What makes God’s teachers is their recognition of the proper purpose of the body. As they advance in their profession, they become more and more certain that the body’s function is but to let God’s Voice speak through it to human ears.
The central lesson is always this; that what you use the body for it will become to you. Use it for sin or for attack, which is the same as sin [separation], and you will see it as sinful [full of guilt]. Because it is sinful it is weak, and being weak, it suffers and it dies. Use it to bring the Word of God to those who have it not, and the body becomes holy.
Oneness and sickness cannot coexist. God’s teachers choose to look on dreams a while. It is a conscious choice. For they have learned that all choices are made consciously, with full awareness of their consequences. The dream says otherwise, but who would put his faith in dreams once they are recognized for what they are? Awareness of dreaming is the real function of God’s teachers. They watch the dream figures come and go, shift and change, suffer and die. Yet they are not deceived by what they see. They recognize that to behold a dream figure as sick and separate is no more real than to regard it as healthy and beautiful. Unity alone is not a thing of dreams. And it is this [unity] God’s teachers acknowledge as behind the dream, beyond all seeming and yet surely theirs. (A Course in Miracles, M-12.4:1-2;5:1-4;6, italics added)
In truth, we are all Spirit, united in the Love of God. From the perspective of a body, this is incomprehensible. This is why we need teachers of God, who recognize the dream of separation for what it is, to teach us the truth of What we are.
As instruments of the Voice for God, His teachers serve as a bridge to help us recognize that only Love is real. God’s teachers help us see past the dream to the Love that unifies us as one in God. As we learn these lessons in Love, We become less and less distracted by what the body appears to do. We become more aware the body is just a figure in a dream.
As we align our thoughts with God’s Voice, we become messengers of His Love. We answer calls for Love with Love’s healing thoughts. These thoughts teach us that we already have all of God’s Love without limit. Our sense of guilt and unworthiness diminishes as we learn that nothing has changed God’s one Son. We become more and more certain that we are nothing but Love and we dwell eternally in God’s Love.
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