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The use of miracles as spectacles to INDUCE belief is wrong; or, better, is a misunderstanding of their purpose. They are really used FOR and BY believers.

T 1 B 10 (2)

The use of miracles as spectacles to induce belief is a misunderstanding of their purpose.

Prayer is the medium of miracles. Prayer is the natural

communication of the created with the Creator. Through prayer love is received, and through miracles love is expressed.

Prayer is the medium of miracles. It is a means of communication of the created with the Creator. Through prayer love is received, and through miracles love is expressed.

Miracles are thoughts. Thoughts can represent lower-order or higher-order reality. This is the basic distinction between intellectualizing and thinking. One makes the physical and the other creates the spiritual, and we believe in what we make or create.

Miracles are thoughts. Thoughts can represent the lower or bodily level of experience, or the higher or spiritual level of experience. One makes the physical, and the other creates the spiritual.

Miracles are teaching devices for demonstrating that it is more blessed to give than to receive. They simultaneously increase the strength of the giver and supply strength to the receiver.

Miracles are teaching devices for demonstrating it is as blessed to give as to receive. They simultaneously increase the strength of the giver and supply strength to the receiver.

Miracles are the transcendence of the body. They are sudden shifts into invisibility, away from a sense of lower-order reality. That is why they heal.

Miracles transcend the body. They are sudden shifts into invisibility, away from the bodily level. That is why they heal.

Miracles make minds one in God. They depend on cooperation, because the Sonship is the sum of all the Souls God created. Miracles therefore rest on the laws of eternity, not of time.

Miracles make minds one in God. They depend on cooperation because the Sonship is the sum of all that God created. Miracles therefore reflect the laws of eternity, not of time.

Miracles are natural expressions of total forgiveness. Through miracles, man accepts God’s forgiveness by extending it to others.

Miracles are natural signs of forgiveness. Through miracles you accept God's forgiveness by extending it to others.

Miracles are associated with fear only because of the fallacious belief that darkness can HIDE. Man believes that what he cannot see does not exist, and his physical eyes cannot see in the dark. This is a very primitive solution, and has led to a denial of the Spiritual eye. *

(* The term “Spiritual eye” is later replaced by the Holy Spirit and the physical eye becomes the ego. The emphasis on the two ways of seeing, however, remains throughout. )

Miracles are associated with fear only because of the belief that darkness can hide. You believe that what your physical eyes cannot see does not exist. This leads to a denial of spiritual sight.

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Miracles rearrange perception, and place the levels of perception in true perspective. This heals at ALL levels, because sickness comes from confusing the levels.   T 1 B 23a (3)

Miracles rearrange perception and place all levels in true perspective. This is healing because sickness comes from confusing the levels.

Miracles honor man BECAUSE he is lovable. They dispel illusions about him, and perceive the Light in him. They thus atone for his errors by freeing him from his own nightmares. They release him from a prison in which he has imprisoned HIMSELF, and by freeing his mind from illusions, they restore his sanity. Man’s mind CAN be possessed by illusions, but his Spirit is eternally free. If a mind perceives without love it perceives an empty shell, and is unaware of the Spirit within it. But the Atonement restores the Soul to its proper place. The mind that serves the Spirit is invulnerable.

 Miracles honor you because you are lovable. They dispel illusions about yourself and perceive the light in you. They thus atone for your errors by freeing you from your nightmares. By releasing your mind from the imprisonment of your illusions, they restore your sanity

Miracles are examples of right thinking. Reality contact at all levels becomes strong and accurate, thus permitting correct delineation of intra- and interpersonal boundaries. As a result, the doer’s perceptions are aligned with truth as God created it.

Miracles are examples of right thinking, aligning your perceptions with truth as God created it.

The Spiritual eye is the mechanism of miracles because what It perceives IS true. It perceives both the Creations of God and the creations of man. Among the creations of man, It can also separate the true from the false by Its ability to perceive totally, rather than selectively. It thus becomes the proper instrument for reality testing, which always involves the necessary distinction between the false and the true.

The Holy Spirit is the mechanism of miracles. He recognizes both God's creations and your illusions. He separates the true from the false by His ability to perceive totally rather than selectively.

As you share MY inability to tolerate lack of love in yourself and others, you MUST join the Great Crusade to correct it. The slogan for the Crusade is “Listen, learn, and DO; ”  – Listen to my voice, learn to undo error, and DO something to correct it.

As you share my unwillingness to accept error in yourself and others, you must join the great crusade to correct it; listen to my voice, learn to undo error and act to correct it.

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Christ-controlled miracles are part of the Atonement, but Christ-guidance is personal. The impersonal nature of miracles is an essential ingredient, because this enables ME to control their distribution. Christ-guidance leads to the highly PERSONAL experience of Revelation. This is why it involves PERSONAL choice. A guide does NOT control, but he DOES direct, leaving the following up to you.” Lead us not into temptation” means “guide us out of our own errors.” “Take up thy cross and follow me” means “recognize your errors and choose to abandon them by following my guidance.” T 1 B 36a (8)

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This section deals with a fundamental misuse of knowledge, referred to in the Bible as the cause of the “fall,” or separation. There are some definitions which I asked you to take from the dictionary which will be helpful here. They are somewhat unusual, since they are not the first definitions which are given. Nevertheless, the fact that each of them does appear in the dictionary should be reassuring. T II A 1 (20)

Project (verb): to extend forward or out.

Project (noun): a plan in the mind.

World: a natural grand division.

We will refer later to projection as related to both mental health

and mental illness. We have already observed that man can create an empty shell, but he cannot created nothing at all. This emptiness provides the screen for the misuse of projection.

The Garden of Eden, which is described as a literal garden in the Bible, was not an actual garden at all. It was merely a mental state of complete need-lack. Even in the literal account, it is noteworthy that the pre-separation state was essentially one in which man needed nothing. The “tree of knowledge” is also an overly literal figure. These concepts need to be clarified before the real meaning of the separation, or the “detour into fear,” can be fully understood.

Denial of error is a powerful defense of truth. You will note that we have been shifting the emphasis from the negative to the positive use of denial. As we have already stated, denial is not a purely negative device; it results in positive miscreation. That is the way the mentally ill DO employ it. But remember a very early thought of your own;  – “Never underestimate the power of denial.” In the service of the “right mind,” the denial of ERROR frees the mind and reestablishes the freedom of the will. When the will is REALLY free, it CANNOT miscreate because it recognizes ONLY truth.

False projection arises out of false denial, NOT out of its proper use. My own role in the Atonement is one of TRUE projection; I can project to YOU the affirmation of truth. If you project error to me, or to yourself, you are interfering with the process. MY use of projection, which can also be yours, is NOT based on faulty denial. It DOES involve, however, the very powerful use of the denial of errors. The miracle worker is one who accepts my kind of denial and projection, unites his own inherent abilities to deny and project with mine, and imposes them back on himself and others. This establishes the total LACK of threat anywhere. Together we can then work for the real time of peace, which is eternal.

The improper use of defenses is quite widely recognized, but their proper use had not been sufficiently understood as yet. They can INDEED create man’s perception, both of himself and of the world. They can distort or correct, depending on what you use them FOR.

Denial should be directed only to error, and projection should be reserved only for truth. You should truly give as you have truly received. The Golden Rule can work effectively only on this basis.

Intellectualization is a term which stems from the mind-brain confusion.” Right-mindedness” is the device which defends the RIGHT mind, and gives it control over the body.” Intellectualization” implies a split, while “right-mindedness” involves healing.

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Withdrawal is properly employed in the service of withdrawing from the meaningless. It is NOT a device for escape, but for consolidation. There IS only one mind. T II B 10 (25)

Dissociation is quite similar. You SHOULD split off or dissociate yourself from error, but only in defense of integration.

Detachment is essentially a weaker form of dissociation. Flight can be undertaken in whatever direction you choose, but note that the concept itself implies flight FROM something. Flight from error is perfectly appropriate.

Distantiation can be properly used as a way of putting distance between yourself and what you SHOULD fly from.

Regression is an effort to return to your own original state. It can thus be utilized to RESTORE, rather than to go back to the LESS mature.

Sublimation should be a redirection of effort to the sublime.

There are many other so-called “dynamic” concepts which are profound errors due essentially to the misuse of defenses. Among them is the concept of different levels of aspiration, which actually result from level confusion. However, the main point to be understood from this section is that you can defend truth as well as error, and, in fact, much better.

The Atonement actually began long before the crucifixion. Many Souls offered their efforts on behalf of the separated ones, but they could not withstand the strength of the attack and had to be brought back. Angels came, too, but their protection did not suffice, because the separated ones were not interested in peace. They had already split their minds, and were bent on further dividing, rather than reintegrating. The levels they introduced into their minds turned against each other, and they established differences, divisions, cleavages, dispersions, and all the other concepts related to the increasing splits which they produced.

Not being in their right minds, they turned their defenses from protection to assault, and acted literally insanely.

It was essential to introduce a split-proof device which could be used ONLY to heal, if it were used at all.

You know that when defenses are disrupted there is a period of real disorientation, accompanied by fear, guilt, and usually vacillations between anxiety and depression. This course is different in that defenses are NOT being disrupted but REINTERPRETED, even though you may experience it as the same thing. In the reinterpretation of defenses, only their use for ATTACK is lost. Since this means they can be used only ONE way, they become much stronger and much more dependable. They no longer oppose the Atonement, but greatly facilitate it.

Their egocentricity usually misperceives this as personally insulting, an interpretation which obviously arises from their misperception of themselves. Egocentricity and communion CANNOT coexist. Even the terms are contradictory.

Man is not willing to look on what he has done TO HIMSELF.

Every instant [it is] creating, and ALWAYS as you will. Many of your ordinary expressions reflect this. For example, when you say, “Don’t give it a thought,” you imply that [if] you do not think about something, it will have no effect on you. And [this is] true enough.

On the other hand, many other expressions clearly illustrate the prevailing LACK of awareness of thought-power. For example, you say, “Just an idle thought,” and mean that the thought has no effect. You also speak of some actions as “thoughtless,” implying that if the person had thought, he would not behave as he did. While expressions like “think big” give some recognition to the power of thought, they still come nowhere near the truth. You do not expect to grow when you say it, because you do not really think that you will.

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 …Many psychotherapists attempt to help people who are afraid, say, of their death wishes by depreciating the power of the wish. They even try to “free” the patient by persuading him that he can think whatever he wants without any REAL effect at all.   T II E 5 (40)

There is a real dilemma here which only the truly right-minded can escape. Death wishes do not kill in the physical sense, but they DO kill spiritual awareness. ALL destructive thinking is dangerous. Given a death wish, a man has no choice except to ACT upon the thought, or behave CONTRARY to it. He thus chooses only between homicide and fear. The other possibility is that he depreciates the power of his thought. This is the usual psychoanalytic approach.

The world is full of examples of how man has depreciated himself because he is afraid of his own thoughts. In some forms of insanity thoughts are glorified, but this is only because the underlying depreciation was too effective for tolerance. The truth is that there ARE no “idle” thoughts. ALL thinking produces form at some level. The reason people are afraid of ESP and so often react against it is because they KNOW that thoughts can hurt them. Their own thoughts have made them vulnerable.

You persist in believing that, when you do not consciously watch your mind, it is unmindful. It is time, however, to consider the whole world of the unconscious or “unwatched” mind. This may well frighten you because it is the SOURCE of fear. The unwatched mind is responsible for the whole content of the unconscious which lies ABOVE the miracle level. All psychoanalytic theorists have made some contribution in this connection, but none of them has seen it in its true entirety. They have all made one common error in that they attempted to uncover unconscious CONTENT. You cannot understand unconscious activity in these terms because “content” is applicable ONLY to the more superficial unconscious levels, to which the individual himself contributes. This is the level at which he can readily introduce fear, and usually does.

…Its length depends, however, on the effectiveness of the present speed-up.

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To “project,” as defined above, is a fundamental attribute of God, which He gave to His Son. In the Creation, God projected His Creative Ability from Himself to the Souls He created, and He also imbued them with the same loving will to create. The Soul has not only been fully created, but has also been created perfect. There is NO emptiness in it. Because of its likeness to its Creator, it is creative. No Child of God can lose this ability because it is inherent in what he IS, but he CAN use it inappropriately. Whenever projection is used inappropriately, it ALWAYS implies that some emptiness or lack exists, and that it is in man’s ability to put his OWN ideas there INSTEAD of truth. T II A 3 (20)

To extend is a fundamental aspect of God which He gave to His Son. In the creation, God extended Himself to His creations and imbued them with the same loving Will to create. You have not only been fully created, but have also been created perfect. There is no emptiness in you. Because of your likeness to your Creator you are creative. No child of God can lose this ability because it is inherent in what he is, but he can use it inappropriately by projecting. The inappropriate use of extension, or projection, occurs when you believe that some emptiness or lack exists in you, and that you can fill it with your own ideas instead of truth.

These related distortions represent a picture of what actually occurred in the separation. None of this existed before, nor does it actually exist now. The world WAS made as “a natural grand division,” or a projecting outward of God. That is why everything that He created is like Him. Projection, as undertaken by God, is very similar to the kind of inner radiance which the Children of the Father inherit from Him. It is important to note that the term “project outward” necessarily implies that the REAL source of projection is internal. This is as true of the Son as of the Father.

These related distortions represent a picture of what actually occurred in the separation, or the "detour into fear." None of this existed before the separation, nor does it actually exist now. Everything God created is like Him. Extension, as undertaken by God, is similar to the inner radiance that the children of the Father inherit from Him. Its real source is internal. This is as true of the Son as of the Father.

The world, in the original connotation of the term included both the proper Creation of man by God AND the proper creation by man in his right mind. The latter required the endowment of man by God with free will, because ALL loving creation is freely given. Nothing in these statements implies any sort of level involvement, or, in fact, anything except one continuous line of creation, in which all aspects are of the same order.

In this sense the creation includes both the creation of the Son by God, and the Son's creations when his mind is healed. This requires God's endowment of the Son with free will, because all loving creation is freely given in one continuous line, in which all aspects are of the same order.

All of his miscreations can literally disappear in “the twinkling of an eye,” because they are merely visual misperceptions. Man’s Spiritual eye can sleep, but a sleeping eye can still see.

All that can literally disappear in the twinkling of an eye because it is merely a misperception.

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It is quite apparent that this release does NOT depend on the kind of “knowledge” which is nothing more than deceiving lies. The knowledge which illuminates rather than obscures is the knowledge which not only SETS you free, but which also shows you clearly that you ARE free. T II A 14 (22)

This release does not depend on illusions. The knowledge that illuminates not only sets you free, but also shows you clearly that you are free.

Once you have learned to consider these two questions, and to bring them into ALL your actions as the true criteria for behavior, I will have little difficulty in clarifying the means. You have not learned to be consistent about this as yet. I have therefore concentrated on showing you that the means ARE available whenever you ASK

Once you have learned to consider these questions and to bring them into all your actions, you will have little difficulty in clarifying the means. The means are available whenever you ask.

