goal is AGAINST.If you are trying to learn how NOTto learn, and
are using the aim of teaching to DEFEATitself, what can you expect
BUTconfusion? The curriculum does not make SENSE.
This kind of “learning” has so weakened your mind that you
CANNOTlove, for the curriculum you have chosen is AGAINST
love, and amounts to a course in HOW TO ATTACK YOURSELF.A
necessary minor, supplementing this major curriculum goal, is
learning how NOTto overcome the split which made this goal
believable. And you can NOTovercome it, for all YOURlearning is
on its BEHALF.Yet your will speaks against your learning as your
learning speaks against your will, and so you fight AGAINSTlearning
and succeed, for that ISyour will. But you do not realize, even yet,
that there ISsomething you DOwill to learn, and that you can learn
it because it ISyour will to do so.
You who have tried to learn what you do NOTwill should take
heart, for although the curriculum you set yourself is depressing
indeed, it is merely ridiculous, if you look at it. Is it POSSIBLEthat
the way to achieve a goal is NOTto attain it? Resign NOWas your
own teachers.THISresignation will NOTlead to depression. It is
merely the result of an honest appraisal of what you have taught
yourselves, and of the learning outcomes which have resulted. Under
the proper learning conditions, which you can neither provide nor
understand, you will become excellent learners ANDteachers. But it
is not so yet, and will not BEso until the whole learning situation, as
YOUhave set it up, is reversed.
Your learning POTENTIAL,properly understood, is limitless
because it will lead you to God. You can TEACHthe way to Him
ANDlearn it, if you follow the Teacher Who knows it, and His
curriculum for learning it. The curriculum is totally unambiguous
because the goal is NOTdivided, and the means and the end are in
COMPLETE accord. You need offer only UNDIVIDED
ATTENTION.Everything else will be GIVENyou. For it is YOUR
will to learn aright, and nothing can oppose the will of God’s Son.
His learning is as unlimited as HEis.
THE VISION OF CHRIST
The ego is trying to teach you how to gain the whole world and lose
THE VISION OF CHRIST