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Solution to every problem

The Holy Spirit offers you release from EVERY problem that you think you have.
They are the SAME to Him, because each one, regardless of the form it seems to take, is
a demand that someone suffer loss, and make a sacrifice that you might gain. And, when
the situation is worked out so NO-ONE loses, is the problem gone, because it was an
error in perception, which now has been corrected. One mistake is NOT more difficult
for Him to bring to truth than is another. For there IS but one mistake; the whole idea that
loss is possible, and COULD result in gain for anyone. If THIS were true, then God
WOULD be unfair; sin WOULD be possible, attack be justified, and vengeance fair. This
ONE mistake, in ANY form, has ONE correction. There IS no loss; to think there IS, is a
mistake.
You HAVE no problems, though you THINK you have. And yet you COULD not
think so, if you saw them vanish one by one, WITHOUT regard to size, complexity, or
place and time, or ANY attribute which you perceive that makes each one seem different
from the rest. Think not the limits YOU impose on what you see can limit God in ANY
way. The miracle of justice can correct ALL errors. Every problem IS an error. It does
injustice to the Son of God, and therefore is not true. The Holy Spirit does not evaluate
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injustices as great or small, or more or less. They have NO properties to Him. They are
mistakes from which the Son of God IS suffering, but needlessly. And so He takes the
thorns and nails away. He does not pause to judge whether the hurt be large or little. He
makes but one judgment; that to hurt God’s Son MUST be unfair, and therefore is not so.

Rule by the Laws of chaos

The first chaotic law is that the truth is different for everyone.
The second law of chaos,is that each one
MUST sin, and therefore DESERVES attack and death.
The third law of chaos is that For if God cannot BE mistaken, then He must accept His Son’s belief in what he is, and
HATE him for it.
the Fouth law of chaos is that you HAVE what
you have taken
The Final law of Chaos is that there is a substitution for love

The “laws of chaos” CAN be brought to light, though NEVER understood. Chaotic
laws are hardly meaningful, and therefore out of reason’s sphere. Yet they APPEAR to
constitute an obstacle to reason and to truth. Let us, then, look upon them calmly, that
we may look BEYOND them, understanding what they ARE, NOT what they would
maintain. It IS essential it be understood what they are FOR, because it is their PURPOSE
to make meaningless, and to ATTACK the truth. Here are the laws that rule the world you
made. And yet they govern nothing, and need NOT be broken; merely looked upon and
gone beyond.
The first chaotic law is that the truth is different for everyone. Like all these principles,
this one maintains that each is separate, and has a different set of thoughts which SETS
HIM OFF from others. This principle evolves from the belief there is a hierarchy of illusions;
some are MORE valuable, and THEREFORE true. And each establishes this FOR HIMSELF,
and MAKES it true by his attack on what another values. This is justified BECAUSE the
values differ, and those who hold them SEEM to be unlike, and THEREFORE enemies.
Think how this SEEMS to interfere with the first principle of miracles. For this
establishes degrees of TRUTH among illusions, making it appear that some of them are
HARDER to overcome than others. If it were realized that they are all the same and
EQUALLY untrue, it would be easy, then, to understand that miracles apply to ALL of
them. Errors of ANY kind can be corrected, BECAUSE they are untrue. When brought to
truth, instead of TO EACH OTHER, they merely disappear. No PART of nothing CAN be
more resistant to the truth than can another.
The second law of chaos, dear indeed to every worshipper of sin, is that each one
MUST sin, and therefore DESERVES attack and death. This principle, closely related to
the first, is the demand that errors call for punishment, and NOT correction. For the
DESTRUCTION of the one who makes the error places him BEYOND correction, and
beyond forgiveness. What he has done is thus interpreted as an irrevocable sentence on
himself, which God Himself is powerless to overlook. Sin cannot BE remitted, being the
belief the Son of God can make mistakes for which his own destruction becomes inevitable.
Think what this SEEMS to do to the relationship between the Father and the Son.
Now it appears that they can NEVER be One again. For One must ALWAYS be condemned,
AND BY THE OTHER. Now are they different, and ENEMIES. And THEIR relationship is
one of opposition, just as the separate aspects of the Son meet ONLY to conflict, but NOT
to join. One becomes weak, the other strong BY HIS DEFEAT. And fear of God, and of
each, other now appears as sensible, made real by what the Son of God has done, both
to himself AND his Creator.
The arrogance on which the laws of chaos stand could not be more apparent than
emerges here.Here is a principle which would define what the CREATOR of reality must
be; what He MUST think, and what He must believe; and how He must RESPOND, believing
it. It is not seen as even necessary that He be asked about the truth of what has been
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established for His belief. His Son can TELL Him this, and He has but the choice whether
to take his word for it, or be mistaken.
This leads directly to the third preposterous belief that seems to make chaos eternal.
For if God cannot BE mistaken, then He must accept His Son’s belief in what he is, and
HATE him for it.See how the fear of God is REINFORCED by this third principle. Now it
becomes IMPOSSIBLE to turn to Him for help in misery. For now He has become the
“enemy” Who “caused” it, and to Whom appeal is useless. Nor can salvation lie within
the Son, whose every aspect seems to be at war with Him, and JUSTIFIED in its attack.
And now is conflict made inevitable, and beyond the help of God. And now salvation
MUST remain impossible, because the Saviour HAS become the enemy.There can be NO
release and NO escape. Atonement thus becomes a myth, and vengeance, NOT
forgiveness, is the Will of God. From where all this begins, there IS no sight of help that
can succeed. ONLY destruction can BE the outcome. And God Himself SEEMS to be
siding with it, to overcome His Son. Think not the ego will enable you to find escape
from what it wants. THAT is the function of this course, which does NOT value what the
ego cherishes.

