A Course in Miracles
1975 Text: Contents

Chapters and Sections

1. The Meaning of Miracles

1. Introduction

2. Principles of Miracles

3. Revelation, Time and Miracles

4. Atonement and Miracles

5. The Escape from Darkness

6. Wholeness and Spirit

7. The Illusion of Needs

8. Distortions of Miracle Impulses

2. The Separation and the Atonement

1. The Origins of Separation

2. The Atonement as Defense

3. The Altar of God

4. Healing as Release from Fear

5. The Function of the Miracle Worker

6. Special Principles of Miracle Workers

7. Fear and Conflict

8. Cause and Effect

9. The Meaning of the Last Judgment

3. The Innocent Perception

1. Atonement without Sacrifice

2. Miracles as True Perception

3. Perception versus Knowledge

4. Error and the Ego

5. Beyond Perception

6. Judgment and the Authority Problem

7. Creating versus the Self-Image

4. The Illusions of the Ego

1. Introduction

2. Right Teaching and Right Learning

3. The Ego and False Autonomy

4. Love without Conflict

5. This Need Not Be

6. The Ego-Body Illusion

7. The Rewards of God

8. Creation and Communication

5. Healing and Wholeness

1. Introduction

2. The Invitation to the Holy Spirit

3. The Voice for God

4. The Guide to Salvation

5. Teaching and Healing

6. The Ego's Use of Guilt

7. Time and Eternity

8. The Decision for God

6. The Lessons of Love

1. Introduction

2. The Message of the Crucifixion

3. The Alternative to Projection

4. The Relinquishment of Attack

5. The Only Answer

6. The Lessons of the Holy Spirit

7. To Have, Give All to All

8. To Have Peace, Teach Peace to Learn It

9. Be Vigilant Only for God and His Kingdom

7. The Gifts of the Kingdom

1. The Last Step

2. The Law of the Kingdom

3. The Reality of the Kingdom

4. Healing as the Recognition of Truth

5. Healing and the Changelessness of Mind

6. From Vigilance to Peace

7. The Totality of the Kingdom

8. The Unbelievable Belief

9. The Extension of the Kingdom

10. The Confusion of Pain and Joy

11. The State of Grace

8. The Journey Back

1. The Direction of the Curriculum

2. The Difference between Imprisonment and Freedom

3. The Holy Encounter

4. The Gift of Freedom

5. The Undivided Will of the Sonship

6. The Treasure of God

7. The Body as a Means of Communication

8. The Body as Means or End

9. Healing as Corrected Perception

9. The Acceptance of the Atonement

1. The Acceptance of Reality

2. The Answer to Prayer

3. The Correction of Error

4. The Holy Spirit's Plan of Forgiveness

5. The Unhealed Healer

6. The Acceptance of Your Brother

7. The Two Evaluations

8. Grandeur versus Grandiosity

10. The Idols of Sickness

1. Introduction

2. At Home in God

3. The Decision to Forget

4. The God of Sickness

5. The End of Sickness

6. The Denial of God

11. God or the Ego

1. Introduction

2. The Gifts of Fatherhood

3. The Invitation to Healing

4. From Darkness to Light

5. The Inheritance of God's Son

6. The "Dynamics" of the Ego

7. Waking to Redemption

8. The Condition of Reality

9. The Problem and the Answer

12. The Holy Spirit's Curriculum

1. The Judgment of the Holy Spirit

2. The Way to Remember God

3. The Investment in Reality

4. Seeking and Finding

5. The Sane Curriculum

6. The Vision of Christ

7. Looking Within

8. The Attraction of Love for Love

13. The Guiltless World

1. Introduction

2. Guiltlessness and Invulnerability

3. The Guiltless Son of God

4. The Fear of Redemption

5. The Function of Time

6. The Two Emotions

7. Finding the Present

8. Attainment of the Real World

9. From Perception to Knowledge

10. The Cloud of Guilt

11. Release from Guilt

12. The Peace of Heaven

14. Teaching for Truth

1. Introduction

2. The Conditions of Learning

3. The Happy Learner

4. The Decision for Guiltlessness

5. Your Function in the Atonement

6. The Circle of Atonement

7. The Light of Communication

8. Sharing Perception with the Holy Spirit

9. The Holy Meeting Place

10. The Reflection of Holiness

11. The Equality of Miracles

12. The Test of Truth

15. The Holy Instant

1. The Two Uses of Time

2. The End of Doubt

3. Littleness versus Magnitude

4. Practicing the Holy Instant

5. The Holy Instant and Special Relationships

6. The Holy Instant and the Laws of God

7. The Needless Sacrifice

