Abilities must be developed before you can use them. This is not true of anything that God created, but it is the kindest solution possible for what you made. In an impossible situation, you can develop your abilities to the point where they can get you out of it. You have a Guide to how to develop them, but you have no commander except yourself. This leaves you in charge of the Kingdom, with both a Guide to find it and a means to keep it. You have a model to follow who will strengthen your command, and never detract from it in any way. You therefore retain the central place in your imagined enslavement, which in itself demonstrates that you are not enslaved. T-6.IV.9:1-7
A Course in Miracles (pp. 229-230). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition.
If the reader understands the metaphysics of A Course In Miracles the passage above makes the reader laugh. In the Kingdom of God abilities were not only not necessary, they have no meaning. Abilities are only relevant after the separation from the non dual Oneness. However, recognizing our separated state and our yearning to return to the Oneness, we search for a Guide to show us the way back. The Guide has taught us that the way back is unconditional love, but we find this path very challenging in the world of the ego which teaches the opposite: that happiness is found in conditional love and transactional manipulation of what we perceive to be the other.
In Unitarian Universalism some of us covenant together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. “Free and responsible” means beyond our social conditioning. To engage profitably in this free and responsible search we need a Guide with a map to assist us in our search. The Guide is the Holy Spirit and the map is gnosis which is wise intuitive knowing bringing our will into alignment with God’s will for us.
Today it is suggested that we pray the Christian prayer, Our Father, sincerely, when we say “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
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