I..cannot/unite..your-will..with God’s...for*..you.
But..I CAN erase..all-misperceptions..from..your mind,
if.you will/bring it..under_my guidance...ONLY_your/misperceptions stand-in/your..own way...

Without them,..your..own choice..is certain...
with-them..truth..remains veiled..un-revealed..like/behind..a curtain

Sane-perception.INDUCES..sane choosing...The Atonement
was/an act..[in shared-truth]..based_on..true perception.

I cannot..choose for..your truths,..for/you,
but..I_CAN/help..you make..your..*own right-choice...once you*place..your_choices..before/me..by prayer.

“Many..are called..but..few..are chosen”..

SHOULD read,

“ALL..are called..*but..few have..choose..to listen...
Therefore,..they_do/not choose..RIGHTLY.”.[they..CHOSE..misscreations..of ego..

[did they feel*..they had a choice..[were they..informed?]

The .“chosen.ones”..are merely..those/who..choose/choice..rightly some..SOONER...by..choosing..the meam of good-truth..to..find expression..via..the-self..as servant..unto/other..as the father..serves_every/other...

This is..the real/meaning..of the..celestial-speed-up...Strong
wills can..will..to-do this..NOW...And you..WILL find rest...for your Souls...from-now on..into..the eternal..now*

We said before..that the sole..ability..of abilities./.of soul
which man possesses..are only..shadows of his..true celestial-abilities. [unlike the hellish..diss-abilities]

be..self-enabled..not..self-disabled

The soul’s/true functions..are knowing,
loving,trusting/testing..learning and creating.
The..intrusion/of-the ability..that wills..to perceive,..which is inherently-judgmental,..was...introduced...only after...the/Separation.

No_one..has/been sure..of..anything since then.

You will..also remember that I..made it very/clear
that the Resurrection..was the..*return to knowledge,
which was/accomplished..by the union.of my will..with the Father’s.

Since..the Separation,..the words “create”..
and “make”..are inevitably confused...When/you make something,
you make/it...first out of a sense of lack..or need,..and second,.. out of..a something..that..already exists...[but was..only seen/via heart-revelation..that realized..[made-real]..its_miracle.

Anything..can be..that is made
is made..for a specific/purpose...It has no..true...generalized-ability...of self.

When you/make something..to fill a..perceived-lack,..which is obviously..a logical-reason..why_you/would try/to..make anything,..you..are tacitly..implying..that you
believe..in the Separation.
thus sustain..it.

Knowing..does..not lead..to doing,
as we have.frequently observed/already.

(Note..that the term..“insight”,..though referring/to lofty perception's,..is not..an attribute/of knowledge...This
is why..terms like “lofty”..are meaningless..in..this context.

Insight is/not..the way TO knowledge,
but it IS..a prerequisite..FOR which knowledge.
Being of God's truths..knowledge has nothing to do..with your perceptions..at all...That is why..it..can only be a..gift..of God TO you.)

God knows you..only in/peace,
and this..IS your reality*.

Dictated/without notes...Nov. 30/1965
We/said..before/that..the ability annd/or..expression..of abilities which..man possesses..are/only shadows of..his/true..abilities...The soul’s_true..functions..are..by expressing/knowing,..performing-loving,..and..goodly-creating.

The/intrusion..of the..ability..to perceive,..which is
inherently*judgmental,..was introduced/only..after the_Separation...No one/has been..sure of/anything..since/then.

You..will/also..remember_that..I/made..it very clear
that..the Resurrection..*was the/return..back-to knowledge,
which/was..accomplished by/the union..of my will..with the Father’s.
Since the Separation,..the words..“create”..and..“make”..are inevitably.confused.

When/you make..something,..you/make_it..firs.. out of/a
sense..of lack..or need,..and second,*out of..a something..that already*exists.

Anything..can_be..that..*is_made.*for..a/specific_purpose.
It/has..no true-generaliz-ability...When/you//make something/to fill a..perceived_lack,..which is..*obviously/why..

when..you..would/make..*anything,..you..are
tacitly..*implying..that you/believe-in..the)Separation.
Knowing..does/not..lead_to..doing,..as/we..have..frequently/observed
already.

