Sunday Pep Talk: What are the Levels of Teaching?

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Sunday Pep Talk 8/23/26 MFT #3 What are the Levels of Teaching?

          “Those who are to meet will meet because together they have the potential for a holy relationship. They are ready for each other.”

          Teachers of God (TOGs) have no set teaching level. Each teaching learning situation involves a different relationship in the beginning. The ultimate goal is the same to make the relationship a Holy Relationship where both can see the Son of God (SOG) as sinless. TOGs can learn from everyone and can teach anyone. However, it is not practical to meet everyone nor can everyone find you. So the plan includes specific contacts for each TOG. There are no accidents in salvation.

          The simplest level of teaching is from “chance”encounters. These can become holy encounters when you lose sight of separate interests for a moment. The moment is enough it has become a holy instant. 

Levels of Teaching- none of these meetings are by accident

#1) very casual encounters

#2) more sustained relationship 

#3) relationships once they are formed are life long

“Yet all who meet will someday meet again, for it is the destiny of all relationships to become holy.”

          Here Jesus says, “the Universal Course” so he is talking about all of the pathways not just ACIM. The levels of teaching are a concept as meaningless as time, i.e. it exists in the illusion and is a learning device. The illusion of time allows for the illusions of the levels of teaching. 

“In time the TOG seems to begin to change his mind about the world with a single decision, and then learns more and more about the direction as he teaches it.”

          The illusion of time and the illusion of the levels of teaching seem to be different. These levels can not exist. Any level of the teaching learning situation is a part of God’s plan for the atonement. His plan can have no levels. God does not take steps. Salvation is always ready and always there. When are you going to get there? We all make that choice in the end. TOGs work at different levels but the result is always the same. We become better perceivers.   Each teaching/learning situation is maximal. Each person learns the most from the other as he can at that time. Only in this sense can we talk about the levels of teaching.

          Level two is a more sustained relationship. It’s fairly intense and then you seem to separate. As with the first level, these meetings are not accidental (fate), nor is what appears to be the end the actual end. Each has learned as much as He could at the time. 

          Level three, once formed these relationships are life long. Each person is given a chosen learning partner who presents him with unlimited opportunities to learn. Very few relationships are like this because those involved have reached a stage in which the teaching learning balance is actually perfect. They don’t normally recognize that this is true. They can be hostile to each other, perhaps for life. Yet when they decide to learn the lesson, the perfect lesson is before them and can be learned.

          If they decide to learn that lesson, they become the saviors of the teachers who falter and may even seem to fail. No TOG can fail to find the help he needs.