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A Course in Miracles Manual For Teachers Introduction
The curriculum that you set up is therefore determined exclusively by...
and what
you believe the relationship of others is to you.
In the formal teaching situation, these questions may be totally unrelated to what you think you are teaching. Yet it is impossible not to use the content of any situation on behalf of what you really teach an therefore learn. To this the verbal content of your teaching is quite irrelevant. It may coincide with it or it may not. It is the teaching underlying what you say that teaches you.
Its fundamental purpose is to diminish self doubt. This does not mean that the self you are trying to protect is real. But it does mean that...
This is inevitable. There is no escape from it. How could it be otherwise? Everyone who follows the world's curriculum, and everyone here does follow it until he changes his mind, teaches solely to convince himself that he is what he is not.
What
else, then, would its curriculum be?
Into this hopeless and closed learning situation which teaches nothing but despair and death, God sends His teachers. And as they teach His lessons of joy and hope, their learning finally becomes complete.
Except for God's teachers, there would be no hope of salvation, for the world of sin would seem forever "real." The self-deceiving must deceive, for they must teach deception. And what else is hell?
They
are not perfect or they would not be here. Yet it is their mission
to become perfect here, and so they teach perfection over and
over in many, many ways until they have learned it.
And then they are seen no more, although their thoughts remain a source of strength and truth forever. Who
are they?
How
are they chosen?
What
do they do?
How
can they work out their own salvation and the salvation of the
world?
This manual attempts to answer these questions.
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The
concept of “speaking in many tongues” was originally
an injunction to communicate to everyone in his own language,
or his own level. It hardly meant to speak in a way that nobody
can understand. Urtext
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