What appears..to be contradictory..about/the difference between knowing..and/perceiving,..and Revelation and miracles,..is again the fallacy..that is..the root c-ause of all/subsequent errors...The miracle//*was associated/with perception,.*and not with knowing.

However,..we also noted..that prayer.*is the medium of miracles,
and..also the natural/means..of communication .*by the Creator..and the Created...*Prayer is..*always an_affirmation..*of knowledge,..*not/of..accurate_perception.

That is why..unless perception..has*..entered into
it,*..it calls/on Revelation.

The confusion..between your/own creation..and what
you create..is so profound that/it..has literally become impossible to..*know anything,..because knowledge..is always stable...and creation..unlimited.

It is quite evident..that human beings are not.
Nevertheless,..they are perfectly stable as/God created them...In this sense,..when their behavior..*is unstable,..they are*obviously
disagreeing..with God’s-idea..of the Creation.

This..is a fundamental/right of man,..although
not/one..he would care to exercise..*if he were in his Right Mind.
The problem..that is bothering/you most is..the fundamental question which man/continually asks of himself,..but which cannot properly be directed..*to himself..at all.

He..keeps on asking..“himself”..what he is..This implies
that..the answer is not/only..one which/he knows,..but one..which
he thinks..is up to him.

The first part/of this statement..is perfectly true, but
the second part..is not...We have frequently commented on the absolute necessity of/correcting all fallacious-thinking which associates man*..in any way..with his own Creation.

Man CANNOT*..perceive[imagine]..himself correctly.
He has..*no image[in reality..only mind]..at all...The word.“image”
*is/always..perception related,..*and is not/a..product of knowing...now will.

Images..are symbolic,*..and
stand/for...something..above..all-else. [in-put/in-spiration]

The current emphasis on..“changing your image”..is
a good/description..of the power of perception,..but it implies..that there is nothing to KNOW.

Prayer..is the medium/of miracles,...not because God created perceptions, but because/God created YOU...At the beginning of this course,..we said that../*YOU are a miracle.

Therefore,..the Creator/of the miracle worker
is a miracle NOT*..of his own creation.

Unless/true-perception rests on..some knowing basis,
it is so unstable..that it doesn’t mean anything.

*Knowing is/not..open to interpretation,..because
its meaning..is..complete..on..its own..*It is possible to
interpret meaning.. but this..*is always open to error

because it involves..the perception of..intended/plus..un-intended..plus evolved..plus manipulated/biased/distorted..emotive meaning...All..of these..wholly needless/complexities..are the result of man’s attempt to/regard himself..as..*both separated and un-separated..*at..the same time.

It/is impossible ..to/undertake..a confusion
as fundamental..as this..without*..engaging in further confusion.

Methodologically,..man’s-mind..has been.very creative.
But,..*as always occurs*..when..method.and content..[SUBSTANCE]..are separated,..it has*not..been utilized..for anything..*but..an attempt to/escape..a fundamental..and entirely../inescapable-impasse.

This kind/of thinking ..cannot..,result in/a creative outcome,
though..it/has resulted..in..considerable ingenuity.

It/is..noteworthy, however,..that..this ingenuity
has..almost totally divorced..him..from..[REVELATION]..cloud-mind..supra-knowledge.

Knowledge..does not/require..ingenuity..at-all.
When..we say..“the truth/shall..set you/free,”..we mean
that all/this kind-of/thinking..is/a waste..of time,..but that you are free/of the*.need of..engaging in it.

Note/again..that/the functions..of..the-Soul
*were_not*..referred to..as abilities..[think..more/like earnings]
[our life's..record/emoted passions..*wrote[projected]..largely..upon it]

This..point/requires clarification,..because abilities
are beliefs..which/are..BASED on/the scarcity-fallacy,..since..
they do-not..*mean/anything..apart from..within-grouped/comparisons.

As..you yourself/never..fail to..point out,.
“nobody has/none-of..an*.ability,..and no-body..has all of it.”..
That..is/of course,..why/the curve-mean..never rests..on the line.