The ability to learn has no value when change of understanding is no longer necessary. The eternally creative have nothing to learn. Only after the separation was it necessary to direct the creative forces to learning, because changed behavior had become mandatory.

Men can learn to improve their behavior, and can also learn to become better and better learners.

The ability to learn has no value when change is no longer necessary. The eternally creative have nothing to learn. You can learn to improve your perceptions, and can become a better and better learner.

The miracle turns the defense of Atonement to the protection of the inner self, which, as it becomes more and more secure, assumes its natural talent of protecting others. The inner self knows itself as both a brother AND a Son.

The miracle turns the defense of Atonement to your real protection, and as you become more and more secure you assume your natural talent of protecting others, knowing yourself as both a brother and a Son.

The Atonement can only be accepted WITHIN you. You have perceived it largely as EXTERNAL thus far, and that is why your experience of it has been minimal. The reinterpretation of defenses is essential in releasing the INNER light.

The Atonement can only be accepted within you by releasing the inner light. Since the separation, defenses have been used almost entirely to defend against the Atonement, and thus maintain the separation.

The Spiritual eye, on the other hand, cannot see the building at all because It has perfect sight.

Spiritual sight, on the other hand, cannot see the structure at all because it is perfect vision.

Both the separation AND the fear are miscreations of the mind, which must be undone. This is what is meant by “the restoration of the temple.” It does not mean the restoration of the building, but the opening of the altar to receive the Atonement. This heals the separation, and places WITHIN man the one defense against ALL separation mind-errors which can make him perfectly invulnerable.

Both the separation and the fear are miscreations that must be undone for the restoration of the temple, and for the opening of the altar to receive the Atonement. This heals the separation by placing within you the one effective defense against all separation thoughts and making you perfectly invulnerable.

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The acceptance of the Atonement by everyone is only a matter of time. In fact, both time AND matter were created for this purpose. This appears to contradict free will because of the inevitability of the final decision. If you review the idea carefully, however, you will realize that this is not true. Everything is limited in some way by the manner of its creation.

 T II B 30 (29)

The acceptance of the Atonement by everyone is only a matter of time. This may appear to contradict free will because of the inevitability of the final decision, but this is not so.

This ultimately re-awakens the Spiritual eye, simultaneously weakening the investment in physical sight. The alternating investment in the two types or levels of perception is usually experienced as conflict for a long time, and can become very acute. But the outcome is as certain as God. T II B 31 (29)

The Spiritual eye literally CANNOT SEE error and merely looks for Atonement. All the solutions which the physical eyes seek dissolve in Its sight. The Spiritual eye, which looks within, recognizes immediately that the altar has been defiled, and needs to be repaired and protected. Perfectly aware of the RIGHT defense, It passes over all others, looking past error to truth. Because of the real strength of ITS vision, It pulls the will into Its service and impels the mind to concur. This reestablishes the true power of the will, and makes it increasingly unable to tolerate delay. The mind then realizes with increasing certainty that delay is only a way of increasing unnecessary pain which it need not tolerate at all. The pain threshold drops accordingly, and the mind becomes increasingly sensitive to what it would once have regarded as very minor intrusions of discomfort. T II B 32 (29)

This ultimately reawakens spiritual vision, simultaneously weakening the investment in physical sight. The alternating investment in the two levels of perception is usually experienced as conflict, which can become very acute. . But the outcome is as certain as God.

Spiritual vision literally cannot see error, and merely looks for Atonement. All solutions the physical eye seeks dissolve. Spiritual vision looks within and recognizes immediately that the altar has been defiled and needs to be repaired and protected. Perfectly aware of the right defense it passes over all others, looking past error to truth. Because of the strength of its vision, it brings the mind into its service. This re-establishes the power of the mind and makes it increasingly unable to tolerate delay, realizing that it only adds unnecessary pain. As a result, the mind becomes increasingly sensitive to what it would once have regarded as very minor intrusions of discomfort.

The reason only the mind can create is more obvious than may be immediately apparent. The Soul HAS BEEN created.

Only the mind can create because spirit has already been created, and the body is a learning device for the mind.

Their purpose is merely to facilitate the thinking of the learner.

Their purpose is merely to facilitate learning.

This learning device is NOT subject to errors of its own because it was created, but is NOT creating. It should be obvious, then, that correcting the creator, or inducing it to give up its miscreations, is the only application of creative ability which is truly meaningful.

This learning device is not subject to errors of its own, because it cannot create. It is obvious, then, that inducing the mind to give up its miscreations is the only application of creative ability that is truly meaningful.

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However, as a creative act, the miracle need not await the right-mindedness of the receiver. T II C 12 (34)

However, as a correction, the miracle need not await the right-mindedness of the receiver.

The mind, however, can bring ITS illumination TO the body by recognizing that density is the opposite of intelligence, and therefore unamenable to independent learning. It is, however, easily brought into alignment with a mind which has learned to look beyond density toward light.

The mind, however, can bring its illumination to the body by recognizing that it is not the learner, and is therefore unamenable to learning. The body is, however, easily brought into alignment with a mind that has learned to look beyond it toward the light.

Corrective learning always begins with the awakening of the Spiritual eye, and the turning away from the belief in physical sight. The reason this so often entails fear is because man is afraid of what his Spiritual eye will see. We said before that the Spiritual eye cannot see error, and is capable only of looking beyond it to the defense of Atonement. There is no doubt that the Spiritual eye DOES produce extreme discomfort by what It sees. Yet what man forgets is that the discomfort is NOT the final outcome of Its perception. When the Spiritual eye is permitted to look upon the defilement of the altar, it also looks IMMEDIATELY toward the Atonement. NOTHING the Spiritual eye perceives can induce fear. EVERYTHING that results from accurate spiritual awareness is merely channelized toward correction. Discomfort is aroused only to bring the NEED for correction forcibly into awareness. What the physical eye sees is NOT corrective, nor can it be corrected by ANY device which can be seen physically. As long as a man believes in what his physical sight tells him, ALL his corrective behavior will be misdirected. The REAL vision is obscured because man cannot endure to see his own defiled altar. But since the altar HAS been defiled, his state becomes doubly dangerous unless it IS perceived.

Corrective learning always begins with the awakening of spirit, and the turning away from the belief in physical sight. This often entails fear, because you are afraid of what your spiritual sight will show you. I said before that the Holy Spirit cannot see error, and is capable only of looking beyond it to the defense of Atonement. There is no doubt that this may produce discomfort, yet the discomfort is not the final outcome of the perception. . When the Holy Spirit is permitted to look upon the defilement of the altar, He also looks immediately toward the Atonement. Nothing He perceives can induce fear. Everything that results from spiritual awareness is merely channelized toward correction. Discomfort is aroused only to bring the need for correction into awareness.

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We have said that Christ-control can take over everything that does NOT matter, while Christ-guidance can direct everything that DOES, if you so choose. Fear cannot be Christ-controlled, but it CAN be self-controlled. It PREVENTS me from controlling it. The correction is therefore a matter of YOUR will, because its presence shows that you have raised the UNIMPORTANT to a higher level than it warrants. You have thus brought it under YOUR will, where it does not belong. This means that YOU feel responsible for it. The level confusion here is obvious.

T II D 1 (37)

My control can take over everything that does not matter, while my guidance can direct everything that does, if you so choose. Fear cannot be controlled by me, but it can be self-controlled. Fear prevents me from giving you my control. The presence of fear shows that you have raised body thoughts to the level of the mind. This removes them from my control, and makes you feel personally responsible for them. This is an obvious confusion of levels.

The reason I cannot control fear for you is that you are attempting to raise to the mind level the proper content of lower-order reality. I do not foster level confusion, but YOU can choose to correct it. You would not tolerate insane BEHAVIOR on your part, and would hardly advance the excuse that you could not help it.

I do not foster level confusion, but you must choose to correct it. You would not excuse insane behavior on your part by saying you could not help it.

When you are fearful you have willed wrongly.

When you are fearful, you have chosen wrongly.

Before you will to do anything, ask me if your will is in accord with mine.

Before you choose to do anything, ask me if your choice is in accord with mine.

Fear is always a sign of strain, which arises whenever the WILL to do conflicts with WHAT you do. This situation arises in two ways;

1. You can will to do conflicting things, either simultaneously or successively. This produces conflicted behavior, which is intolerable to yourself because the part of the will that wants to do something ELSE is outraged.

2. You can BEHAVE as you think you should, but without entirely WILLING to do so. This produces consistent behavior, but entails great strain WITHIN the self. In both cases, the will and the behavior are out of accord, resulting in a situation in which you are doing what you do NOT will. This arouses a sense of coercion, which usually produces rage. The rage then invades the mind, and projection in the wrong sense is likely to follow. Depression or anxiety is virtually certain. Remember that whenever there is fear, it is because you have NOT MADE UP YOUR MIND. Your will is split, and your behavior inevitably becomes erratic. Correcting at the behavioral level can shift the error from the first to the second type of strain described above, but will NOT obliterate the fear.

Fear is always a sign of strain, arising whenever what you want conflicts with what you do. This situation arises in two ways: First, you can choose to do conflicting things, either simultaneously or successively. This produces conflicted behavior, which is intolerable to you because the part of the mind that wants to do something else is outraged. Second, you can behave as you think you should, but without entirely wanting to do so. This produces consistent behavior, but entails great strain. In both cases, the mind and the behavior are out of accord, resulting in a situation in which you are doing what you do not wholly want to do. This arouses a sense of coercion that usually produces rage, and projection is likely to follow. Whenever there is fear, it is because you have not made up your mind. Your mind is therefore split, and your behavior inevitably becomes erratic. Correcting at the behavioral level can shift the error from the first to the second type, but will not obliterate the fear.

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It is possible to reach a state in which you bring your will under my guidance without much conscious effort, but this implies habit patterns which you have not developed dependably as yet. God cannot ask MORE than you will. The strength to DO comes from your own undivided WILL to do. There is NO strain in doing God’s Will as soon as you recognize that it is also your OWN.

The lesson here is quite simple, but particularly apt to be overlooked. I will therefore repeat it, urging you to listen. Only your MIND can produce fear. It does so whenever it is conflicted in what it wills, thus producing inevitable strain because willing and doing become discordant. This cannot be corrected by better DOING, but it CAN be corrected by higher WILLING.  T II D 8 (39)

It is possible to reach a state in which you bring your mind under my guidance without conscious effort, but this implies a willingness that you have not developed as yet. The Holy Spirit cannot ask more than you are willing to do. The strength to do comes from your undivided decision. There is no strain in doing God's Will as soon as you recognize that it is also your own. The lesson here is quite simple, but particularly apt to be overlooked. I will therefore repeat it, urging you to listen. Only your mind can produce fear. It does so whenever it is conflicted in what it wants, producing inevitable strain because wanting and doing are discordant. This can be corrected only by accepting a unified goal.

Then say to yourself that you must somehow have willed not to love [or] the fear which arises from behavior-will conflict could not have arisen….

Say to yourself that you must somehow have chosen not to love, or the fear could not have arisen.

…you have done something loveless, having willed without love.

You have done something loveless, having chosen without love.

… Actually, “Cause” is a term properly belonging to God, and “Effect,” which should also be capitalized, is His Son. This entails a set of Cause and Effect relationships which are totally different from those which man introduced into his own miscreations. The fundamental opponents in the real basic conflict are Creation and miscreation.

…Actually, "Cause" is a term properly belonging to God, and His "Effect" is His Son. This entails a set of Cause and Effect relationships totally different from those you introduce into miscreation. The fundamental conflict in this world, then, is between creation and miscreation.

It should especially be noted that God has only ONE Son. If all the Souls God created ARE His Sons, then every Soul MUST be an integral part of the whole Sonship. You do not find the concept that the whole is greater than its parts difficult to understand. You should, therefore, not have too much trouble in understanding this. The Sonship in its Oneness DOES transcend the sum of its parts.

It should especially be noted that God has only one Son. If all His creations are His Sons, every one must be an integral part of the whole Sonship. The Sonship in its oneness transcends the sum of its parts.

…As soon as a state of readiness occurs, there is usually some will to accomplish, but this is by no means necessarily undivided. The state does not imply more than a POTENTIAL for a shift of will.

… As soon as a state of readiness occurs, there is usually some degree of desire to accomplish, but it is by no means necessarily undivided. The state does not imply more than a potential for a change of mind.

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… We have already attempted to correct the fundamental error that fear can be mastered, and have emphasized that only LOVE can be mastered. You have attested only to your readiness. Mastery of love involved a much more complete confidence than either of you has attained. However, the readiness at least is an indication that you believe this is possible.

T II E 18 (44)

…We have already attempted to correct the fundamental error that fear can be mastered, and have emphasized that the only real mastery is through love. Readiness is only the beginning of confidence.

… Judgment is not an essential attribute of God. Man brought judgment into being only because of the separation.

  Judgment is not an attribute of God. It was brought into being only after the separation, when it became one of the many learning devices to be built into the overall plan.

… If a sufficient number of people become truly miracle-minded quickly, the shortening process can be almost immeasurable. It is essential, however, that these individuals free themselves from fear sooner than would ordinarily be the case, because they must emerge from the conflict if they are to bring peace to other minds.

… If a sufficient number become truly miracle-minded, this shortening process can be virtually immeasurable. It is essential, however, that you free yourself from fear quickly, because you must emerge from the conflict if you are to bring peace to other minds.

…This is a process of division only in the constructive sense, and reflects the true meaning of the Apocalypse. Man will ultimately look upon his own creations and will to preserve only what is good, just as God Himself looked upon what He had created and knew that it WAS good.

At this point, the will can begin to look with love on its own creations because of their great worthiness.

This is a process of separation in the constructive sense, and reflects the true meaning of the Apocalypse.

Everyone will ultimately look upon his own creations and choose to preserve only what is good, just as God Himself looked upon what He had created and knew that it was good. At this point, the mind can begin to look with love on its own creations because of their worthiness.

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Clear distinction between what HAS BEEN created and what IS BEING created is essential. ALL forms of correction (or healing) rest on this FUNDAMENTAL correction in level perception. T III B 2 (47)

 A clear distinction between what is created and what is made is essential. All forms of healing rest on this fundamental correction in level perception.

You can do much on behalf of your own rehabilitation AND that of others if, in a situation calling for healing, you think of it this way:

I am here ONLY to be truly helpful.

I am here to represent Christ, Who sent me.

I do NOT have to worry about what to say or what to do because He Who sent me will direct me.

I am content to be wherever He wishes, knowing He goes there with me.

I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal.

You can do much on behalf of your own healing and that of others if, in a situation calling for help, you think of it this way:

I am here only to be truly helpful.

I am here to represent Him Who sent me.

I do not have to worry about what to say or

what to do, because He Who sent me will direct me.

I am content to be wherever He wishes, knowing He goes there with me.

I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal.

…it DOES appear as if God permitted, and even encouraged, one of his Sons to suffer BECAUSE he was good. Many ministers preach this every day.

…it DOES appear as if God permitted, and even encouraged, one of his Sons to suffer BECAUSE he was good.

This particularly unfortunate interpretation, which arose out of the combined misprojections of a large number of my would-be followers, has led many people to be bitterly afraid of God, and this is neither by chance nor by coincidence.

