Introduction to Miracles - A COURSE IN MIRACLES
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Introduction to Miracles
i. Principles of Miracles
1. 1:1 There is no order of difficulty among miracles. One is not “harder”
or “bigger” than another. They are all the same. All expressions of love are
maximal.
2. 2 Miracles as such do not matter. The only thing that matters is their Source,
which is far beyond human evaluation.
3. 3 Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love
4 4 All miracles mean life, and God is the Giver of life. His Voice will direct
you very specifically. You will be told all you need to know.
5. 5 Miracles are habits and should be involuntary. They should not be under
conscious control. Consciously selected miracles can be misguided.
6. 6 Miracles are natural. When they do not occur, something has gone wrong.
7. 7 Miracles are everyone’s right, but purification is necessary first.
8. 8 Miracles are healing because they supply a lack in that they are performed
by those who temporarily have more for those who temporarily have less.
9. 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. They
bring more love both to the giver and the receiver.
10. 10 The use of miracles as spectacles to induce belief is wrong, or better, is a
misunderstanding of their purpose. They are really used for and by believers.
11. 11 Prayer is the medium of miracles. Prayer is the natural communication
of the created with the Creator. Through prayer love is received, and through
miracles love is expressed.
12. 12 Miracles are thoughts. Thoughts can represent lower-order or higherorder
reality. This is the basic distinction between intellectualizing and thinking.
One makes the physical and the other creates the spiritual, and we believe in
what we make or create.
13. 13 Miracles are both beginnings and endings. They thus alter the temporal
order. They are always affirmations of rebirth which seem to go back but really
go forward. They undo the past in the present and thus release the future.
14. 14.Miracles bear witness 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.
15. 15 Each day should be devoted to miracles. The purpose of time is to enable
man to learn to use it constructively. Time is thus a teaching device and a means
to an end. It will cease when it is no longer useful in facilitating learning.
16 . 16 Miracles are teaching devices for demonstrating that it is more blessed to
give than to receive. They simultaneously increase the strength of the giver and
supply strength to the receiver.
17. 17 Miracles are the transcendence of the body. They are sudden shifts into
invisibility, away from a sense of lower-order reality. That is why they heal.
18. 18 A miracle is a service. It is the maximal service one individual can render
another. It is a way of loving your neighbor as yourself. The doer recognizes his
own and his neighbor’s inestimable worth simultaneously.
19. 19 Miracles make minds one in God. They depend on cooperation because
the Sonship is the sum of all the Souls God created. Miracles therefore rest on the
laws of eternity, not of time.
20. 20 Miracles reawaken the awareness that the spirit, not the body, is the altar
of truth. This is the recognition that leads to the healing power of the miracle.
21. 21 Miracles are natural expressions of total forgiveness. Through miracles,
man accepts God’s forgiveness by extending it to others.
22. 22 Miracles are associated with fear only because of the fallacious belief 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. The escape from darkness involves two stages:
A. 23 The recognition that darkness cannot hide. This step usually entails fear.
B. 24 The recognition that there is nothing you want to hide, even if you could.
This step brings escape from fear.
23. 25 Miracles rearrange perception and place the levels of perception in true per-
The term “Spiritual eye” is later replaced by the Holy Spirit, and the “physical eye” becomes the
ego. The emphasis on the two ways of seeing, however, remains throughout.
spective. This heals at all levels because sickness comes from confusing the levels.
26 When you have become willing to hide nothing, you will not only be
willing to enter into communion but will also understand peace and joy. Your
commitment is not yet total, and that is why you still have more to learn than
to teach. When your equilibrium stabilizes, you will be able to teach as much as
you learn, which will give you the proper balance. Meanwhile, remember that no
effort is wasted, for unless you remember this, you cannot avail yourselves of my
efforts, which are limitless. Only eternity is real. Why not use the illusion of time
constructively?
