Series: Course of Love | Publication Date: May 9, 2006
The prophetic messages of A Course of Love continue with treatises on The Art of Thought, The Nature of Unity and Its Recognition, The Personal Self, and The New. Through A Course of Love the nature of the true Self has been recognized. Through the treatises the barriers to living as the true Self are made known and a new way of living revealed.
The Treatises of A Course of Love — on Thought, Unity, the Personal Self, and the New, reveal a way to live as the Self you truly are.
The messages of this Course were given by Jesus and expressed in writing by Mari Perron. This revelation was a gift of solitude. Since completion of the Course, the orientation of solitude continues to guide Perron’s life and has been enhanced by the cabin retreat her husband built for her. Perron is the co-author of The Grace Trilogy: Message of Love, Grace, and Peace, and recipient of the University of Minnesota’s Jean Keller Bovier Award for Literary Accomplishment.
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Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: Course of Love Publications (May 9, 2006)
A friend and her eleven-year-old daughter were over the other day. Allie, the daughter, was one of two students from Minnesota who wrote a letter to President Obama (as part of a school project) that was so good it was sent to him and even garnered her a reply. I asked her if she might want to be a writer. She said, "Yes."
Later she asked me what I write about. I'm a new grandmother, so I told her that in my new book I write a fair bit about my grandson Henry, and squirrels, and being who we are. "That's my main topic," I told her, "being who we are." I couldn't tell from her silence, or the look on her face, whether she is still too young to find that an issue or not. Her mom said, "I'm always telling her that. Just be who you are." It's got to be a universal mother message: Be who you are and everything will be fine.
When do those other messages start? Those that tell us we need to be other than who we are? It's hard to say. Whatever those messages are for each of us, getting beyond them, and back to our most natural, or given selves, is part of my passion as a writer and a person, a passion that feels as if it springs from my soul and needs to find expression. It seems as if just about all of us struggle to walk this path back to our most authentic selves. I've appreciated (that word "appreciated" doesn't feel nearly strong enough) so many authors who've helped me see my path more clearly, but the ones I love the most are those who've made me feel as if we're in it together, companions on the way.
It's in that spirit that I introduce myself and invite you to browse my books.
Having served as the writer for the books of A Course of Love, I've been blessed with correspondence from readers all over the world. Many of these readers have become friends. It's one of the graces of the experience: new relationships. There's a lot of talk within the Course of Love books on unity and relationship - that both/and experience of oneness and union "with," but sometimes it feels as if it's more comfortable, and just plain human, to talk of friendship. I'm big on simple humanity, which, of course, isn't so simple.
For those of you unfamiliar with them, you might want to know that A Course of Love came to me by way of an inner voice. I know this makes some people jittery. I get that. Then when I add that the inner voice is the voice of Jesus, I can understand if you might think that's too much and this isn't for you. All I can really say about that is that you might want to browse inside the books. If they speak to you, you'll know it. If they don't, they don't.
I was a Course in Miracles reader long before A Course of Love came to me, and I think ACIM and other heart-opening experiences prepared me to accept it. I forget sometimes that there are those who are as unfamiliar with A Course in Miracles as they are with A Course of Love, so I'll just tell you a little about my experience with it.
I read about ACIM in a newspaper article that did not name it as a book that came in the voice of Jesus. When I started reading it, I still didn't realize that it was, and when I became aware of it I didn't believe it. But by then I wasn't about to put the book down because I felt everything in it was Truth with a capital T. I felt this mainly because I was hearing the truth about "me." It was as if someone was able to look inside my head and see everything that went on in there. After a while I started to figure than maybe it really was Jesus. Who else could do that? Then the same thing happened with A Course of Love -- as if Jesus was peering into -- and describing, the very heart of me.
The way of thinking that was described so well that I could see it as my own is called "insanity" in both courses, and after a while you get to agreeing with that assessment and to letting yourself be led toward sanity.
Some call A Course of Love a sequel to ACIM; some deny it. I don't know that it really matters. All I can tell you on that is that I was asked to receive a new course in miracles that would be for the heart what the original is for the mind.
This is a really different orientation and it has an alarming affect. It really changes people, and you know how hard it is to really change. It's all about letting our hearts guide us back to our own true selves, and being our true selves in the world here and now.
A Course of Love was first published in 2001 (I know, I know...I get it all the time...why is it still such a secret?), and it wasn't until almost 2010 that I came out with another book, this one, The Given Self, written in my own voice. It's not a telling of the story of how ACOL came to me, but there's a bit of that, and a lot about how the experience affected me.
The long and the short of it is that what we're seeking isn't about mind alone or heart alone but joining them so that we're not caught in internal conflict all the time.