This particularly unfortunate interpretation, which arose out of projection, has led many people to be bitterly afraid of God. Such anti-religious concepts enter into many religions.

That is the real meaning of the Biblical description of God as “Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End.” It also explains the quotation, "Before Abraham was I AM.” Perception can and must be stabilized, but knowledge IS stable.” Fear God and keep his commandments” should read “KNOW God and accept His certainty.”

That is the real meaning of "Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end," and "Before Abraham was I am." Perception can and must be stabilized, but knowledge is stable. "Fear God and keep His commandments" becomes "Know God and accept His certainty."

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“Vengeance is Mine sayeth the Lord” is a strictly karmic viewpoint. It is a real misperception of truth, by which man assigns his own “evil” past to God. The “evil conscience” from the past has nothing to do with God. He did not create it and He does not maintain it. God does NOT believe in karmic retribution. His Divine Mind does not create that way. HE does not hold the evil deeds of a man even against himself. Is it likely, then, that He would hold against anyone the evil that ANOTHER did? Be very sure that you recognize how utterly impossible this assumption really is, and how ENTIRELY it arises from misprojection. T III C 6 (49)

The statement "Vengeance is Mine, sayeth the Lord" is a misperception by which one assigns his own "evil" past to God. The "evil" past has nothing to do with God. He did not create it and He does not maintain it. God does not believe in retribution. His Mind does not create that way. He does not hold your "evil" deeds against you. Is it likely that He would hold them against me? Be very sure that you recognize how utterly impossible this assumption is, and how entirely it arises from projection.

Those who represent the lamb as blood-stained, an all-too-widespread error, do NOT understand the meaning of the symbol. Correctly understood, it is a very simple parable which merely speaks of my innocence. The lion and the lamb lying down together refers to the fact that strength and innocence are NOT in conflict, but naturally live in peace.

…do not understand the meaning of the symbol. Correctly understood, it is a very simple symbol that speaks of my innocence. The lion and the lamb lying down together symbolize that strength and innocence are not in conflict, but naturally live in peace.

When we say “the truth shall set you free,” we mean that all this kind of thinking is a waste of time, but that you ARE free of the need to engage in it if you are willing to let it go.

Ingenious thinking is not the truth that shall set you free, but you are free of the need to engage in it when you are willing to let it go.

“God created man in his Own image and likeness” is correct in meaning, but the words are open to considerable misinterpretation. This is avoided, however, if “image” is understood to mean “thought” and “likeness” is taken as “of a like quality.” 

The statement "God created man in his own image and likeness" needs reinterpretation. "Image" can be understood as "thought," and "likeness" as "of a like quality."

The Bible says that the branch that bears no fruit will be cut off and will wither away.

The branch that bears no fruit will be cut off and will wither away.

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God offers only mercy. Your words should reflect only mercy, because that is what you have received, and that is what you should give. T II B 3 (23)

Justice is a temporary expedient, or an attempt to teach man the meaning of mercy. Its judgmental side arises only because man is capable of INjustice, if that is what his mind creates.  T II B 4 (23)

Every symptom which the ego has made involves a contradiction in terms. This is because the mind is split between the ego and the Soul, so that WHATEVER the ego makes is incomplete and contradictory. This untenable position is the result of the authority problem which, because it accepts the one inconceivable thought as its premise, can only produce ideas which are inconceivable. T IV B 2 (71)

God offers only mercy. Your words should reflect only mercy, because that is what you have received and that is what you should give. Justice is a temporary expedient, or an attempt to teach you the meaning of mercy. It is judgmental only because you are capable of injustice.

I have spoken of different symptoms, and at that level there is almost endless variation. There is, however, only one cause for all of them: the authority problem. This is "the root of all evil." Every symptom the ego makes involves a contradiction in terms, because the mind is split between the ego and the Holy Spirit, so that whatever the ego makes is incomplete and contradictory. This untenable position is the result of the authority problem which, because it accepts the one inconceivable thought as its premise, can produce only ideas that are inconceivable.

Sacrificing another in ANY way is a clearcut violation of God’s Own injunction that man should be merciful even as his Father in Heaven. It has been hard for many Christians to realize that this commandment (or assignment) also applies to THEMSELVES. Good teachers never terrorize their students. To terrorize is to attack, and this results in rejection of what the teacher offers. The result is learning failure.

Sacrificing in any way is a violation of my injunction that you should be merciful even as your Father in Heaven is merciful. It has been hard for many Christians to realize that this applies to themselves. Good teachers never terrorize their students. To terrorize is to attack, and this results in rejection of what the teacher offers. The result is learning failure.

A pure mind knows the truth, and this IS its strength. It cannot attack the body because it recognizes exactly what the body IS. This is what “a sane mind in a sane body” really means. It does NOT confuse destruction with innocence because it associates innocence with strength, NOT with weakness.

A pure mind knows the truth and this is its strength. It does not confuse destruction with innocence because it associates innocence with strength, not with weakness.

The innocence of God is the true state of mind of His Son. In this state, man’s mind DOES see God in the sense that he sees Him as He is, and realizes that the Atonement, NOT sacrifice, is the ONLY appropriate gift to His Own altar, where nothing except true perfection belongs. The understanding of the innocent is TRUTH. That is why their altars are truly radiant

The innocence of God is the true state of the mind of His Son. In this state your mind knows God, for God is not symbolic; He is Fact. Knowing His Son as he is, you realize that the Atonement, not sacrifice, is the only appropriate gift for God's altar, where nothing except perfection belongs. The understanding of the innocent is truth. That is why their altars are truly radiant.

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Certain fundamental concepts CANNOT be meaningfully understood in terms of coexisting polarities. It is impossible to conceive of light and darkness, or everything and nothing, as joint possibilities. They are all true OR all false. It is essential that you realize that behavior is erratic until a firm commitment to one or the other is made.

2. A firm commitment to darkness or nothingness is impossible. No-one has ever lived who has not experienced SOME light and SOME thing. This makes everyone really unable to deny truth totally, even if he generally deceives himself in this connection. That is why those who live largely in darkness and emptiness never find any lasting solace. Innocence is NOT a partial attribute. It is not a real defense UNTIL it is total. When it is partial, it is characterized by the same erratic nature that holds for other two-edged defenses.  T III D 2 (52)

Certain fundamental concepts cannot be understood in terms of opposites. It is impossible to conceive of light and darkness or everything and nothing as joint possibilities. They are all true or all false. It is essential that you realize your thinking will be erratic until a firm commitment to one or the other is made. A firm commitment to darkness or nothingness, however, is impossible. No one has ever lived who has not experienced some light and some thing. No one, therefore, is able to deny truth totally, even if he thinks he can.

Innocence is not a partial attribute. It is not real until it is total.

You CANNOT validate the invalid. I would suggest that you voluntarily give up all such attempts, because they can only be frantic. If you are willing to validate what IS true in everything you perceive, you will make it true for YOU. Truth overcomes ALL error. This means that if you perceive truly, you are canceling out misperceptions in yourself AND in others simultaneously. Because you see them as they are, you offer them your own validation of THEIR truth. This is the healing which the miracle actively fosters.

The way to correct distortions is to withdraw your faith in them and invest it only in what is true. You cannot make untruth true. If you are willing to accept what is true in everything you perceive, you let it be true for you. Truth overcomes all error, and those who live in error and emptiness can never find lasting solace. If you perceive truly you are cancelling out misperceptions in yourself and in others simultaneously. Because you see them as they are, you offer them your acceptance of their truth so they can accept it for themselves. This is the healing that the miracle induces.

We have been emphasizing perception and have said very little about cognition as yet, because you are confused about the difference between them. The reason we have dealt so little with cognition is because you must get your perceptions straightened out before you can KNOW anything. To know is to be certain. Uncertainty merely means that you do NOT know. Knowledge is power BECAUSE it is certain, and certainty is strength. Perception is merely temporary. It is an attribute of the space-time belief, and is therefore subject to fear or love. Misperceptions produce fear, and true perceptions produce love. NEITHER produces certainty, because ALL perception varies. That is why it is NOT knowledge.

We have been emphasizing perception, and have said very little about knowledge as yet. This is because perception must be straightened out before you can know anything. To know is to be certain. Uncertainty means that you do not know. Knowledge is power because it is certain, and certainty is strength. Perception is temporary. As an attribute of the belief in space and time, it is subject to either fear or love. Misperceptions produce fear and true perceptions foster love, but neither brings certainty because all perception varies. That is why it is not knowledge

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The unquestioning mind is closed because it believes the future and present will be the same. This establishes an unchanged state, or stasis. T III E 4 (54)

The closed mind believes the future and the present will be the same. This establishes a seemingly stable state…

Visions are the natural perception of the Spiritual eye, but they are still corrections. The Spiritual eye is symbolic, and therefore not a device for knowing.

True vision is the natural perception of spiritual sight, but it is still a correction rather than a fact. Spiritual sight is symbolic, and therefore not a device for knowing

However, it is not until you RECOGNIZE him that you can KNOW him.

However, until you first perceive him as he is you cannot know him.

Conflict and the Ego

Error and the Ego

Only the levels of the Trinity are capable of Unity. The levels which man created by the separation cannot BUT conflict.

Only the Levels of the Trinity are capable of Unity. The levels created by the separation cannot but conflict. This is because they are meaningless to each other.

In OUR picture of the psyche, there is an unconscious level which properly consists ONLY of the miracle ability, and which should be under MY direction. There is also a conscious level, which perceives or is aware of impulses from both the unconscious and the superconscious. Consciousness is thus the level of perception, but NOT of knowledge. Again, to perceive is NOT to know.

Consciousness was the first split that man introduced into himself. He became a PERCEIVER, rather than a creator in the true sense. Consciousness is correctly identified as the domain of the ego. The ego is a man-made attempt to perceive himself as he WISHED to be, rather than as he IS.

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Consciousness, the level of perception, was the first split introduced into the mind after the separation, making the mind a perceiver rather than a creator. Consciousness is correctly identified as the domain of the ego. The ego is a wrong-minded attempt to perceive yourself as you wish to be, rather than as you are.

The ego is the questioning compartment in the post-separation psyche which man created for himself. It is capable of asking valid questions but NOT of perceiving valid answers, because these are cognitive and cannot BE perceived.

The ego is the questioning aspect of the post-separation self, which was made rather than created. It is capable of asking questions but not of perceiving meaningful answers, because these would involve knowledge and cannot be perceived.

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Right-mindedness is not to be confused with the KNOWING mind because it is applicable only to right perception. You can be right-minded or wrong-minded, and even this is subject to degrees, a fact which clearly demonstrates a lack of association with knowledge.  T III F 6 (58)

Right-mindedness is not to be confused with the knowing mind, because it is applicable only to right perception. You can be right-minded or wrong-minded, and even this is subject to degrees, clearly demonstrating that knowledge is not involved.

Perception ALWAYS involves some misuse of will because it involves the mind in areas of uncertainty. The mind is very active because it has will-power. When it willed the separation, it willed to perceive. Until then, it willed ONLY to know. Afterwards it willed ambiguously…

Perception always involves some misuse of mind, because it brings the mind into areas of uncertainty. The mind is very active. When it chooses to be separated it chooses to perceive. Until then it wills only to know. Afterwards it can only choose ambiguously…

Thereafter, the superconscious was perceived as a threat, because light does abolish darkness merely by establishing the fact that it is not there. The truth will ALWAYS overcome error in this sense. This is not an ACTIVE process of destruction at all.

Thereafter, spirit is perceived as a threat, because light abolishes darkness merely by showing you it is not there. Truth will always overcome error in this way. This cannot be an active process of correction because, as I have already emphasized, knowledge does not do anything.

God and the Souls He created remain in surety, and therefore KNOW that no miscreation exists. Truth cannot deal with unwilling error, because it does not will to be blocked out. I was a man who remembered the Soul and its knowledge, and as a man, I did not attempt to COUNTERACT error with knowledge so much as to CORRECT error from the bottom up.

God and His creations remain in surety, and therefore know that no miscreation exists. Truth cannot deal with errors that you want. I was a man who remembered spirit and its knowledge. As a man I did not attempt to counteract error with knowledge, but to correct error from the bottom up.

The “chosen ones” are merely those who choose right SOONER. This is the real meaning of the celestial speed-up. Strong wills can do this NOW, and you WILL find rest for your Souls.

The "chosen ones" are merely those who choose right sooner. Right minds can do this now, and they will find rest unto their souls,

The Loss of Certainty

Beyond Perception

We said before that the abilities which man possesses are only shadows of his real strengths, and that the intrusion of the ability to perceive, which is inherently judgmental, was introduced only AFTER the separation. No-one has been sure of anything since.

I have said that the abilities you possess are only shadows of your real strength, and that perception, which is inherently judgmental, was introduced only after the separation. No one has been sure of anything since.

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Man CANNOT perceive himself correctly. He has no image. The word “image” is always perception-related, and NOT a product of learning.  T III G 4 (60)

Yet you cannot perceive yourself correctly. You have no image to be perceived. The word "image" is always perception-related, and not a part of knowledge.

Methodologically man’s mind has been very creative, but, as always occurs when method and content are separated, it has not been utilized for anything but an attempt to escape a fundamental and entirely inescapable impasse.

Your mind may have become very ingenious, but as always happens when method and content are separated, it is utilized in a futile attempt to escape from an inescapable impasse.

In electing to perceive instead of to know, man placed himself in a position where he could resemble his Father ONLY by miraculously perceiving. He has lost the knowledge that he HIMSELF is a miracle. Miraculous creation was his Source, and also his real function.

In electing perception instead of knowledge, you placed yourself in a position where you could resemble your Father only by perceiving miraculously. You have lost the knowledge that you yourself are a miracle of God. Creation is your Source and your only real function.

…continual process of accepting and rejecting, or organizing and reorganizing, of shifting and changing focus.

… continual process of accepting and rejecting, organizing and reorganizing, shifting and changing

Forgiveness is the healing of the perception of separation. Correct perception OF EACH OTHER is necessary, because minds have willed to see themselves as separate. Each Soul knows God completely. That IS the miraculous power of the Soul. The fact that each One has this power completely is a fact that is entirely alien to human thinking, in which if anyone has everything, there is nothing LEFT.

Forgiveness is the healing of the perception of separation. Correct perception of your brother is necessary, because minds have chosen to see themselves as separate. Spirit knows God completely. That is its miraculous power. The fact that each one has this power completely is a condition entirely alien to the world's thinking. The world believes that if anyone has everything, there is nothing left.

After the Last Judgment there will be no more. This is symbolic only in the sense that everyone is much better off WITHOUT judgment.

After the Last Judgment there will be no more.

Judgment ALWAYS involves rejection. It is NOT an ability which emphasizes only the positive aspects of what is judged, whether it be in or out of the self. However, what has been perceived and rejected,  – or judged and found wanting, – remains in the unconscious because it HAS been perceived.

Judgment always involves rejection. It never emphasizes only the positive aspects of what is judged, whether in you or in others. What has been perceived and rejected, or judged and found wanting, remains in your mind because it has been perceived.