The..clearest..*implications..of relativity,..which
properly..inheres/in this statement,*..DEMONSTRATES/that
*abilities..are not functions/of the Soul...The Soul’s-functions are NOT relative...*They are ABSOLUTE.

They..are OF/God..and ____ God,..*and therefore..God-like.

Prayer..is/a way..of asking..*for something.
When..we said/that prayer..is the medium of/miracles,..we also said that/the..only meaningful/prayer..is/for*..forgiveness,..because those
who/have been..forgiven have everything.

Once forgiveness..has been accepted,..*prayer in
the usual sense..becomes utterly/without meaning..Essentially, a prayer/for forgiveness..is/nothing more than..a request..that we may be able*to..recognize..*something we already/have.

In electing..to enact..the..ability/to perceive..*instead of
the..its passive..the will/to know,..hu-man..placed himself
in/a position..where he could..resemble/his Father..ONLY by perceiving*..the received revelations..miraculously...

*But/he..has..lost the knowledge..[and amazment
plus the recognition]..that he..himself..*is a miracle.
MIRACULOUS CREATION..was his/own causal.Source,.and also..his own real..intended function.

“God created/man..in his own image.and..likeness”..is correct in meaning,.but the words..are open to..considerable misinterpretation.
This is avoided,..however,..if..*“image”..is understood/to..mean “same motivational-thought,”[service]..and..“likeness”..is/taken as “of a/like..quality.”

[use/uses][cause..of causes]..realization..
of the unseen via..revealing the miracle..is you...
revealed by the light[E]..[not..the light[E}]..yet of..the light[E]

God DID..create the Son..*in His_own Thought,
and..of a..creative/curious/helpful..quality/like..to His own...

essentially..There..IS nothing else...
beyond..what..god makes perceived.

Perception..is impossible..
WITHOUT..an awareness/of belief..inherent..in
the concept of/perception..of..“more/same”..and..“less.”[lack]

Unless perception,/at every level,..*involves selectivity,..it is incapable..of organization...thhe recognitin..being percieved*
In all types/of perception,..there is a continual*process of accepting..and rejecting,[of organizing..and re-organizing,
and ..of shifting..and changing]

..focus...*Evaluation..is an essential/aspect of
perception,..because/judgment..MUST be made for selection.

“Lack of lack”..is a concept/which is meaningless
to..that perceived,..because the ability/to perceive..*at all..RESTS ON perceiving..what is..the lack...[lacking]..or..more-over/welming.

What..*happens..to perceptions/if..there ARE..no judgments,
and there is*nothing BUT/perfect equality?..Perception is automatically/useless.

Truth..can only/be KNOWN...All of/it..is..equally*true,
and..knowing..*any_part..of/it..IS to know..the qualities..*all of it.

Only*perception..involves/partial-awareness.
Knowledge/transcends..*ALL_of/the-laws..which govern*perception.

Partial..KNOWLEDGE..is impossible...It
is..*all-One,[alone]..and/has..no_separate/parts.
(i.e...the parts..have_NOT..separated.)..

*This-IS..the*real-knowledge...*You*who
are..really_one..with it..need..but/realize..what..you..know..is less than/you are*

You who/are really one with it..need/but
to/know YOURSELF.and your knowledge is complete...To*know God’s miracle..is/to.know Him.

Forgiveness..is the healing/of
the perception..of separation...from truth..Correct perception of
EACH-OTHER..is necessary*..Only because minds..have willed/to see themselves..AS separate-beings...*Each Soul/knows God completely. This/IS..the miraculous power-of..the Soul.

The_fact..that every..*each Soul has/this power..completely
is a fact..that is..entirely alien..*to human/thinking,..in which
*if..any-ONE has everything,..there is nothing/LEFT.[material-limitations]

God’s miracles..are..*total..complete/of itself..
as..HIS/Thought,..simply..are..*because they ARE*..*His thoughts...
God..shines..through/in them..all..with perfect light...If they/recognize..this light..anywhere,..they know..it/universally.

