A teacher of God is anyone who chooses to be one. His qualifications
consist solely in this; somehow, somewhere he has made a deliberate
choice in which he did not see his interests as apart from someone
else’s. Once he has done that his road is established and his direction
is sure. A light has entered the darkness. It may be a single light, but
that is enough. He has entered an agreement with God even if he does not
yet believe in Him. He has become a bringer of salvation. He has become
a teacher of God.

They come from all over the world. They come from all religions and from
no religion. They are the ones who have answered. The Call is universal.
It goes on all the time everywhere. It calls for teachers to speak for
it and redeem the world. Many hear it, but few will answer. But it is
all a matter of time. Everyone will answer in the end, but the end can
be a long, long way off. It is because of this that the plan of the
teachers was established. Their function is to save time. Each one
begins as a single light, but with the Call at its center it is a light
that cannot be limited. And each one saves a thousand years of time as
the world judges it. To the Call itself time has no meaning.

There is a course for every teacher of God. The form of the course
varies greatly. So do the particular teaching aids involved. But the
content of the course never changes. Its central theme is always, “God’s
Son is guiltless, and in his innocence is his salvation.” It can be
taught by actions or thoughts; in words or soundlessly; in any language
or in no language; in any place or time or manner. It does not matter
who the teacher was before he heard the Call. He has become a Savior by
his answering. He has seen someone else as himself. He has therefore
found his own salvation and the salvation of the world. In his rebirth
is the world reborn.

This is a manual for a special curriculum, intended for teachers of a
special form of the universal course. There are many thousands of other
forms, all with the same outcome. They merely save time. Yet it is time
alone that winds on wearily, and the world is very tired now. It is old
and worn and without hope. There was never a question of outcome, for
what can change the Will of God? But time, with its illusions of change
and death, wears out the world and all things in it. Yet time has an
ending, and it is this that the teachers of God are appointed to bring
about. For time is in their hands. Such was their choice, and it is
given them.