Nothing that you have refused to accept can be brought into awareness. It does NOT follow that it is dangerous, but it DOES follow that you have MADE it dangerous.

Nothing that you have refused to accept can be brought into awareness. It is not dangerous in itself, but you have made it seem dangerous to you.

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Souls were GIVEN their true Authorship, but men preferred to be anonymous when they chose to separate themselves from their Author. The word “authority” has been one of their most fearful symbols ever since. Authority has been used for great cruelty because, being uncertain of their true Authorship, men believe that their creation was anonymous. This has left them in a position where it SOUNDS meaningful to consider the possibility that they must have created themselves.  T III H 7 (64)

The dispute over authorship has left such uncertainty in the minds of men that some have even doubted whether they really exist at all. Despite the apparent contradiction in this position, it is in one sense more tenable than the view that they created themselves. At least it acknowledges the fact that SOME true authorship is necessary for existence.

The dispute over authorship has left such uncertainty in the minds of men that some have even doubted whether they really exist at all. Despite the apparent contradiction in this position, it is in one sense more tenable than the view that they created themselves. At least it acknowledges the fact that SOME true authorship is necessary for existence.

Existence does not depend on your ability to identify it, nor even to place it. It is perfectly possible to look on reality without judgment, and merely KNOW that it is there.

Its existence does not depend on your ability to identify it, or even to place it. It is possible to look on reality without judgment and merely know that it is there.

To deny His Authorship is to deny themselves the reason for their own peace, so that they see themselves only in pieces. This strange perception IS the authority problem.

To deny His Authorship is to deny yourself the reason for your peace, so that you see yourself only in segments. This strange perception is the authority problem.

It is essential to realize this, because otherwise you will not understand why you have so much trouble with this course, and will be unable to escape from the prisons which you have made for yourselves. You cannot resolve the authority problem by depreciating the power of your minds. To do so is to deceive yourself, and this will hurt you because you KNOW the strength of the mind.

…It is essential to realize this, because otherwise you will be unable to escape from the prison you have made.

       You cannot resolve the authority problem by depreciating the power of your mind. To do so is to deceive yourself, and this will hurt you because you really understand the strength of the mind.

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Yet he ATTRACTS men rather than repels them, and they are seen as willing to “sell” him their Souls in return for gifts they RECOGNIZE are of no real worth. This makes absolutely no sense. The whole picture is one in which man acts in a way he HIMSELF realizes is self-destructive, but which he does not choose to correct, and therefore perceives the cause as beyond his control. We have discussed the fall, or separation, before, but its meaning must be clearly understood without symbols. The separation is not symbolic. It is an order of reality, or a system of thought that is real enough in time, though NOT in eternity. All beliefs are real to the believer. We have discussed the fall, or separation, before, but its meaning must be clearly understood without symbols. The separation is not symbolic. It is an order of reality, or a system of thought that is real enough in time, though NOT in eternity. All beliefs are real to the believer.  T III I 3 (67)

Yet he attracts men rather than repels them, and they are willing to "sell" him their souls in return for gifts of no real worth. This makes absolutely no sense. We have discussed the fall or separation before, but its meaning must be clearly understood. The separation is a system of thought real enough in time, though not in eternity. All beliefs are real to the believer.

Eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge is a symbolic expression for incorporating into the self the ability for self-creating. This is the ONLY sense in which God and His Souls are NOT co-creators. The belief that they ARE is implicit in the “self concept,” a concept now made acceptable by its WEAKNESS, and explained by a tendency of the self to create an IMAGE of itself. Its fear aspect is often ascribed to fear of retaliation by a “father figure,” a particularly curious idea in view of the fact that no-one uses the term to refer to the physical father. It refers to an IMAGE of a father in relation to an IMAGE of the self.

Eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge is a symbolic expression for usurping the ability for self-creating. This is the only sense in which God and His creations are not co-creators. The belief that they are is implicit in the "self-concept," or the tendency of the self to make an image of itself.

Your minds are split with your Souls on this point, and there is NO resolution while you believe the one thing that is literally inconceivable.

Your mind is split with the Holy Spirit on this point, and there is no resolution while you believe the one thing that is literally inconceivable.

Never underestimate the power of this denial. Look at your lives, and see what the devil has made.

Look at your lives, and see what the devil has made.

Your starting point is truth, and you must return to this Beginning.

Your starting point is truth, and you must return to your Beginning.

You who fear salvation are WILLING death.

You who fear salvation are choosing death

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There has been some human controversy about the nature of seeing in relation to the integrative powers of the brain. Correctly understood, the issue revolves around the question of whether the body or the mind can see (or understand). This is not really open to question at all. The body is not capable of understanding, and only the mind can perceive ANYTHING. A pure mind knows the truth, and this IS its strength. It cannot attack the body because it recognizes exactly what the body IS. This is what “a sane mind in a sane body” really means. 

T III C 13 (51)

Freud realized this perfectly, and that is why he conceived the different levels in his view of the psyche as forever irreconcilable. They were conflict-prone by definition because they wanted different things and obeyed different principles. In OUR picture of the psyche, there is an unconscious level which properly consists ONLY of the miracle ability, and which should be under MY direction. There is also a conscious level, which perceives or is aware of impulses from both the unconscious and the superconscious. Consciousness is thus the level of perception, but NOT of knowledge. Again, to perceive is NOT to know.

Intrapersonal conflict arises from the same basis as interpersonal conflict. One part of the psyche perceives another part as on a different level, and does not understand it. This makes the parts strangers to each other, without recognition. This is the essence of the fear-prone condition, in which attack is ALWAYS possible. Man has every reason to feel afraid, as he perceives himself. This is why he cannot escape from fear until he KNOWS that he did not and could not create himself. He can NEVER make his misperceptions valid. His creation is beyond his own error, and that is why he must eventually choose to heal the separation. T III F 5 (58)

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Repetition compulsions can be endless unless they are given up by an act of will.          T IV A 4 (70)

Such repetitions are endless until they are voluntarily given up.

God gave you a very lofty responsibility which you are not meeting. You KNOW this, and you are afraid

God gave you a very lofty function which you are not meeting

Surprise is a reasonable response to the unfamiliar, but hardly to something that has occurred with such persistence. I am using your present state of how the mind CAN work, provided you fully recognize that it NEED not work that way. Why are you surprised that something happened in the dim past when it is so clearly happening right now?

Your own state of mind is a good example of how the ego was made. When you threw knowledge away it is as if you never had it. This is so apparent that one need only recognize it to see that it does happen. If this occurs in the present, why is it surprising that it occurred in the past? Surprise is a reasonable response to the unfamiliar, though hardly to something that occurs with such persistence. But do not forget that the mind need not work that way, even though it does work that way now.

The speed-up has placed you in the same position

In this sense you are still a baby.

 but the IDEA that this is possible is a decision of the ego, which is completely confused about what is REALLY possible. This accounts for its erratic nature.     

but the idea that this is possible is a decision of the mind, which is completely confused about what is really possible.

Right-mindedness dictates the next step

Right-mindedness leads to the next

This is the whole message of the Atonement, a message, which, in its totality transcends the sum of its parts. Christmas is not a time; it is a state of mind. The Christ mind wills from the Soul, NOT from the ego, and the Christ Mind IS yours

This is the whole message which, in its totality, transcends the sum of its of its parts.

…the ego has to offer you some sort of reward ….All it CAN offer is a sense of temporary existence, which beings with its OWN beginning and ends with its OWN ending

the ego has to offer you some sort of reward

All it can offer is a sense of temporary existence.

You project onto your OWN idea of yourself will to separate

You project onto the ego the decision to separate…

 releasing the strength of God into everything you think and will and do.

releasing the strength of God into everything you think and do.

The ego SHOULD be brought to your judgment

The ego should be brought to judgment…

Judge your ego truly  and you

Let it be judged and you

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 a decision which will remain in effect unless you change the DECISION.  T IV F 10 (91)

a decision which will remain in effect unless you change your mind

What IS the “you” who are living in this world?

Who is the “you” who are living in this world?

but it is still only YOUR willingness

but it is still only your decision

it utilizes repression against all truly natural impulses

it denies all truly natural impulses

You have been chosen to live so as to…

The Holy One shares my trust, and always approves my Atonement decisions 

My chosen receiving and sending channels

You are asked to live so as to…

The Holy One shares my trust, and accepts my Atonement decisions…

My chosen channels…

Ego-illusions are QUITE specific, although they frequently change, and although the mind is naturally abstract.

Ego-illusions are quite specific although the mind is naturally is abstract.

Divine Abstraction takes joy in application        

Divine Abstraction takes joy in sharing…

Even revelation is not enough, because it is communication FROM God. It is not enough until it is SHARED.

Revelation is not enough, because it is communication from God.

This is the meaning of Freud’s “reality principle,” since Freud thought of the ego as very weak and deprived, capable of functioning ONLY as a thing in need.

The “reality principle” of the ego is not real at all. The ego is forced to perceive the “reality” of other egos because it cannot establish the reality of ITSELF. In fact, its whole perception of other egos AS real is only an attempt to convince itself that IT is real.” Self esteem,” in ego terms, means nothing more than that the ego has deluded itself into accepting its reality, and is therefore temporarily less predatory. This “self esteem” is ALWAYS vulnerable to stress, a term which actually refers to a condition in which the delusion of the ego’s reality is threatened. This produces either ego deflation or ego inflation, resulting in either withdrawal or attack.

Its whole perception of other egos as real is only an attempt to convince itself that it is real. "Self-esteem" in ego terms means nothing more than that the ego has deluded itself into accepting its reality, and is therefore temporarily less predatory. This "self-esteem" is always vulnerable to stress, a term which refers to any perceived threat to the ego's existence.

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Soul

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Souls

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Holy Inspiration

Holy Spirit

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perceiving

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meditations

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Holy Communion

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awareness

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thought disorder

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I will never forsake you, any more than God will. But I MUST wait as long as you will to forsake yourselves UR IV D 0 212

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I will never forsake you, any more than God will, but I MUST wait as long as you choose to forsake yourself. Because I wait in love and not in impatience you will surely ask me truly. T-4.III.7.1

He is referred to in the Bible as the Healer, the Comforter, and the Guide.

He is referred to as the Healer, the Comforter, and the Guide.

Let us reconsider the Biblical statement “my

yolk (sic) is easy and my burden light”

Let us restate "My yoke is easy and my burden light" in this way;

You are more than your Brother’s keeper. In fact, you do not WANT to keep him.

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His ability to deal with symbols enables Him to work AGAINST the ego’s beliefs in its own language.

T V E 7 (109)

His ability to deal with symbols enables Him to work with the ego’s beliefs in its own language.

I have made His plan perfectly explicit to you, and have also told you of your part in His plan, and how urgent it is that you fulfill it.

I am making His plan perfectly explicit to you, and will also tell you of your part in His plan, and how urgent it is that you fulfill it.

Real birth is not a beginning; it is a CONTINUING

Physical birth is not a beginning; it is a continuing.

Healing is an act of thought by which two minds perceive their oneness and become glad

Healing is a thought by which two minds perceive their oneness and become glad.

The Holy Spirit is nothing  more than your own right mind. He was also mine.

The Holy Spirit is in your right mind, as He was in mine.

First, its universality is perfectly clear, and no-one who receives it could ever believe for one instant that sharing it involves anything BUT gain.

First, its universality is perfectly clear, and no-one who attains it could believe for one instant that sharing it involves anything BUT gain.

It is partly His and partly yours. The miracle itself is just this fusion or union of will between Father and Son.

The miracle itself is a reflection of this union of will between Father and Son.

When man made the ego, God placed in him the call to joy. This call is so strong that the ego always dissolves at its sound. That is why you can choose to listen to two voices within you.

When the ego was made, God placed in him the call to joy. This call is so strong that the ego always dissolves at its sound.

Direct communication was broken because you had made another voice through another will

Direct communication was broken because you had made another voice.

Choosing MEANS divided will.

Choosing depends on a split mind.

It brings to your mind the OTHER way, remaining quiet even in the midst of the turmoil you have made for yourselves.

It brings to your mind the other way, remaining quiet even in the midst of the turmoil you may make.

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Both Heaven and earth are in YOU because the call of both is in your will, and therefore in your mind.

T V D 7 (105)

Both Heaven and earth are in you because the call of both is your in mind.

This decision is the will to SHARE it because the decision itself IS the decision to share.

This decision is the choice to share it because the decision itself is the decision to share

We have already said that the Holy Spirit is the bridge or thought-transfer of perception to knowledge, so we can use the terms as if they were related

I have already said that the Holy Spirit is the bridge for the transfer of perception to knowledge, so we can use the terms as if they were related

He undoes it in the same realm of discourse in which the ego itself operates, or the mind would be unable to understand the change.

He undoes it in the same level in which the ego itself operates, or the mind would be unable to understand the change.

Perception as well as knowledge derives meaning from relationships.

Perception derives meaning from relationships.

The Holy Spirit can deal with an unwilling learner without going counter to his will because part of his will IS still for God.

The Holy Spirit can deal with a reluctant learner without going counter to his mind because part of it is still for God.

If you enthrone the ego in it, the fact that you have accepted it or allowed it to enter MAKES it your reality. This is because the mind, as God created it, IS capable of creating reality.

If you enthrone the ego in your mind, your allowing it to enter makes it your reality. This is because the mind is capable of creating reality or making illusions.

Your mind DOES create your future, and it can turn it back to full creation at any minute

Your mind does make your future, and it will turn it to full creation at any minute…

The Bible is a fearful thing to the ego because of its prejudiced judgment. Perceiving it as fearful, it interprets it fearfully. Having made YOU afraid you do not appeal to the Higher Court because

The Bible is a fearful thing to the ego. Perceiving it as frightening, it interprets it fearfully. Being afraid you do not appeal to the Higher Court because….

“I will visit the sins of the fathers unto the third and fourth generation,” as interpreted by the ego, is particularly vicious. It is used, in fact, as an attempt to guarantee its survival beyond itself. Actually, all the quotation means is that the Holy Spirit, in later generations, retains the power to interpret CORRECTLY what former generations have thought, and thus release THEIR thoughts from the ability to produce fear anywhere in the Sonship.

“I will visit the sins of the fathers unto the third and fourth generation,” as interpreted by the ego, is particularly vicious. It becomes merely an attempt to guarantee its own survival. To the Holy Spirit, the statement means that in later generations He can still reinterpret what former generations had misunderstood, and thus release the thoughts from the ability to produce fear.

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He reminds you of this in every passing moment of time because it is His special function to return you to eternity… T V H 13 (123)

He reminds you of this in every passing moment of time because it is His special function to return you to eternity… (no difference)

I WILL to decide otherwise because I WANT to be at peace.

I WILL to let Him by allowing HIM to decide for God for me. T V I 13 (127)

I WANT to decide otherwise because I WANT to be at peace.

I CHOOSE to let Him by allowing HIM to decide for God for me.

The separation is merely another term for a split mind. It was not an act, but a THOUGHT. Therefore, the idea of separation can be given away, just as the idea of unity can. Either way, the idea will be strengthened IN THE MIND OF THE GIVER.

