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The First in Eternity is God the Father

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> "The first in time means nothing, but the First in eternity is God the
> Father, Who is both First and One.  Beyond the First there is no other,
> for there is no order, no second or third, and nothing but the First."
>
> "You who belong to the First Cause, created by him like unto himself and
> part of him, are more than merely guiltless.  The state of guiltlessness
> is only the condition in which what is not there has been removed from
> the disordered mind that thought it was.  This state, and only this,
> must you attain, with God beside you.  For until you do, you will still
> think that you are separate from him."
>
> "When you have let all that obscured the truth in your most holy mind be
> undone for you, and therefore stand in grace before your Father, he will
> give himself to you as he has always done.  Giving himself is all he
> knows, and so it is all knowledge.  For what he knows not cannot be, and
> therefore cannot be given.  Ask not to be forgiven, for this has already
> been accomplished.  Ask, rather, to learn how to forgive, and to restore
> what always was to your unforgiving mind.  Atonement becomes real and
> visible to those who use it.  On earth this is your only function, and
> you must learn that it is all you want to learn."
>
> "You need not understand creation to do what must be done before that
> knowledge would be meaningful to you.  God breaks no barriers; neither
> did he make them.  When you release them they are gone.  God will not
> fail, nor ever has in anything.  Decide that God is right and you are
> wrong about yourself.  He created you out of himself, but still within
> him.  He knows what you are.  Remember that there is no second to him.
> There cannot, therefore, be anyone without his holiness, nor anyone
> unworthy of his perfect love.  Fail not in your function of loving in a
> loveless place made out of darkness and deceit, for thus are darkness
> and deceit undone.  Fail not yourself, but instead offer to God and you
> his blameless Son.  For this small gift of appreciation for his love,
> God will himself exchange your gift for his."
>
>
> "Before you make any decisions for yourself, remember that you have
> decided against your function in Heaven, and then consider carefully
> whether you want to make decisions here.  Your function here is only to
> decide against deciding what you want, in recognition that you do not
> know.  How, then, can you decide what you should do?  Leave all
> decisions to the One Who speaks for God, and for your function as he
> knows it.  So will he teach you to remove the awful burden you have laid
> upon yourself by loving not the Son of God, and trying to teach him
> guilt instead of love.  Give up this frantic and insane attempt that
> cheats you of the joy of living with your God and Father, and of waking
> gladly to his love and holiness that join together as the truth in you,
> making you one with him."
>
> "Unless you are guiltless you cannot know God, Whose Will is that you
> know him.  Therefore, you *must* be guiltless.  Yet if you do not accept
> the necessary conditions for knowing him, you have denied him and do not
> recognize him, though he is all around you.  He cannot be known without
> his Son, whose guiltlessness is the condition for knowing him. Accepting
> his Son as guilty is denial of the Father so complete, that knowledge is
> swept away from recognition in the very mind where God himself has
> placed it.  If you would but listen, and learn how impossible this is!
> Do not endow him with attributes you understand.  You made him not, and
> anything you understand is not of him."
>
> "Your task is not to make reality.  It is here without your making, but
> not without you. You who have tried to throw yourself away and valued
> God so little, hear me speak for him and for yourself.  You cannot
> understand how much your Father loves you, for there is no parallel in
> your experience of the world to help you understand it.  There is
> nothing on earth with which it can compare, and nothing you have ever
> felt apart from him resembles it ever so faintly.  Would you know of One
> Who gives forever, and Who knows of nothing except giving?"
>
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 14, Section 4 (5pdf)
> "Teaching for Truth," "Your Function in the Atonement"
> https://tinyurl.com/A-Course-In-Miracles-pdf

 

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