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"Are You Ready Yet To Help Me Save The World?"
Jesus in A Course In Miracles Volume IV Use of Terms
A COURSE IN MIRACLES

"LOVE DOES NOT KILL TO SAVE"
A Course In Miracles is God's Plan for Salvation. It was brought to us for the times we're in now to reverse the errors of the world.
"REAL MEMBERS OF MY PARTY are ACTIVE workers, they Listen, Learn and DO"
Jesus in the Urtext Introduction to Miracles
This is the most accurate version of ACIM there is today. It is unedited, uncensored with commentarys and explanations by Jesus himself.
… The ONLY version of A Course in Miracles that include Jesus' complete "foundation stone" explanations of "Spiritual eye," vs "Holy Spirit," "Christ Guidance" vs "Christ control," "Soul," "world," “Projection” vs “extension,” the “miracle prayer,” His “GREAT CRUSADE”, and even the instructions on human sexuality, ”because this is an area the miracle worker must understand. "MUST"!!
Dough Thompson in A Course In MIracles Urtext Edition. Read more here.

INCOMPLETE VERSION
Kenneth Wapnick, FIP version
This version, which is the most used, translated into 27 languages, is edited by Helen Schucman and Kenneth Wapnick and has been censored, changed and sometimes even rewritten to make it more "printer friendly", although presented by the Foundation for Inner Peace as "virtually unchanged".
The questions that arise once one digs into the history of the Course, the editing and the different versions are quite many. Read more here and here.
The Story Behind A Course in Miracles
One day in October 1965, Helen Schucman, a researcher and clinical psychologist, heard a voice say, "This is A Course in Miracles; Please take notes." The voice introduced himself as 'Jesus'.

The Scholar’s Toolbox I & II - ACIM Primary Source Documents, Concordances and Audio
The scribes Helen Schucman and Bill Thetford
There are many other versions of the Course out there, but the COMPLETE SEVEN VOLUME: THE CIRCLE OF ATONEMENT - which includes others material taken down by Helen Schucman from Jesus as well (GIFTS OF GOD EXCLUDED) - are the most accurate versions.
THE GIFTS OF GOD was among the last material Helen took down from Jesus in the same manner as the rest of the Course and the poems by Jesus. However, Somehow Kenneth Wapnick and Helen Schucman decided not to include any of this material in the Course, but later publish it as Helen's own poetry in her book Gifts of God and many of the poems in Wapnick's book "Absence from Felicity", both books published by Wapnick's Foundation For Inner Peace. Wapnick stated himself that the Gifts of God which both conclude the whole curriculum as well as offer further guidance, were indeed part of the Course.
Below, the five paragraphs with excerpts from the text:
1. THE DREAM OF FEAR - "Does God deceive or does the world? For it is sure that one must lie."
2. THE TWO GIFTS - "Open your hands, and give all things to me that you have held against your holiness and kept as slander on the Son of God. Practice with every one you recognize as what it is."
"You need only call my Name, and ask me to accept the gift of pain from willing hands that would be laid in mine, with thorns laid down and nails long thrown away as one by one the sorry gifts of earth are joyfully relinquished. In my hands is every‐ thing you want and need and hoped to find among the shabby toys of earth. I take them all from you and they are gone. And shining in the place where once they stood there is a gateway to another world through which we enter in the Name of God."
3. THE ENDING OF THE DREAM - "Oh children of the Father you forgot, you have not put your idols in His place, nor made Him give the gifts of fear you made. Let me be Savior from illusions."
4. OUR GIFT TO GOD - "We have discussed the gifts of God to you. Now we must also speak of those that you can give to Him. For it is these that render His giving, complete, as it is His to you that makes you whole. Giving is joy and holiness and healing. Here is your answer to the world, and God's as well. For here it is you join with Him, His likeness being yours in this alone." (Our underlining. No doubt this is a crucial passage).
5. THE FATHER'S LOVE - "There is a secret place in everyone in which God's gifts are laid, and his to Him. It is not secret to the eyes of Christ Who sees it plainly and unceasingly. Yet it is hidden to the body's eyes , and to those still invested in the world and caring for the petty gifts it gives, esteeming them and thinking they are real. Illusions' gifts will hide the secret place where God is clear as day, and Christ with Him."
This section, and A Course In Miracles as it was intended, is finished with a message from God Himself.
Why deny God's children His gifts, providing the final tools to completion?
Download all Jesus' poems and THE GIFTS OF GOD here.


WITH BIBLE CROSS REFERENCES
To get as much essence of the course and also take part of the most loving, sane and mature mind you will even encounter as Jesus communicates with the scribes, study:
A COURSE IN MIRACLES URTEXT MANUSCRIPTS COMPLETE SEVEN VOLUME COMBINED EDITION
containing
TEXT, Including discussions on sex, homosexuality, witchcraft, magic, possession and important comments on the sacrificial elements of the "holy eucharist"
WORKBOOK FOR STUDENTS
MANUAL FOR TEACHERS
USE OF TERMS
PSYCHOTHERAPY
SONG OF PRAYER
GIFTS OF GOD
This is another more inclusive version and contains lots of text omitted in the FIP version, but does not contain THE GIFTS OF GOD.