The ego is the symbol of separation, just as the Holy Spirit is the symbol of peace.

The separation is merely another term for a split mind. The ego is the symbol of separation, just as the Holy Spirit is the symbol of peace.

The mind does indeed know its power, because the mind does indeed know God. Remember the Kingdom always, and remember that you who are part of the Kingdom CANNOT be lost.

Remember the Kingdom always, and remember that you who are part of the Kingdom cannot be lost.

Actually, all the quotation means is that the Holy Spirit, in later generations, retains the power to interpret CORRECTLY what former generations have thought, and thus release THEIR thoughts from the ability to produce fear anywhere in the Sonship.” The wicked shall perish” is merely a statement of fact, if the word “perish” is properly understood. Every loveless thought MUST be undone. Even the word “undone” is fearful to the ego, which interprets “I am undone” as “I am destroyed.”

"The wicked shall perish" becomes a statement of Atonement, if the word "perish" is understood as "be undone." Every loveless thought must be undone, a word the ego cannot even understand. To the ego, to be undone means to be destroyed.

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The relationship of anger to fear

 You have been chosen to teach the Atonement precisely because you have been extreme examples of allegiance to your thought systems, and therefore have developed the CAPACITY for allegiance. It has indeed been misplaced, but it IS a form of faith, which you yourselves have been willing to redirect. You cannot doubt the strength of your devotion, when you consider how faithfully you have observed it. It was quite evident that you had already developed the ability to follow a better model, if you could accept it.

Your capacity for allegiance to a thought system may be misplaced, but it is still a form of faith and can be redirected.

 Crucifixion was last foolish journey

 Crucifixion was last useless journey                                                     

 You are merely asked to follow my example in the face of much LESS extreme temptations to misperceive, and NOT to accept them falsely as justifications for anger.

 Not to accept them as false justifications for anger.

I believed in it, and therefore made it forever true for me.

 I believed in it, and therefore accepted it as true for me. 

  Peter swore he would never deny me, but he did so three times. He did offer to defend me with the sword, which I naturally refused, not being at all in need of bodily protection.

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 That was their only purpose, and that is the only way in which I can be perceived as the Way, the Truth and the Light.

 That was their only purpose, and that is the only way in which I can be perceived as the Way, the Truth and the life.

 The Apostles often misunderstood it, and always for the same reason that makes anyone misunderstand anything.

 The Apostles often misunderstood it, and for the same reason that anyone misunderstands it. 

 I am very grateful to the Apostles for their teaching and fully aware of the extent of their devotion to me.

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 The crucifixion was a complex of behaviors arising out of clearly opposed thought systems. As such, it was the perfect symbol of conflict between the ego and the Son of God. The conflict is just as real now, and its lessons, too, have equal reality WHEN THEY ARE LEARNED.  T VI B 18 (133)

 The crucifixion was the result of clearly opposed thought systems; the perfect symbol of the "conflict" between the ego and the Son of God.  This conflict seems just as real now, and its lessons must be learned now as well as then.

I do not need gratitude any more than I needed protection, but YOU need to develop your weakened ability to BE grateful, or you cannot appreciate God. HE does not need your appreciation, but YOU do.

I do not need gratitude, but you need to develop your weakened ability to be grateful, or you cannot appreciate God. 

 The Uses of Projection

 The Alternative to Projection

 In the ego’s use of projection

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 You are EXCLUDING yourself by the very statement you are making that you are DIFFERENT from the one on whom you project. Since you have also judged AGAINST what you project, you continue to attack it because you have already attacked it BY projecting it

 You are excluding yourself by the very judgment that you are different from the one on whom you project.  Since you have also judged against what you project, you continue to attack it because you continue to keep it separated

 We have learned, however, that there is another use of projection.

 We have learned, however, that there is an alternative to projection.

The Holy Spirit as well as the ego utilizes projection, but since their goals are opposed, so is the result.

 The Holy Spirit extends and the ego projects. 

 The perfect equality of the Holy Spirit’s perception is the counterpart of the perfect equality of God’s knowing. The ego’s perception HAS no counterpart in God, but the Holy Spirit remains the bridge between perception and knowledge. By enabling you to use perception in a way that PARALLELS knowledge, you will ultimately meet it and KNOW it. The ego would prefer to believe that this meeting is impossible, yet it is YOUR perception which the Holy Spirit guides. You might remember that the human eye perceives parallel lines AS IF they meet in the distance, which is the same as in the future, if time and space are one dimension. Your perception WILL end where it began. EVERYTHING meets in God because everything was created BY Him and IN Him.

The perfect equality of the Holy Spirit's perception is the reflection of the perfect equality of God's knowing.  The ego's perception has no counterpart in God, but the Holy Spirit remains the bridge between perception and knowledge.  By enabling you to use perception in a way that reflects knowledge, you will ultimately remember it.  The ego would prefer to believe that this memory is impossible, yet it is your perception the Holy Spirit guides. [Omission] Your perception will end where it began.  Everything meets in God, because everything was created by Him and in Him.

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 You perceive FROM your mind and extend your perceptions outward. Although perception of any kind is unnecessary, YOU made it, and the Holy Spirit can therefore use it well. He can INSPIRE perception and lead it toward God by making it a PARALLEL way of thinking, and thus guarantee their ultimate meeting.

 You perceive from your mind and project your perceptions outward.  Although perception of any kind is unreal, you made it and the Holy Spirit can therefore use it well.  He can inspire perception and lead it toward God. [Omission]

 The difference between the ego’s use of projection and projection as the Holy Spirit uses it is very simple. The ego projects to EXCLUDE, and therefore to deceive. The Holy Spirit projects by RECOGNIZING HIMSELF in every mind, and thus perceives them as ONE.

  The ego projects to exclude, and therefore to deceive.  The Holy Spirit extends by recognizing Himself in every mind, and thus perceives them as one.

 We have used many words as synonymous which are not ordinarily regarded as the same. We began with having and being, and more recently have used others. Hearing and being are examples, to which we can also add teaching and being, learning and being, and, above all, PROJECTING and being. This is because, as we have said before, every idea begins in the mind of the thinker and extends outward. Therefore, what extends FROM the mind IS STILL IN IT, and from what it extends it knows ITSELF. That is its natural talent. The word “knows” is correct here, even though the ego does NOT know, and is not concerned with being at all

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 As we have already emphasized, every idea begins in the mind of the thinker.  extends from the mind is still in it, and from what it extends it knows itself.  The word "knows" is correct here, because the Holy Spirit still holds knowledge safe in your mind through His impartial perception. The Holy Spirit still holds knowledge safe through His impartial perception.

 The only way to HAVE peace is to TEACH peace. By learning it through projection, it becomes a part of what you KNOW because you cannot teach what you have dissociated.

Only thus can you win back the knowledge that you threw away. An idea which you SHARE you must HAVE. It awakens in you through the conviction of teaching. Remember that if teaching is being and learning is being, teaching is learning. EVERYTHING you teach you are learning. Teach only love, and learn that love is yours, and YOU are love.

The only way to have peace is to teach peace.  By teaching peace you must learn it yourself, because you cannot teach what you still dissociate.  Only thus can you win back the knowledge that you threw away.  An idea that you share you must have.  It awakens in your mind through the conviction of teaching it. [Omission]  Everything you teach you are learning.  Teach only love, and learn that love is yours and you are love.

  Herein lies its primary perceptual error, the foundation of its whole thought system.

 Herein lies its primary error, the foundation of its whole thought system.

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 Perceiving something alien to itself in your mind, the ego turns to the body, NOT the mind, as its ally because the body is NOT part of you.

 Perceiving something alien to itself in your mind, the ego turns to the body as its ally, because the body is not part of you. 

 There will be nothing left of your dream when you hear Him because you WILL be awake.

 There will be nothing left of your dream when you hear Him, because you will awaken.

 To Have, Give All to All         

The Lessons of the Holy Spirit

 A wise teacher teaches through approach, NOT avoidance. He does NOT emphasize what you must avoid to escape from harm so much as what you need to learn to have joy. This is true even of the world’s teachers

  A wise teacher teaches through approach, not avoidance.  He does not emphasize what you must avoid to escape from harm, but what you need to learn to have joy.  [Omission]

 If we share the same mind, you can overcome death BECAUSE I DID. Death is an attempt to resolve conflict by not willing at all.

 If we share the same mind, you can overcome death because I did.  Death is an attempt to resolve conflict by not deciding at all.

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 If the mind can heal the body but the body cannot heal the mind, then the mind must be STRONGER. Every miracle demonstrates this.

 If the mind can heal the body, but the body cannot heal the mind, then the mind must be stronger than the body.  Every miracle demonstrates this.

 The Holy Spirit, Who leads to God, translates communication into being, just as He ultimately translates perception into knowledge. The ego uses the body for attack, for pleasure, and for pride.

 The Holy Spirit, Who leads to God, translates communication into being, just as He ultimately translates perception into knowledge.  You do not lose what you communicate.  The ego uses the body for attack, for pleasure and for pride. 

 All the separated ones

 All who believe in separation

 At this point, the equality of “having” and “being” is not yet perceived. Until it IS, “having” appears to be the OPPOSITE of “being.”

 At this point, the equality of having and being is not yet perceived.  Until it is, having appears to be the opposite of giving

 The ego’s judgment, then, is predetermined by what it IS, though no more so than is any other product of thought. The fundamental change will still occur with the change of mind IN THE THINKER. Meanwhile, the increasing clarity of the Holy Spirit’s Voice makes it impossible for the learner NOT to listen. For a time, then, he IS receiving conflicting messages, AND ACCEPTING BOTH. This is the classic “double bind” in communication.

 The ego's judgment, here as always, is predetermined by what it is. [Omission] The fundamental change will still occur with the change of mind in the thinker.  Meanwhile, the increasing clarity of the Holy Spirit's Voice makes it impossible for the learner not to listen.  For a time, then, he is receiving conflicting messages and accepting both. [Omission]

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 As you take this step and HOLD THIS DIRECTION, you will be pushing toward the center of your thought system, where the FUNDAMENTAL change will occur. You are only beginning this step now, but you have started on this way by realizing that ONLY ONE WAY IS POSSIBLE. You do not yet realize this consistently and so your progress is intermittent, but the second step is easier than the first because it FOLLOWS. The very fact that you have accepted THAT is a demonstration of your growing awareness that the Holy Spirit WILL lead you on.

 As you take this step and hold this direction, you will be pushing toward the center of your thought system, where the fundamental change will occur.  At the second step progress is intermittent, but the second step is easier than the first because it follows.  Realizing that it must follow is a demonstration of a growing awareness that the Holy Spirit will lead you on.

 For your own salvation you must be critical, since your salvation IS critical to the whole Sonship. We said before that the Holy Spirit is evaluative, and MUST be. Yet His evaluation does not extend BEYOND you, or you would share it. In YOUR mind, and your mind ONLY, He sorts out the true from the false, and teaches you to judge every thought that you allow to enter your mind in the light of what God PUT there. Whatever is IN ACCORD with this light He retains, to strengthen the Kingdom in YOU.

 We said before that the Holy Spirit is evaluative, and must be.  He sorts out the true from the false in your mind, and teaches you to judge every thought you allow to enter it in the light of what God put there.  Whatever is in accord with this light He retains, to strengthen the Kingdom in you.

The Holy Spirit does not teach your mind to be critical of other minds because He does not want you to teach errors AND LEARN THEM YOURSELVES.

The Holy Spirit does not teach you to judge others, because He does not want you to teach error and learn it yourself

 The undoing is necessary only in YOUR mind, so that you cannot project falsely.

 The undoing is necessary only in your mind, so that you will not project, instead of extend. 

 Choosing through the Holy Spirit will lead you TO the Kingdom. You create by what you ARE, but this is what you must learn. The way to learn it is inherent in the third step, which brings together the lessons implied in the others, and goes beyond them towards real integration.

 Choosing through the Holy Spirit will lead you to the Kingdom.  You create by your true being, but what you are you must learn to remember.  The way to remember it is inherent in the third step, which brings together the lessons implied in the others, and goes beyond them towards real integration. 

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 Transfer, which IS extension, is a measure of learning because it is its MEASURABLE RESULT. This, however, does not mean that what it transfers TO is measurable. On the contrary, unless it transfers to the whole Sonship, which is immeasurable because it was created BY the Immeasurable, the learning itself MUST be incomplete. To teach the whole Sonship WITHOUT EXCEPTION demonstrates that you PERCEIVE its wholeness, and have learned that it IS one. Now you must be vigilant to HOLD its oneness in your minds because, if you let doubt enter, you will LOSE awareness of its wholeness AND WILL BE UNABLE TO TEACH IT.

 [Omission] To teach the whole Sonship without exception demonstrates that you perceive its wholeness, and have learned that it is one.  Now you must be vigilant to hold its oneness in your mind because, if you let doubt enter, you will lose awareness of its wholeness and will be unable to teach it. 

   Truth is WITHOUT illusions, and therefore WITHIN the Kingdom. Everything OUTSIDE the Kingdom IS illusion, but you must learn to accept truth because you threw it away. You therefore saw yourself AS IF you were without it. By making another kingdom which you VALUED, you did not keep ONLY the Kingdom of God in your minds, and thus placed part of your mind OUTSIDE it. What you have made has thus divided your will, and given you a sick mind which MUST be healed. Your vigilance AGAINST this sickness IS the way to heal it. Once your mind is healed, it radiates health and thereby TEACHES healing. This establishes you as a teacher who teaches like me. Vigilance was required of me as much as of you, but remember that those who will to teach the same thing must be in agreement about what they believe.

  Truth is without illusions and therefore within the Kingdom.  Everything outside the Kingdom is illusion. [Omission] When you threw truth away you saw yourself as if you were without it.  By making another kingdom that you valued, you did not keep only the Kingdom of God in your mind, and thus placed part of your mind outside it.  What you made has imprisoned your will, and given you a sick mind that must be healed.  Your vigilance against this sickness is the way to heal it.  Once your mind is healed it radiates health, and thereby teaches healing.  This establishes you as a teacher who teaches like me.  Vigilance was required of me as much as of you, and those who choose to teach the same thing must be in agreement about what they believe.

 Your vigilance is the sign that you WANT Him to guide you. Vigilance DOES require effort, but The third step, then, is a statement of what you WANT to believe, and entails a willingness TO RELINQUISH EVERYTHING ELSE. I told you that you were just beginning the second step, but I also told you that the third one FOLLOWS it. The Holy Spirit WILL enable you to go on, if you follow Him. Your vigilance is the sign that you want Him to guide you. Vigilance DOES require effort, but only to teach you that effort ITSELF is unnecessary.

The third step, then, is a statement of what you want to believe, and entails a willingness to relinquish everything else.  The Holy Spirit will enable you to take this step, if you follow Him.  Your vigilance is the sign that you want Him to guide you.  Vigilance does require effort, but only until you learn that effort itself is unnecessary. 

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The Consistency Of The Kingdom

The Gifts Of The Kingdom

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We have already said

I have already told you

and you would not be co-creators with God.

and you would not be co-creator with God.

