Like people coming together, in this newsgroup, for example.
And about time, really going backwards, and people thinking they are
meeting new and continually having new issues, etc to work out.
Going by this, this newsgroup (amoung other things) is a teaching/
learnig/Holy Relation****p. Even if it doesn't always (or even usually)
look like it.
2. WHO ARE THEIR PUPILS?
M-2.1. Certain pupils have been assigned to each of God's teachers,
and they will begin to look for him as soon as he has answered the
Call. 2 They were chosen for him because the form of the universal
curriculum that he will teach is best for them in view of their level
of understanding. 3 His pupils have been waiting for him, for his
coming is certain. 4 Again, it is only a matter of time. 5 Once he has
chosen to fulfill his role, they are ready to fulfill theirs. 6 Time
waits on his choice, but not on whom he will serve. 7 When he is ready
to learn, the op****tunities to teach will be provided for him.
M-2.2. In order to understand the teaching-learning plan of salvation,
it is necessary to grasp the concept of time that the course sets
forth. 2 Atonement corrects illusions, not truth. 3 Therefore, it
corrects what never was. 4 Further, the plan for this correction was
established and completed simultaneously, for the Will of God is
entirely apart from time. 5 So is all reality, being of Him. 6 The
instant the idea of separation entered the mind of God's Son, in that
same instant was God's Answer given. 7 In time this happened very long
ago. 8 In reality it never happened at all.
M-2.3. The world of time is the world of illusion. 2 What happened
long ago seems to be happening now. 3 Choices made long since appear
to be open; yet to be made. 4 What has been learned and understood and
long ago passed by is looked upon as a new thought, a fresh idea, a
different approach. 5 Because your will is free you can accept what
has already happened at any time you choose, and only then will you
realize that it was always there. 6 As the course emphasizes, you are
not free to choose the curriculum, or even the form in which you will
learn it. 7 You are free, however, to decide when you want to learn
it. 8 And as you accept it, it is already learned.
M-2.4. Time really, then, goes backward to an instant so ancient that
it is beyond all memory, and past even the possibility of remembering.
2 Yet because it is an instant that is relived again and again and
still again, it seems to be now. 3 And thus it is that pupil and
teacher seem to come together in the present, finding each other as if
they had not met before. 4 The pupil comes at the right time to the
right place. 5 This is inevitable, because he made the right choice in
that ancient instant which he now relives. 6 So has the teacher, too,
made an inevitable choice out of an ancient past. 7 God's Will in
everything but seems to take time in the working-out. 8 What could
delay the power of eternity?
M-2.5. When pupil and teacher come together, a teaching-learning
situation begins. 2 For the teacher is not really the one who does the
teaching. 3 God's Teacher speaks to any two who join together for
learning purposes. 4 The relation****p is holy because of that purpose,
and God has promised to send His Spirit into any holy relation****p. 5
In the teaching-learning situation, each one learns that giving and
receiving are the same. 6 The demarcations they have drawn between
their roles, their minds, their bodies, their needs, their interests,
and all the differences they thought separated them from one another,
fade and grow dim and disappear. 7 Those who would learn the same
course share one interest and one goal. 8 And thus he who was the
learner becomes a teacher of God himself, for he has made the one
decision that gave his teacher to him. 9 He has seen in another person
the same interests as his own.
|
