Library of Christ Mind Teachings
ACIM Original Edition
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A teacher of God is anyone who chooses to be one. His qualifications
consist solely in this; somehow, somewhere he has made a deliberate
choice in which he did not see his interests as apart from someone
else’s. Once he has done that, his road is established and his direction
is sure. A light has entered the darkness. It may be a single light, but
that is enough. He has entered an agreement with God even if he does not
yet believe in Him. He has become a bringer of salvation. He has become
a teacher of God.
2 They come from all over the world. They come from all
religions and from no religion. They are the ones who have answered. The
Call is universal. It goes on all the time everywhere. It calls for
teachers to speak for it and redeem the world. Many hear it, but few
will answer. But it is all a matter of time. Everyone will answer in the
end, but the end can be a long, long way off. It is because of this that
the plan of the teachers was established. Their function is to save
time. Each one begins as a single light, but with the Call at its
center, it is a light that cannot be limited. And each one saves a
thousand years of time as the world judges it. To the Call itself, time
has no meaning.
3 There is a course for every teacher of God. The form of the
course varies greatly. So do the particular teaching aids involved. But
the content of the course never changes. Its central theme is always,
“God’s Son is guiltless, and in his innocence is his salvation.” It can
be taught by actions or thoughts, in words or soundlessly, in any
language or in no language, in any place or time or manner. It does not
matter who the teacher was before he heard the Call. He has become a
savior by his answering. He has seen someone else as himself. He has
therefore found his own salvation and the salvation of the world. In his
rebirth is the world reborn.
4 This is a manual for a special curriculum, intended for
teachers of a special form of the universal course. There are many
thousands of other forms, all with the same outcome. They merely save
time. Yet it is time alone that winds on wearily, and the world is very
tired now. It is old and worn and without hope. There was never a
question of outcome, for what can change the Will of God? But time, with
its illusions of change and death, wears out the world and all things in
it. Yet time has an ending, and it is this that the teachers of God are
appointed to bring about. For time is in their hands. Such was their
choice, and it is given them.