By accepting this power as yours, you have learned to be what you are.

By accepting this power as yours you have learned to remember what you are.

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The ego demands reciprocal rights, because it is competitive rather than loving. It is always willing to make a “deal,” but it cannot understand that to be LIKE another means that NO deals are possible. To gain you must give, not bargain. To bargain is to limit giving, and this is not God’s Will.

The ego, on the other hand, always demands reciprocal rights, because it is competitive rather than loving.  It is always willing to strike a bargain, but it cannot understand that to be like another means that no bargains are possible.  To gain you must give, not bargain.  To bargain is to limit giving, and this is not God’s Will.

He CAN, therefore, tell you something about this last step, although this one you must know yourself, since BY it you know what you are. This IS your being

He can therefore tell you something about this last step.

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To heal, then, is to correct perception in your brother AND yourself by sharing the Holy Spirit with him. This placed you BOTH within the Kingdom, and restores its wholeness in your minds. This parallels creation because it UNIFIES BY INCREASING and INTEGRATES BY EXTENDING. What you project you believe.

To heal, then, is to correct perception in your brother and yourself by sharing the Holy Spirit with him.  This places you both within the Kingdom, and restores its wholeness in your mind.  This reflects creation, because it unifies by increasing and integrates by extending.  What you project or extend is real for you.

This is because the laws have adapted to the circumstances of this world, in which diametrically opposed outcomes ARE believed in. The laws of mind govern thoughts, and you DO respond to two conflicting voices.

This is because the laws have been adapted to the circumstances of this world, in which diametrically opposed outcomes seem possible because you can respond to two conflicting voices.

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You have heard many arguments on behalf of “the freedoms,” which would indeed have been freedom if man had not chosen to FIGHT for them. That is why they perceive “the freedoms” as many, instead of as one. Yet the argument that underlies the defense of freedom is perfectly valid. Because it is true it should not be FOUGHT for, but it SHOULD be sided WITH.

Those who are against freedom believe that its outcome will HURT them, which CANNOT be true. But those who are FOR freedom, even if they are misguided in how to defend it, are siding with the one thing in this world which IS true. Whenever anyone can listen fairly to both sides of ANY issue, he will make the right decision. This is because he HAS the answer. Conflict can SEEM to be interpersonal, but it MUST be intrapersonal first.

The term “intrapersonal” is an ego term, because “personal” implies “of ONE person,” and NOT of others.” Interpersonal” has similar error, in that it refers to something that exists among different or SEPARATE people. When we spoke before of the extremely PERSONAL nature of revelation, we followed this statement immediately with a description of the inevitable outcomes of the revelation in terms of SHARING. A person conceives of himself as separate largely because he perceives OF himself as bounded by a body. ONLY if he perceives himself as a MIND can this be overcome. Then he is free to use terms like “intramental” and “intermental” WITHOUT seeing them as different or conflicting because minds CAN be in perfect accord.

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This is its TEACHING form, since outside the Kingdom teaching is mandatory because LEARNING is essential. This form of the law clearly implies that you will learn what YOU are from what you have projected onto others, and therefore believe THEY are. IN the Kingdom there is no teaching OR learning because there is no BELIEF. There is only CERTAINTY. God and His Sons, in the surety of being, KNOW that what you project you ARE.

  This is its teaching form, because outside the Kingdom learning is essential.  This form implies that you will learn what you are from what you have projected onto others, and therefore believe they are.  In the Kingdom there is no teaching or learning, because there is no belief.  There is only certainty.  God and His Sons, in the surety of being, know that what you extend you are. 

but when you DISinherited yourselves, you BECAME learners.

but when you disinherited yourself you became a learner of necessity.

No-one questions the intimate connection of learning and memory. Learning is impossible WITHOUT memory since it cannot be consistent UNLESS it is remembered. That is why the Holy Spirit IS a lesson in remembering. We said before that He teaches remembering and forgetting, but the forgetting aspect is only TO MAKE THE REMEMBERING CONSISTENT. You forget in order to REMEMBER BETTER. You will NOT understand His translations while you listen to two ways of perceiving them.

No one questions the connection of learning and memory.  Learning is impossible without memory since it must be consistent to be remembered.  That is why the Holy Spirit’s teaching is a lesson in remembering.  I said before that He teaches remembering and forgetting, but the forgetting is only to make the remembering consistent.  You forget in order to remember better.  You will not understand His translations while you listen to two ways of interpreting them. 

What can the perfect consistency of the Kingdom mean to the confused?

What can the perfect consistency of the Kingdom mean to those who are confused? 

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The Unified Curriculum

To heal is to liberate totally. We once said there is no order of difficulty in miracles because they are ALL maximal expressions of love. This has no range at all. The non-maximal only APPEARS to have a range. This is because it SEEMS to be meaningful to measure it FROM the maximum, and identify its position by HOW MUCH it is NOT there. Actually, this does not mean anything. It is like negative numbers in that the concept can be used theoretically, but it has no application practically. It is true that if you put three apples on the table and them take them away, the three apples are not there. But it is NOT true that the table is now minus three apples. If there is NOTHING on the table, it does not matter what WAS there in terms of amount. The “nothing” is neither greater not less because of what is absent.

That is why “all” and “nothing” are dichotomous, WITHOUT a range. This is perfectly clear in considering psychological tests of maximal performance. You cannot interpret the results AT ALL unless you assume either MAXIMAL motivation or NO motivation at all. Only in these two conditions can you validly compare responses, and you MUST assume the former because, if the latter were true, the subject would not do ANYTHING. Given VARIABLE motivation he WILL do something, but YOU cannot understand WHAT IT IS.

The results of such tests are evaluated relatively ASSUMING maximal motivation, but this is because we are dealing with ABILITIES, where degree of development is meaningful. This does NOT mean that what the ability is used FOR is necessarily either limited OR divided. Yet one thing is certain; abilities are POTENTIALS for learning, and you will apply them to what you WANT to learn. Learning is EFFORT, and effort means WILL. We have used the term “abilities” in the plural because abilities began with the ego, which perceived them as POTENTIALS FOR EXCELLING. This is how the ego STILL perceives them and uses them.

The ego does not WANT to teach everyone all it has learned, because that would DEFEAT its purpose. Therefore, it does not REALLY learn at all.

The Holy Spirit teaches you to use what the ego has made to teach the OPPOSITE of what the ego has learned. The KIND of learning is as irrelevant as is the particular ability which was applied TO the learning. You could not have a better example of the Holy Spirit’s unified purpose than this course. The Holy Spirit has taken very diversified areas of YOUR learning, and has applied them to a UNIFIED curriculum. The fact that this was NOT the ego’s reason for learning is totally irrelevant.

YOU made the effort to learn, and the Holy Spirit has a unified goal for ALL effort. He ADAPTS the ego’s potentials for excelling to potentials for EQUALIZING. This makes them USELESS for the ego’s purpose, but VERY useful for His. If different abilities are applied long enough to one goal, the abilities THEMSELVES become unified. This is because they are channelized in one direction, or in one WAY. Ultimately, then, they all contribute to ONE RESULT, and by so doing, their similarity rather than their differences is emphasized. You can EXCEL in many DIFFERENT ways, but you can EQUALIZE in ONE WAY ONLY. Equality is NOT a variable state, by definition.

That it why you will be able to perform ALL aspects of your work with ease when you have learned THIS course. To the ego there appears to be no connection because the EGO is discontinuous.

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The Reality of the Kingdom

The Recognition of Truth

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As has so often been said, healing is both an art and a science. It is an art because it depends on inspiration in the sense that we have already used the term. Inspiration is the opposite of dispiriting, and therefore means to make joyous. The dispirited are depressed because they believe that they are literally “without the Spirit,” which is an illusion. You do not PUT the Spirit in them by inspiring them because that would be magic, and therefore would not be real healing. You DO, however, recognize the Spirit that is ALREADY there, and thereby REAWAKEN it. This is why the healer is part of the resurrection and the LIFE. The Spirit is not asleep in the minds of the sick, but the part of the mind that can perceive it and be glad IS.

Healing is also a science because it obeys the laws of God, Whose laws are true. BECAUSE they are true they are perfectly dependable, and therefore universal in application. The REAL aim of science is neither prediction nor control, but ONLY understanding. This is because it does NOT establish the laws it seeks; CANNOT discover them through prediction; and has NO control over them at all. Science is nothing more than an approach to WHAT ALREADY IS. Like inspiration it can be misunderstood as magic, and WILL be whenever it is undertaken as SEPARATE from what already is, and perceived as a means for ESTABLISHING it. To believe this is possible is to believe YOU CAN DO IT. This can only be the voice of the ego.

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those who sleep ARE STUPEFIED, or better, UNAWARE. BECAUSE they are unaware, they do NOT know.

those who sleep are unaware.  Because they are unaware, they do not know.

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The ego does not want to teach everyone all it has learned, because that would defeat its purpose.  Therefore it does not really learn at all.  The Holy Spirit teaches you to use what the ego has made, to teach the opposite of what the ego has “learned.”  The kind of learning is as irrelevant as is the particular ability that was applied to the learning.  All you need do is make the effort to learn, for the Holy Spirit has a unified goal for the effort.  If different abilities are applied long enough to one goal, the abilities themselves become unified.  This is because they are channelized in one direction, or in one way.  Ultimately, then, they all contribute to one result, and by so doing, their similarity rather than their differences is emphasized.

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ALL abilities, then should be given over to the Holy Spirit WHO KNOWS HOW TO USE THEM PROPERLY. He can use them ONLY for healing because He knows you ONLY as whole. BY healing you learn of wholeness, and by learning of wholeness you learn to remember God. You HAVE forgotten Him, but the Holy Spirit still knows that your forgetting must be translated into a way of REMEMBERING, and NOT perceived as a separate ability which opposes an opposite. That is the way in which the ego tries to use ALL abilities, since its goal is always to make you believe that YOU are in opposition.

All abilities should therefore be given over to the Holy Spirit, Who understands how to use them properly.  He uses them only for healing, because He knows you only as whole.  By healing you learn of wholeness, and by learning of wholeness you learn to remember God.  You have forgotten Him, but the Holy Spirit understands that your forgetting must be translated into a way of remembering.

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Healing is the way to UNDO the belief in differences, being the ONLY way of perceiving the Sonship without this belief. This perception is therefore IN accord with the laws of God even in a state of mind which is OUT of accord with His. The strength of right perception is so great that it brings the mind INTO accord with His because it yields to His pull, which is in all of you.

Healing is the way to undo the belief in differences, being the only way of perceiving the Sonship as one.  This perception is therefore in accord with the laws of God, even in a state of mind that is out of accord with His.  The strength of right perception is so great that it brings the mind into accord with His, because it serves His Voice, Which is in all of you.

To OPPOSE the pull or the Will of God is not an ability but a real DELUSION. The ego believes that it HAS this ability, and can offer it to you as a gift. YOU DO NOT WANT IT. It is NOT a gift. It is NOTHING AT ALL. God has given you a gift which you both have and are. When you do not use it, you do not know you HAVE it. By NOT knowing this, you do not know what you are. Healing, then, is a way of APPROACHING knowledge by thinking IN ACCORDANCE with the laws of God, and recognizing their UNIVERSALITY. Without this recognition, you have made the laws themselves meaningless to you. Yet the LAWS are not meaningless since all meaning is contained BY them and IN them.

To think you can oppose the Will of God is a real delusion.  The ego believes that it can, and that it can offer you its own “will” as a gift.  You do not want it.  It is not a gift.  It is nothing at all.  God has given you a gift that you both have and are.  When you do not use it, you forget that you have it.  By not remembering it, you do not know what you are.  Healing, then, is a way of approaching knowledge by thinking in accordance with the laws of God, and recognizing their universality.  Without this recognition, you have made the laws meaningless to you.  Yet the laws are not meaningless, since all meaning is contained by them and in them.

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The body is nothing more than a framework for developing abilities. It is therefore a means for developing POTENTIALS, which is quite apart from what the potential is used FOR. THAT is a DECISION. The effects of the ego’s decision in this matter are so apparent that they need no elaboration here,

       The body is nothing more than a framework for developing abilities, which is quite apart from what they are used for.  That is a decision.  The effects of the ego’s decision in this matter are so apparent that they need no elaboration,

Healing is the Holy Spirit’s form of communication, and the ONLY one He knows.

Healing is the Holy Spirit's form of communication in this world, and the only one He accepts. 

but it is quite evident that he does not understand God if he thinks he has something that others LACK. You might well ask, then, why some healing CAN result from this kind of thinking, and there is a reason for this:

However misguided the “magical healer” may be, he is ALSO trying to help. He is conflicted and unstable, but AT TIMES he is offering something to the Sonship, and the only thing the Sonship can ACCEPT is healing. When the so-called “healing” works, then, the impulse to help and to BE helped have coincided. This is coincidental, because the healer may NOT be experiencing himself as truly helpful at the time, but the belief that he IS, in the mind of another, helps HIM.

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Learning is constant,

True learning is constant,

I do not want to share my BODY in communion because that is to share nothing.

I do not want to share my body in communion because this is to share nothing.  Would I try to share an illusion with the most holy children of a most holy Father?

Fear and love are equally reciprocal. They make or create depending on whether the ego or the Holy Spirit begets or inspires them,

Fear and love make or create, depending on whether the ego or the Holy Spirit begets or inspires them,

That includes his perception of God,

That includes his concept of God,

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The ingeniousness of the ego to preserve itself is enormous, but it stems from the power of the mind which the ego DENIES. This means that the ego ATTACKS what is PRESERVING it, and this MUST be a source of extreme anxiety. That is why the ego NEVER knows what it is doing.

The ingeniousness of the ego to preserve itself is enormous, but it stems from the very power of the mind the ego denies.  This means that the ego attacks what is preserving it, which must result in extreme anxiety.  That is why the ego never recognizes what it is doing.

Forced, therefore, to detach itself from you who ARE mind, it is willing to attach itself to ANYTHING else. But there IS nothing else

Forced, therefore, to detach itself from you, it is willing to attach itself to anything else.  But there is nothing else.

He wants you to realize that BECAUSE conflict is meaningless, it cannot BE understood.

He wants you to realize that, because conflict is meaningless, it is not understandable.

If you will keep in mind what the Holy Spirit offers you, you cannot be vigilant for anything BUT God and His Kingdom. The only reason you find this difficult is because you think there IS something else.

If you will keep in mind what the Holy Spirit offers you, you cannot be vigilant for anything but God and His Kingdom.  The only reason you may find this hard to accept is because you may still think there is something else.

If it is, there ARE conflicting components within it which have engendered a state of war, and vigilance therefore has become essential.

If it is, there are conflicting components within it that have led to a state of war, and vigilance has therefore become essential.

You cannot deny that when you believe something, you have MADE it true for YOU.

When you believe something, you have made it true for you.

If the mind CANNOT attack, the ego proceeds perfectly logically to the position that you cannot BE mind.

If the mind cannot attack, the ego proceeds perfectly logically to the belief that you must be a body.

The ego wants no part of truth because the truth is that the EGO is not true.

