50 Miracle Principles From A Course in Miracles Chapter 1.
1. The 1st Principal of Miracles is there no order of difficulty among Miracles.
One not harder or bigger than another. They are all the same.
2. Miracles in themselves do not matter; they are quite unimportant.
3. Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In a sense, everything that comes from love is a miracle.
4. Miracles are habits and should be involuntary.
Otherwise they may become undemocratic.
Selective miracles are dangerous, and may destroy talent.
5. Miracles are natural.
When they do not occur, something has gone wrong.
6. Miracles are everyone’s right, but Purification is necessary first.
7. Miracles are a form of Healing.
They supply a lack, and are performed by those who have more for those who have less.
8. Miracles are a kind of exchange.
Like all expressions of love, which are always miraculous in the true sense, the exchange reverses physical laws.
9. A Miracle is a reversal of the physical order because it brings more love to the giver and the receiver.
10. The use of Miracles as spectacles to induce belief is wrong.
They are really used for and by Believers.
A miracle is misunderstood when it is regarded as a spectacle.
11. Prayer is the Medium of Miracles.
Prayer is the natural communication between the created and the Creator.
Through prayer love is received, and through miracles love is expressed.
12. Miracles are the Effects of Thought.
Thought can make the lower order or create the higher order.
This is the basic distinction between Intellectualizing and True Thinking.
One makes the physical, and the other creates the spiritual.
And we Believe In what we Make or Create.
13. A Miracle is a beginning and an ending.
It thus Abolishes Time.
It is always an affirmation of rebirth, which seems to go back but really goes forward.
It undoes the past in the present, and thus releases the future.
14. All Miracles attest to Truth.
They are convincing because they arise from conviction.
Without conviction, they deteriorate into magic, which is mindless and therefore destructive, or rather, the uncreative use of mind.
15. Each day should be devoted to Miracles.
Time was made so you could use it creatively, and convince yourself of your own ability to create.
Time is a teaching device, a means to an end.
It will cease when it is no longer useful in facilitating learning.
16. Miracles are teaching devices for demonstrating that it is as blessed to give as to receive.
They simultaneously increase the reserve of strength in the giver and supply the lack of strength in the receiver.
17. Miracles are the absence of the body.
They are sudden shifts into invisibility, away from the physical level.
That is why they heal.
18. A Miracle is a Service.
It is the maximal service one person can render another.
It is thus a way of loving your neighbor as yourself.
The doer recognizes his own and his neighbor’s inestimable value simultaneously.
19. Miracles make minds one in Christ.
They are a corporate necessity.
Industry depends on cooperation, and cooperation depends on Miracles.
20. Miracles rest on the law of eternity, not the arch of time.
21. A Miracle reawakens the Awareness that the Spirit, and not the body, is the altar of Truth.
This is the recognition that leads to the healing power of the Miracle.
23. Miracles are Natural Expressions of Total Forgiveness.
Through Miracles, you affirm your acceptance of God’s Forgiveness by extending it to others.
24. Miracles make time and tide wait for all men.
They can heal the sick and raise the dead, because you yourself made death and taxes, and can abolish both.
Miracles are part of an interlocking chain of Forgiveness which, when completed, is the Atonement.
This process works all the time and in all dimensions of time.
– sin= absence of love
– Miracles need Freedom from Fear
– atone= undo, reconcile, to set as one
– Miracles are a way of undoing overlearned patterns of love-lack. They bring light into darkness. That is where the Atonement value lies.
25. Miracles depend on timing.
– Unwillingness has to be replaced by willingness, because willingness is part of readiness, without which learning cannot occur.
26. A Miracle rearranges the order of perception, and places the levels in their true perspective.
This heals at all levels, because all sickness comes from confusing the levels.
27. A Miracle is a universal blessing from God through me to all my brothers/sisters.
It is the privilege of the forgiven to forgive.
Souls cannot rest until everyone has found salvation.
28. Miracles are a means of organizing different levels of awareness.
– Miracles come from below conscious (subconscious) level.
– Revelations come from the above-conscious (superconscious) level.
-The conscious level is in between, and reacts to either subconscious or superconscious impulses in varying ratios. Consciousness is the level that engages in the World: capable of responding both to external and internal impulses.
