ACIM Manual For Teachers

Who Are Their Pupils?

When pupil and teacher come together, a teaching-learning situation begins. For the teacher is not really the one who does the teaching.

God's Teacher (Holy Spirit) speaks to any two who join together for learning purposes.

The relationship is holy because of that purpose, and God has promised to send His Spirit into any holy relationship.

In the teaching-learning situaiton, each one learns that giving and receiving are the same. 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.

Those who would learn the same course share one interest and one goal. 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.

He has seen in another person the same interests as his own.

No two can look on sin together, for they could never see it in the same place and time. Sin is a strictly individual perception, seen in the other, yet believed by each to be within himself. Chap 22 Salvation & Holy Spirit