24. 27 Miracles enable man to heal the sick and raise the dead because he made
sickness and death himself and can abolish both. You are a miracle, capable of
creating in the likeness of your Creator. Everything else is only your own nightmare
and does not exist. Only the creations of light are real.
25. 28 Miracles are part of an interlocking chain of forgiveness which, when
completed, is the Atonement. This process works all the time and in all the dimensions
of time.
29 I am in charge of the process of Atonement, which I undertook to begin.
When you offer a miracle unto any of my brothers, you do it unto yourself and
me. The reason you come before me is that I do not need miracles for my own
Atonement, but I stand at the end in case you fail temporarily. The purpose of
my part in the Atonement is the canceling out of all lacks of love which men
could not otherwise correct. The word “sin” should be changed to “lack of love”
because “sin” is a man-made word with threat connotations which he made up
himself. No real threat is involved anywhere. Nothing is gained by frightening
yourselves, and it is very destructive to do so.
26. 30 Miracles represent freedom from fear. “Atoning” really means “undoing.” The
undoing of fear is an essential part of the Atonement value of miracles.
31 The purpose of the Atonement is to restore everything to you, or rather
to restore it to your awareness. You were given everything when you were created,
just as everyone was. When you have been restored to the recognition of your
original state, you naturally become part of the Atonement yourself. As you share
my inability to tolerate lack of love in yourself and others, you must join the Great
Crusade to correct it. The slogan for the Crusade is “Listen, learn and do”: Listen
to my voice, learn to undo error, and do something to correct it.
32 The power to work miracles belongs to you. I will provide the opportunities
to do them, but you must be ready and willing since you are already able.
Doing them will bring conviction in the ability since conviction really comes
through accomplishment. The ability is the potential; the achievement is its expression;
and the Atonement is the purpose.
27 . 33 A miracle is a universal blessing from God through me to all my brothers.
It is the privilege of the forgiven to forgive.
34 The disciples were specifically told to be physicians of the Lord and to heal
others. They were also told to heal themselves and were promised that I would never
leave them or forsake them. Atonement is the natural profession of the Children
of God because they have professed me. “Heaven and earth shall pass away” simply
means that they will not continue to exist as separate states. My word, which is the
resurrection and the light, shall not pass away because light is eternal. You are the
work of God, and His work is wholly lovable and wholly loving. This is how a man
must think of himself in his heart because this is what he is.
28. 35 Miracles are a means of organizing different levels of consciousness.
36 Miracles come from the below or subconscious level. Revelations come
from the above or superconscious level. The conscious level is in between and
reacts to either sub- or superconscious impulses in varying ratios. Consciousness
is the level which engages in the world and is capable of responding to both.
Having no impulses from itself and being primarily a mechanism for inducing
response, it can be very wrong.
37 Revelation induces complete but temporary suspension of doubt and
fear. It represents the original form of communication between God and His
Souls, involving an extremely personal sense of closeness to creation which man
tries to find in physical relationships. Physical closeness cannot achieve this. The
subconscious impulses properly induce miracles, which are genuinely interpersonal
and result in real closeness to others. This can be misunderstood by a personally
willful consciousness as impulses toward physical gratification.
38 Revelation unites Souls directly with God. Miracles unite minds directly
with each other. Neither emanates from consciousness, but both are experienced
there. This is essential since consciousness is the state which induces action, though
it does not inspire it. Man is free to believe what he chooses, and what he does
attests to what he believes. The deeper levels of the subconscious always contain
the impulse to miracles, but man is free to fill its more superficial levels, which are
closer to consciousness, with the impulses of this world and to identify himself
with them. This results in denying himself access to the miracle level underneath.
In his actions, then, his relationships also become superficial, and miracle-inspired
relating becomes impossible.
29. 39 Miracles are a way of earning release from fear.
