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25 Miracles rearrange perception and place the levels of perception in true perspective. This heals at
all levels because sickness comes from confusing the levels.
26 When you have become willing to hide nothing, you will not only be willing to enter into communion but will also understand peace and joy. Your commitment is not yet total, and that is why you still have more to learn than to teach. When your equilibrium stabilizes, you will be able to teach as much as you learn, which will give you the proper balance. Meanwhile, remember that no effort is wasted, for unless you remember this, you cannot avail yourselves of
my efforts, which
are limitless. Only eternity is real. Why not use the illusion of time constructively?
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27 Miracles enable man to heal the sick and raise the dead because he made sickness and death himself and can abolish both.
You are a miracle, capable of creating in the likeness of your Creator. Everything else is only your own nightmare and does not exist. Only the creations of light are real.
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28 Miracles are part of an interlocking chain of forgiveness which, when completed, is the Atonement. This process works all the time and in all the dimensions of time.
29 I am in charge of the process of Atonement, which I undertook to begin. When you offer a miracle unto any of my brothers, you do it unto
yourself and me. The reason
you come before
me is that I do not need miracles for my own Atonement, but I stand at the end in case you fail temporarily. The purpose of my part in the Atonement is the canceling out of all lacks of love which men could not otherwise correct. The word "sin" should be changed to "lack of love" because "sin" is a man-made word with threat connotations which he made up himself. No
real threat is involved anywhere. Nothing is gained by frightening yourselves, and it is very destructive to do so.
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30 Miracles represent
freedom from fear. "Atoning" really means "undoing." The undoing of fear is an essential part of the Atonement value of miracles.
31 The purpose of the Atonement is to restore everything to you, or rather to restore it to your awareness. You were given everything when you were created, just as everyone was. When you have been restored to the recognition of your original state, you naturally become part of the Atonement yourself. As you share my inability to tolerate lack of love in yourself and others, you must join the Great Crusade to correct it. The slogan for the Crusade is "Listen, learn and
do": Listen to my voice, learn to undo error, and
do something to correct it. The first two are not enough. The real members of
my party are
active workers.
32 The power to work miracles
belongs to you. I will provide the opportunities to do them, but
you must be ready and willing since you are already able. Doing them will bring conviction in the ability, since conviction really comes through accomplishment. The ability is the potential; the achievement is its expression; and the Atonement is the purpose.
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33 A miracle is a universal blessing from God through me to
all my brothers. It is the privilege of the forgiven to forgive.
34 The disciples were specifically told to be physicians of the Lord and to heal others. They were also told to
heal themselves and were promised that I would never leave them or forsake them. Atonement is the natural profession of the Children of God because they have professed me. "Heaven and earth shall pass away" simply means that they will not continue to exist as separate states. My word, which is the resurrection and the life, shall not pass away, because life is eternal.
You are the work of God, and His work is wholly lovable and wholly loving. This is how a man
must think of himself in his heart because this is what he
is.
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35 Miracles are a means of organizing different levels of consciousness.
36 Miracles come from the below or subconscious level. Revelations come from the above or superconscious level. The conscious level is in between and reacts to either sub- or superconscious impulses in varying ratios. Consciousness is the level which engages in the world and is capable of responding to both. Having no impulses from itself and being primarily a mechanism for inducing response, it can be very wrong.
37 Revelation induces complete but temporary suspension of doubt and fear. It represents the original form of communication between God and His Souls, involving an extremely personal sense of closeness to creation which man tries to find in physical relationships. Physical closeness
cannot achieve this. The subconscious impulses properly induce miracles, which are genuinely interpersonal and result in real closeness to others. This can be misunderstood by a
personally willful consciousness as impulses toward physical gratification.
38 Revelation unites Souls directly with God. Miracles unite [Souls] directly with each other. Neither emanates from consciousness, but both are
experienced there. This is essential since consciousness is the state which produces action, though it does
not inspire it. Man is free to believe what he chooses, and what he
does attests to what he believes. The deeper levels of his subconscious
always contain the impulse to miracles, but he is free to fill its more superficial levels, which are closer to consciousness, with the impulses of this world and to identify himself with them. This results in
denying himself access to the miracle level underneath. In conscious actions, then, his relationships also become superficial, and miracle-inspired relating becomes impossible.
