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A Course in Miracles. Lessons 71 to 77, Text __ [1]

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Date: 2025-03-18

I had the urge to buy lesson cards. You can buy them. I decided to make my own as I had a bunch of these left over from another project. I am working harder on my lessons. I make a card. I also put it in wallpaper for my phone.

I probably need to start reading the text again. Last year I used to read every morning on the western deck. All I can say is my apartment is built backwards. The western deck freezes in the winter and sizzles in the summer. You want afternoon shade and morning sun. It is just the opposite here.

I am on Chapter 4 in the Text. Just when it starts getting good. Maybe I will start with another read through of the Teacher’s Manual. Great definition of terms.

When I went to grab the link for the Teacher’s Manual, I landed on Lesson 76 “I am under no laws but God’s laws.” I remember when Gregg came to the discussion group all happy because he thought he was excused from paying rent. I think he was very surprised that everyone (all 4 or 6 people in the discussion group thought he was completely misreading) He had a ZZ Top beard and wanted to be wise but I don’t think I have ever seen a more classic example of level confusion. It startled me when I landed on Lesson 76 this AM. I thought it wasn’t till later.

What we were talking about is that you wouldn’t have signed the lease unless you wanted the safety of a roof. What ACIM is saying don’t think the roof is salvation, or that not paying rent is your option. Things work how they work.

Lesson 76 is also the lesson which discusses money (body safety), vaccines (body illness), other bodies near (loneliness). Maturity is demanded here. You and others need these things for survival. Giving them up will not magically give you salvation anymore than having them will give you salvation. They reside in the realm of illusions with body/ego identification. That is a Big Gulp.

Miracle Principle #7 in the Text is another place like Lesson 76. You know, where you go running off with a little piece of parchment scrap and decide that the Inquisition is a good idea (or not paying the rent). What we are talking about here is removing guilt, removing the blocks to love’s presence. Not a hot poker up the ass.

The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.

I guess that is where Gregg’s friend got the idea that ACIM was circular.

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