40 Revelation induces a state in which fear has already been abolished.
Miracles are thus a means, and revelation is an end. Miracles do not depend on
revelation; they induce it. Revelation is intensely personal and cannot actually be
translated into conscious content at all. That is why any attempt to describe it in
words is usually incomprehensible. Revelation induces only experience. Miracles,
on the other hand, induce action. Miracles are more useful now because of their
interpersonal nature. In this phase of learning, working miracles is more important
because freedom from fear cannot be thrust upon you.
30 . 41 Miracles praise God through men. They praise God by honoring His
creations, affirming their perfection. They heal because they deny body-identification
and affirm Soul-identification. By perceiving the spirit, they adjust the
levels and see them in proper alignment. This places the spirit at the center, where
Souls can communicate directly.
31. 42 Miracles should inspire gratitude, not awe. Man should thank God for
what he really is. The Children of God are very holy, and the miracle honors their
holiness.
43 God’s creations never lose their holiness, although it can be hidden. The
miracle uncovers it and brings it into the light where it belongs. Holiness can
never be really hidden in darkness, but man can deceive himself about it. This
illusion makes him fearful because he knows in his heart it is an illusion, and he
exerts enormous efforts to establish its reality. The miracle sets reality where it
belongs. Eternal reality belongs only to the Soul, and the miracle acknowledges
only the truth. It thus dispels man’s illusions about himself and puts him in communion
with himself and God.
32. 44 Christ inspires all miracles, which are really intercessions. They intercede
for man’s holiness and make his perceptions holy. By placing him beyond the
physical laws, they raise him into the sphere of celestial order. In this order, man
is perfect.
45 The Soul never loses its communion with God. Only the mind needs
Atonement. The miracle joins in the Atonement of Christ by placing the mind
in the service of the spirit. This establishes the proper function of the mind and
corrects its errors.
33. 46 Miracles honor man because he is lovable. They dispel illusions about him
and perceive the light in him. They thus atone for his errors by freeing him from
his own nightmares. They release him from a prison in which he has imprisoned
himself, and by freeing his mind from illusions, they restore his sanity. Man’s mind
can be possessed by illusions, but his spirit is eternally free. If a mind perceives
without love, it perceives an empty shell and is unaware of the spirit within it.
But the Atonement restores the Soul to its proper place. The mind that serves the
spirit is invulnerable.
34. 47 Miracles restore the mind to its fullness. By atoning for lack, they establish
perfect protection. The strength of the Soul leaves no room for intrusions.
The forgiven are filled with the Soul, and they forgive in return. It is the duty of
the released to release their brothers.
48 The forgiven are the means of Atonement. Those released by Christ must
join in releasing their brothers, for this is the plan of the Atonement. Miracles are
the way in which minds which serve the spirit unite with Christ for the salvation
or release of all God’s creations.
35. 49 Miracles are expressions of love, but it does not follow that they will
always have observable effects. I am the only one who can perform miracles
indiscriminately because I am the Atonement. You have a role in the Atonement,
which I will dictate to you. Ask me which miracles you should perform. This
spares you exhaustion because you will act under direct communication.
36. 50 Christ-controlled miracles are part of the Atonement, but Christ-guidance
is personal and leads to personal salvation. The impersonal nature of miracles is an
essential ingredient because this enables me to control their distribution. Christguidance
leads to the highly personal experience of revelation. This is why it
involves personal choice. A guide does not control, but he does direct, leaving the
following up to you. “Lead us not into temptation” means “guide us out of our
own errors.” “Take up thy cross and follow me” means, “Recognize your errors
and choose to abandon them by following my guidance.”
51Remember that error cannot really threaten truth, which can always
withstand it. Only the error is really vulnerable. You are free to establish your
kingdom where you see fit, but the right choice is inevitable if you remember
this:
52 The Soul is in a state of grace forever.
Man’s reality is only his Soul.
Therefore, man is in a state of grace forever.
