This is not a course in philosophical speculation, nor is it
     concerned with precise terminology. It is concerned only
     with Atonement, or the correction of perception.
     The means of the Atonement is forgiveness.
     The structure of “individual consciousness” is essentially
     irrelevant because it is a concept representing the “original
     error” or the “original sin.”
     To study the error itself does not lead to correction, if you
     are indeed to succeed in overlooking the error. And it is just
     this process of overlooking at which the course aims.

     A universal theology is impossible, but a universal
     experience is not only possible but necessary.
     It is this experience toward which the course is directed.
     Here alone consistency becomes possible because here
     alone uncertainty ends.