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v1.0 · Course text used under CIMS license
Manual for Teachers
Contents
Opening
Introduction
Mt.In
Question 1
Who Are God's Teachers?
Mt.1
Question 2
Who Are Their Pupils?
Mt.2
Question 3
What are the Levels of Teaching?
Mt.3
Question 4
What Are the Characteristics of God's Teachers?
Mt.4
Question 5
How is Healing Accomplished?
Mt.5
Question 6
Is Healing Certain?
Mt.6
Question 7
Should Healing Be Repeated?
Mt.7
Question 8
How Can the Perception of Order of Difficulties Be Avoided?
Mt.8
Question 9
Are Changes Required in the Life Situation of God's Teachers?
Mt.9
Question 10
How Is Judgment Relinquished?
Mt.10
Question 11
How Is Peace Possible in this World?
Mt.11
Question 12
How Many Teachers of God Are Needed to Save the World?
Mt.12
Question 13
What Is the Real Meaning of Sacrifice?
Mt.13
Question 14
How Will the World End?
Mt.14
Question 15
Is Each One to Be Judged in the End?
Mt.15
Question 16
How Should the Teacher of God Spend His Day?
Mt.16
Question 17
How do God's Teachers Deal With Their Pupils' Thoughts of Magic?
Mt.17
Question 18
How Is Correction Made?
Mt.18
Question 19
What Is Justice?
Mt.19
Question 20
What Is the Peace of God?
Mt.20
Question 21
What Is the Role of Words in Healing?
Mt.21
Question 22
How Are Healing and Atonement Related?
Mt.22
Question 23
Does Jesus Have a Special Place in Healing?
Mt.23
Question 24
Is Reincarnation True?
Mt.24
Question 25
Are "Psychic" Powers Desirable?
Mt.25
Question 26
Can God Be Reached Directly?
Mt.26
Question 27
What Is Death?
Mt.27
Question 28
What Is the Resurrection?
Mt.28
Question 29
As For the Rest
Mt.29
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Question 1
Who Are God's Teachers?
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1A 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.
2They 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.
3There 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.
4This 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.