53 Atonement undoes all errors in this respect and thus uproots the real
source of fear. Whenever God’s reassurances are experienced as threat, it is always
because you are defending misplaced and misdirected loyalty. That is what projection
always involves. Error is lack of love. When man projects this onto others,
he does imprison them, but only to the extent that he reinforces errors they have
already made. This makes them vulnerable to the distortions of others since their
own perception of themselves is distorted. The miracle worker can only bless and
thus undoes their distortions and frees them from prison.
37. 54 Miracles are examples of right thinking. Reality contact at all levels
becomes strong and accurate, thus permitting correct delineation of intra- and
interpersonal boundaries. As a result, the doer’s perceptions are aligned with truth
as God created it.
38. 55 A miracle is a correction factor introduced into false thinking by me. It
acts as a catalyst, shaking up erroneous perception and reorganizing it properly.
This places man under the Atonement principle, where his perception is healed.
Until this has occurred, revelation of the divine order is impossible.
39. 56 The Spiritual eye is the mechanism of miracles because what It perceives
is true. It perceives both the creations of God and the creations of man. Among
the creations of man, it can also separate the true from the false by Its ability to
perceive totally rather than selectively. It thus becomes the proper instrument for
reality testing, which always involves the necessary distinction between the false
and the true.
40. 57 The miracle dissolves error because the Spiritual eye identifies error as
false or unreal. This is the same as saying that by perceiving light, darkness automatically
disappears.
58 Darkness is lack of light, as sin is lack of love. It has no unique properties
of its own. It is an example of the “scarcity” fallacy, from which only error can
proceed. Truth is always abundant. Those who perceive and acknowledge that
they have everything have no need for driven behavior of any kind.
41. 59 The miracle acknowledges all men as your brothers and mine. It is a way
of perceiving the universal mark of God in them. The specialness of God’s Sons
does not stem from exclusion but from inclusion. All my brothers are special. If
they believe they are deprived of anything, their perception becomes distorted.
When this occurs, the whole family of God, or the Sonship, is impaired in its
relationships. Ultimately, every member of the family of God must return. The
miracle calls him to return because it blesses and honors him even though he
may be absent in spirit.
60 “God is not mocked” is not a warning but a reassurance on this point.
God would be mocked if any of His creations lacked holiness. The creation is
whole, and the mark of wholeness is holiness.
42. 61 Wholeness is the perceptual content of miracles. It thus corrects or atones
for the faulty perception of lack anywhere.
62 Here we begin to make the fundamental distinction between miracles
and projection. The stimulus must precede the response and will also determine
the kind of response that is evoked. Behavior is response, so that the question
“response to what?” becomes crucial. Since stimuli are identified through perception,
you first perceive the stimulus and then behave accordingly. It follows,
then, that:
63 As ye perceive,
So shall ye behave.
64 The Golden Rule asks you to behave toward others as you would have
them behave toward you. This means that the perception of both must be accurate.
The Golden Rule is the rule for appropriate behavior. You cannot behave appropriately
unless you perceive accurately because appropriate behavior depends on
lack of level confusion. The presence of level confusion always results in variable
reality testing and therefore in variability in behavioral appropriateness. Since you
and your neighbor are equal members of the same family, as you perceive both,
so you will behave toward both. The way to perceive for Golden Rule behavior
is to look out from the perception of your own holiness and perceive the holiness
of others.
65 The emptiness engendered by fear should be replaced by love because
love and its absence are in the same dimension, and correction cannot be undertaken
except within a dimension. Otherwise, there has been a confusion of
levels. Death is a human affirmation of a belief in hate, or level confusion. That is
why the Bible says, “There is no death” and why I demonstrated that death does
not exist. I came to fulfill the law by reinterpreting it. The law itself, if properly
understood, offers only protection to man. It is those who have not yet “changed
their minds” who entered the “hellfire” concept into it.
66 I assure you that I will witness for anyone who lets me and to whatever
extent he permits it. Your witnessing demonstrates your belief and thus strengthens
it. Those who witness for me are expressing through their miracles that they
have abandoned the belief in deprivation in favor of the abundance they have
learned belongs to them.
