T-8.I

The Direction of the Curriculum

One decision sets the curriculum: choose the Holy Spirit, and peace returns as the criterion that unmasks ego distractions, undoing attack and opening the way to Knowledge.

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Primary
Change the curriculum: evaluate the ego’s offer by its lack of peace.
Peace is the curriculum’s motive; conflict shows I’ve wandered.
Pillar
Curriculum choice: ego distractions are calls to war, not help.
Your happiness reveals your curriculum; two opposing teachers cannot guide one mind.
Supporting
Test the ego’s voice by its effects, then accept one reinterpretation.
Peace prepares the mind for knowledge’s steadiness.
Minor
Let results teach: loss of peace means the curriculum needs change.
Attacking an opponent rejects the peace you say you want.
Peace remains yours only as you extend it.
Peace is the Kingdom’s condition; war is self-exclusion.
Echo
The curriculum corrects the myth of separate will.
Knowledge is God’s Will; no bargains can substitute for its conditions.
Atonement is the curriculum’s direction, replacing the ego’s self-made syllabus.

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