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6. How is Healing Accomplished?
Healing involves an understanding of what the illusion of sickness is for. Healing is impossible without this. 1. THE PERCEIVED PURPOSE OF SICKNESS Healing is accomplished the instant the sufferer no longer sees any value in pain. Who would choose suffering unless he thought it brought him something, and something of value to him? He…
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7. Is Healing Certain?
Healing is always certain. It is impossible to let illusions be brought to truth and keep the illusions. Truth demonstrates illusions have no value. The teacher of God has seen the correction of his errors in the mind of the patient, recognizing it for what it is. Having accepted the Atonement for himself, he has…
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5. What are the Characteristics of God’s Teachers?
The surface traits of God’s teachers are not at all alike. They do not look alike to the body’s eyes, they come from vastly different backgrounds, their experiences of the world vary greatly, and their superficial “personalities” are quite distinct. Nor at the beginning stages of their functioning as teachers of God have they as…
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8. Should Healing be Repeated?
This question really answers itself. Healing cannot be repeated. If the patient is healed, what remains to heal him from? And if the healing is certain, as we have already said it is, what is there to repeat? For a teacher of God to remain concerned about the result of healing is to limit the…
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9. How Can the Perception of Order of Difficulties be Avoided?
The belief in order of difficulties is the basis for the world’s perception. It rests on differences; on uneven background and shifting foreground, on unequal heights and diverse sizes, on varying degrees of darkness and light, and thousands of contrasts in which each thing seen competes with every other in order to be recognized. A…
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10. Are Changes Required in the Life Situation of God’s Teachers?
Changes are required in the minds of God’s teachers. This may or may not involve changes in the external situation. Remember that no-one is where he is by accident, and chance plays no part in God’s plan. It is most unlikely that changes in his attitudes would not be the first step in the newly-made…
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11. How is Judgement Relinquished?
Judgement, like other devices by which the world of illusions is maintained, is totally misunderstood by the world. It is actually confused with wisdom, and substitutes for truth. As the world uses the term, an individual is capable of “good” and “bad” judgement, and his education aims at strengthening the former and minimizing the latter.…
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3. Who are their Pupils?
Certain pupils have been assigned to each of God’s teachers, and they will begin to look for him as soon as he has answered the Call. They were chosen for him because the form of the universal curriculum that he will teach is best for them in view of their level of understanding. His pupils…
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4. What are the Levels of Teaching?
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…
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2. Who Are God’s Teachers?
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…