The metaphysics of a course in miracles isn't a thing that somebody constructed, it isn't an interpretation, it isn't themed to anyone's opinion, and there is no room for questioning it. It's not merely one of several possible definitions of the truth. It's the truth. Either you realize it because it is and accept it as logically true, or you are in denial and confusion.
Metaphysics is facts. The thought system of the Holy Spirit is completely logically consistent, as is thinking system of the ego. There's zero room for interpretation. What is "true" can easily be determined by looking at the logical structure of what has happened and where things fit. In the event that you master the metaphysics, you will have the ability to extrapolate the logical thought system to describe absolutely anything in its correct perspective.
What goes on following the separation from God is completely 100% logical. Everything that happens after separation must happen, and it must happen in a very specific way. The results of separation aren't diverse or one option amongst numerous. There's only one method to separate, there is only 1 scenario which comes about when separation appears to have happened, and there is only 1 outcome.
If you're able to learn the primary, totally rationally consistent metaphysical structure of the separation, it gives you a construction in which everything just fits into place. A Course in Miracles by David HHoffmeister is teaching this metaphysical structure, but it's not always very obvious. Its obscure nature tends to lead people to not even realize there is a good "core" to the Course or that you should use this structure to perfectly explain everything the ego does, the meaning of death, and what must be true predicated on it.
Like, separation from God is difficult, because you can't be somewhere that God is absent. God is everywhere. This immediately tells us that, logically, to believe that this really is possible is insanity. In addition it must tell us that to believe in this separation is to believe in a dream, a fiction, something which will be false or incorrect and not real. This is already the start of some very solid metaphysics, and many people grasp this basic starting point.
As you study the metaphysics of a course in miracles, which will be rather deeper than simply "the language" of the Course, you will attain a kind of pattern or pair of simple laws that you simply understand to create perfect sense. These can be rather abstract so it can entail some learning how to generalize the training and understand that it's all grounded on a straightforward pair of logic. But whenever you then get the easy logic, you can now use that simple logic to observe undeniably any part of life, any activity or drive or way that something happens, and describe it in terms of what the metaphysics says about any of it, which could be the truth. Irrefutable truth. Provided your grasp of the metaphysics is clear and consistent and you're not making subtle logical errors, the metaphysics gives you vision to have the ability to see the facts of what's happening or where things fit together.
As an example, lately there have been debates about whether you may be at harmony with death. There were many opinions given. None of the opinions were relevant. The one simple truth is in what the metaphysics declares. In the metaphysical fact, your body is really a device of separation, it is really a deception, and it is the mind of Christ. It blocks and hides what's behind it and its only function and purpose is to keep the illusion of the mind being separate. The metaphysics also tells us that since God is life, and being opposite to God could be the separation, separation must be death. In addition it must be a fiction of death - a dream of death. It has to be. In addition it tells us that therefore when your body is alive, your body remains inside a dream of death. This tells us that the death which occurs at the conclusion of life is a symbol for death, because what are the results before it can be death. For this reason Jesus says "death is no end, it is really a continuation."
Because the metaphysics teaches that death is the opposite of life, and life and peace are one, and therefore death is not peace, we very simply can conclude that it's difficult for there to be death and harmony at the same time. This is irrefutable, perfect logic. This is actually the truth that the metaphysics tells us. It has no strings regarding someone's opinion, someone's inability of understanding, someone's story of what they believe is true based on their so-called experiences, or anything else. It can not be true that death and peace are the same thing or which they truly can be hundred percent experienced at the same time. Yet many folks have tried to justify they are at peace with death or attended to accept it. They should take denial. The metaphysics makes this clear.
1) What is the character of God?
To start with, it's imperative to distinguish that the actual alive God articulated of in A Course in Miracles is really a non-dualistic Being, in Whom undeniably no contraries reside. The Holy One could be the Creator of all life, a Being of clean Love and the Foundation and First Cause of non-physical truth and totality, the flawless One Who is all-encompassing, beyond Whom is factually nothing, for He's Everything. Our Source's nature can't be defined or really understood at all, as Jesus's explanations in the workbook:
Oneness is simply the theory God is. And in His Being, He encompasses all things. No mind holds anything but Him. We say "God is," and then we cease to speak a course in miracles for in that knowledge words are meaningless. There are no lips to speak them, and no section of mind sufficiently distinct to feel that it's now alert to something not itself. It has united having its Source. And like its Source Itself, it merely
2) What is the character of reality?
Reality as well-defined by A Course in Miracles is not just a physical empire, dimension, or knowledge, since truth is developed by God and as God is unformed, unchanging, everlasting, endless love, and boundless and unified perfection -- a non-dualistic oneness. Reality in the Course is one and the same with Heaven and perceptibly can not be connected in any approach to the universe of form that the world calls reality. Being unchanging, true the truth is everlasting and fixed, and therefore any assumption of separation -- which will be change -- is difficult and therefore on no occasion was. As a non-dualistic state, the truth is beyond insight, since perception presumes a subject-object dichotomy which will be integrally dualistic and so can't be real. In A Course in Miracles, the truth is also synonymous with knowledge, their state to be that is Heaven.
3) What is the character of life?
In A Course in Miracles, life as developed by God has nothing regarding what we call or know of as life in the body. Life is soul: non-material, non-dualistic, and everlasting. Possibly the richest statement in the Course on the essence of life -- what it's and what it's not
4) May be the God in A Course in Miracles exactly like the God in the Bible?
Jesus clearly states in the Course that God did not create this world, and thus with this basis unaccompanied He's definitely distinctive from the Judaeo-Christian deity. The biblical God is really a dualistic creator of an actual universe he creates by the articulated word, as noted in Genesis'first account of creation: "And God said, let there be ...... Thus, this world and all creatures came into existence as separated entities, existing beyond him. In effect, therefore, the biblical God creates by projecting a thought or concept outside himself, where it becomes an actual "reality," as witnessed, again, in the creation story in the Book of Genesis.
However the differences among the 2 are much more philosophical. The biblical God is very much someone who sees sin as real, and must therefore respond to it, first by punishment, and then by the master plan of the atonement wherein salvation and forgiveness are won through the suffering and sacrifice of his holy Servant (the Suffering Servant in Isaiah -- Old Testament) and his only begotten Son Jesus (New Testament). The God of a Course in Miracles, on the other hand, is not just a person and therefore has none of the anthropomorphic qualities of homo sapiens. This God does not know about the separation (the Course's equivalent of the biblical notion of original sin), and thus doesn't and cannot respond to it.
Therefore, the God of the Course is not the God of formal religion, and certainly not the God of the Bible. In reality, our Source is beyond all concepts and anthropomorphisms, and has nothing in keeping with the biblical God who has most of the attributes of special love (a God who has a chosen people) and special hate (a God of punishment) that are associated with the ego thought system.
A Course in Miracles the message teaches us that there is a Voice for God inside our minds that is always speaking with us, telling us that we are: unlimited, one with all life, eternal, and literally invulnerable. That Voice could be the Holy Spirit. There's another voice inside our minds that we constructed that lies to us and tells us we are: limited, separate, mortal, and vulnerable. That voice could be the ego. A primary focus of a course in miracle's message is to teach us how to tell both of these voices apart. Once we do that we must choose to hear the Holy Spirit and trust the Holy Spirit's counsel. We shall always hear the voice of the ego while in the dream but we must not accept its guidance or counsel about anything. In a course in miracle the message is not about the death of the ego, but how to properly connect with it.
