I mean, you cut yourself in your finger, and tomorrow it is healed. You make love with someone and get pregnant and give birth to a thinking, feeling, intelligent human being without even knowing the first thing about DNA and cells and mitosis and meiosis and all the rest. And still we honestly think that we are separated from Divine Intelligence and even deny it. Strange, isn’t it?
So, the Fall of Man is the denial of Source and of oneness and of love and of cosmic intelligence. It’s basically a gap in our communication link – in the communication link between Soul and the Soul’s reflection of itself anchored in the brain – the conscious thinking I.
And in that gap somewhere, quite literally, Divine Purpose and Divine Will got lost. And that’s why we are cut off from Divine Purpose and Will. So the motivating power, will power, is inside of us because it forms a part of our DNA, however, when you cut yourself off from Source, you end up misusing the motivating power and will power for selfish purposes, for separative purposes. Why? Because having cut ourselves off from Source, we imprisoned ourselves – our consciousness – in our body.
And as a result and logic consequence, we also imprisoned our will. Which brings us back to the question.
How free is our will? We all talk about free will, but how free really is our will?
In the introduction of A Course in Miracles it says, “This is a course in miracles. It is a REQUIRED course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time.“
It says, this is a REQUIRED course. Does not sound like we have much choice there, does it? Now, that does not mean that we all have to read A Course in Miracles, however, it DOES mean that we all need to learn the core lesson which A Course in Miracles teaches. And the core lesson of A Course in Miracles is: “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.” Or to say it differently: Separation does not exist. The only thing that exists is oneness. And that’s the curriculum we are here to learn. The curriculum has been decided upon by Source. Free will does not mean that we can establish the curriculum. It means only that we can elect what we want to take at a given time.
So, our will is only free to a point. The only freedom we have is to choose whether we want to learn love and oneness NOW or whether we want to learn it later – tomorrow, next year, next incarnation, or 1000 years from today. So we may use our will for “good or bad” as we wish, but free will does not mean freedom from the consequences of using it. So when we misuse our will and go against Divine Purpose, we will have to deal with the consequences. The universe will show us our error. And this is how we unconsciously – without realizing it – learn the Divine Purpose and Intent underlying our so-called God-given free will … which we were given to work out Divine Purpose.