-Sex frequently involves lack of love. But revelation is purely a love experience. Physical closeness cannot achieve this.
-The subconscious impulses properly induce miracles, which are interpersonal, and result in closeness to others. This can be misunderstood by a personally willful consciousness as an impulse toward sexual gratification.
– identification with the body may distort superconscious impulses. Leads to mistaken identity.
[AB add: Objectification of others = lack of love. modelled most commonly in our world.
[AB add: without purification, subconscious impulses do not flow naturally. – also misunderstanding of the levels of consciousness. – also challenging to be objective of oneself with inverted/distorted entrainment/education established and not yet Atoned/Undone. Confusion within society with people who have undone the societal conformity entrainment – not recognized, most of these people epically misunderstand, therefore do not know how to interact respectfully. Yet often, purification is incomplete also. Unresolved trauma etc. Challenge both ways.]
Quote from p.22 (under Miracle Principle 28):
The deeper levels of your subconscious always contain the
impulse to miracles, but you are free to fill its superficial levels, which are closer to consciousness, with the Impulses of this world, and to identify yourself with them.
This results in denying yourself access to the miracle level underneath.
In conscious actions, then, your interpersonal relationships also become superficial, and miracle-inspired relating becomes impossible.
29. Miracles are a way of earning release from Fear.
30. Miracles praise God through You.
31. Miracles should Inspire Gratitude, not awe.
Human beings should thank God for what they really are.
The children of God are very holy.
The Miracle honors their holiness.
32. Christ inspires all Miracles, which are essentially intercessions.
They intercede for a person’s holiness and make him holy.
They place him beyond the physical laws and raise him into the sphere of celestial order.
In this order he is perfect.
33. Miracles honor a person because he is lovable.
34. The Miracle restores the mind to the fullness of Spirit.
By atoning for lack, it establishes perfect protection.
The strength of the Spirit leaves no room for intrusions.
35. Miracles are the way in which minds that serve the Spirit unite with Christ for the salvation or release of all God’s creations.
36. Miracles are examples of right thinking.
37. A Miracle is a correction factor introduced into false thinking by me.
It acts as a catalyst, shaking up erroneous perception and snapping it into place.
38. The spiritual eye is the mechanism of Miracles, because what the spiritual eye perceives is true.
39. The Miracle dissolves error because the spiritual eye identifies error as false, or unreal.
This is the same as saying that by seeing light, darkness automatically disappears.
40. Miracles are a blessing from parents to children.
This is just another way of phrasing the earlier principle about “by those who have more for those who have less”.
[AB add: This content was scribed in the 1960’s. Every decade since has seen Souls born more and more true to natural, much less entrainable/programmable.
By 2012, I choose this year from my own experience/revelation, the Children being born are much more likely to “have more” in relation to miracles and awareness. I encourage much more 2 way, respectful communication with young people. Be open and willing to truly hear them. Beware being too stuck in your ways and thinking.]
41. The Miracle acknowledges all men as your brothers and mine. It is a way of perceiving the universal mark of God in them. This is the true “strawberry mark” of brotherhood.
42. Wholeness is the perceptual content of the Miracle.
It thus corrects, or atones for, the faulty perception of lack.
43. A major contribution of Miracles is their strength in releasing a person from his misplaced sense of isolation, deprivation, and lack.
They are affirmations of Sonship, which is a state of completion and abundance.
44. Miracles arise from a miraculous state of mind.
This state of mind goes out to anyone, even without the awareness of the miracle worker himself.
-impersonal nature of Miracles.
45. The Miracle is an expression of an inner awareness of Christ and acceptance of His Atonement.
-The mind is then in a state of Grace, and naturally becomes Gracious, both to the Host within and he stranger without.
46. A Miracle is never lost.
It touches people you may not even know, and sometimes produces undreamed-of changes in forces of which you are not even aware.
47. The Miracle is a learning device which lessens the need for time.
48. The Miracle is the only device which you have at your immediate disposal for controlling time.
Only revelation transcends it, having nothing to do with time at all.
49. The Miracle makes no distinction among degrees of misperception.
It is a device for perception correction which is effective quite apart from either the degree or the direction of the error.
This is true indiscriminateness.
50. The Miracle compares what you make with the higher level of creation, accepting what is in accord as true, and rejecting the discordant as false.