1. The teachers of God have no set teaching level. ²Each teaching-learning situation involves a different relationship at the beginning, although the ultimate goal is always the same; to make of the relationship a holy relationship, in which both can look upon the Son of God as sinless. ³There is no one from whom a teacher of God cannot learn, so there is no one whom he cannot teach. ⁴However, from a practical point of view he cannot meet everyone, nor can everyone find him. ⁵Therefore, the plan includes very specific contacts to be made for each teacher of God. ⁶There are no accidents in salvation. ⁷Those who are to meet will meet, because together they have the potential for a holy relationship. ⁸They are ready for each other.

2. The simplest level of teaching appears to be quite superficial. ²It consists of what seem to be very casual encounters; a “chance” meeting of two apparent strangers in an elevator, a child who is not looking where he is going running into an adult “by chance,” two students “happening” to walk home together. ³These are not chance encounters. ⁴Each of them has the potential for becoming a teaching-learning situation. ⁵Perhaps the seeming strangers in the elevator will smile to one another; perhaps the adult will not scold the child for bumping into him; perhaps the students will become friends. ⁶Even at the level of the most casual encounter, it is possible for two people to lose sight of separate interests, if only for a moment. ⁷That moment will be enough. ⁸Salvation has come.

3. It is difficult to understand that levels of teaching the universal course is a concept as meaningless in reality as is time. ²The illusion of one permits the illusion of the other. ³In time, the teacher of God seems to begin to change his mind about the world with a single decision, and then learns more and more about the new direction as he teaches it. ⁴We have covered the illusion of time already, but the illusion of levels of teaching seems to be something different. ⁵Perhaps the best way to demonstrate that these levels cannot exist is simply to say that any level of the teaching-learning situation is part of God’s plan for Atonement, and His plan can have no levels, being a reflection of His Will. ⁶Salvation is always ready and always there. ⁷God’s teachers work at different levels, but the result is always the same.

4. Each teaching-learning situation is maximal in the sense that each person involved will learn the most that he can from the other person at that time. ²In this sense, and in this sense only, we can speak of levels of teaching. ³Using the term in this way, the second level of teaching is a more sustained relationship, in which, for a time, two people enter into a fairly intense teaching-learning situation and then appear to separate. ⁴As with the first level, these meetings are not accidental, nor is what appears to be the end of the relationship a real end. ⁵Again, each has learned the most he can at the time. ⁶Yet all who meet will someday meet again, for it is the destiny of all relationships to become holy. ⁷God is not mistaken in His Son.

5. The third level of teaching occurs in relationships which, once they are formed, are lifelong. ²These are teaching-learning situations in which each person is given a chosen learning partner who presents him with unlimited opportunities for learning. ³These relationships are generally few, because their existence implies that those involved have reached a stage simultaneously in which the teaching-learning balance is actually perfect. ⁴This does not mean that they necessarily recognize this; in fact, they generally do not. ⁵They may even be quite hostile to each other for some time, and perhaps for life. ⁶Yet should they decide to learn it, the perfect lesson is before them and can be learned. ⁷And if they decide to learn that lesson, they become the saviors of the teachers who falter and may even seem to fail. ⁸No teacher of God can fail to find the Help he needs.