8. The Only Real Relationship

9. The Holy Instant and the Attraction of God

10. The Time of Rebirth

11. Christmas as the End of Sacrifice

16. The Forgiveness of Illusions

1. True Empathy

2. The Power of Holiness

3. The Reward of Teaching

4. The Illusion and the Reality of Love

5. The Choice for Completion

6. The Bridge to the Real World

7. The End of Illusions

17. Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship

1. Bringing Fantasy to Truth

2. The Forgiven World

3. Shadows of the Past

4. The Two Pictures

5. The Healed Relationship

6. Setting the Goal

7. The Call for Faith

8. The Conditions of Peace

18. The Passing of the Dream

1. The Substitute Reality

2. The Basis of the Dream

3. Light in the Dream

4. The Little Willingness

5. The Happy Dream

6. Beyond the Body

7. I Need Do Nothing

8. The Little Garden

9. The Two Worlds

19. The Attainment of Peace

1. Healing and Faith

2. Sin versus Error

3. The Unreality of Sin

4. The Obstacles to Peace

5. The First Obstacle: The Desire to Get Rid of It

6. The Attraction of Guilt

7. The Second Obsacle: The Belief the Body is Valuable for What It Offers

8. The Attraction of Pain

9. The Third Obstacle: The Attraction of Death

10. The Incorruptible Body

11. The Fourth Obstacle: The Fear of God

12. The Lifting of the Veil

20. The Vision of Holiness

1. Holy Week

2. The Gift of Lilies

3. Sin as an Adjustment

4. Entering the Ark

5. Heralds of Eternity

6. The Temple of the Holy Spirit

7. The Consistency of Means and End

8. The Vision of Sinlessness

21. Reason and Perception

1. Introduction

2. The Forgotten Song

3. The Responsibility for Sight

4. Faith, Belief and Vision

5. The Fear to Look Within

6. The Function of Reason

7. Reason versus Madness

8. The Last Unanswered Question

9. The Inner Shift

22. Salvation and the Holy Relationship

1. Introduction

2. The Message of the Holy Relationship

3. Your Brother's Sinlessness

4. Reason and the Forms of Error

5. The Branching of the Road

6. Weakness and Defensiveness

7. The Light of the Holy Relationship

23. The War Against Yourself

1. Introduction

2. The Irreconcilable Beliefs

3. The Laws of Chaos

4. Salvation without Compromise

5. Above the Battleground

24. The Goal of Specialness

1. Introduction

2. Specialness as a Substitute for Love

3. The Treachery of Specialness

4. The Forgiveness of Specialness

5. Specialness versus Sinlessness

6. The Christ in You

7. Salvation from Fear

8. The Meeting Place

25. The Justice of God

1. Introduction

2. The Link to Truth

3. The Savior from the Dark

4. Perception and Choice

5. The Light You Bring

6. The State of Sinlessness

7. The Special Function

8. The Rock of Salvation

9. Justice Returned to Love

10. The Justice of Heaven

26. The Transition

1. The "Sacrifice" of Oneness

2. Many Forms; One Correction

2. Many Forms; One Correction

3. The Borderland

4. Where Sin Has Left

5. The Little Hindrance

6. The Appointed Friend

7. The Laws of Healing

8. The Immediacy of Salvation

9. For They Have Come

10. The End of Injustice

27. The Healing of the Dream

1. The Picture of Crucifixion

2. The Fear of Healing

3. Beyond All Symbols

4. The Quiet Answer

5. The Healing Example

6. The Witnesses to Sin

7. The Dreamer of the Dream

8. The "Hero" of the Dream

28. The Undoing of Fear

1. The Present Memory

2. Reversing Effect and Cause

3. The Agreement to Join

4. The Greater Joining

5. The Alternate to Dreams of Fear

6. The Secret Vows

7. The Ark of Safety

29. The Awakening

1. The Closing of the Gap

2. The Coming of the Guest

3. God's Witnesses

4. Dream Roles

5. The Changeless Dwelling Place

6. Forgiveness and the End of Time

7. Seek Not Outside Yourself

8. The Anti-Christ

9. The Forgiving Dream

30. The New Beginning

1. Introduction

2. Rules for Decision

3. Freedom of Will

4. Beyond All Idols

5. The Truth behind Illusions

6. The Only Purpose

7. The Justification for Forgiveness

8. The New Interpretation

9. Changeless Reality

31. The Final Vision

1. The Simplicity of Salvation

2. Walking with Christ

3. The Self-Accused

4. The Real Alternative

5. Self-Concept versus Self

6. Recognizing the Spirit

7. The Savior's Vision

8. Choose Once Again