Christ control
These are the references to Christ-control that were deleted from the edited version of ACIM published by the Foundation for Inner Peace. These excerpts are reproduced here for reference purposes. The concepts of the unconscious mind and of Christ-control are very important to understand what is required to be a miracle-worker.
1. Remember, you already have a point about the involuntary nature of miracles. We also have established the fact that everything involuntary belongs under Christ-control, not under yours. Under Christ-control, miracles replenish the doer as well as the receiver.
2. 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 as I see fit.. . . . (read more)
Inspirational Gifts
Scattered Brotherhood
Go as an ambassador of God
Dear friends,
The reason the world is in this state is because it has not been alert, awake, vigilant in obeying the words of the Spirit. Hate, the negations, the antitheses of the Spirit, have been vigilant; the negatives always are. You have been more awake because you disciplined yourselves within; because you sought and found. But your scale is much too small where it should be higher in its vigilance and this is the reason you feel the outside pressure as much as you do and find it so difficult to withstand. This awareness of God must be fiery; you must be ablaze with it, for then it will be felt and the picture of this glory will be translated now, this minute, into a welling up of faith and power. You know that much of your trouble is due to your own inertias. In spite of them, think what a gift you have with which to face this crisis. Every waking moment stand in God's presence with him in your heart. In quiet and confidence is your strength, and from now on, when you go out into life
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Introduction to
A Course in Miracles
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Bringing light to darkness
by Thomas Fox, JD, OM
The Course outlines a two-step process of first becoming a miracle worker and then being a miracle worker in the world. The first step of self-healing involves bringing the darkness to light . . . looking within without denial and offering our sense of sin, guilt and fear to spirit's judgment of innocence. This, along with the mental discipline of not justifying our anger and relinquishing the desire to attack, can be said to be the process of purification mentioned in Miracle Principle 7.
"Miracles are everyone's right, but purification is necessary first."
This also gives meaning to the idea, "being in the world, but not of it." The 'world' in this sense is referring to the world of fear, so not being of the world merely means to live without fear, or living in the world fearlessly. . . . . (read more)
The Earlier Versions and the Editing
of A Course in Miracles
by Robert Perry
Life for students of A Course in Miracles used to be simpler than it is today. We had one version of our revered book, and we knew that this version was almost exactly as its scribe, Helen Schucman, heard it, straight from Jesus. She herself gave this impression in the Course's preface:
"Only a few minor changes have been made. Chapter titles and subheadings have been inserted in the Text, and some of the more personal references that occurred at the beginning have been omitted. Otherwise the material is substantially unchanged."
Then everything changed. In January of 2000, an earlier version of the Course, called the Hugh Lynn Cayce Version, was disseminated on the Internet. Later in that same year, an even earlier version, called the Urtext, also became available on the Internet. Both versions showed that the Course as we knew it had gone through a far more extensive editing process than anyone had suspected.. . . . (read more)
The meaning of mind and editing changes
by Gene W. Smith, PhD
In this article we undertake to compare the Second Edition of A Course in Miracles with the Hugh Lynn Cayce (HLC) version of the Text. We adopt a system of referencing a sentence from this version of the Text by means of four numbers separated by periods. The first number is the chapter, the second the section, the third the paragraph within the section, and the fourth the sentence within the paragraph.
Let us begin by looking at the following passage from the Second Edition:
"I have repeatedly emphasized that one level of the mind is not understandable to another. So it is with the ego and the Holy Spirit; with time and eternity. Eternity is an idea of God, so the Holy Spirit understands it perfectly. Time is a belief of the ego, so the lower mind, which is the ego’s domain, accepts it without question. The only aspect of time that is eternal is now." T-5.III.6
On its face, this passage is a little curious, since it seems to suggest that the Holy Spirit is a level of the mind. To be that, the Holy Spirit would presumably need to have been split off, or dissociated. . . . . (read more)
What is the Course?
Will it exist in the 21st Century?
by Hugh Prather
First, a disclaimer: The information I give here about the early days of the Course is sprinkled with a few direct observations but comes primarily from many conversations my wife Gayle and I had with Bill Thetford over the years. If there are any inaccuracies, please chalk these up to my faulty memory of what Bill told us, because nothing here is taken from books and biographies about the Course.
Bill thought it amusing that many “official” details about how the Course came were not what he recalled, even though he was by that time the only one alive who had been there from the beginning. For instance, once he laughed and said, “Now they’re saying the Course came over a period of [10] years. I always thought it was [7] years.” For reasons that I hope will become clearer as we go along, my purpose is not to correct historical details and for that reason I am not getting into them. “Getting into details” instead of getting into God is what causes all the trouble.
The lesson for Gayle and me was that although Bill disagreed with some of the “facts” that were being recorded about his and Helen’s lives, and some of the actions that were being taken in the name of the Course, he did not feel the need to impose his position on other people. However, please note that he did have a position on these and many other subjects, and, primarily as a form of humor, he often would voice his position. . . . .
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