I'm not interested in talking about ACIM anymore. Most here already know I feel about it, and yeah it would be redundant.
But I do want to address this, Recoverer wrote,
Quote:1. The course says that this World wasn't created by God, because everything God creates is perfect. This can lead people to believe that the World is separate from God. It also leads to the assumption that something other than God exists, because it contends that something other than God created this World.
This is my understanding of the question or situation. In the "beginning" was pure Source Consciousness, all by Itself. It moved within Itself, and created various different aspects of itself with a sense of independence (freewill) from the Whole, yet always One with same in essence (in a sense, smaller circles ever within the largest circle).
The hope of Source was that It's Children would choose out of their own volition to become both Companions and Co-Creators with It, and to set up this situation the "opposite" of Sourceness had to be a possibility, not that Source itself "created" the opposite of its nature, but allowed the possible awareness to arise.
One Spark, did remerge with Source before any other Spark did, and it became the first full and fully Conscious Co-Creator with Source.
This particular Universe we find ourselves in, is the result of that harmonization/merging/Co-Creation.
But originally this Universe, and this Earth existed in a non physical type pattern. Or in other words, it ALL was on a faster rate of vibration/frequency. And because of that, it was much more fluid in nature, just as thought is completely fluid in nature. It was thought, the thought Creation of one Shining Child delighting in working with its Father/Mother.
The One who Co Created this World and this Universe, decided to get involved with it in a more personal way, along with many of It's other siblings.
Some of the Siblings though, decided to try to alter the pre-existing patterns, which seemed ok at first, but it increasingly led to less harmony, and to a desire of SELF creation, over Collective Self Creation.
In that, selfishness became known, and then Fear developed because of the ever growing sense of separation that these individuals and groups were feeling from the Whole and each other.
The ones involved with Earth, as they forgot more and more of their heritage, and as they further emphasized the little self more and more, their energies, and the energies of their "creations", became slower and slower in vibratory rate. They became ever more "set" and stuck in nature.
Eventually to the point where what we now know as "physical" came into existence. The pattern for it was always there, but in a pure, harmonious, and completely connected manner originally.
What we now experience is the illusionary reflection of that original Creation of the Planning Intelligence/Christ working with Source, and it was not Source, nor really the P.I. who created this aspect. They of course allowed it to come into temporal existence because of their respect of our freewill.
Since the turning away, the P.I. has been working it's butt off to reorient it's Siblings back to the ways, consciousness, and Beingness of Source and Sourceness.
In order for It to do that, it had to become fully involved in the whole drama, and there was an element of risk, of chaos involved, for It knew that there was a possibility of It also losing its way once fully immersed in the cacophony/de harmonization of noise "here".
So now He, became subject to what some call reincarnation and the wheel of "life and death", and of temporary forgetfulness, of the limited perceptions of space/time. But He held strong, more often than not, and lived many lives of helpfulness and service to His Siblings--ever growing back to that full Source Consciousness.
His peak, and zenith, saw a personality born, unlike any other seen yet in the Earth, the fastest vibrating human ever to be born, to whom physical death was no barrier, and He blazed the way fully and surely for others to follow. He created such a powerful ripple in the Quantum field of reality and unreality, that it is now easier for us to achieve, re-remember, and re-become what He is now, and we were once (and really always were...).
So the World, IS illusionary, but only part of it, the part that is Temporal and which was created by us who have chosen to forget and fully live the ways of Source. Eventually enough of us will get our act together, and the vibration of this World will raise enough and reach that peak momentum, and physical aspect and all the inharmony and distorted info, the false reflections that goes along with it, will fall away.
While that aspect of this World is illusionary, it still serves a very useful purpose though! It is still necessary at this point in our collective remembrance.
It is the very catalyst, along with its suffering nature, to help us want to re-awaken.
So in the problem, lies the solution. Beautiful isn't it? I'm not particularly worried about the whole thing, I think things are more or less working out the right way, and yet to become overly passive in this life is not well either. Stay positively active, and help the process along as much as we can.