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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
Part I
Review V [171 - 180]
10 lessons
Part I
Lessons 181 - 200
20 lessons
Introduction
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181.I trust my brothers, who are one with me.
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182.I will be still a moment and go home.
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183.I call upon God's Name and on my own.
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184.The Name of God is my inheritance.
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185.I want the peace of God.
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186.Salvation of the world depends on me.
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187.I bless the world because I bless myself.
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188.The peace of God is shining in me now.
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189.I feel the Love of God within me now.
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190.I choose the joy of God instead of pain.
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191.I am the holy Son of God Himself.
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192.I have a function God would have me fill.
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193.All things are lessons God would have me learn.
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194.I place the future in the hands of God.
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195.Love is the way I walk in gratitude.
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196.It can be but myself I crucify.
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197.It can be but my gratitude I earn.
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198.Only my condemnation injures me.
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199.I am not a body. I am free.
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200.There is no peace except the peace of God.
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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
10 lessons
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 186
Salvation of the world depends on me.
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1Here is the statement that will one day take all arrogance away from every mind. Here is the thought of true humility which holds no function as your own but that which has been given you. It offers your acceptance of a part assigned to you, without insisting on another role. It does not judge your proper role. It but acknowledges the Will of God is done on earth as well as Heaven. It unites all wills on earth in Heaven's plan to save the world, restoring it to Heaven's peace.
2Let us not fight our function. We did not establish it. It is not our idea. The means are given us by which it will be perfectly accomplished. All that we are asked to do is to accept our part in genuine humility and not deny with self-deceiving arrogance that we are worthy. What is given us to do we have the strength to do. Our minds are suited perfectly to take the part assigned to us by One Who knows us well.
3Today's idea may seem quite sobering until you see its meaning. All it says is that your Father still remembers you and offers you the perfect trust He holds in you who are His Son. It does not ask that you be different in any way from what you are. What could humility request but this? And what could arrogance deny but this? Today we will not shrink from our assignment on the specious grounds that modesty is outraged. It is pride that would deny the call of God Himself.
4All false humility we lay aside today that we may listen to God's Voice reveal to us what He would have us do. We do not doubt our adequacy for the function He will offer us. We will be certain only that He knows our strengths, our wisdom, and our holiness. And if He deems us worthy, so we are. It is but arrogance that judges otherwise.
5There is one way and only one to be released from the imprisonment your plan to prove the false is true has brought to you. Accept the plan you did not make instead. Judge not your value to it. If God's Voice assures you that salvation needs your part and that the whole depends on you, be sure that it is so. The arrogant must cling to words, afraid to go beyond them to experience which might affront their stance. Yet are the humble free to hear the Voice which tells them what they are and what to do.
6Arrogance makes an image of yourself that is not real. It is this image which quails and retreats in terror as the Voice for God assures you that you have the strength, the wisdom, and the holiness to go beyond all images. You are not weak, as is the image of yourself. You are not ignorant and helpless. Sin can not tarnish the truth in you, and misery can come not near the holy home of God.
7All this the Voice for God relates to you. And as He speaks, the image trembles and seeks to attack the threat it does not know, sensing its basis crumble. Let it go. Salvation of the world depends on you and not upon this little pile of dust. What can it tell the holy Son of God? Why need he be concerned with it at all?
8And so we find our peace. We will accept the function God has given us, for all illusions rest upon the weird belief that we can make another for ourselves. Our self-made roles are shifting, and they seem to change from mourner to ecstatic bliss of loved and loving. We can laugh or weep and greet the day with welcome or with tears. Our very being seems to change as we experience a thousand shifts in mood, and our emotions raise us high indeed or dash us to the ground in hopelessness.
9Is this the Son of God? Could He create such instability and call it Son? He Who is changeless shares His attributes with His creation. All the images His Son appears to make have no effect on what he is. They blow across his mind like windswept leaves that form a patterning an instant, break apart to group again, and scamper off. Or like mirages seen above a desert, rising from the dust.
10These unsubstantial images will go and leave your mind unclouded and serene when you accept the function given you. The images you make give rise to but conflicting goals, impermanent and vague, uncertain and ambiguous. Who could be constant in his efforts or direct his energies and concentrated drive toward goals like these? The functions which the world esteems are so uncertain that they change ten times an hour at their most secure. What hope of gain can rest on goals like this?
11In lovely contrast, certain as the sun's return each morning to dispel the night, your truly given function stands out clear and wholly unambiguous. There is no doubt of its validity. It comes from One Who knows no error. And His Voice is certain of its messages. They will not change nor be in conflict. All of them point to one goal, and one you can attain. Your plan may be impossible, but God's can never fail because He is its Source.
12Do as His Voice directs. And if it asks a thing of you that seems impossible, remember Who it is that asks and who would make denial. Then consider this—which is more likely to be right? The Voice that speaks for the Creator of all things Who knows all things exactly as they are, or a distorted image of yourself, confused, bewildered, inconsistent and unsure of everything? Let not its voice direct you. Hear instead a certain Voice Which tells you of a function given you by your Creator, Who remembers you and urges that you now remember Him.
13His gentle Voice is calling from the known to the unknowing. He would comfort you, although He knows no sorrow. He would make a restitution, though He is complete; a gift to you, although He knows that you have everything already. He has Thoughts which answer every need His Son perceives, although He sees them not. For Love must give, and what is given in His Name takes on the form most useful in a world of form.
14These are the forms which never can deceive, although they come from Formlessness Itself. Forgiveness is an earthly form of love which as it is in Heaven has no form. Yet what is needed here is given here as it is needed. In this form, you can fulfil your function even here, although what love will mean to you when formlessness has been restored to you is greater still. Salvation of the world depends on you who can forgive. Such is your function here.