This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.
Quote from A Course in Miracles, T-in.1:1-8;2:1-4
This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
Dear Reader! If you have followed me along this far, you will appreciate I have gone to considerable lengths to share with you the essentials of an epochal event, The URANTIA Book, the fifth revelation to our world. Surreptitiously, along the way, I have also been sharing some truths from the book, A Course in Miracles, which is even more of an epochal event in the history of our world than the fifth revelation.
This communication, A Course in Miracles, is, I believe, without precedent even in the history of the grand universe, the current extent of the now organized and inhabited creations of the Universal Father. The grand universe includes the seven superuniverses, each to be populated with a trillion worlds, comprising what will be a grand total of seven trillion evolutionary worlds of space. We are far from alone.
Neither book makes any reference to the other but are related in the following manner: The URANTIA Book is a revelation of who is Michael of Nebadon, our Creator Son, who created the universe we live in; A Course in Miracles is a first-person communication from that very person. We know from the revelation that Michael of Nebadon has earned, in time, his perfection and is now the Sovereign Master Son of his universe.
A Course in Miracles is therefore a communication from a Creator perfected in time who knows the Universal Father perfectly—a perfected Creator communicating perfectly within a mortal language. A perfected Creator communicating perfectly is not limited. On an evolutionary world, this has never happened before. There are celestials throughout the grand universe reading and studying English to hear our Master Son.
Now I understand who has the authority to inform me of this plain and merciful truth: “It is a required course.” This does not mean we are required to read and study the actual book, A Course in Miracles, and the lessons contained therein; we are required, by our choice, by our own hard experience, to learn those same lessons—lessons that our lives will teach us, in our own time.
But we need not be so stubborn. We will save incalculable amounts of time by reading and studying Michael’s book. Acclimated to the cadence of his thought, we will be stepping up to a path to perfection lavished with mercy and time saved. Michael teaches us how the Universal Father thinks and to think with Him.
Meanwhile, lighting the way, Michael of Nebadon has promised he will be our Friend and Companion—by our side, hand in hand—all the way to Paradise. We are not alone. Far from it.
Ernest Clement
[To decode the reference from A Course in Miracles introducing this essay: T is the Text; IN is the introduction; 1 is the 1st paragraph, 1-8 is sentences 1 t0 8; 2 is the 2nd paragraph, 1-4 is sentences 1 to 4. This is the entire Introduction.]
Roadmap to Heaven! Let’s do this! Now to more about Michael of Nebadon and ourselves that may surprise you in “Part 48—Time and Space.” Click on Block 11 below. Or return to the >> Table of Essays.