The teachers of God have no set teaching level. Each teaching-learning
situation involves a different relationship at the beginning, although
the ultimate goal is always the same; to make of the relationship a holy
relationship in which both can look upon the Son of God as sinless. There
is no-one from whom a teacher of God cannot learn, so there is no-one
whom he cannot teach. However, from a practical point of view, he cannot
meet everyone nor can everyone find him. Therefore, the plan includes
very specific contacts to be made for each teacher of God. There are no
accidents in salvation. Those who are to meet will meet because together
they have the potential for a holy relationship. They are ready for each
other.

The simplest level of teaching appears to be quite superficial. It
consists of what seem to be very casual encounters; a chance meeting of
two apparent strangers in an elevator, a child who is not looking where
he is going running into an adult “by accident,” two students who happen
to walk home together. These are not chance encounters. Each of them has
the potential for becoming teaching-learning situations. Perhaps the
seeming strangers in the elevator will smile to one another; perhaps the
man will not scold the child for bumping into him; perhaps the students
will become friends. Even at the level of the most casual encounter it
is possible for two people to lose sight of separate interests, if only
for a moment. That moment will be enough. Salvation has come.

It is difficult to understand that levels of teaching the universal
course is a concept as meaningless in reality as is time. The illusion of
one permits the illusion of the other. In time, the teacher of God seems
to begin to change his mind about the world with a single decision, and
then learns more and more about the new direction as he teaches it. We
have covered the illusion of time already, but the illusion of levels of
teaching seems to be something different. Perhaps the best way to
demonstrate that these levels cannot exist is simply to say that any
level of the teaching-learning situation is part of God’s plan for
Atonement, and His plan can have no levels, being a reflection of His
Will. Salvation is always ready and always there. God’s
teachers work at different levels, but the result is always the same.

Each teaching-learning situation is maximal in the sense that
each person involved will learn the most that he can from the other
person at that time. In this sense, and in this sense only, we can speak
of levels of teaching. Using the term in this way, the second level of
teaching is a more sustained relationship, in which for a time two
people enter into a fairly intense teaching-learning situation and then
appear to separate. As with the first level, these meetings are not
accidental nor is what appears to be the end of the relationship a real
end. Again, each has learned the most he can at the time. Yet all who
meet will someday meet again, for it is the destiny of all relationships
to become holy. God is not mistaken in His Son.

The third level of teaching occurs in relationships which, once they are
formed, are lifelong. These are teaching-learning situations in which
each person is given a chosen learning partner who presents him with
unlimited opportunities for learning. These relationships are generally
few because their existence implies that those involved have reached a
stage simultaneously in which the teaching-learning balance is actually
perfect. This does not mean that they necessarily recognize this; in
fact, they generally do not. They may even be quite hostile to each
other for some time, and perhaps for life. Yet should they decide to
learn it, the perfect lesson is before them and can be learned. And if
they decide to learn that lesson, they become the Saviors of the
teachers who falter and may even seem to fail. No teacher of God can
fail to find the Help he needs.