43. 67 A major contribution of miracles is their strength in releasing man from
his misplaced sense of isolation, deprivation, and lack.
68 Miracles are affirmations of Sonship, which is a state of completion and
abundance. Whatever is true and real is eternal and cannot change or be changed.
The Soul is therefore unalterable because it is already perfect, but the mind can
elect the level it chooses to serve. The only limit which is put on its choice is that
it cannot serve two masters.
69 The mind, if it elects to do so, becomes a medium by which the Soul
creates along the line of its own creation. If it does not freely elect to do so, it
retains its creative potential but places itself under tyrannous rather than genuinely
authoritative control. As a result it imprisons because such are the dictates of
tyrants. To change your mind means to place it at the disposal of true Authority.
70 The miracle is thus a sign that the mind has chosen to be led by Christ in
His service. The abundance of Christ is the natural result of choosing to follow
Him. All shallow roots must be uprooted because they are not deep enough to
sustain you. The illusion that shallow roots can be deepened and thus made to hold
is one of the distortions on which the reversal of the Golden Rule rests. As these
false underpinnings are given up, the equilibrium is temporarily experienced as
unstable. However, the fact is that nothing is less stable than an orientation that
is upside down. Nor can anything which holds it that way be really conducive to
greater stability.
44. 71 Miracles arise from a miraculous state of mind. By being one, this state
of mind goes out to anyone, even without the awareness of the miracle worker
himself. The impersonal nature of miracles is because the Atonement itself is one,
uniting all creations with their Creator.
45 . 72 The miracle is an expression of an inner awareness of Christ and the
acceptance of His Atonement. The mind is then in a state of grace and naturally
becomes gracious both to the host within and the stranger without. By bringing
in the stranger, he becomes your brother.
46. 73 A miracle is never lost. It touches many people you do not even know
and sometimes produces undreamed of changes in forces of which you are not
even aware. That is not your concern. The miracle will always bless you.
74 The miracles you are not asked to perform have not lost their value. They
are still expressions of your own state of grace, but the action aspect of the miracle
should be Christ-controlled because of His complete awareness of the whole
plan. The impersonal nature of miracle-mindedness ensures your grace, but only
Christ is in a position to know where grace can be bestowed.
47. 75 Miracle-mindedness means miracle-readiness. Readiness means that you
should always keep your perceptions straight, so that you will always be ready,
willing, and able. These are the essentials for “listen, learn, and do.” You must be
ready to listen, willing to learn, and able to do. Only the last is involuntary because
it is the application of miracles which must be Christ-controlled. The other two,
which are the voluntary aspects of miracle-mindedness, are up to you.
48. 76 Awe is an inappropriate response to miracles.
77 Revelation is literally unspeakable because it is an experience of unspeakable
love. Awe should be reserved for revelation, to which it is perfectly and
correctly applicable. It is not appropriate for miracles because a state of awe is
worshipful. It implies that one of a lesser order stands before a greater one. This
is the case only when a Soul stands before its Creator. Souls are perfect creations
and experience awe only in the Presence of the Creator of perfection.
78 The miracle, on the other hand, is a sign of love among equals. Equals
cannot be in awe of one another because awe implies inequality. It is therefore an
inappropriate reaction to me. An elder brother is entitled to respect for his greater
experience and a reasonable amount of obedience for his greater wisdom. He is
also entitled to love because he is a brother and also to devotion if he is devoted.
It is only my devotion that entitles me to yours. There is nothing about me that
you cannot attain. I have nothing that does not come from God. The main difference
between us as yet is that I have nothing else. This leaves me in a state of true
holiness, which is only a potential in you.
79 “No man cometh unto the Father but by me” is among the most misunderstood
statements in the Bible. It does not mean that I am in any way separate
or different from you except in time, which does not really exist at all. Actually,
the quotation is more meaningful if it is considered on a vertical rather than a
horizontal axis. Regarded along the vertical, man stands below me and I stand
below God. In the process of “rising up,” I am higher. This is because, without me,
the distance between God and man would be too great for you to encompass.