The ego values only what it TAKES. This leads to the fourth law of chaos which, if
the others are accepted, MUST be true. This seeming law is the belief you HAVE what
you have taken. By this, another’s loss becomes your gain, and thus it fails to recognize
that you can never “ take away” save from YOURSELF. Yet all the other laws must lead to
this. For enemies do NOT give willingly to one another, nor would they seek to SHARE
the things they value. And what your ENEMIES would keep from you must BE worth
having, just BECAUSE they keep it hidden from your sight.
All of the mechanisms of madness are seen emerging here. The “enemy,” made
strong by keeping hidden the valuable inheritance which should be yours; your JUSTIFIED
possession, and attack for what has been withheld; and the inevitable loss the enemy
MUST suffer, to save YOURSELF. Thus do the guilty ones protest their innocence. Were
they not forced into this foul attack by the unscrupulous behavior of the enemy, they
would respond with only kindness. But, in a savage world, the kind cannot survive. So
they MUST take, or else be taken FROM.
And now there is a vague, unanswered question, not yet “explained.” What IS this
precious thing, this priceless pearl, this hidden secret treasure, to be wrested in righteous
wrath from this most treacherous and cunning enemy? It must be what you want, and
never found. And now you “understand” the reason WHY you found it not. For it was
TAKEN from you by the enemy, and hidden where you would not think to look. He hid
it in his BODY, making it the cover for his guilt; the hiding place for what belongs to
YOU.
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Now must his body be destroyed and sacrificed, that you may have that which
BELONGS to you. His treachery DEMANDS his death, that YOU may live. And you attack
only in self-defense.But what is it you want, that NEEDS his death? Can you be sure your
murderous attack IS justified, unless you know what it is FOR? And here a final principle
of chaos comes to the “rescue.” It holds there is a SUBSTITUTE for love. This is the
“magic” that will cure all of your pain; the missing factor in your madness THAT MAKES
IT “SANE.” THIS is the reason why you must attack. HERE is what makes your vengeance
justified.
Behold, unveiled, the ego’s secret gift, torn from your brother’s body, hidden there
in malice and in hatred for the one to whom the gift belongs. HE would deprive you of
the secret ingredient which would give meaning to your life. The substitute for love,
born of your enmity to one another, MUST be salvation. IT has no substitute, and there IS
only one. And ALL relationships have but the purpose of seizing it, and making it your
own. Never is your possession made complete. And never will your brother cease his
own attack on YOU, for what you stole. Nor will God end His vengeance upon both, for,
in His madness, He must have this substitute for love, and kill you both.
You who believe you walk in sanity, with feet on solid ground, and through a
world where meaning CAN be found, consider this: These ARE the laws on which your
“sanity” appears to rest. These ARE the principles which makes the ground beneath your
feet seem solid. And it IS here you look for meaning. These are the laws YOU made for
your salvation. They hold in place the substitute for Heaven that you prefer. This is their
PURPOSE; they were MADE for this. There is no point in asking what they mean. This is
apparent. The MEANS of madness MUST be insane. Are you as certain that you realize
the GOAL is madness?
NO-ONE WANTS madness, nor does anyone cling to his madness if he sees that this
is what it IS. What PROTECTS madness is the belief THAT IT IS TRUE. It is the FUNCTION
of insanity to TAKE THE PLACE of truth. It must be seen AS truth, to be believed. And if
it IS the truth, then must its opposite, which was the truth before, be madness now. Such
a reversal, COMPLETELY turned around, with madness sanity, illusions true, attack a
kindness, hatred love, and murder benediction, IS the goal the laws of chaos serve.
These are the means by which the laws of God APPEAR to be reversed. Here do the laws
of sin APPEAR to hold love captive, and let sin go free.
These do not SEEM to be the goals of chaos. For, by the great reversal, they appear
to be the laws of ORDER. How could it NOT be so? Chaos is lawlessness, and HAS no
