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v1.0 · Course text used under CIMS license

Workbook for Students

Contents

Opening

Introduction

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Part I

Lessons 1 - 50

50 lessons

Part I

Review I [51 - 60]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 61 - 80

20 lessons

Part I

Review II [81 - 90]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 91 - 110

20 lessons

Part I

Review III [111 - 120]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 121 - 140

20 lessons

Part I

Review IV [141 - 150]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 151 - 170

20 lessons

151.All things are echoes of the Voice of God.

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152.The power of decision is my own.

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153.In my defenselessness my safety lies.

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154.I am among the ministers of God.

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155.I will step back and let Him lead the way.

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156.I walk with God in perfect holiness.

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157.Into His Presence would I enter now.

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158.Today I learn to give as I receive.

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159.I give the miracles I have received.

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160.I am at home. Fear is the stranger here.

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161.Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.

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162.I am as God created me.

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163.There is no death. The Son of God is free.

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164.Now are we one with Him Who is our Source.

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165.Let not my mind deny the Thought of God.

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166.I am entrusted with the gifts of God.

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167.There is one life, and that I share with God.

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168.Your grace is given me. I claim it now.

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169.By grace I live. By grace I am released.

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170.There is no cruelty in God and none in me.

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Part I

Review V [171 - 180]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 181 - 200

20 lessons

Part I

Review VI [201 - 220]

20 lessons

Part II

Introduction

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Part II

Lessons 221 - 230

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 231 - 240

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 241 - 250

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 251 - 260

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 261 - 270

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 271 - 280

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 281 - 290

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 291 - 300

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 301 - 310

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 311 - 320

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 321 - 330

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Part II

Lessons 331 - 340

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 341 - 350

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 351 - 360

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 361 - 365

5 lessons

Closing

Epilogue

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Part I · Lesson 167

There is one life, and that I share with God.

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1There are not different kinds of life, for life is like the truth. It does not have degrees. It is the one condition in which all that God created share. Like all His Thoughts, it has no opposite. There is no death because what God created shares His Life. There is no death because an opposite to God does not exist. There is no death because the Father and the Son are one.

2In this world there appears to be a state that is life's opposite. You call it death. Yet we have learned that the idea of death takes many forms. It is the one idea which underlies all feelings that are not supremely happy. It is the alarm to which you give response of any kind that is not perfect joy. All sorrow, loss, anxiety, and suffering and pain, even a little sigh of weariness, a slight discomfort or the merest frown, acknowledge death. And thus deny you live.

3You think that death is of the body. Yet it is but an idea, irrelevant to what is seen as physical. A thought is in the mind. It can be then applied as mind directs it. But its origin is where it must be changed if change occurs. Ideas leave not their source. The emphasis this course has placed on that idea is due to its centrality in our attempts to change your mind about yourself. It is the reason you can heal. It is the cause of healing. It is why you cannot die. Its truth established you as one with God.

4Death is the thought that you are separate from your Creator. It is the belief conditions change, emotions alternate because of causes you cannot control, you did not make, and you can never change. It is the fixed belief ideas can leave their source and take on qualities the source does not contain, becoming different from their own origin, apart from it in kind as well as distance, time, and form.

5Death cannot come from life. Ideas remain united to their source. They can extend all that their source contains. In that they can go far beyond themselves. But they cannot give birth to what was never given them. As they are made, so will their making be. As they were born, so will they then give birth. And where they come from, there will they return.

6The mind can think it sleeps, but that is all. It cannot change what is its waking state. It cannot make a body nor abide within a body. What is alien to the mind does not exist because it has no source. For mind creates all things that are and cannot give them attributes it lacks nor change its own eternal, mindful state. It cannot make the physical. What seems to die is but the sign of mind asleep.

7The opposite of life can only be another form of life. As such, it can be reconciled with what created it because it is not opposite in truth. Its form may change; it may appear to be what it is not. Yet mind is mind awake or sleeping. It is not its opposite in anything created nor in what it seems to make when it believes it sleeps.

8God creates only mind awake. He does not sleep, and His creations cannot share what He gives not nor make conditions which He does not share with them. The thought of death is not the opposite to thoughts of life. Forever unopposed by opposites of any kind, the Thoughts of God remain forever changeless with the power to extend forever changelessly but yet within Themselves, for They are everywhere.

9What seems to be the opposite of life is merely sleeping. When the mind elects to be what it is not and to assume an alien power which it does not have, a foreign state it cannot enter or a false condition not within its Source, it merely seems to go to sleep a while. It dreams of time—an interval in which what seems to happen never has occurred, the changes wrought are substanceless, and all events are nowhere. When the mind awakes, it but continues as it always was.

10Let us today be children of the truth and not deny our holy heritage. Our life is not as we imagine it. Who changes life because he shuts his eyes or makes himself what he is not because he sleeps and sees in dreams an opposite to what he is? We will not ask for death in any form today. Nor will we let imagined opposites to life abide even an instant where the Thought of life eternal has been set by God Himself.

11His holy home we strive to keep today as He established it, and wills it be forever and forever. He is Lord of what we think today. And in His Thoughts, which have no opposite, we understand there is one life and that we share with Him, with all creation, with their thoughts as well, whom He created in a unity of life that cannot separate in death and leave the Source of Life from where it came.

12We share our life because we have one Source, a Source from Which perfection comes to us, remaining always in the holy minds which He created perfect. As we were, so are we now and will forever be. A sleeping mind must waken as it sees its own perfection mirroring the Lord of Life so perfectly it fades into what is reflected there. And now it is no more a mere reflection. It becomes the thing reflected and the light which makes reflection possible. No vision now is needed. For the wakened mind is one that knows its Source, its Self, its holiness.