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Today is 8/1/2024, early in the morning, and I'm experiencing an “Ah, ah continuing moment.” I have spent countless hours writing over seventeen manuscripts about A Course In Miracles (ACIM). I am extremely familiar with all teachings because I had to think them through before writing them down so others understood. I’ve had little success with laymen comprehending what I’m talking about. Course students get it, but to my knowledge others don’t. Hopefully this will change starting now.
The concept of God isthe most mysterious topic in existence. After fifteen years of thinking and writing about this subject, I’m going to attempt and make everything I know simple for you to understand. My parents were old enough to be my grandparents. Dad was born in 1897 and mom in 1904. I was fortunate to have been raised in a loving home. Mom and dad weren't churchgoers, and the subject of God never came up. They did teach a little prayer when I was very young. “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray to the Lord my soul to keep, if I should die before I awake, I pray to the Lord, my soul to take.” So as a toddler, the existence of a higher power was ingrained. When I became older, friends would discuss God. “Where did God come from? I don’t believe any of it.” I couldn’t answer but retained my belief. Today, I simply accept the truth that God Is. My knowledge of a higher power has survived countless attacks for 50 years and continues to grow. My perception of this world is changing to wisdom that understands all is most perfectly well because of the supreme Love of God. Love is not an emotion but an extremely powerful Force which guides, teaches and sustains.
I’ve strived to understand as much as possible about this Being, mainly out of curiosity. The thought occurred to me this very morning, I’m publishing these manuscripts in a world where the vast majority do not believe in God’s existence at all. Never have, never will, and have absolutely no interest in the subject. Period. Well, what am I to do then, quit writing? My answer to my own question is no. The reason I say this is that I’ve learned more from my writings than anyone else. Make sense? I hope? I’ve been gifted with a logical mind, absolutely no common sense, but a logical mind. Read my book, Flip Sides Of The Same Coin We Call Life. It’s an autobiography, and you will be amazed at some absolutely idiotic, important decisions I’ve made. I still wonder how I could have been that stupid. In college, I aced high-end mathematics, Calculus, Quantitative Methods (QM), Advanced Algebra. I was gifted with a mind for math. What I enjoyed about it, there were no gray areas. One plus one equals two, pure logic. I should have decided on engineering as a career, but alas, no common sense.
Please humor me for a little while, and somewhat consider the idea that God Is. Forty years ago, I taught a large adult Sunday school. I always had a problem with the concept of Hell and never mentioned the subject. ACIM comes along and proclaims Hell does not exist. Way cool. The wars, crime, poverty, corruption, hate, and fear we see in this world every day were never mentioned in class either. I chose to teach and talk about good stuff. ACIM teaches even muchbetter news. God doesn’t know about any of that crap because Source isn’t even aware of the existence of this entire universe. To understand the logic of all this, read on. So this God who Is makes His/Her first Creation, Christ (not Jesus). God’s very nature is one of complete extension. Following is the opening of a short, fictional story I wrote five months ago.
“Whoa, why is this? Who am I? Another answered, not by voice, but somehow He heard. You’re My Son. What’s a Son? You’re My very first creation. What does creation mean? I’ll show You around after a little more creating. You’re also My only joy. Astonishingly, He knew what joy is and He felt absolutely wonderful. This Being started to share the very essence of Who He Is, andsuddenly, He started to learn and comprehend very, truly, extremely fast. He mysteriously understood atomic forces, protons, electrons, neutrons, neutrinos, recurring and changing inorganic and organic molecules. He comprehended amino acids and the forces that regulate all. Vistas of astonishing beauty opened up for Him. He became ecstatic while gazing at forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, mountains, skies, worlds, suns, stars, galaxies, and universes. He was everywhere with this magnificent One. He asked, “Who are You?” “I Am” was the reply. He instantly comprehended His own name is Christ. He became aware this is His Father, Whose very nature is to give and teach all He knows, and He knows everything. Christ knew He was not in any way separate or different from God and understands He is not a part of God but an extension of the whole. He knew love must be shared, and the love that is shared in His Father’s universe is exquisite and beautiful. Oh, the joy and laughter as They completed One Another. Christ supremely became as powerful, compassionate, wise, knowing, limitless, and most importantly as loving as His Creator. They are inseparable and continue to co-create vast galaxies and universes. However, due to the infinite wisdom of I Am, they stopped short of creating life to populate all that is. In Their Beautiful Minds, They knew exactly what to do when God would say the moment was perfect. They envisioned all aquatic life, myriads of different flying species, all animal life, and the harmony of the varying interconnected environments all would live in. Their creations were also to be gifted with the ability to co-create. Each after their own kind. All of this would happen in a nanosecond, just as Christ had been created.