Revelation..cannot/be..explained,*because..it/IS..knowledge. Revelation/HAPPENS...naturally/constantly/eternally..It is*..the only REALLY..natural-happening,..because..it/reflects..the..ever-present..nature natural/nurture..[good/truth/gnosis]..of God.

As long/as perception lasts,..prayer has a place...Since perception rests-on lack,..those/who perceive..have not totally.accepted the Atonement..and given over..themselves to/its truth...

Perception/IS a..separated state,..of awareness..that..perceived..and the perceiver..DOES need healing...Communion,/not prayer,..is the natural state/of those..who know...true perceiving.

*God/and HIS..miracles are inseparable.
All words,..at best,..are preparatory...

*THE word..is really..more..of/a..thought...
No* one/WORD..is/universally..meaningful,because..a word is..a symbol,..but..unlike..a thought..is/not..di-[bi]..visible..by creation.

The original/namings..for..“thought”..and..“word”..
was/the same...[spiritually]..The quotation..[john 1]..should read

the..same..[thought]..was/with him..in..the beginning
by thought..all..things were made..[and without thought..nothing was mad..for in thought..lies life..and the/same light[perceived revelatory-thought]....was the light..of men.

[and the thought[light],..shineth..in..the darkness..
yet the darkness..[word]..COMPREHENDED..it NOT*

“In the/beginning..was the..thought,..*
and..the thought...was with God,..and..the thought..*WAS/of Good.”..How beautiful..indeed are the thoughts/of God,..who live-in..His light...revealed..by his light..and of his REASON..

Your worth/is beyond..perception..because..it is beyond doubt.
Do-not..perceive yourself..in different lights...KNOW yourself..in the-One Light,..where/the miracle..which...*is in..you..is perfectly clear.[not subdued..by the stains..of the soul..nor of the flesh*..]

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The prerequisites..for thought-therapy[revelation]..
must include..the following conditions:

The procedure must involve..the recognition/rather than
the denial..of the importance/of any thought.

The exact equality..of everyone who is involved.[This/must..include Me.]..*No one is either..therapist or patient...(B. should/add “nor*teacher or pupil.”)

Above all..EVERYONE involved..must-want*to*give-up
everything..that is..NOT true...The reason/for the..negative
emphasis here..is/that..therapy..*implies something..HAS gone/wrong. Even..though/the..purpose..is..*to..correct/those who-are..ill[who ARE negative...]

Therapy..is EXACTLY/the same-as..all other/forms..of miracle-working. It/has no separate-laws..of its/own...All of/the points..that were given/for miracles..apply to therapy..because,*UNLESS therapy proceeds..from miracle-mindedness,..it CANNOT heal.

The therapist..(hopefully)..does have/the role..of being/the better perceiver...(This is/also,..yet-again..hopefully,/true of the teacher...as well)..It does/not follow..that he..alone..is the better knower.

Temporarily,..the therapist/or..teacher can/help..in
straightening out..twisted perceptions,..which is/also..the only role that..I would..ever contribute/myself...*All therapy..should do..is
try to/place..EVERYONE involved..in the/right..frame of mind/to help one another.

It is/essentially..a process..of true courtesy,
including/courtesy..to Me...Any form..of mental illness..can truthfully be/described..as an expression.of viciousness.[We said before..that those who are*afraid..are apt to/be..vicious...If we were willing..to/forgive..other people’s..misperceptions of us,..they could not..possibly affect/us..at all.

There is little-doubt..that you/can explain..your
present absolutes/attitudes..in terms-of..how/people used
to look..at you,..but there/is..no wisdom in doing so...In fact,
the whole/historical approach..can justifiably..be called doubtful.

As you/have so..often said,..no one..has adopted
ALL of his parents’/attitudes as his/own...In every case,
there has-been..a long process of/choice,..in which..the individual has/escaped from-those..he himself vetoed,..while retaining those he voted FOR.

B. has/not retained..his parents political/beliefs,..in spite
of the particular..kind of newspapers/that..constituted their own reading-matter..in this area...The reason..why/he..could do this was
because/he believed*..he was free..in this area.

