Course VIII - Teaching 10: To Believe and Beliefs

One cannot start the Good Way with no faith or belief.
To believe means not to stick to certain beliefs.
All religions possess beliefs, and one religion sustains what other religion rejects.
In fact, it is ever good to believe in one supernatural and unknown thing or in another because prepares you to faith but it is not the essence of faith.
To believe is something else.
To believe is a peculiarly intimate attitude of the soul without which any attempt of supernatural kind is impossible.
To believe means to open one’s being to what we still do not know. It is an inclination to accept what is irrational.
One says it is irrational everything that our mind could not prove by its own means, since our mind cannot contain universal material knowledge as a whole at its disposal, and if it had, our mind could not use it entirely.
To believe means a sure inclination of the soul that is ready to accept, confess its own limitation and face the unknown.
To believe means to feel the truth of what one still ignores but is in the soul manifested but unknown.
In short, to believe is to possess the root of the faith that is supernatural self-certainty.
Beliefs hold this or that; they recognize supernatural facts unknown, and affirm, preach and unveil them for the followers to know; and they dictate dogmas and doctrines in which faith is penetrating by them into the higher spiritual field.
But true faith as a whole means light of the soul, certainty about impossible things that can be possible, flight above reason in order to be established on intuition: this divine gift of our mind establishes our direct contact with the Spirit and opens the field to infinite possibilities.
True faith is so much light and gives such self-assurance that through it our soul can exclaim before wonders and quite marvelous revelations: “I do not need to see what now I know through faith”.
In Christ’s words, only those who believe and do not see, possess faith, because they are beforehand sure about the truth of their belief.