A Course in Miracles may prepare some readers for A Course of Love. Or it may be that some people need a course that is for their mind or intellect -- that's the way they learn, and some need a way that is for the heart -- basically an unlearning and a greater reliance on intuition and feelings and receptivity.
Receptivity is what I've decided is the key. It's as if A Course of Love gets into you, opens you up, and makes you more receptive. That receptivity is thoroughly you, unique to you, and what you gain comes from that. You gain insight into who you are and what your gifts are and you start to long to find expression for them.
The yearning for God (by whatever name) and for our own selves has always been pretty much the same thing, and you start to feel that and really follow that yearning, that longing, to know yourself and God.
I know I'm biased, but I feel that this course suits this time, as all prophetic messages do. We need the wisdom of our hearts now, and the world needs us to find expression for that wisdom.
I hope you'll join me on this great journey of discovery back to our true -- our given selves -- and forward to bringing your gifts to a world in need of them. ~ Mari
This review is from: The Treatises of A Course of Love (Paperback)
These Treatises are a follow on to "A Course Of Love" (ACOL). The Course Of Love appears to be an exponent of A Course In Miracles (ACIM). The Treatises like ACOL use the same vocabulary as ACIM and in fact refers to ACIM many times. ACOL is more earthly while ACIM is spiritually pure. The time of the Holy Spirit (Indirect communication with God) is coming to an end. These are the beginning times of Christ Consciousness (Direct communication/revelation with God) which is our true nature. The Treatises do an excellent job of explaining how to deal with illusions vs. truth thru many references to living in the "House of Illusion" vs. living in the "House of Truth". One of my favorite verses located in "A Treatise on the Personal Self" is as follows:
"19.15 You will be tempted to return to the house of illusion to gather those within and bid them join you in the reality of the truth. But in this time of Christ, a new time, a time without parallel or comparison, this will not be possible. It has been said from the beginning that your role will not be to evangelize or to be convincing. You cannot argue the case of truth in the courtroom of illusion."
"The Treatise of the Personal Self" is the largest but for me the most helpful. Later in this Treatise, we are taught how to deal with illusion. We are taught how to "Observe" without living in the House of Illusion. This Treatise teaches or awakens us to the power of Wholeheartedness (mind joined with the heart).
"20.15 My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, let nothing call you to return to the ways of old. They do not work! To minister to those within the house of illusion is to offer the temporary to the temporary when I call you to offer the eternal to the eternal. The new way will work wherever it finds willingness. You cannot call others to abandon their willingness to live in illusion by joining them there! You can only call others to a willingness to set illusion aside and to begin the journey home to unity. You can only call to them from unity if you are already there!"
"The Treatise of the New" goes on to explain how the Son of God separated from God the Father. The Prodigal Son Parable is mentioned many times. The example of a gifted child that grew too fast for the child's own good. To limit our freedom to save us from suffering would have violated the Laws of Creation. Our decision to express the Son of God thru "form" or the physical world was accomplished by separating the Son of God's Mind from God but not the Heart. To sever the Heart would have violated the Laws of Creation. The Heart remains One with God. When the Mind was severed, The Son of God experienced free will and the Ego stepped in to take the place as an adviser on how to "build" a new thought system based on Fear. This was the first mistake. The House of Illusion was built on the FALSE foundation of the Ego. The decision to separate the Son of God's Mind from God was not a rebellion. It was a mutual decision. It was a choice. The Ego thought system has done an excellent job of keeping that from us or as the treatises state "this is what we have forgotten".
Now to the part of the Treatises and ACOL that is different from ACIM. While ACIM is spiritually pure..........as if being spoken to directly from the Divine, ACOL and the Treatises explain that by moving to the House of Truth, we can fulfill our original creative charter of our expression in form or the physical world. We can transform the physical world thru Christ Consciousness.
And what was the original charter in the physical world? It was change! The ultimate freedom and nature of the physical world is CHANGE! The freedom of Creation to express LOVE. The freedom of Creation to expand and enrich thru change.
As Christ Consciousness is attained AND sustained, the need for learning is over. It is still a choice but the need is over. All that is..........is shared in unity.
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This review is from: The Treatises of A Course of Love (Paperback)
This book follows the masterpiece, A Course of Love, in which we are taken to a place of understanding and many ACIM principles are clarified with examples. It defines a few new principles and lays the groundwork for the remarkable "Dialogues of a Course of Love," a book which takes you to the bridge. After several frustrated years of re-reading Helen's Course, I am finally beyond studying words and living with direct revelation. The steps and the thoughts that are required were in ACIM all along, we just chose to not see them.
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