laws. To be believed, its SEEMING laws must be perceived as REAL. Their goal of madness
MUST be seen as sanity. And fear, with ashen lips and sightless eyes, blinded and terrible
to look upon, is lifted to the throne of love, its dying conqueror, its substitute, the saviour
from salvation. How lovely do the laws of fear make death appear! Give thanks unto the
hero on love’s throne, who saved the Son of God for fear and death!
And yet, how can it be that laws like these can BE believed? There is a strange device
that makes this possible. Nor is it unfamiliar; we have seen how it APPEARS to function
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many times before. In truth, it does NOT function, yet in dreams, where ONLY shadows
play the major roles, it seems most powerful. No law of chaos COULD compel belief, but
for the emphasis on form and DISREGARD OF CONTENT. No-one who thinks that one
of them is true SEES WHAT IT SAYS. Some FORMS it takes seem to have meaning, and
that is all.
How can some FORMS of murder NOT mean death? Can an attack in ANY form be
love? What FORM of condemnation is a blessing? Who makes his Saviour powerless, and
FINDS salvation? Let not the FORM of the attack on him deceive you. You CANNOT seek
to harm him, and be saved. Who can find SAFETY from attack by turning on himself?
How can it matter what the FORM this madness takes? It is a judgment that defeats
ITSELF, condemning what it says it wants to save. Be not deceived when madness takes
a form you think is lovely. What is intent on your destruction, is NOT your friend.
You would maintain, and think it true, that you do NOT believe such senseless laws,
nor act upon them. And, when you look at what they SAY, they CANNOT be believed.
Brothers, you DO believe them. For how else could you PERCEIVE the form they take,
with content such as this? Can ANY form of this be tenable? Yet you believe them FOR
the forms they take, and DO NOT RECOGNIZE the content. IT never changes. Can you
paint rosy lips upon a skeleton, dress it in loveliness, pet it and pamper it, AND MAKE IT
LIVE? And can you be content with an illusion that YOU are living?
There IS no life outside of Heaven. Where God created life, there life must be. In
ANY state apart from Heaven, life is illusion. At best, it SEEMS like life; at worst, like
death. Yet both are judgments on what is NOT life, equal in their inaccuracy and lack of
meaning. Life not in Heaven is impossible, and what is NOT in Heaven is not ANYWHERE.
Outside of Heaven, only the conflict of illusions stands; senseless, impossible and beyond
ALL reason, and yet perceived as an eternal BARRIER to Heaven. Illusions ARE but forms.
Their content is NEVER true.
The laws of chaos govern ALL illusions. Their forms conflict, making it SEEM quite
possible to value some above the others. Yet each one rests as surely on the belief the
laws of chaos ARE the laws of order, as do the others. Each one upholds these laws
completely, offering a certain witness that these laws are true. The seeming gentler FORM
of the attack is no less certain in its witnessing, OR ITS RESULTS. Certain it is illusions will
bring fear, because of the beliefs that they imply, NOT for their form. And lack of faith in
love, in ANY form, attests to chaos AS REALITY.
From the belief in sin, the faith in chaos MUST follow. It is BECAUSE it follows that
it seems to be a logical conclusion; a valid step in ordered thought. The steps to chaos
DO follow neatly from their starting-point. Each is a different form in the progression of
truth’s reversal, leading still deeper into terror, and AWAY from truth. Think not one step
is smaller than another, nor that return from one is easier. The whole descent from
Heaven lies in each one. And where your thinking starts, there must it end.
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Brothers, take not one step in the descent to hell. For HAVING taken one, you will
NOT RECOGNIZE the rest for what they are. And they WILL follow. Attack in ANY form
has placed your foot upon the twisted stairway that leads FROM Heaven. Yet, any instant,
it is possible to have all this undone. How can you know whether you chose the stairs to
Heaven or the way to hell? Quite easily. What do you feel? Is peace in your awareness?
Are you CERTAIN which way you go? And are you sure the goal of Heaven CAN be
reached? If not, you walk alone. Ask, then, your Friend to JOIN with you, and GIVE you
certainty of where you go.

