- Principles – The Foundation of Consciousness.
- Cause & Effect
- Male-Female Energies
- The Principle of Freedom
- The Principle of Analogy or The Law of Correspondences.
- The Oneness Principle
- The Teacher-Student Relationship
- The Name of Christ
- The Ring Pass Not
- Good and Evil
- Principles 11 & 12
- Initiation
- Crystallization
- Relative Perfection
- The Principle of Correction
- Principle 18: Decision
- The Principle of the Journey
- Principles of Joy and Peace
- Judgment and/or Discernment
- The Two Paths
- Energy Follows Thought
- The Satellite Principle
- Principles 26 & 27
- Principle 28: The Observer
- Principle 29: Sin
- Principle 30: The Atonement
- Principle 31: Forgiveness
- Principle 32: Justice
- Principle 33: Doing Unto Others.
- Principle 34: You Find What You Are Looking For
- Principle 35
- Principle 36
- Principle 37
- Principle 38
- Principle 39
- Principle 40
- Principle 41
- Principle 42
- Principle 43
- Principle 44
- Principle 45
- Principle 46
- Principle 47
- Principle 48
- Principle 49, Part 1
- Principle 49, Part 2
- Principle 49, Part 3
- Principle 50
- Principle 51
- Principle 52
- Principle 53
- Principle 54
- Principle 55
- Principle 56
- Principle 57
- Principle 59
- Principle 60
- Principle 58
- Principle 61
- Principle 63
- Principle 64
- Principle 65
- Principle 66
- Principle 67
- Principle 68
- Principle 69
- Principle 70
- Principle 71
- Principle 72
- Principle 73
- Principle 74
- Principle 75
- Principle 76
- Principle 77
- Principle 78
- Principle 79
- Principle 80
- Principle 81
- Principle 82
- The Principle of Glory
- Principle 84
- 85 The Principle of Trust & Honesty
- Like Attracts Like
- The Pharaoh Principle
- The Zero Point
- Faith
- Corruption
- Goodwill
- Intensity
- Synthesis
- The Molecular Principle
- Principle 95 – The Sabbath
- Principle 96 – Trinity
- The Slingshot Principle
- Principle 98, Inclusion
- Principle 99 – Sacrifice
- Principle 100 – Service
- Principle 101 – Humor
Principle Seventeen: Correction
Correction is not usually thought of as a principle, but indeed it is and an important one at that. Without it relative perfection could never be achieved. No great advancement, no thing of beauty and nothing with complexity has ever been achieved without it.
The reason absolute perfection is an illusion is because to believe in such a thing one must negate the eternal principle of correction. Because correction is always taking place absolute perfection cannot be.
To see how needed this principle is visualize stopping your car on a stretch of straight road and then perfectly pointing it straight ahead in an attempt to drive it for one mile without correcting it through steering. After pointing it straight ahead you start the engine and hit the gas pedal. We all know what will happen. In less than one block the car will veer to the left or the right and you will have to grab hold of the wheel and correct the direction. In fact, by the time you arrive at the first mile you will have made hundreds of corrections with the steering wheel. It is obvious to anyone who has driven a car that it is impossible to drive a car anywhere without using the principle of correction.
Now visualize an artist painting a masterpiece. Is each stroke and color applied done with perfection? No. Again he must make many corrective strokes and blending of colors to achieve the final appearance desired.
How about the creation of this world? Was it accomplished in one great attempt? No. It began as a ball of fire and condensed. Later came the oceans and an atmosphere accompanied by elementary life. The life evolved into more complex forms until the human race appeared. Millions of corrections and changes have occurred for this planet to arrive at the beauty it now possesses and yet it is still far from perfect. Millions of additional corrections must be accomplished before this planet achieves the measure of its creation.
One of the most common mistakes made by teachers of the past is they present their ideas or revelations as if they were absolute perfection from the mind of God. The problem is that even if the concepts were inspired and sound, the application of them will require much correction before they become workable. Instead of making corrections the followers try with exactness to implement the plans. This always fails and when it does the original good ideas are often abandoned and replaced with inferior ones — usually after the initiate dies.
The teacher of this age must present the basic principles behind his ideas with the thought that some trial and error, or correction, will be required before they mature and reach their maximum usability.
This principle is expanded upon in Book four of the Immortal series, Eternal Words.
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
— Thomas A. Edison (1847 – 1931)
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