There was no concept of time or space for They were everywhere, and They were One. God has created Christ to be exactly like Himself and to share His eternal love and joy in a state of unencumbered, boundless, and unimaginable ecstasy. Any question the Son asked was instantly answered as Their communication was perfect. Then somewhere, some when Christ asked a question that was not answered. What? Why? The question was like,” What else is there?” or “What would it be like to go out and play by Myself?” I Am did not answer because there is nothing else, but God’s perfect creation. The Divine Son became horrified, certainly an awful new feeling previously unknown. He mistakenly thought His perfect communication was completely gone. Then He experienced a vastly more terrible knowing. Fear. Christ instantly created a universe of His own where He could hide. What we refer to as The Big Bang occurred, composed of billions of fragments. He needed somewhere deeper to escape, so He instantly made the first human bodies after His Own Image and placed His Magnificent Mind into all of them. The first ego was spawned. This Mind believes that it is completely on its own. Christ also actualized all the animal life, countless aquatic creatures, the avian companions, and the harmonious environments they would all co-create in. While we may still try to create, we cannot really compose without the power of God, so everything made eventually falls apart and dies. The reason is that this false dream universe was contrived due to fear.” Back to 8/1/2004, God’s second Creation was the Holy Spirit, whose purpose is to heal Christ. For a more detailed explanation, read the second chapter.
There is much we can learn by observing nature and all her teaching lessons. In all of nature, there is never a hurry to quicken a process as everything is always perfect in every moment and when the time is right, the rose will bloom. The universal Christ Mind is constantly communicating with all creation in every moment. For the kingdoms without free will, this connection is called innate intelligence when the guidance comes directly from the universal Mind. The guidance for a beaver to build a dam. A bird to build a nest, a flock of birds to fly in a V Formation, the spider to spin her web, a rose to bloom or the hibernation of animals in the winter. The timing always comes perfectly. All these life forms are always in Christ's presence in every moment. This guidance is perfect, and it represents harmony, balance, order, and unity for the good of all. Nature comes together to represent the synchronicity of the oneness as life unfolds. These kingdoms, mineral, plant, insect, animal, and angelic, do not have free will and are directly connected to the Christ Mind and stay consciously aware at every moment. Every man, women, and child that comes to earth is also directly connected to this Mind, but has not yet learned to stay consciously aware in each moment. Before coming to Earth, we were also connected to the Son's Mind through innate intelligence. But when we came to Earth, we were gifted with free will, the ability to manifest using a conscious mind, and learning to discern using the five senses and reasoning. Once we understand we are always connected to the universal Mind and never separated from the oneness of life, we will learn to trust our feelings and reconnect to understand our perfection.
For those who are still humoring my God Is proposition, I think it's great to begin understanding what this means. The Prime Creator gifted Christ with everything He/She knows. Thus, we witness the order, balance, and harmony built into all nature. Science is determining the micro-verse (very small) and the macro-verse (very big) are regulated by forces that are astoundingly similar. The major problem here is everything was created due to Fear. Everything in God’s universe, which we will refer to as Heaven, was created by Love. If we can see the order of creation here, the absolute magnificence of Heaven will be way beyond astounding. I believe we’ll get lost in wonder just looking at the perfection of a rose.
This also popped into my mind this morning. God didn’t forgive Christ because there was nothing to forgive, He simply made a mistake. Granted, this was The Biggest Mistake Ever Made. In the New Testament, Jesus told a parable called The Prodigal Son. The King’s son took his inheritance and went to a far-a-way land. Due to wine, women, and song, he squandered all his wealth and was living in total poverty. He thought, My father’s servants live much, much better than this, I’ll return and beg for forgiveness. Maybe he’ll give me a job. Being informed of his son’s return, the King said, “Bring the finest meat and wine, we’ll prepare a feast for my son who was lost, but now is found.” Today, what occurred to me was that Christ was the first Prodigal Son. Also, He was the very first to understand what it felt like to be forgiven. This is why it is so very important for us to forgive All, Always. I’ve tried my best to explain this as simply as possible. It’s taken me an enormous amount of complicated thought processes to figure out things are pretty simple and that God Is.
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