 Tonight we'll be using as a springboard the new interpretation, which is 595 in the first edition, and 640 in the second edition. And before we get to that is that the idea of purpose is the very thing that we're going for in the sense that forgiveness or salvation or atonement, you could call it by many different names, is the purpose. It's a different purpose for this world. And it's just very obscure and buried. Because when the mind falls asleep it thinks of purposes in terms of specifics. What's the purpose of a house? What's the purpose of a pencil? What's the purpose of shoes? You know everything seems to have a purpose. And when you really start to look at it, the purpose usually always comes back to the body. How it relates to the body in some way. Streets and cities and everything. The purpose, you could say, well, the reason cities grew up seems because they were near waterways and interstates and so on and so forth and they seem to have an economic function or whatever. And again, that purpose is based on economic, well, what's the economic system based on well for support of human life? You know, it goes back to that body identification. Another thing about purpose to me too is purpose that we're trying to come to is not natural. Just like forgiveness isn't natural. That the mind when it fell asleep and learned of false world, you have to very carefully unlearn the world and you have to learn very carefully, learn a new purpose. Because this purpose that we're talking about is not, is not, there is no purpose as such in the kingdom of heaven. There just being, you know, purpose is kind of like a goal. And in the kingdom of heaven there are no purposes. So it only came into play with the seeming separation. Just like forgiveness came into play with the seeming separation. In truth there's no forgiveness. In truth there's no purpose. Right. The atonement, you could say, there was no need for an atonement or a correction. There is no need for atonement and correction in heaven. So to talk about a single purpose, we're talking about the realm of heaven. So I'm using the term heaven is natural. Heaven is natural. When the mind fell asleep, that was very unnatural. And now it has to learn a very unnatural correction in the sense that this is kind of like a needle in the haystack. The mind fell asleep, it found itself in the haystack. And now it's got to find the needle. And to find the needle it has to question every straw in the haystack. You know, it has to be a very thorough going through. You can't just kind of go, kind of, by chance to stick your hand in there and hope to pull the needle out. So that's why it's so important that we really keep coming together and look at what are all the obstacles and the blocks to coming to awareness of that purpose. That it's going to have to be very carefully learned. So the section here, the new interpretation, it's going to talk about purpose in the sense that there's a line I think in this section that says only a constant purpose can endow events with stable meaning. In the sense that once the mind falls asleep it's perceiving all these images and it's very distorted. And instead of having a single unified purpose, it's got millions of purposes. Everything that is perceived seems to have a different purpose. This book seems to have a different purpose than that microphone. This shoe seems to have a different purpose than this couch. A table seems to have a little bit different purpose than a chair, for example. An airplane has a different purpose than a bus. Everything seems to have meaning in and of itself and Jesus even addresses it in the workbook where he says at the most superficial levels you think you know what purpose is. He uses the example of a telephone. He says you think that a telephone is for reaching someone that's not in your proximity. It seems to be the purpose of a telephone but Jesus says that's not a real purpose. There really is no purpose at superficial levels. The real question is what do you want to reach him for? You see it's one thing to call somebody up on the phone but what's my purpose for reaching them? What is this for? He says now there you're getting down to the mind level. That is a decision of mine. What's my purpose in reaching my brother as opposed to superficial? Like right now I'm trying to reach my children because I want to know how they're doing. I'm not able to reach them. But if I wanted to call somebody just to gossip about somebody then that's the purpose. What's my purpose? Even the idea of concern too. If you bring it back to a real simple term Jesus says teach only love for that is what you are. So again whether it's making a phone call going to visit someone doing anything it's asking and it's being tuned in to the Holy Spirit and saying Holy Spirit what would you have me say what would you have me do that came up in one of your lessons recently. That's the purpose and then it may take the form of a phone call. But really it's my intention. It's another word for purpose. What's my intention here? Am I calling to pull out the hooks and try to make somebody guilty? Am I calling to manipulate somebody to get them to do something that I want them to do? Or how do I feel when I call and call and call and they're not there? I feel scared. I feel weary. So we're back to another good question. It's that question of purpose. If the Holy Spirit has a purpose and if I line up with His purpose and I feel peace then I want to learn what that purpose is because it doesn't feel good to feel scared. It's uncomfortable. Fear would not be coming from the Holy Spirit. Right. So that must be a wrong-minded purpose for which I'm making the call. For why I'm making the call to be scared and fearful? Well, it must be a wrong-minded purpose. Because they're not home? No, because you're feeling fearful. You can tell by how you feel that the purpose behind your call must be coming from the wrong mind and not from the right mind. Because when it comes from the right mind, do you feel at peace? So from them not answering the phone I could say, well, I think this too. On the other hand, it's they're probably out to the lay. They're fine, they're having fun. I'm at peace with that. So where does the fear come from? And my next thought might be, hoping nothing happened. Hope everything's okay. But I'm like, oh, they're fine. And then I get scared. Because maybe they want the whole number here and they're trying to reach me and they can't reach me. Oh, no, they're fine. They're fine. There's a lesson in the Course about my holiness. This is the world. It's one of the lessons on holiness where you basically ask you to put in specific, even specific persons. It's kind of springing from what Anita was just saying about concern about the children and how they're doing. Lesson 38 is a real practical one for dealing with concern about how people are doing. And the lesson is lesson 38 titled, There is nothing my holiness cannot do. And the first paragraph that just says, your holiness reverses all the laws of the world. It is beyond every restriction of time, space, distance, and limits of any kind. Your holiness is totally unlimited in its power because it establishes you as the Son of God, as one with the mind of His Creator. And the specific applications in the Talik, which are down a little lower, the ones that really come in handy, and the way it reads is it says, in the situation involving blank, in which I see myself, there's nothing that my holiness cannot do. So put your own name in there, in the sense of thinking of myself, I'm calling home and not getting any answer and feeling fearful.