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It's great to come back to remember the teachings of the Course.
And also the teachings of Jesus in the Bible.
"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth.
And the teachings of Jesus clarifying that in the Course,
"In my defenselessness my safety lies."
Defenseless-- that's not trying to confront.
It's not trying to convert somebody.
Not trying to change somebody.
And not trying to change somebody else's mind either.
as if there's private minds and somebody else has to see the Light.
All that is part of a defense of private minds and private thoughts.
Much of what we would call Evangelical work or Evangelism-
Trying to convert the heathen, or spread the truth-
It's okay to spread the teachings,
But the way we you really spread the teachings is through demonstration.
You can't really teach something unless you can demonstrate it.
So that's why it's all about the miracle.
It's all about the transformation of consciousness, and not about people.
And that's where, in the end, religions fall short-- when they still are about people.
And who should believe what, and which is the correct way to believe, and all that.
It's still on the realm of theologies, and theologies are more like trampolines...
They can be springboards, but they actually aren't the springboard-
The trampoline isn't the soaring- the transcending that is called for.
I think in the last month too I had somebody come to me and say to me
What is the difference between a believer and an unbeliever?
And, again, everyone who comes to this world-
this whole world is based on belief-
So everyone who seems to come and to perceive themselves in time and space is equally a believer.
But the way the Christians have used it, is they've taken the passage out of the Bible,
'Those that believe in me shall not perish'...
And 'to believe upon the son of God thou shall not perish and have eternal life'...
If it's taken to be faith, the fruition of faith is more than believing in a man-
Or in a doctrine or in a theology or in the history-
But coming into an experience of atonement that I Am Christ. I am one with God.
Coming into to that experience, that is the release point.
Release point- that is coming to that true forgiveness
But it's not a theology as we would say is a theology of a religion of the world.
In one sense you could say there's not one theology that's better than another.
The whole point is to spring into an experience that transcends all the theologies
Because there is no universal theology. There is only universal experience.
Religions are the same. They're here to help people.
And yet, the ultimate aim of religion is - it does go beyond helping people.
That's just a step along the way too.
The Bible said God is no respecter of persons.
You have to go into that ultimate transcendent state.
That's what this is all about. It's about an experience. It's about a state of mind.
But everything seems to fall.
If you go along with every step that you've ever taken, all seems to have to fade away