The Becoming

Course XXXVI - Teaching 11: Fatalism and Orientation

The Law of Consecutive Predestination causes a being to be born within the circle of a round and race to which he belongs endowed with certain qualities and deficiencies, which are characteristic of the same.

Course XXXVI - Teaching 12: Destiny

A being has to undergo innumerable experiences and trials; he has to be born many times, to know many things, to be a man, a woman, great, little, to go on forward in the path to liberation.

Course XXXVI - Teaching 13: The Great Illusion

If God is the Undifferentiated One and the Unknowable One, to define him is to negate him, and everything that is existing, defined and variable cannot be but a fancy; great philosophers of pantheistic religions hold this.

Course XXXVI - Teaching 14: Liberation

Humanity is weighted down with the bondage of desire, and instead of getting rid of ties that bring it to a standstill it becomes more and more involved in the chain of sorrow.

Course XXXVI - Teaching 15: The Reincarnation

A being has to evolve through numerous incarnations to reach liberation. If it is true that a man does not recall his past existences, he preserves however the experience of his journeys.

Course XXXVI - Teaching 16: Descent to Earth

In higher planes, souls enjoy a limpid and free spiritual atmosphere. Nothing penetrates into those very high regions where beings shire and scintillating stars. But when those beings spiritually more advanced had exhausted their spiritual wealth that caused them to dwell in the first plane of the Astral world, a vague desire of action starts stopping the wonderful rotation of its lights.