WHAT IS THE COURSE IN MIRACLES?
A message to you from "out of time"
 
The Course In Miracles is a direct message to you from Out of Time lovingly expressed by the Whole Resurrected Mind of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. It is an experiential guide to help bring about the Illumination of your Mind and Body through the process of the practical application of the energies of Love, Healing, and Forgiveness. Through the Reason (Theology) of the Text, the direct application of the ideas (Psychology) in the Workbook, and the application of the ideas in the Teachers Manual, you are led directly into an experience of Union with God, or the Direct Method of Enlightenment.The revelation that the Father and the Son are one will come in time to every mind. Yet is that time determined by the mind itself, not taught. The time is set already. It appears to be quite arbitrary. Yet there is no step along the road that anyone takes but by chance. It has already been taken by him, although he has not yet embarked on it. For time but seems to go in one direction. We but undertake a journey that is over. Yet it seems to have a future still unknown to us. Yet there is a plan behind appearances that does not change. The script is written.

Time is a trick, a sleight of hand, a vast illusion in which figures come and go as if by magic. Yet there is a plan behind appearances that does not change. The script is written. When experience will come to end your doubting has been set. For we but see the journey from the point at which it ended, looking back on it, imagining we make it once again; reviewing mentally what has gone by.

A teacher does not give experience, because he did not learn it. It revealed itself to him at its appointed time. But vision is his gift. This he can give directly, for Christ's knowledge is not lost, because He has a vision He can give to anyone who asks. The Father's Will and His are joined in knowledge. Yet there is a vision which the Holy Spirit sees because the mind of Christ beholds it too.

Here is the joining of the world of doubt and shadows made with the intangible. Here is a quiet place within the world made holy by forgiveness and by love. Here are all contradictions reconciled, for here the journey ends. Experience - unlearned, untaught, unseen - is merely there. This is beyond our goal, for it transcends what needs to be accomplished. Our concern is with Christ's vision. This we can attain.

It matters not when revelation comes, for that is not of time. Yet time has still one gift to give, in which true knowledge is reflected in a way so accurate its image shares its unseen holiness; its likeness shines with its immortal love. We desire to see with the eyes of Christ today. And by the holy gifts we give, Christ's vision looks upon ourselves as well.