It wants no part of truth, because the ego itself is not true.

if you WANT peace, you must give up the idea of conflict ENTIRELY and for ALL TIME.

if you want peace, you must give up the idea of conflict entirely and for all time.  This requires vigilance only as long as you do not recognize what is true.

All perceived problems in identification

Perceived problems in identification

They are problems of UNDERSTANDING, since they MEAN that you believe what you can understand IS up to you to decide.

They are problems of understanding, since their presence implies a belief that what you are is up to you to decide.

That would justify it, and it cannot BE justified.

That would justify its existence, which cannot be justified.

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This is not God’s Will, but YOURS. If your will is out of accord with God’s, you are willing without meaning.

This is not God's choice but yours.  If your mind could be out of accord with God's, you would be willing without meaning. 

The Total Commitment

The Totality of the Kingdom

You cannot be TOTALLY committed SOMETIMES. Remember a very early lesson;– “Never underestimate the power of denial.” It has no power in itself, but you can give it the power of YOUR mind, whose power is without limit of any kind.

You cannot be totally committed sometimes.  Denial has no power in itself, but you can give it the power of your mind, whose power is without limit.

REALITY CANNOT BE PARTLY APPRECIATED. That is why denying any part of it means you have lost awareness of ALL of it.

That is the negative side of the law, as it operates in this world. Yet denial is a defense, and so it is as capable of being used positively as it is of being used destructively.

Reality cannot be partly appreciated.  That is why denying any part of it means you have lost the awareness of all of it.  Yet denial is a defense, and so it is as capable of being used positively as well as negatively.

but in the service of the Holy Spirit, the law requires you to recognize only PART of reality to appreciate ALL of it.

But in the service of the Holy Spirit, it can help you recognize part of reality, and thus appreciate all of it

You will NEVER be able to exclude yourself from what you project.

You will never be able to exclude yourself from your thoughts.

Therefore, what you want to be determines every response you make.

What you want to be, then, must determine every response you make.

You do not need God’s blessing, since that you have forever, but you DO need YOURS. The picture you see of yourselves is deprived, unloving and very vulnerable. You CANNOT love this. Yet you can very easily escape from it, or better, leave it behind

You do not need God’s blessing because that you have forever, but you do need yours.  The ego’s picture of you is deprived, unloving and vulnerable.  You cannot love this.  Yet you can very easily escape from this image by leaving it behind.

Every attack is a call for His patience since ONLY His patience can translate attack into blessing.

Every attack is a call for His patience, since His patience can translate attack into blessing.

Do not share their delusions of scarcity,

Do not share their illusions of scarcity,

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One MUST be fearful, if he believes that his brother is attacking him to tear the Kingdom of Heaven from him. This is the ultimate basis for ALL of the ego’s projection.

You must be fearful if you believe that your brother is attacking you to tear the Kingdom of Heaven from you.  This is the ultimate basis for all the ego’s projection.

Projection ALWAYS sees your will in others. If you will to separate yourself from God, that IS what you will think others are doing TO you.

Projection always sees your wishes in others.  If you choose to separate yourself from God, that is what you will think others are doing to you.

The Defense Of Conflict 

The Unbelievable Belief

We once said that without projection there can be no anger, but it is also true that without projection there can be no love. Projection is a fundamental law of the mind, and therefore one which ALWAYS operates.

We have said that without projection there can be no anger, but it is also true that without extension there can be no love.  These reflect a fundamental law of the mind, and therefore one that always operates.

Every mind MUST project because that is how it lives, and every mind IS life.

Every mind must project or extend, because that is how it lives, and every mind is life.

It projects conflict FROM your mind to OTHER minds, in an attempt to persuade you that you have gotten RID of it. This has several fallacies which may not be so apparent.

Strictly speaking, conflict cannot BE projected precisely BECAUSE it cannot be fully shared. Any attempt to keep PART of it and get rid of another part does not really mean ANYTHING. Remember that a conflicted teacher is a poor teacher AND A POOR LEARNER. His lessons are confused, and their transfer value is severely limited BY his confusion. A second fallacy is the idea the you can get RID of something you do not want by giving it away. GIVING it is how you KEEP it. The belief that by giving it OUT you have excluded it from WITHIN is a complete distortion of the power of extension.

It projects conflict from your mind to other minds, in an attempt to persuade you that you have gotten rid of the problem.

       There are two major errors involved in this attempt.  First, strictly speaking, conflict cannot be projected because it cannot be shared.  Any attempt to keep part of it and get rid of another part does not really mean anything.  Remember that a conflicted teacher is a poor teacher and a poor learner.  His lessons are confused, and their transfer value is limited by his confusion.  The second error is the idea that you can get rid of something you do not want by giving it away.  Giving it is how you keep it.  The belief that by seeing it outside you have excluded it from within is a complete distortion of the power of extension. 

They DO believe they have blotted their projections from their OWN minds, but they also believe their projections are trying to creep back INTO them. That is because the projections have NOT left their minds, and this, in turn, forces them to engage in compulsive activity in order NOT to recognize this.

Believing they have blotted their projections from their own minds, they also believe their projections are trying to creep back in.  Since the projections have not left their minds, they are forced to engage in constant activity in order not to recognize this.

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The belief that it CAN, a fallacy which the ego ALWAYS makes,

The belief that it can, an error the ego always makes,

The ego is therefore a confusion in identification which never had a consistent model, and never developed consistently. It is the distorted product of the misapplication of the laws of God, by distorted minds which are misusing their own power.

The ego is a confusion in identification.  Never having had a consistent model, it never developed consistently.  It is the product of the misapplication of the laws of God by distorted minds that are misusing their power.

The utter meaninglessness of all perception that comes from the unbelievable must be apparent, but it is not RECOGNIZED as beyond belief because it was made BY belief.

The meaninglessness of perception based on the unbelievable is apparent, but it may not be recognized as being beyond belief, because it is made by belief.

Your wholeness has no limits because being is in infinity.

Your wholeness has no limits because being is infinity.

Selfishness is of the ego, but self-fullness is of the Soul because that is how God created it. The Holy Spirit is the part of the mind that lies between the ego and the Soul, mediating between them ALWAYS in favor of the Soul. To the ego this is partiality, and it therefore responds as if it were the part that is being sided AGAINST. TO the Soul this is truth, because it know its fullness, and cannot conceive of any part from which it is excluded.

Selfishness is of the ego, but Self-fullness is of spirit because that is how God created it.  The Holy Spirit is in the part of the mind that lies between the ego and the spirit, mediating between them always in favor of the spirit.  To the ego this is partiality, and it responds as if it were being sided against.  To spirit this is truth, because it knows its fullness and cannot conceive of any part from which it is excluded.

The Soul KNOWS that the consciousness of all its brothers is included in its own, as IT is included in God. The power of the whole Sonship AND of its Creator is therefore the Soul’s own fullness,

Spirit knows that the awareness of all its brothers is included in its own, as it is included in God.  The power of the whole Sonship and of its Creator is therefore spirit’s own fullness,

The ego’s whole thought system blocks extension, and thus blocks your only function. It therefore blocks your joy, and that is why you perceive yourselves as unfulfilled.

The ego’s whole thought system blocks extension, and thus blocks your only function.  It therefore blocks your joy, so that you perceive yourself as unfulfilled.

Insanity APPEARS to add to reality, but no-one would claim that what it adds is true. Insanity is therefore the NON-extension of truth, which blocks joy because it blocks creation, and thus blocks self-fulfillment. The unfulfilled MUST be depressed because their self-fullness is unknown to them.

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You have NOT failed to add to the inheritance of the Sons of God, and thus have not failed to secure it for yourselves. If it was the Will of God to give it to you, He gave it forever. If it was His Will that you have it forever, He gave you the means for keeping it,

You have not failed to increase the inheritance of the Sons of God, and thus have not failed to secure it for yourself.  Since it was the Will of God to give it to you, He gave it forever.  Since it was His Will that you have it forever, He gave you the means for keeping it.

You have said that, when you write of the Kingdom and your creations which belong in it, you are describing WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW. That is true in a sense, but no more true than your failure to acknowledge the whole result of the ego’s premises.

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The Confusion of Pain and Joy

You HAVE carried the ego’s reasoning to its logical conclusion, which is TOTAL CONFUSION ABOUT EVERYTHING. Yet you do not really BELIEVE this, or you could not possibly maintain it.

You may have carried the ego’s reasoning to its logical conclusion, which is total confusion about everything.

Your creations ARE the logical outcome of His premises. His thinking has established them FOR you. They are therefore there, EXACTLY where they belong. They belong in your mind as part of your identification with His, but your state of mind and your recognition of what is IN your mind depends, at any given moment, on what you believe ABOUT your mind

Your creations are the logical outcome of His premises.  His thinking has established them for you.  They are exactly where they belong.  They belong in your mind as part of your identification with His, but your state of mind and your recognition of what is in it depend on what you believe about your mind.

Whatever these beliefs may be, they are the premises which will determine what you accept INTO your mind. It is surely clear that you can both accept into your mind what is not really there, and deny what IS. Neither of these possibilities requires further elaboration here, but both are clearly indefensible, even if you elect to defend them.

Whatever these beliefs may be, they are the premises that will determine what you accept into your mind. It is surely clear that you can both accept into your mind what is not there, and deny what is. 

The ability to see a logical outcome depends on the WILLINGNESS to see it, but its truth has nothing to do with your willingness at all.

The ability to see a logical outcome depends on the willingness to see it, but its truth has nothing to do with your willingness.

The Holy Spirit will direct you only so as to avoid pain. The undoing of pain must obviously avoid pain.

The Holy Spirit will direct you only so as to avoid pain.

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You no more recognize what is painful than you know what is joyful, and are, in fact, very apt to confuse the two. The Holy Spirit’s main function is to teach you to tell them apart. However strange it may seem that this is necessary, it obviously IS. The reason is equally obvious. What is joyful to you is painful to the ego,

You no more recognize what is painful than you know what is joyful, and are, in fact, very apt to confuse the two.  The Holy Spirit’s main function is to teach you to tell them apart.  What is joyful to you is painful to the ego,

both very fearful and very desirable.

both fearful and desirable.

When you are confused about this VERY clear distinction in motivation, it can only be due to projection. Projection of this kind is a confusion in motivation,

When you are confused about this distinction in motivation, it can only be due to projection.  Projection is a confusion in motivation,

he associates fear with guidance, and refuses to follow any guidance at all.

he associates fear with guidance, and refuses to follow any guidance at all.  If the result of this decision is confusion, this is hardly surprising.

The whole separation lies in this fallacy. The only way out of the fallacy is to decide that you do not have to decide anything.

The whole separation lies in this error.  The only way out of the error is to decide that you do not have to decide anything.

Everyone who learns this lesson has become the perfect teacher because he has learned it of the Holy Spirit, Who wants to teach him everything He knows.

Everyone who learns this lesson has become the perfect teacher, because he has learned it of the Holy Spirit.

I call upon you again

I call upon you

Perceiving the Majesty of God as your brother is to accept your own inheritance. God gives only equally. If you recognize His gift in anyone else, you have acknowledged what He has given you. Nothing is so easy to perceive as truth. This is the perception which is immediate, clear and natural. You have trained yourselves not to see it, and this has been very difficult for you.

Recognizing the Majesty of God as your brother is to accept your own inheritance.  God gives only equally.  If you recognize His gift in anyone, you have acknowledged what He has given you.  Nothing is so easy to recognize as truth.  This is the recognition that is immediate, clear and natural.  You have trained yourself not to recognize it, and this has been very difficult for you

We said before

I have already said

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You are hampered in your progress by your demands to know what you do NOT know. This is actually a way of holding on to deprivation. You cannot reasonably object to following instructions in a course FOR knowing on the grounds that you do NOT know. The need for the course is implicit in your objection.

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 It is merely the result of your misuse of His laws on behalf of a will that is not His.

 It is merely the result of your misuse of His laws on behalf of an imaginary will that is not His.

 If you did, you would hardly be willing to throw it away so readily, when the ego asks for your allegiance.

 If you did you would not be so ready to throw it away when the ego asks for your allegiance.

 The ego’s voice is a hallucination. You cannot expect it to say “I am not real.” Hallucinations ARE inaccurate perceptions of reality. Yet you are not asked to dispel them alone.

 . The ego's voice is an hallucination. You cannot expect it to say "I am not real." Yet you are not asked to dispel your hallucinations alone.

The Rationale For Choice

The Difference between Imprisonment and Freedom

There is a rationale for choice. Only one Teacher knows what your reality is. If learning that is the purpose of the curriculum, you must learn it of Him. The ego does not know what it is trying to teach. It is trying to teach you what you are

There is a rationale for choice. Only one Teacher knows what your reality is. If learning to remove the obstacles to that knowledge is the purpose of the curriculum, you must learn it of Him. The ego does not know what it is trying to teach

 Can you ask the part of your mind that taught you to believe they are the same to teach you the difference between them?

  Can you ask the part of your mind that taught you to believe they are the same, to teach you how they are different?

 When we said, “All power and glory are yours because the Kingdom is His,” this is what we meant: 

 When I said, "All power and glory are yours because the Kingdom is His," this is what I meant:

 If you want understanding and enlightenment you will learn it, because your will learn to it is your decision to listen to the Teacher Who knows of light, and can therefore teach it to you.

 If you want understanding and enlightenment you will learn it, because your decision to learn it is the decision to listen to the Teacher Who knows of light, and can therefore teach it to you.

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 The Light of the World

 The Gift of Freedom

 If you will to have it of me, you must give it. Rehabilitation does not come from anyone else. You can have guidance from without, but you must accept it from within. The guidance must be what you want, or it will be meaningless to you. That is why rehabilitation is a collaborative venture.

 If you want to have it of me, you must give it. Healing does not come from anyone else. You must accept guidance from within. The guidance must be what you want, or it will be meaningless to you. That is why healing is a collaborative venture.

 I can tell you what to do, but this will not help you unless you collaborate by believing that I know what to do. Only then will your mind choose to follow me. Without your will you cannot be rehabilitated. Motivation to be healed is the crucial factor in rehabilitation. Without this, you are deciding against healing, and your veto of my will for you makes healing impossible. If healing is our joint will, unless our wills are joined you cannot be healed. This is obvious when you consider what healing is for. Healing is the way in which the separation is overcome. Separation is overcome by union. It cannot be overcome by separating.

I can tell you what to do, but you must collaborate by believing that I know what you should do. Only then will your mind choose to follow me. Without this choice you could not be healed because you would have decided against healing, and this rejection of my decision for you makes healing impossible.

       Healing reflects our joint will. This is obvious when you consider what healing is for. Healing is the way in which the separation is overcome. Separation is overcome by union. It cannot be overcome by separating.

 The will to unite must be unequivocal, or the will itself is divided or not whole. Your will is the means by which you determine your own condition because will is the mechanism of decision. It is the power by which you separate or join, and experience pain or joy accordingly. My will cannot overcome yours, because yours is as powerful as mine. If it were not so, the Sons of God would be unequal. All things are possible through our joint will, but my will alone cannot help you. Your will is as free as mine, and God Himself would not go against it. I cannot will what God does not will. I can offer you my will to make yours invincible by this sharing, but I cannot oppose yours without competing with it, and thereby violating God's Will for you.