There must/be..some acute problem..OF HIS OWN..that would
make him...so eager to..*accept their misperception..of his own worth.[values]..

This tendency...can always-be..regarded as/punitive...
It cannot/be justified..by the inequality..of the strengths..of parents and children.

This..is never/more..than temporary,..and is..largely
a matter..of maturation..and thus/mental-physical difference...It does/not..last..unless it_is..held onto.

When B’s..father..came/to..his new\office..and
“destroyed”..it,..it-is/quite apparent ..that B.*MUST/have..been willing/to..let it-be..destroyed.

there are..theories which affirm..that knowledge..can
come/to people..without any effort on their part,..that
they can..acquire it..even..in sleep...

The very/existence..of such/theories..constitutes..an additional explanation..of..why knowledge..cannot..*come..to people..as/it..must be lived..to verify..it as true[good]..know-ledge.

At..the same/time..it is essential/to..understand that man's independent..efforts to/attain..anything in/this..direction..can also give/no results.

A man/can..only/attain..sure-knowledge..by..his lived experiences

knowledge..cannot/be given..by force to anyone..and..as I have already said,..an unprejudiced/survey..of the average/man's-life,
of what..he chooses..what..fills his day..and of/the things..he is interested in,..will..at/once show..whether..it/is..possible to accuse men..*who possess/knowledge..of concealing it,..of not wishing/to..give it..to people,..[as..its/not certain..lived/knowing]
..or..of/not wishing..to teach people..what they..*know..themselves.

"He..who wants knowledge..must..of himself..make the initial/efforts to find..the source/of..knowledge..and/to approach it,..taking advantage/of..the help..and indications/which are..given to all,

but/which people,..as a rule,..do not want*to..see..or recognize.

Knowledge..cannot come..*to people..without effort..[willing of their conscious awareness]..on/their..own part...where the beam/tilts

The..many times..that he/has commented..on this/event
alone..would suggest..that..he..himself accords..the..extreme importance..of this..misrepresentation/..in his/own distorted thinking.

Why should..anyone accord..an obvious misperception..so
much power?..There cannot/be..any real justification..for it,
because..even B...himself/recognized..the real..problem by saying “How could/he do..this/to..me?”
The answer..is HE...didn’t.
[use..the revelation..to see the miracle..]

B...has..a very/serious-question..to ask..of himself..in this connection...We said..before..that/the purpose..of/the..Resurrection was-to..“demonstrate/that..no amount/of misperception-has/any influence..at all..on a Son-of God.”[who-knows..only..good true/living..knowings..in non-judgmental/inocence]

This demonstration..EXONERATES..those who/misperceive,
*by..establishing/beyond doubt..that they*..have NOT hurt anyone.

B’s question,/which..he must*..ask himself/very honestly,..is whether he/is..willing to/demonstrate..that his/parents..have NOT*..hurt him. Unless he/is willing..to/do this,..he has-not..forgiven them.

The-essential/goal..of therapy..is the same/as..that of*..knowledge. No one-can..survive/independently..as long as/he..is willing..to see himself..*through..the eyes of others...*This will/always..put him-in a position..where..he..*MUST see himself..in different lights.

Parents..do/not create..the image..of their children,..though
they/may..perceive images..which they do*.create...*However,..as_we have..already said,..*you..are not*..an image.

thus..*If you/SIDE..WITH..image-makers,
you..are merely/being..idolatrous.

B...has no justification/whatever..for perpetuating
ANY..faux-image..of himself..at all...He is/NOT..an image.*Whatever is/true..of him..is wholly benign...It is essential..that/he..*KNOW
this..about himself,..but/he cannot..*know it..while he/chooses*..to interpret/himself..as..vulnerable/enough..to BE hurt.[fear/falicy]

This/is..a peculiar kind-of..arrogance,..whose narcissistic
component..is perfectly/obvious...It endows..the/perceiver..with sufficient..*unreal strength/to make him over,..and..only/then acknowledges..the perceiver’s/miscreation.

There are times/when this..strange lack-of..real courtesy
appears to/be..a form/of humility...Actually,..it is
never/more..than simple-spite.