Table of Contents
Foreword xv
Book 1 A Course of Love
Introduction 3
The Prelude 6
Chapter 1 A Course of Love 17
Chapter 2 What Love Is 22
Chapter 3 The First Lesson 27
Chapter 4 Love's Equity 32
Chapter 5 Relationship 38
Chapter 6 Forgiveness/Joining 46
Chapter 7 Withholding 52
Chapter 8 The Separation from the Body 59
Chapter 9 The Prodigal's Return 66
Chapter 10 Use and Understanding 80
Chapter 11 Free Will and Willingness 89
Chapter 12 Origin of Separation 94
Chapter 13 Observation and Experience 100
Chapter 14 Special Relationships, Earthly and Human 103
Chapter 15 The Special Self 111
Chapter 16 What You Choose Instead 115
Chapter 17 Conscious Non-Planning 121
Chapter 18 The Mind Engaged 125
Chapter 19 Oneness and Duality 131
Chapter 20 Wholeheartedness-The Embrace 138
Chapter 21 Love Is 147
Chapter 22 The Intersection 150
Chapter 23 The Freedom of the Body 155
Chapter 24 The Time of Tenderness 161
Chapter 25 Devotion as a Type of Participation 162
Chapter 26 The Full Life 168
Chapter 27 Being 173
Chapter 28 Bearing Witness 177
Chapter 29 Attention 180
Chapter 30 Being Present 185
Chapter 31 The Mature of the Mind 188
Chapter 32 Love Returned to Love 195
Learning in the Time of Christ-Part One 197
Book 2 The Treatises of a Course of Love
A Treatise on the Art of Thought: The First Treatise
Chapter 1 The First Instruction 206
Chapter 2 The Art of Thought 209
Chapter 3 The Call to the Miracle 213
Chapter 4 The Center of the Universe 218
Chapter 5 The Choice for Love 224
Chapter 6 The Act of Prayer 227
Chapter 7 Suffering and the New Learning 229
Chapter 8 Incarnation and Resurrection 231
Chapter 9 Giving and Receiving 234
Chapter 10 Peace 238
A Treatise on the Nature of Unity and its Recognition: The Second Treatise
Chapter 1 Treasure 244
Chapter 2 To Hear the Call 247
Chapter 3 To Answer the Call 249
Chapter 4 The Call to Who You Are 251
Chapter 5 The Source of Your Call 256
Chapter 6 The Belief: Accomplishment 258
Chapter 7 The Belief: Giving and Receiving As One 261
Chapter 8 The Belief: No Relationships Are Special 266
Chapter 9 The Belief: There Is No Loss But Only Gain 268
Chapter 10 The Belief, We Only Learn in Unity 272
Chapter 11 The Belief: We Exist in Relationship and Unity 276
Chapter 12 The Belief: Correction and Atonement 280
Chapter 13 The Final Call 283
A Treatise on the Personal Self: The Third Treatise
Chapter 1 True and False Representation 288
Chapter 2 The Purpose of Representation 291
Chapter 3 The True Self 295
Chapter 4 The Dismantling of Illusion 298
Chapter 5 Original Purpose 300
Chapter 6 The Desire for Reward 302
Chapter 7 The Explosion of Belief 304
Chapter 8 The House of Truth 306
Chapter 9 To Dwell in the House of Truth 310
Chapter 10 An Exercise in Forgetting 312
Chapter 11 The Temptations of the Human Experience 316
Chapter 12 The Physical Self in the House of Truth 319
Chapter 13 The Practice: No Loss But Only Gain 322
Chapter 14 Not Other Than Who You Are 325
Chapter 15 The New Beginning 329
Chapter 16 Willingness, Temptation, and Belief 333
Chapter 17 A Mistake in Learning 337
Chapter 18 Observation 340
Chapter 19 Physical Reality 342
Chapter 20 Suffering and Observance 346
Chapter 21 The Identity of the True Self 351
Chapter 22 The True Self in Observable Form 356
A Treatise on the New: The Fourth Treatise
Chapter 1 All Are Chosen 362
Chapter 2 Shared Vision 369
Chapter 3 Natural Vision 377
Chapter 4 The Inheritance of Everlasting Life 380
Chapter 5 The Energy of Creation and the Body of Christ 384
Chapter 6 A New Choice 388
Chapter 7 An End to Learning 390
Chapter 8 To Come to Know 393
Chapter 9 Beyond Learning 398
Chapter 10 Creating Anew 400
Chapter 11 The End of Learning and the Sustainability of Christ-Consciousness 403
Chapter 12 A Prelude to The Dialogues 404
Learning in the Time of Christ-Part Two 413
Book 3 The Dialogues of A Course of Love
Chapter 1 Acceptance of the State of Grace of the Newly Identified Child of God 419
Chapter 2 Acceptance and Denial 425
Chapter 3 The Covenant of the New 430
Chapter 4 The New You 435
Chapter 5 True Representation 442
Chapter 6 The Body and the Elevation of Form 447
Chapter 7 Time and the Experience of Transformation 454
Chapter 8 The Territory of Conscious Awareness 460
Chapter 9 Awareness that Does Not Come from Thought 464
Chapter 10 The Goal and the Accomplishment of the Elevated-Self of Form 467
Chapter 11 The Return to Unity and the End of Thought As You Know It 469
Chapter 12 The Body and Your Thoughts 473
Chapter 13 Sharing and a Refinement of Your Means of Expressing What You Know 478
Chapter 14 New Frontiers Beyond the Body and Mind, Form and Time 482
Chapter 15 Becoming and the Principles of Creation 486
Chapter 16 From Image to Presence 491
Chapter 17 The Secret of Succession 496
The Forty Days and Forty Nights
Day 1 Accept Me 502
Day 2 Accept Your Self 507
Day 3 Accept Abundance 512
Day 4 The New Temptations 524
Day 5 Access to Unity 535
Day 6 The Time In Between 540
Day 7 Conditions of the Time of Acceptance 546
Day 8 Accept the Present 550
Day 9 Freedom 557
Day 10 Power 563
Day 11 Christ-Consciousness 571
Day 12 The Spacious Self Joined in Relationship 573
Day 13 Union with the Spacious Self 577
Day 14 Healing 577
Day 15 Entering the Dialogue 580
Day 16 Paradise Re-Found 587
Day 17 The Fulfillment of the Way of Jesus 591
Day 18 The Way to Paradise 595
Day 19 The Way of Mary 599
Day 20 The First Transition 603
Day 21 The Reversal 605
Day 22 Channeling 607
Day 23 Carrying 611
Day 24 Potential 613
Day 25 Tending Your Garden 615
Day 26 Self-Guidance 617
Day 27 The Apprehension of Levels of Experience 619
Day 28 From Externally to Internally Directed Life Experience 623
Day 29 The Common Denominator of Experience 627
Day 30 Yielding to Wholeness 629
Day 31 Joining 631
Day 32 The Experience of the Self and the Power of God 633
Day 33 Being in Relationship 637
Day 34 Saying Yes to Power 640
Day 35 Being a Creator in Unity and Relationship 642
Day 36 Who You Are in Unity and Relationship 646
Day 37 A New Idea of God 651
Day 38 Who I Am 658
Day 39 Who I Am to You 660
Day 40 Who You Are to Me 667
Epilogue: A Note on Being 673
Learning in the Time of Christ-Part Three 677
Dialogue Unveiled 682
Resources 690
