User:Remi/Concordance of A Course in Miracles/Appendices

Prescriptions
Before you choose to do anything, ask me if your choice is in accord with mine. If you are sure that it is, there will be no fear.

Focus your mind only on this:
 * ''I am not alone, and I would not intrude the past upon my Guest.
 * ''I have invited Him, and He is here.
 * ''I need do nothing except not to interfere.
 * 16 - 1 - 3

You can do much on behalf of your own healing and that of others if, in a situation calling for help, you think of it this way:
 * ''I am here only to be truly helpful.
 * ''I am here to represent him who sent me.
 * ''I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do, because he who sent me will direct me.
 * ''I am content to be wherever he wishes, knowing he goes there with me.
 * ''I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal.
 * C2S6

You are free to establish your kingdom where you see fit, but the right choice is inevitable if you remember this:
 * ''Spirit is in a state of grace forever.
 * ''Your reality is only spirit.
 * ''Therefore you are in a state of grace forever.
 * C1S3P5

In sorting out the false from the true, the miracle proceeds along these lines:
 * ''Perfect love casts out fear.
 * ''If fear exists,
 * ''Then there is not perfect love.

But:
 * ''Only perfect love exists.
 * ''If there is fear,
 * ''It produces a state that does not exist.

Believe this and you will be free. Only God can establish this solution, and this faith is his gift. C1S6P5

If you perceive injustice anywhere, you need but say:
 * ''By this do I deny the Presence of the Father and the Son.
 * ''And I would rather know of Them than see injustice,
 * ''which Their Presence shines away.
 * 26, 10, last

Whenever you are tempted to undertake a useless journey that would lead away from light, remember what you really want, and say:


 * ''The Holy Spirit leads me unto Christ, and where else would I go?
 * ''What need have I but to awake in him?
 * 13 - 8 - 4th to last...

In preparing for the holy instant, do not attempt to make yourself holy to be ready to receive it. That is but to confuse your role with God's. Atonement cannot come to those who think that they must first atone, but only to those who offer it nothing more than simple willingness to make way for it. Purification is of God alone, and therefore for you. Rather than seek to prepare yourself for him, try to think thus:


 * ''I who am host to God am worthy of him.
 * ''He who established His dwelling place in me
 * ''created it as he would have it be.
 * ''It is not needful that I make it ready for him,
 * ''but only that I do not interfere with his plan to restore to me my own awareness of my readiness,
 * ''which is eternal.
 * ''I need add nothing to his plan.
 * ''But to receive it, I must be willing not to substitute my own in place of it.
 * 18,4,4

This is the only thing that you need do for vision, happiness, release from pain and the complete escape from sin, all to be given you. Say only this, but mean it with no reservations, for here the power of salvation lies:


 * ''I am responsible for what I see.

I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide upon the goal I would achieve. And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for, and receive as I have asked. Deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless in the face of what is done to you. Acknowledge but that you have been mistaken, and all effects of your mistakes will disappear. 21,3,2-3

Section 1
The Bible says that you should go with a brother twice as far as he asks. It certainly does not suggest that you set him back on his journey. 4-1-...

Chapter 6
As I have said before, "As you teach so shall you learn." If you react as if you are persecuted, you are teaching persecution. This is not a lesson a Son of God should want to teach if he is to realize his own salvation. Rather, teach your own perfect immunity, which is the truth in you, and realize that it cannot be assailed. 6-2-6

These are some of the examples of upside-down thinking in the New Testament, although its gospel is really only the message of love. If the Apostles had not felt guilty, they never could have quoted me as saying, "I come not to bring peace but a sword. "This is clearly the opposite of everything I taught. Nor could they have described my reactions to Judas as they did, if they had really understood me. I could not have said, "Betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss? " unless I believed in betrayal. The whole message of the crucifixion was simply that I did not. The "punishment" I was said to have called forth upon Judas was a similar mistake. Judas was my brother and a Son of God, as much a part of the Sonship as myself. Was it likely that I would condemn him when I was ready to demonstrate that condemnation is impossible? 6-2-~10

Statements
The greatest obstacle that peace must flow across has not yet gone. 29,1,3

Key

 * C = Text Chapter
 * S = Section
 * ¶ = Paragraph
 * W= Work Book Lesson
 * M = Manuel for Teachers

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Secret attack, beliefs, recognizing, will of peace, the nature of God
Beliefs will never openly attack each other because conflicting outcomes are impossible. But an unrecognized belief is a decision to war in secret, where the results of conflict are kept unknown and never brought to reason, to be considered sensible or not. And many senseless outcomes have been reached, and meaningless decisions have been made and kept hidden, to become beliefs now given power to direct all subsequent decisions. Mistake you not the power of these hidden warriors to disrupt your peace. For it is at their mercy while you decide to leave it there. The secret enemies of peace, your least decision to choose attack instead of love, unrecognized and swift to challenge you to combat and to violence far more inclusive than you think, are there by your election. Do not deny their presence nor their terrible results. All that can be denied is their reality, but not their outcome.

All that is ever cherished as a hidden belief, to be defended though unrecognized, is faith in specialness. This takes many forms, but always clashes with the reality of God's creation and with the grandeur that He gave His Son. What else could justify attack? For who could hate someone whose Self is his, and Whom he knows? Only the special could have enemies, for they are different and not the same. And difference of any kind imposes orders of reality, and a need to judge that cannot be escaped.

What God created cannot be attacked, for there is nothing in the universe unlike itself. But what is different calls for judgment, and this must come from someone "better," someone incapable of being like what he condemns, "above" it, sinless by comparison with it. And thus does specialness become a means and end at once. For specialness not only sets apart, but serves as grounds from which attack on those who seem "beneath" the special one is "natural" and "just. "The special ones feel weak and frail because of differences, for what would make them special is their enemy. Yet they protect its enmity and call it "friend. "On its behalf they fight against the universe, for nothing in the world they value more. 24,2,3-5