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Patricia Robinett has been leading A Course In Miracles study groups for over 20 years. December 27, 2008 she began a new project – to video tape the ACIM Workbook lessons, even though she had never made a video before. Between January 1 and December 31, 2009 she released 365 videos. In 2009 she also released her 35-year project, "Knowledge, The Essence of World Scriptures" which can be purchased at amazon.com.
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11. What is Creation?

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Creation is the sum of all God’s Thoughts, in number infinite, and everywhere without all limit. Only Love creates, and only like Itself. There was no time when all that It created was not there. Nor will there be a time when anything that it created suffers any loss. Forever and forever are God’s Thoughts exactly as they were and as they are, unchanged through time and after time is done.

God’s Thoughts are given all the power that their own Creator has. For He would add to Love by its extension. Thus His Son shares in creation, and must therefore share in power to create. What God has willed to be forever one will still be one when time is over; and will not be changed throughout the course of time, remaining as it was before the thought of time began.

Creation is the opposite of all illusions, for creation is the truth. Creation is the holy Son of God, for in creation is His Will complete in every aspect, making every part container of the Whole. Its oneness is forever guaranteed inviolate; forever held within His holy Will, beyond all possibility of harm, of separation, imperfection and of any spot upon its sinlessness.

We are creation; we the Sons of God. We seem to be discrete, and unaware of our eternal unity with Him. Yet back of all our doubts, past all our fears, there still is certainty. For Love remains with all Its Thoughts, Its sureness being theirs. God’s memory is in our holy minds, which know their oneness and their unity with their Creator. Let our function be only to let this memory return, only to let God’s Will be done on earth, only to be restored to sanity, and to be but as God created us.

Our Father calls to us. We hear His Voice, and we forgive creation in the Name of its Creator, Holiness Itself, Whose holiness His Own creation shares; Whose holiness is still a part of us.

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Reality versus religion

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At one point, religion and politics were one and the same. The priests were also the doctors, the psychologists, the judges, the rulers and the lawmakers, all rolled into one. Religion is a means of social control based on a supreme being and stories of reward and punishment, heaven and hell. Tools religions use to control are: laws, threats. fear, blame, shame, guilt, anger, sorrow, belief, superstition, rites, rituals, and so on.

Scriptures themselves are not religions. They are descriptions — as much as words can accomplish — of a state of union with God. This state is something we have all touched upon. It is our golden moment. It is intimate, honest, and touches us profoundly. It takes us though and out of the chaotic matrix that surrounds and envelops us so that we can return to where we were when we were created, to pure peace and the awareness of Oneness. Even a moment of that experience touches us deeply. It’s the ultimate inside job.

Scriptures contradict and correct a lot of superstitious religious concepts and fill in some blanks in our understanding of how things work. And all scriptures are in agreement in the essential areas. “God is love” and the angry, punishing “god” who demands blood, is exposed like the little man behind the curtain in the land of Oz.

In the “Introduction” to A Course In Miracles it says,

Nothing Real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.

The course encourages us to hang on very tightly to what is Real and to release anything less. Love is Real and eternal, it says. Fear is an expression of forgetting love.

The bible says “God is Love.” ACIM expounds on that, “You have but two emotions, love and fear. One is changeless but continually exchanged, being offered by the eternal to the eternal. In this exchange it is extended, for it increases as it is given. The other has many forms.”

Other than “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind,” the other most significant things Jesus may have said were, “Love one another,” “Judge not,” “Forgive,” and “Fear not.”

Christianity leans heavily on the idea of love, almost as if it is a duty or a chore, and a sin to not be good. But the masters do not send their disciples into the fray empty handed. We need a heart full of love to accomplish those lofty goals. We cannot extend unconditional love without knowing how to dip into the source of love itself.

We are very powerful spiritual beings. Nothing can harm who and what we truly are. We need not fear. And this is where the course touches on the subject of Knowledge. Knowledge, it says, is beyond its scope, for Knowledge is the lab after the lecture. Knowledge is where we meet what all scriptures call “God.”

God is light; energy can be seen as light. God is the vibration of life; energy can be felt as a pure vibration that fuels all life. God is what everything and everyone, everywhere is made of. God is immortal; energy had no beginning and will have no end. Both God and energy are omnipresent and omnipotent, without which there is no consciousness.

We learn and parrot, “And God said, Let us make man in our own image and likeness”, “God is Light”, “God is Love” “Our Father” and so on, but we do not realize the full implication of those words. The course tries to explain them from many different directions. It is relentless in its effort to help us distinguish between what is Real and unreal, so that we will choose the One and take the other lightly.  And we will know. In the ACIM Text, Chapter 18, it says,

“This course will lead to Knowledge,
but Knowledge itself is still beyond
the scope of our curriculum.”

Read my book on the subject of Knowledge: Knowledge, The Essence of World Scriptures. Knowledge is a gift, a set of tools that you can use to dig the gold mine in your heart. What you find there, in your heart of hearts, is the most beautiful thing you will ever see. It is familiar. It is your original home. Knowing how to go home even while you are having a human experience, is your birthright.

“The peace of God is shining in you now.”

All that is needed to receive the gift of Knowledge is a sincere desire to know the Truth. We are designed to know God, to live with God, to walk with God every day.

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10. What is the Last Judgment?

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Christ’s Second Coming gives the Son of God this gift: to hear the Voice for God proclaim that what is false is false, and what is true has never changed. And this the judgement is in which perception ends. At first you see a world that has accepted this as true, projected from a now corrected mind. And with this holy sight, perception gives a silent blessing and then disappears, its goal accomplished and its mission done.

The final Judgement on the world contains no condemnation. For it sees the world as totally forgiven, without sin and wholly purposeless. Without a cause, and now without a function in Christ’s sight, it merely slips away to nothingness. There it was born, and there it ends as well. And all the figures in the dream in which the world began go with it. Bodies now are useless, and will therefore fade away, because the Son of God is limitless.

You who believed that God’s Last Judgement would condemn the world to hell along with you, accept this holy truth: God’s Judgement is the gift of the Correction He bestowed on all your errors, freeing you from them, and all effects they ever seemed to have. To fear God’s saving grace is but to fear complete release from suffering, return to peace, security and happiness, and union with your own Identity.

God’s Final Judgement is as merciful as every step in His appointed plan to bless His Son, and call him to return to the eternal peace He shares with him. Be not afraid of love. For it alone can heal all sorrow, wipe away all tears, and gently waken from his dream of pain the Son whom God acknowledges as His. Be not afraid of this. Salvation asks you give it welcome. And the world awaits your glad acceptance, which will set it free.

This is God’s Final Judgement: “You are still My holy Son, forever innocent, forever loving and forever loved, as limitless as your Creator, and completely changeless and forever pure. Therefore awaken and return to Me. I am Your Father and you are My Son”.