8.VII.7)
You have surely begun to realize that this is a very practical course
which means exactly what it says. 'SO DOES THE BIBLE', if it is
properly understood. There has been a marked tendency on the part of
MANY OF THE BIBLE'S FOLLOWERS AND ALSO ITS TRANSLATORS TO BE ENTIRELY
LITERAL ABOUT FEAR AND ITS EFFECTS BUT NOT ABOUT LOVE AND ITS RESULTS.
Thus, “hellfire” means “burning,” but raising the dead becomes
allegorical. Actually, it is particularly the references to the
outcomes of love which should be taken literally because the Bible is
about love, being about God.
T8:86 (not found in FIP)
THE BIBLE ENJOINS YOU TO BE PERFECT, TO HEAL ALL ERRORS, TO TAKE NO
THOUGHT OF THE BODY AS SEPARATE, AND TO ACCOMPLISH ALL THINGS IN MY
NAME. This is not my name alone, for ours is a shared identification.
The name of God’s Son is one, and you are enjoined to do the works of
love because we share this oneness. Our minds are whole because they
are one. If you are sick you are withdrawing from me. Yet you cannot
withdraw from me alone. You can only withdraw from yourself and me.
T8:87 (FIP T8.IX.7)
THE BIBLE EMPHASIZES THAT ALL PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED, and this must be
true if no effort is wasted. The very fact that one has asked the Holy
Spirit for anything will ensure a response. Yet it is equally certain
that no response given by the Holy Spirit will ever be one which would
increase fear. It is possible that His answer will not be heard at
all. It is impossible, however, that it will be lost. There are many
answers which you have already received but have not yet heard. I
assure you that they are waiting for you. It is indeed true that no
effort is wasted.
T8:109