80 I bridge the distance as an elder brother to man on the one hand and as
a Son of God on the other. My devotion to my brothers has placed me in charge
of the Sonship, which I can render complete only to the extent to which I can
share it. This may appear to contradict the statement, “I and my Father are one,”
but there are still separate parts in the statement in recognition that the Father
is greater. (The original statement was “are of one kind”). The Holy Spirit is the
bringer of revelations. Revelations are indirectly inspired by me because I am close
to the Holy Spirit and alert to the revelation-readiness of my brothers. I can thus
bring down to them more than they can draw down to themselves.
49. 81 The Holy Spirit is the highest communication medium. Miracles do not
involve this type of communication because they are temporary communication
devices. When man returns to his original form of communication with God,
the need for miracles is over. The Holy Spirit mediates higher to lower com-
munication, keeping the direct channel from God to man open for revelation.
Revelation is not reciprocal. It is always from God to man. The miracle is reciprocal
because it involves equality.
50 . 82 The miracle is a learning device which lessens the need for time. In the
longitudinal or horizontal plane, the recognition of the true equality of all the
members of the Sonship appears to involve almost endless time. However, the
sudden shifts from horizontal to vertical perception which the miracle entails
introduces an interval from which the doer and the receiver both emerge much
farther along in time than they would otherwise have been.
83 The miracle thus has the unique property of shortening time by rendering
the space of time it occupies unnecessary. There is no relationship between
the time a miracle takes and the time it covers. It substitutes for learning that
might have taken thousands of years. It does this by the underlying recognition
of perfect equality and holiness between the doer and the receiver on which the
miracle rests.
84 We said before that the miracle abolishes time. It does this by a process
of collapsing it and thus abolishing certain intervals within it. It does this, however,
within the larger temporal sequence. It establishes an out-of-pattern time interval
which is not under the usual laws of time. Only in this sense is it timeless. By collapsing
time it literally saves time, much as daylight saving time does. It rearranges
the distribution of light.
51. 85 The miracle is the only device which man has at his immediate disposal
for controlling time. Only revelation transcends time, having nothing to do with
time at all.
86 The miracle is much like the body in that both are learning aids which
aim at facilitating a state in which they are unnecessary. When the Soul’s original
state of direct communication is reached, neither the body nor the miracle serves
any purpose. While he believes he is in a body, however, man can choose between
loveless and miraculous channels of expression. He can make an empty shell, but
he cannot express nothing at all. He can wait, delay, paralyze himself, reduce his
creativity to almost nothing, and even introduce a developmental arrest or even
a regression. But he cannot abolish his creativity. He can destroy his medium of
communication but not his potential.
87 Man was not created by his own free will alone. Only what he creates is
his to decide. The basic decision of the miracle-minded is not to wait on time any
longer than is necessary. Time can waste as well as be wasted. The miracle-worker,
therefore, accepts the time-control factor gladly because he recognizes that every
collapse of time brings all men closer to the ultimate release from time in which
the Son and the Father are one.
88 Equality does not imply homogeneity now. When everyone recognizes
that he has everything, individual contributions to the Sonship will no longer be
necessary. When the Atonement has been completed, all talents will be shared by
all the Sons of God. God is not partial. All His Children have His total love, and all
His gifts are freely given to everyone alike. “Except ye become as little children”
means that, unless you fully recognize your complete dependence on God, you
cannot know the real power of the Son in his true relationship with the Father.
89 You who want peace can find it only by complete forgiveness. You never
really wanted peace before, so there was no point in being told how to achieve it.
No learning is acquired by anyone unless he wants to learn it and believes in some
way that he needs it. While the concept of lack does not exist in the creation of
God, it is very apparent in the creations of man. It is, in fact, the essential difference.
