What Are The Characteristics of God's Teachers?

First, they must go through what might be called "a period of undoing."

This need not be painful, but it usually is so experienced.

It seems as if things are being taken away, and it is rarely understood initially that their lack of value is merely being recognized.

How can lack of value be perceived unless the perceiver is in a position where he must see things in a different light?

He is not yet at a point at which he can make the shift entirely internally.

And so the plan will sometimes call for changes in what seem to be external circumstances.

These changes are always helpful.

When the teacher of God has learned that much, he goes on to the second stage.

My sinlessness ensures me perfect peace, eternal safety, everlasting love, freedom forever from all thought of loss, complete deliverance from suffering. And only happiness can be my state, for only happiness is given me. What must I do to know all this is mine? I must accept Atonement for myself and nothing more. Lesson 337