Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Miracles Are Seen In Light <Miracles_Are_Seen_In_Light@Miracles.com>
Newsgroups: talk.religion.course-miracle
Subject: The First in Eternity is God the Father
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:45:05 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 71
Message-ID: <vcdpd1$3uucb$1@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:45:06 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6eb7343a714cdad09ea4456b6dde864c";
	logging-data="4159883"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19DnODJm46ePDvnMlfK+s2t+KQK9Vl4Ndc="
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101
 Thunderbird/45.8.0
Cancel-Lock: sha1:Lxpg5RCvL9cTg46b77at150Vurg=
Bytes: 5354

"The first in time means nothing, but the First in eternity is God the 
Father, Who is both First and One.  Beyond the First there is no other, 
for there is no order, no second or third, and nothing but the First."

"You who belong to the First Cause, created by him like unto himself and 
part of him, are more than merely guiltless.  The state of guiltlessness 
is only the condition in which what is not there has been removed from 
the disordered mind that thought it was.  This state, and only this, 
must you attain, with God beside you.  For until you do, you will still 
think that you are separate from him."

"When you have let all that obscured the truth in your most holy mind be 
undone for you, and therefore stand in grace before your Father, he will 
give himself to you as he has always done.  Giving himself is all he 
knows, and so it is all knowledge.  For what he knows not cannot be, and 
therefore cannot be given.  Ask not to be forgiven, for this has already 
been accomplished.  Ask, rather, to learn how to forgive, and to restore 
what always was to your unforgiving mind.  Atonement becomes real and 
visible to those who use it.  On earth this is your only function, and 
you must learn that it is all you want to learn."

"You need not understand creation to do what must be done before that 
knowledge would be meaningful to you.  God breaks no barriers; neither 
did he make them.  When you release them they are gone.  God will not 
fail, nor ever has in anything.  Decide that God is right and you are 
wrong about yourself.  He created you out of himself, but still within 
him.  He knows what you are.  Remember that there is no second to him. 
There cannot, therefore, be anyone without his holiness, nor anyone 
unworthy of his perfect love.  Fail not in your function of loving in a 
loveless place made out of darkness and deceit, for thus are darkness 
and deceit undone.  Fail not yourself, but instead offer to God and you 
his blameless Son.  For this small gift of appreciation for his love, 
God will himself exchange your gift for his."


"Before you make any decisions for yourself, remember that you have 
decided against your function in Heaven, and then consider carefully 
whether you want to make decisions here.  Your function here is only to 
decide against deciding what you want, in recognition that you do not 
know.  How, then, can you decide what you should do?  Leave all 
decisions to the One Who speaks for God, and for your function as he 
knows it.  So will he teach you to remove the awful burden you have laid 
upon yourself by loving not the Son of God, and trying to teach him 
guilt instead of love.  Give up this frantic and insane attempt that 
cheats you of the joy of living with your God and Father, and of waking 
gladly to his love and holiness that join together as the truth in you, 
making you one with him."

"Unless you are guiltless you cannot know God, Whose Will is that you 
know him.  Therefore, you *must* be guiltless.  Yet if you do not accept 
the necessary conditions for knowing him, you have denied him and do not 
recognize him, though he is all around you.  He cannot be known without 
his Son, whose guiltlessness is the condition for knowing him. Accepting 
his Son as guilty is denial of the Father so complete, that knowledge is 
swept away from recognition in the very mind where God himself has 
placed it.  If you would but listen, and learn how impossible this is! 
Do not endow him with attributes you understand.  You made him not, and 
anything you understand is not of him."

"Your task is not to make reality.  It is here without your making, but 
not without you. You who have tried to throw yourself away and valued 
God so little, hear me speak for him and for yourself.  You cannot 
understand how much your Father loves you, for there is no parallel in 
your experience of the world to help you understand it.  There is 
nothing on earth with which it can compare, and nothing you have ever 
felt apart from him resembles it ever so faintly.  Would you know of One 
Who gives forever, and Who knows of nothing except giving?"

- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 14, Section 4 (5pdf)
"Teaching for Truth," "Your Function in the Atonement"
https://tinyurl.com/A-Course-In-Miracles-pdf