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A Course In Miracles
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God extended Himself to his creations and imbued them with the same loving Will to create.
The children of God ... waste themselves and their true creative powers on useless attempts to make themselves more comfortable by inappropriate means.
Because of your likeness to your Creator you are creative. No child of God can lose this ability because it is inherent in what he is, but he can use it inappropriately by projecting. [This miscreating] occurs when you believe that some emptiness or lack exists in you...
[Some of this miscreation happens when] you believe that you can create yourself, and that the direction of your own creation is up to you.
... the creation includes both the creation of the Son by God, and the Son's creations when his mind is healed.
Both the separation and the fear are miscreations that must be undone…
Editor’s note: The Course at times refers to the illusions of the egoic mind in terms of “miscreating.” It does this, it seems, to emphasize the inherent nature and power of the mind, that of naturally expressing itself, for better or worse, in terms of creating. We were made in the “likeness” of God, and this likeness, in great measure, issues as creative ability. Our present task is to regain our sanity, thereby retrieving to ourselves a proper direction for the naturally creative mind.
Whenever you are afraid, it is a sure sign that you have allowed your mind to miscreate and have not allowed me to guide it.
Few appreciate the real power of the mind ... The mind is very powerful, and never loses its creative force. It never sleeps. Every instant it is creating... There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level.
The fearful must miscreate... When you miscreate you are in pain.
The fundamental conflict in this world ... is between creation and miscreation ... between love and fear.
Every system of thought [which is an expression of the mind creating, can become] a system of belief by which one lives. It is a mistake to believe that a system of thought based on lies is weak.
Your ego and your spirit will never be co-creators, but your spirit and your Creator will always be. Be confident that your creations are as safe as you are.
Creation and communication are synonymous. God created every mind by communicating His Mind to it, thus establishing it forever as a channel for the reception of His Mind and Will. Editor’s note: There is a fashionable theological precept insisting that, while God may be the force and intelligence behind the order and complexity of the cosmos, plus the One who superintends and looks after us, S/He is not a personal God, is not a true person, not an intelligence with individuality to whom you could actually speak. To be all this, theologians assert, somehow diminishes the stature of God. But this makes no sense to me. How could God supervise our lives, our growth and development, leading us toward eternal life, plus promising to be our Friend and Guide throughout eternity, without knowing us and communicating with us on a personal and individualized level? And if the Course’s instruction on “mind training” is to result in a healing of the “separation,” what meaning could this have if there is no personal God for us to connect with? How do you heal the “separation” when there’s no true Person to become one with, when you speak and there's no one actually receiving the communication? It would be really hard, it seems to me, to listen to someone, to meaningfully interact with another, if you yourself are not a Person. Further, I believe the evidence suggests that the very reason we are persons, the reason that we do have minds and are self-aware, the reason that we have personalities, is because we have been modeled after the archetypal Person, the original Mind, the primal Individual - serving as the very mold and pattern for one's being. I think this is what the Course is getting at with “God created every mind by communicating His Mind to it.” How would you even do that if you yourself are not a Mind, not a Person?
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