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Today I’m going to reveal — probably for the first time ever — what the first chapter of Genesis actually says. So, prepare to have your eyes opened. Let’s begin at the very beginning, with the title word genesis. A word of Greek origin, genesis means “beginning” — the same definition, more or less, assigned
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Now that we’ve established a baseline understanding of God and Creation, let’s turn our attention to the samsara-maya that mortal existence actually is. How did the dream begin? Why did we choose material unreality, separation, and miscreation over Divine Reality, Oneness, and Perfect Creation? And, more importantly, how do we reverse that insane decision and wake up?
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As stated in previous posts, almost everything in the scriptures is allegorical rather than literal – and the same can be said for many things in the world around us. The world is, in actuality, a virtual-reality learning simulator engineered by the Holy Spirit to help our Souls cooperatively learn and teach the universal “course”
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The Spiritual Truths we’ve explored so far are bound to provoke some compelling questions. One of these might be, “What possessed us to leave Heaven in the first place?” The simplest answer is that we yearned to experience what Course-Jesus calls “specialness.” Bored with the egalitarian grind of Oneness, some of the Souls belonging to
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To understand the dynamics of Holy Creation, we first need to apprehend the paramount role Agape plays in the process. The Greek word for Divine Love (for which there is no English equivalent), Agape is the Creative Force of Divine Will that God extends or projects to create the Perfect and Eternal. God is the
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Much more than a central tenet of Judaism and Christianity, the Law of Love is (according to Course-Jesus) God’s most basic mandate that “Love creates itself, and nothing but itself.” The Law of Love further dictates that we receive what we give, as is clearly stated in the affirmation for Workbook Lesson 344: Today I
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Get comfortable, because this post is lengthy, but also chock-a-block full of insightful information – as will be most of my future postings about Spiritual Truth. Originally, I published this as a four-part series called “What is God?,” which made it less daunting to read, but looked awkward in the browser. So, here we are
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Launching the blog on the Feast of the Epiphany wasn’t accidental – nor was it strictly my idea. When guided (in meditation) to launch THE HOLY MEETING PLACE on that date, I knew that January 6 marked the arrival of the three Wise Men in Bethlehem. I also knew the event was allegorical, rather than…
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