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Self concept versus SELFTime to TeachSalvation can be seen as nothing more than the escape from concepts. Where concepts of the self have been laid by is truth revealed exactly as it is. When every concept has been raised to doubt and question, and been recognized as made on no assumptions that would stand the light, then is the truth left free to enter in its sanctuary, clean and free of guilt. There is no statement that the world is more afraid to hear than this:“I do not know the thing I am, and therefore do not know what I am doing, where I am, or how to look upon the world or on myself.” Yet in this learning is salvation born. And What you are will tell you of Itself. ~ Ch. 31 V §14 line 3 and §17 line 4 - 9 ~ ReadingA.Chapter 3 VII. Creating versus the self-imageLesson 14 God did not create a meaningless world Lesson 184 The Name of God is my inheritance B.Chapter 31 V. Self-concept versus SELFLesson 35 My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy Lesson 132 I loose the world from all I thought it was InquiryWhat is a self-concept?Why is it made? List all the terms you ascribe to yourself and to the world. (Lesson 14 & 35) Ponder the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. (Genesis 2 and 3) Use this story of ‘creation’ as analogy to the making of the self-concept and the consequent need to awaken. What is salvation and how is it attained? How do the workbook lessons you practiced relate to the New Testament statement:”What you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and what you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven”? PresentationHow do the concept(s) about yourself determine the way you experience the world?What is the value of questioning all these self-concepts? Are you willing and ready to have every one of them undone? “ I am the Way, the Truth and the Life ” I am as God created meTime to TeachI am God's Son, complete and healed and whole, shining in the reflection of His Love. In me is His creation sanctified and guaranteed eternal life. In me is love perfected, fear impossible, and joy established without opposite. I am the holy home of God Himself. I am the Heaven where His Love resides. I am His holy Sinlessness Itself, for in my purity abides His Own.~Workbook question 14. What Am I? § 1 (after lesson 350)~ ReadingA.Lesson 93 Light and joy and peace abide in meLesson 94 I am as God created me Ch. 3 V. Beyond Perception B.Lesson 110 I am as God created meLesson 162 I am as God created me Ch. 28 II. Reversing Effect and Cause C.Lesson 191 I am the holy son of God himselfCh. 10 V. The Denial of God InquiryWhy is it important to repeatedly declare: “I am as God created me”?How does what you ‘make’ differ from what God ‘creates’? What action of mind reflects your true thinking? Why is it a good idea to invite, and accept all He created instead of what you made? PresentationUse what the text teaches, to support the significance of the declarations you are asked to make in the practice of the workbook lessons listed above.Let us experience the reality of this week’s idea! “ I am the Way, the Truth and the Life ” Certainty of SelfTime to TeachHow happy to be certain! All our doubts we lay aside today, and take our stand with certainty of purpose, and with thanks that doubt is gone and surety has come. We have a mighty purpose to fulfill, and have been given everything we need with which to reach the goal. Not one mistake stands in our way. For we have been absolved from errors. All our sins are washed away by realizing they were but mistakes.~Lesson 98 §2~ ReadingA.Lesson 98 I will accept my part in God’s plan for salvationChapter 28 IV The Greater Joining B.Lesson 139 I will accept Atonement for myselfChapter 6 IV The Only Answer C.Lesson 151 All things are echoes of the Voice for GodChapter 20 III Sin as an Adjustment InquiryWhat is the uncertainty-principle?How can this idea of modern science help me to teach the Certainty of what and who I am? Where does your uncertainty come from? What is at the root of all your fear, doubt, sickness and pain? What action and what recognition restore your certainty of Self? What is the only thing to be certain of? PresentationExplain that the uncertainty you experience is inherent to your existence in time and space!How did you, in your attempt to be separate from God, try to make an uncertain existence seem certain? Explain that the well being of a large constellation depends on your certainty? “ I am the Way, the Truth and the Life Immediacy of SalvationTime to TeachSalvation is immediate. Unless you so perceive it, you will be afraid of it, believing that the risk of loss is great between the time its purpose is made yours and its effects will come to you. In this form is the error still obscured that is the source of fear. Salvation would wipe out the space you see between you still, and let you instantly become as one.~Chapter 26 VIII §3 line 1-4~ ReadingA.Chapter 18 VII. I Need Do NothingChapter 26 VIII. The Immediacy of Salvation B.Chapter 31 I. The Simplicity of SalvationChapter 27 VIII. The Hero of the Dream InquiryWhy is salvation immediate?Would salvation be possible, if not available here and now? How does the immediacy of salvation help you escape guilt and fear? How does the role of body, time and memory shift as you recognize this immediacy? PresentationHow does this immediacy change the way I fulfill my part in salvation?“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life” |
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