A need implies lack by definition. It involves the recognition that you would be
better off in a state which is somehow different from the one you are in.
90 Until the “separation,” which is a better term than the “fall,” nothing was
lacking. This meant that man had no needs at all. If he had not deprived himself,
he would never have experienced them. After the separation, needs became the
most powerful source of motivation for human action. All behavior is essentially
motivated by needs, but behavior itself is not a divine attribute. The body is the
mechanism for behavior. The belief that he could be better off is the reason why
man has this mechanism at his disposal.
91 Each one acts according to the particular hierarchy of needs he establishes
for himself. His hierarchy, in turn, depends on his perception of what he is—that
is, what he lacks. A sense of separation from God is the only lack he really needs to
correct. This sense of separation would never have occurred if he had not distorted
his perception of truth and thus perceived himself as lacking. The concept of any
sort of need hierarchy arose because, having made this fundamental error, he had
already fragmented himself into levels with different needs. As he integrates he
becomes one, and his needs become one accordingly.
92 Unified need produces unified action because it produces a lack of ambivalence.
The concept of a need hierarchy, a corollary to the original error that
man can be separated from God, requires correction at its own level before the
error of perceiving levels at all can be corrected. Man cannot behave effectively
while he operates at split levels. However, while he does, correction must be
introduced from the bottom up. This is because he now operates in space, where
concepts such as “up” and “down” are meaningful. Ultimately, space is as meaningless
as time. The concept is really one of space-time belief.
93 The physical world exists only because man can use it to correct his
unbelief, which placed him in it originally. He can never control the effects of
fear himself because he made fear and believes in what he made. In attitude, then,
though not in content, he resembles his own Creator, Who has perfect faith in
His creations because He created them. Belief in a creation produces its existence.
That is why a man can believe in what no one else thinks is true. It is true for
him because it was made by him.
94 Every aspect of fear proceeds from upside-down perception. The more
truly creative devote their efforts to correcting perceptual distortions. The
neurotic devotes his to compromise. The psychotic tries to escape by establishing
the certain truth of his own errors. It is most difficult to free him by ordinary
means because he is more consistent in his own denial of truth. The miracle,
however, makes no such distinctions. It corrects errors because they are errors.
Thus, the next point to remember about miracles is:
52. 95 The miracle makes no distinction among degrees of misperception. It is a
device for perception-correction, effective quite apart from either the degree or
the direction of the error. This is its true indiscriminateness.
96 Christ-controlled miracles are selective only in the sense that they are
directed towards those who can use them for themselves. Since this makes it inevitable
that they will extend them to others, a strong chain of Atonement is welded.
However, Christ-control takes no account at all of the magnitude of the miracle
itself because the concept of size exists in a plane that is itself unreal. Since the
miracle aims at restoring the awareness of reality, it would hardly be useful if it
were bound by the laws which govern the error it aims to correct. Only man
makes this kind of mistake. It is an example of the foolish consistency which his
own false beliefs have engendered.
97 The power and strength of man’s creative will must be understood before
the real meaning of denial can be appreciated and relinquished. It is not mere
negation. It is a positive miscreation. While the miscreation is necessarily believed
in by its maker, it does not exist at all at the level of true creation.
53. 98 The miracle compares what man has made with the higher level creation,
accepting what is in accord as true and rejecting the discord as false. All aspects of
fear are untrue because they do not exist at the higher creative level, and therefore
do not exist at all. To whatever extent a man is willing to submit his beliefs
to this test, to that extent are perceptions corrected.
99 In sorting out the false from the true, the miracle proceeds along the
following lines:
100 If perfect love casts out fear,
And if fear exists,
Then there is not perfect love.
But only perfect love really exists.
If there is fear,
It creates a state which does not exist.
101 Believe this and you will be free. Only God can establish this solution,
and this faith is His gift.
NAMASTE' ~ SOPHIA ~
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LOVE, LIGHT & BLESSINGS ~ SOPHIA ~
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