On changelessness
Pieter
That is why anything real is timeless and changeless.
"625. . . In Timelessness, we coexist with God."
Below passages from the Text on changelessnes.
"195. Whatever is true & real is eternal,
& cannot change or be changed."
"1078. . . Only what God creates is
irreversible and unchangeable."
"1184. . . Teaching aims at change, but
God created ONLY the changeless."
"1232. . . God's creations have ALWAYS BEEN,
because HE has always been. YOUR creations have
always been, because you can create only as HE creates."
"1236. God does not take steps because His
Accomplishments are NOT gradual. He does not
teach, because His Creations are changeless."
"1238. . . What is timeless IS ALWAYS THERE because
its BEING is eternally changeless. It does NOT change by
increase, because it was forever created TO increase."
"1304. . . If your will is out of accord with God's, YOU
ARE WILLING WITHOUT MEANING. But because
ONLY God's will is unchangeable, no REAL conflict of
will is possible."
"1384. . . His Will does not vacillate, being changeless forever."
"1557. God created nothing beside you, and nothing beside
you exists, for you are part of Him. What except Him CAN
exist? Nothing BEYOND Him can happen, because nothing
EXCEPT Him is real. YOUR creations add to Him, as YOU
do. But nothing is added that is different, because *everything
has always BEEN.* What can upset you except the ephemeral,
and how can the ephemeral be real, if you are God's ONLY
creation, and He created you eternal?" [** are mine]
"1705. . . He [God] does NOT change His mind about reality,
because REALITY does not change. Although YOUR
interpretations of reality are meaningless in your divided state,
His remain consistently true. He GIVES them to you because
they are FOR you."
"1801. . . . what God gives has always been."
"1861. . . The Christ revealed to you NOW has no past,
for He is changeless. And in HIS changelessness lies
YOUR release."
"2021. . . . reality MUST be one. It CANNOT change
with time, or mood, or chance. Its changelessness is
WHAT MAKES IT REAL."
"2047. . . . It is impossible that God lose His identity, for
if He did, YOU WOULD LOSE YOURS. And BEING
yours, He cannot change Himself, for your identity IS
changeless. The miracle ACKNOWLEDGES His
changelessness, by seeing His Son as he always was,
and NOT as he would make himself."
"2066. Time is inconceivable without change, and holiness
does NOT change. Learn from this instant more than merely
hell does not exist. IN THIS REDEEMING INSTANT
LIES HEAVEN. And Heaven will NOT change, for the
birth into the holy present is SALVATION from change.
Change is an illusion,"
"2788. Joy is eternal. You can be sure indeed that any seeming
happiness which does not last is really fear. Joy does not turn
to sorrow, for the eternal cannot change."
"3045. If you could realize NOTHING is changeless BUT
the Will of God, this course would not be difficult for you."
"3132. . . Perception changes, MADE to take the place of
changeless knowledge. Yet is truth unchanged. It cannot BE
perceived, but only known."
"3269. . . The miracle reminds you of a Cause forever present,
perfectly untouched by time and interference. NEVER changed
from what It IS. And YOU are Its effects, as changeless and
as perfect as Itself."
"3440. Nothing that God knows not exists. And what He knows
exists forever, changelessly. For thoughts endure as long as does
the mind that thought of them. And in the Mind of God there is no
ending, nor a time in which His Thoughts were absent, or could
suffer change. Thoughts are not born and cannot die. They share
the attributes of their creator, nor have they a separate life, apart
from him. The thoughts you think are in your mind, as you are in
the Mind Which thought of you. And so there are no separate
parts in what exists within God's Mind. It is forever One, eternally
united and at peace."
"3442. The Thought God holds of you is like a star,
unchangeable in an eternal sky."
"3485. . . Reality is changeless."