pg. 173 You are hampered in your progress by your demands to know what you do NOT know. This is acutallly a way of holding on to deprivation. You cannot reasonably object to following instructions in a course FOR knowing on the grounds that you do NOT know. The need FOR a course is implicit in your objection. Knowledge is not the motivation for learning this course. PEACE is. As the prerequisite for knowledge, peace MUST be learned. This is only because those who are in conflict are NOT peaceful, and peace is the CONDITION of knowledge, because it is the condition of the KIngdom. " This felt like it describes where we are and what is needed and how to establish our "new order" -from belief in poverty to...? And the following pertains to the same even though it could be seen/experienced or known on a more personal-universal level within economy. pg. 171 "You do not know yourselves because you do not know YOUR Creator. You do not know your creations because you do not know your brother, who created them WITH you. We said before that only the whole Sonship is worthy to be co-creator with god because only the whole Sonship can create LIKE Him. Whenever you heal a brother by recognizing his worth, you are acknowledging HIS power to create AND YOURS. He cannot have lost what YOU RECOGNIZE, AND you MUST HAVE THE GLORY YOU SEE IN HIM. hE IS A CO-CREATOR WITH gOD WITH you. dENY his CREATIVE POWER, AND YOU ARE DENYING YOURS AND THAT OF GOD WHO CREATED YOU. You cannot deny part of truth....." |