I AM

This is the ONLY thing that you need
do for vision, happiness, release from pain,
and the COMPLETE escape from sin,
ALL to be given you. Say ONLY this, but MEAN it
with NO reservations, for here the power of salvation lies:

“I AM responsible for what I see.
I CHOSE the feelings I experience,
and I DECIDED
ON the goal I would achieve.
And everything that SEEMS to happen TO me,
I ASKED
FOR and received as I had asked.”

Deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless
in the face of what is done TO you.
Acknowledge but that YOU have been mistaken,
and ALL effects of your mistakes will
disappear.

Determinism and free will

Determinism and free will
Determinism is the philosophical proposition that every event, including human cognition, decision and action, is causally determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences. It holds that no random, spontaneous, mysterious, or miraculous events occur. The principal consequence of the deterministic claim is that it poses a challenge to the existence of free will.

The problem of free will is the problem of whether rational agents exercise control over their own actions and decisions. Addressing this problem requires understanding the relation between freedom and causation, and determining whether the laws of nature are causally deterministic. Some philosophers, known as Incompatibilists, view determinism and free will as mutually exclusive. If they believe in determinism, they will therefore believe free will to be an illusion, a position known as Hard Determinism. Proponents range from Baruch Spinoza to Ted Honderich.

Others, labeled Compatibilists (or “Soft Determinists”), believe that the two ideas can be coherently reconciled. Adherents of this view include Thomas Hobbes and many modern philosophers.

Incompatibilists who accept free will but reject determinism are called Libertarians, a term not to be confused with the political sense. Robert Kane is one of the few modern defenders of this theory.

It is a popular misconception that determinism necessarily entails that humanity or individual humans have no influence on the future and its events, a position known as Fatalism). Determinists, however, believe that the level to which human beings have influence over their future is itself dependent on present and past.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysic

Metaphysics

Referred to as the subject of “first philosophy,the term “metaphysics” is regarded as having originated from the works of Aristotle. The editor of his works, Andronicus of Rhodes, placed the books on first philosophy right after another work, Physics, and called these books τα μετα τα φυσικά βιβλια (ta meta ta physika biblia) or, “the books that come after the [books on] physics.” This was misread by Latin scholiasts, who thought it meant “the science of what is beyond the physical.”[citation needed] In the English language, the word comes by way of the Medieval Latin metaphysica, the neuter plural of Medieval Greek metaphysika.[3] While its Greek and Latin origins are clear, various dictionaries trace its first appearance in English to the mid-sixteenth century, although in some cases as early as 1387.[3][4]

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the ultimate nature of reality, being, and the world.[1] Its name derives from the Greek words μετά (metá) (meaning “after”) and φυσικά (physiká) (meaning “after talking about physics”), “physics” referring to those works on matter by Aristotle in antiquity.[2] Metaphysics addresses questions that have existed for as long as the human race - many still with no definitive answer. Examples are:

What is the meaning of life?
What is the nature of reality?
What is mankind’s place in the universe?
Are colors objective or subjective?
Does the world exist outside the mind?
What is the nature of objects, events, places?
A central branch of metaphysics is ontology, the investigation into what types of things there are in the world and what relations these things bear to one another. The metaphysician also attempts to clarify the notions by which people understand the world, including existence, objecthood, property, space, time, causality, and possibility.

More recently, the term “metaphysics” has also been used more loosely to refer to “subjects that are beyond the physical world”. A “metaphysical bookstore”, for instance, is not one that sells books on ontology, but rather one that sells books on spirits, faith healing, crystal power, occultism, and other such topics.

Before the development of modern science, scientific questions were addressed as a part of metaphysics known as “natural philosophy”; the term “science” itself meant “knowledge”. The Scientific Revolution, however, made natural philosophy an empirical and experimental activity unlike the rest of philosophy, and by the end of the eighteenth century it had begun to be called “science” in order to distinguish it from philosophy. Metaphysics therefore became the philosophical enquiry into subjects beyond the physical world. Natural philosophy and science may still be considered topics of metaphysics, if the definition of “metaphysics” includes empirical explanations.

Aristotle’s Metaphysics was divided into three parts, in addition to some smaller sections related to a philosophical lexicon and some reprinted extracts from the Physics, which are now regarded as the proper branches of traditional Western metaphysics:

Ontology
The study of Being and existence; includes the definition and classification of entities, physical or mental, the nature of their properties, and the nature of change.
Theology
The study of God; involves many topics, including among others the nature of religion and the world, existence of the divine, questions about Creation, and the numerous religious or spiritual issues that concern humankind in general.
Universal science
The study of first principles, which Aristotle believed to be the foundation of all other inquiries. An example of such a principle is the law of noncontradiction and the status it holds in non-paraconsistent logics.
Universal science or first philosophy treats of “being qua being” — that is, what is basic to all science before one adds the particular details of any one science. Essentially “being qua being” may be translated as “being insofar as being goes”, or as, “being in terms of being”. This includes topics such as causality, substance, species and elements, as well as the notions of relation, interaction, and finitude.

Metaphysics as a discipline was a central part of academic inquiry and scholarly education even before the age of Aristotle. Long considered “the Queen of Sciences”,[cite this quote] its issues were considered no less important than the other main formal subjects of physical science, medicine, mathematics, poetics and music. Since the beginning of modern philosophy during the seventeenth century, problems that were not originally considered within the bounds of metaphysical have been added to its purview, while other problems considered metaphysical for centuries are now typically relegated to their own separate regions in philosophy, such as philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science.