 The decision to unite must be unequivocal, or the mind itself is divided and not whole. Your mind is the means by which you determine your own condition, because mind is the mechanism of decision. It is the power by which you separate or join, and experience pain or joy accordingly. My decision cannot overcome yours, because yours is as powerful as mine. If it were not so the Sons of God would be unequal. All things are possible through our joint decision, but mine alone cannot help you. Your will is as free as mine, and God Himself would not go against it. I cannot will what God does not will. I can offer my strength to make yours invincible, but I cannot oppose your decision without competing with it and thereby violating God's Will for you.

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 Freedom cannot be learned by tyranny of any kind, and the perfect equality of all God's Sons cannot be recognized through the dominion of one will over another. God's Sons are equal in will, all being the Will of their Father. This is the only lesson I came to teach, knowing that it is true.

 Freedom cannot be learned by tyranny of any kind, and the perfect equality of all God's Sons cannot be recognized through the dominion of one mind over another. God's Sons are equal in will, all being the Will of their Father. This is the only lesson I came to teach.

 When your will is not mine, it is not our Father's.

 If your will were not mine it would not be our Father's.

 What you seek to imprison you do not love.

 Whom you seek to imprison you do not love.

 The delusional believe that truth will assail them, and so they do not see it because they prefer the delusion. Judging truth as something they do not want, they perceive deception and block knowledge.

Help them by offering them your unified will on their behalf, as I am offering you mine on yours. Alone we can do nothing, but together, our wills fuse into something whose power is far beyond the power of its separate parts. By not being separate, the Will of God is established in ours and as ours. This Will is invincible because it is undivided. The undivided will of the Sonship is the perfect creator, being wholly in the likeness of God, Whose Will it is. You cannot be exempt from it, if you are to understand what it is and what you are. By separating your will from mine, you are exempting yourself from the Will of God which is yourself.

 The delusional believe that truth will assail them, and they do not recognize it because they prefer the delusion. Judging truth as something they do not want, they perceive their illusions which block knowledge. Help them by offering them your unified mind on their behalf, as I am offering you mine on behalf of yours. Alone we can do nothing, but together our minds fuse into something whose power is far beyond the power of its separate parts. By not being separate, the Mind of God is established in ours and as ours. This Mind is invincible because it is undivided.

       The undivided will of the Sonship is the perfect creator, being wholly in the likeness of God, Whose Will it is. You cannot be exempt from it if you are to understand what it is and what you are. By the belief that your will is separate from mine, you are exempting yourself from the Will of God which is yourself.

 The recognition of God is the recognition of yourself. There is no separation of God and His creation. You will learn this as you learn that there is no separation of your will and mine. Let the Love of God shine upon you by your acceptance of me. My reality is yours and His. By joining your will with mine you are signifying your awareness that the Will of God is one.

 The recognition of God is the recognition of yourself. There is no separation of God and His creation. You will realize this when you understand that there is no separation between your will and mine. Let the Love of God shine upon you by your acceptance of me. My reality is yours and His. By joining your mind with mine you are signifying your awareness that the Will of God is one.

 The truth in both of us is beyond the ego. By willing that, you have gone beyond it toward truth. Our success in transcending the ego is guaranteed by God, and I can share this confidence for both of us and all of us.

 The truth in both of us is beyond the ego. Our success in transcending the ego is guaranteed by God, and I share this confidence for both of us and all of us.

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 The ego's way is not mine, but it is also not yours. The Holy Spirit has one direction for all minds, and the one He taught me is yours. Let us not lose sight of His direction through illusions, for only illusions of another direction can obscure the one for which God's Voice speaks in all of us. Never accord the ego the power to interfere with the journey because it has none, since the journey is the way to what is true. Leave all deception behind, and reach beyond all attempts of the ego to hold you back. I go before you because I am beyond the ego. Reach, therefore, for my hand because you want to transcend the ego. My will will never be wanting, and if you want to share it, you WILL. I give it willingly and gladly because I need you as much as you need me.

 The ego's way is not mine, but it is also not yours. The Holy Spirit has one direction for all minds, and the one He taught me is yours. Let us not lose sight of His direction through illusions, for only illusions of another direction can obscure the one for which God's Voice speaks in all of us. Never accord the ego the power to interfere with the journey. It has none, because the journey is the way to what is true. Leave all illusions behind, and reach beyond all attempts of the ego to hold you back. I go before you because I am beyond the ego. Reach, therefore, for my hand because you want to transcend the ego. My strength will never be wanting, and if you choose to share it you will do so. I give it willingly and gladly, because I need you as much as you need me.

The Power of Joint Decision

The Treasure of God

 Your function is to add to God's treasure by creating yours. His Will to you is His Will for you. He would not withhold creation from you because His joy is in it. You cannot find joy except as God does. His joy lay in creating you, and He extends His Fatherhood to you so that you can extend yourself as He did. You do not understand this because you do not understand Him. No-one who does not know his function can understand it, and no-one can know his function unless he knows who he is. Creation is the Will of God. His Will created you to create. Your will was not created separate from His, and so it wills as He wills.

An "unwilling will” does not mean anything, being a contradiction in terms which actually leaves nothing.

       Your function is to add to God's treasure by creating yours. His Will to you is His Will for you. He would not withhold creation from you because His joy is in it. You cannot find joy except as God does. His joy lay in creating you, and He extends His Fatherhood to you so that you can extend yourself as He did. You do not understand this because you do not understand Him. No one who does not accept his function can understand what it is, and no one can accept his function unless he knows what he is. Creation is the Will of God. His Will created you to create. Your will was not created separate from His, and so you must will as He wills.

       An "unwilling will" does not mean anything, being a contradiction in terms that actually means nothing.

 Communication and the Ego- Body Equation

 The Body as a Means of Communication

 Attack is ALWAYS physical. When attack in any form enters your mind, you are EQUATING yourself with a body.

 Attack is always physical. When attack in any form enters your mind you are equating yourself with a body, since this is the ego's interpretation of the body.

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 Communication ENDS separation. Attack PROMOTES it. The body is beautiful or ugly, holy or savage, helpful or harmful, according to the use to which it is put.

 Communication ends separation. Attack promotes it. The body is beautiful or ugly, peaceful or savage, helpful or harmful, according to the use to which it is put.

 Guided by the Holy Spirit, it is not. It becomes only a means by which the part of the mind you have separated from your Soul can reach beyond its distortions, and return to the Soul. The ego's temple thus becomes the temple of the Holy Spirit, where devotion to Him replaces devotion to the ego. In this sense the body does become a temple to God, because His Voice abides in it by directing the use to which it is put.

 Guided by the Holy Spirit, it is not. It becomes a means by which the part of the mind you tried to separate from spirit can reach beyond its distortions and return to spirit. The ego's temple thus becomes the temple of the Holy Spirit, where devotion to Him replaces devotion to the ego. In this sense the body does become a temple to God; His Voice abides in it by directing the use to which it is put.

 This releases the mind from the temptation to see the body in many lights, and gives it over entirely to the One Light in which it can be really understood at all. To confuse a learning device with a curriculum goal is a fundamental confusion. Learning can hardly be arrested at its own aids with hope of understanding either the aids or the learning’s real purpose. Learning must lead beyond the body to the re-establishment of the power of the mind in it. This can be accomplished only if the mind extends to other minds, and does not arrest itself in its extension.

The arrest of the mind’s extension is the cause of all illness because only extension is the mind's function.

 This releases the mind from the temptation to see the body in many lights, and gives it over entirely to the One Light in Which it can be really understood. To confuse a learning device with a curriculum goal is a fundamental confusion that blocks the understanding of both. Learning must lead beyond the body to the re-establishment of the power of the mind in it. This can be accomplished only if the mind extends to other minds, and does not arrest itself in its extension. This arrest is the cause of all illness, because only extension is the mind's function.

 When yours is unified, it is His. Interfere with His purpose, and you need salvation. You have condemned yourself, but condemnation is not of God. Therefore, it is not true. No more are any of the results of your condemnation.

 When yours is unified it is His. Believe you can interfere with His purpose, and you need salvation. You have condemned yourself, but condemnation is not of God. Therefore it is not true. No more are any of its seeming results.

  The body's condition lies solely in your interpretation of its function.

The reason why definitions in terms of function are inferior is that they may well be inaccurate. . Functions are part of being since they arise from it, but the relationship is not reciprocal.

 The body's condition lies solely in your interpretation of its function. Functions are part of being since they arise from it, but the relationship is not reciprocal

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 The whole does define the part, but the part does not define the whole. This is as true of knowledge as it is of perception. The reason to know in part is to know entirely is because of the fundamental difference between knowledge and perception. In perception the whole is built up of parts, which can separate and reassemble in different constellations. Knowledge never changes, so its constellation is permanent. The only areas in which part-whole relationships have any meaning are those in which change is possible. There is no difference between the whole and the part where change is impossible.

 The whole does define the part, but the part does not define the whole. Yet to know in part is to know entirely because of the fundamental difference between knowledge and perception. In perception the whole is built up of parts that can separate and reassemble in different constellations. But knowledge never changes, so its constellation is permanent. The idea of part-whole relationships has meaning only at the level of perception, where change is possible. Otherwise, there is no difference between the part and whole.

 The body exists in a world which seems to contain two voices which are fighting for its possession. In this perceived constellation, the body is regarded as capable of shifting its control from one to the other, making the concept of both health and sickness possible. The ego makes a fundamental confusion between means and ends as it always does. Regarding the body as an end, the ego has no real use for it because it is not an end. You must have noticed an outstanding characteristic of every end that the ego has accepted as its own. When you have achieved it, it has not satisfied you. This is why the ego is forced to shift from one end to another without ceasing, so that you will continue to hope that it can yet offer you something.

       The body exists in a world that seems to contain two voices fighting for its possession. In this perceived constellation the body is seen as capable of shifting its allegiance from one to the other, making the concepts of both health and sickness meaningful. The ego makes a fundamental confusion between means and end as it always does. Regarding the body as an end, the ego has no real use for it because it is not an end. You must have noticed an outstanding characteristic of every end that the ego has accepted as its own. When you have achieved it, it has not satisfied you. This is why the ego is forced to shift ceaselessly from one goal to another, so that you will continue to hope it can yet offer you something.

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 Equating YOU with the body, it teaches that YOU are to attack with because this is what it believes. The body, then, is not the source of its own health. The body's condition lies solely in your interpretation of its function.

The reason why definitions in terms of function are inferior is that they may well be inaccurate. Functions are part of being since they arise from it, but the relationship is not reciprocal. The whole does define the part, but the part does not define the whole. This is as true of knowledge as it is of perception. The reason to know in part is to know entirely is because of the fundamental difference between knowledge and perception. In perception the whole is built up of parts, which can separate and reassemble in different constellations. Knowledge never changes, so its constellation is permanent. The only areas in which part-whole relationships have any meaning are those in which change is possible. There is no difference between the whole and the part where change is impossible.

 Equating you with the body, it teaches that you are to attack with. The body, then, is not the source of its own health. The body's condition lies solely in your interpretation of its function. Functions are part of being since they arise from it, but the relationship is not reciprocal. The whole does define the part, but the part does not define the whole. Yet to know in part is to know entirely because of the fundamental difference between knowledge and perception. In perception the whole is built up of parts that can separate and reassemble in different constellations. But knowledge never changes, so its constellation is permanent. The idea of part-whole relationships has meaning only at the level of perception, where change is possible. Otherwise, there is no difference between the part and whole.

 It is still true that the body has no function of itself because it is not an end. The ego, however, establishes it as an end because, as such, it will lose its true function.

 It is still true that the body has no function of itself, because it is not an end. The ego, however, establishes it as an end because, as such, its true function is obscured.

 The Holy Spirit, perfectly aware of the same data, does not bother to analyze them at all. If the data are meaningless there is no point in considering them. The function of truth is to collect data which are true.

 The Holy Spirit, perfectly aware of the same situation, does not bother to analyze it at all. If data are meaningless there is no point in analyzing them. The function of truth is to collect information that is true.

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 You might well ask how the voice of something which does not exist can be so insistent. Have you seriously considered the distorting power of something you want, even if it is not true? You have had many instances of how what you want can distort what you see and hear. No-one can doubt the ego's skill in building up false cases. Nor can anyone doubt your willingness to listen until you will not to tolerate anything except truth. When you lay the ego aside, it will be gone. The Holy Spirit's Voice is as loud as your willingness to listen. It cannot be louder without violating your will, which the Holy Spirit seeks to free, but never to command.

 You might well ask how the voice of something that does not exist can be so insistent. Have you thought about the distorting power of something you want, even if it is not real?  There are many instances of how what you want distorts perception. No one can doubt the ego's skill in building up false cases. Nor can anyone doubt your willingness to listen until you choose not to accept anything except truth. When you lay the ego aside, it will be gone. The Holy Spirit's Voice is as loud as your willingness to listen. It cannot be louder without violating your freedom of choice, which the Holy Spirit seeks to restore, never to undermine.

 Wrong perception is distorted willing, which wants things to be as they are not. The reality of everything is totally harmless, because total harmlessness is the condition of its reality. It is also the condition of your awareness of its reality. You do not have to seek reality. It will seek you and find you, when you meet its conditions. Its conditions are part of what it is. And this part only is up to you. The rest is of Itself. You need do so little, because it is so powerful that your little part will bring the whole to you. Accept, then, your little part, and let the whole be yours.

 Wrong perception is the wish that things be as they are not. The reality of everything is totally harmless, because total harmlessness is the condition of its reality. It is also the condition of your awareness of its reality. You do not have to seek reality. It will seek you and find you when you meet its conditions. Its conditions are part of what it is. And this part only is up to you. The rest is of itself. You need do so little because your little part is so powerful that it will bring the whole to you. Accept, then, your little part, and let the whole be yours.

 Wholeness heals because it is of the mind. All forms of sickness, even unto death, are physical expressions of the fear of awakening. They are attempts to reinforce unconsciousness out of fear of consciousness. This is a pathetic way of trying not to know by rendering the faculties for knowing ineffectual.” Rest in peace” is a blessing for the living, not the dead, because rest comes from waking, not from sleeping. Sleep is withdrawing; waking is joining. Dreams are illusions of joining, taking on the ego’s distortions about what joining means if you are sleeping under its guidance. Yet the Holy Spirit, too, has use for sleep, and can use dreams on behalf of waking, if you will let Him.

       Wholeness heals because it is of the mind. All forms of sickness, even unto death, are physical expressions of the fear of awakening. They are attempts to reinforce sleeping out of fear of waking. This is a pathetic way of trying not to see by rendering the faculties for seeing ineffectual. "Rest in peace" is a blessing for the living, not the dead, because rest comes from waking, not from sleeping. Sleep is withdrawing; waking is joining. Dreams are illusions of joining, because they reflect the ego's distorted notions about what joining is. Yet the Holy Spirit, too, has use for sleep, and can use dreams on behalf of waking if you will let Him.

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 Healing is release from the fear of waking and the substitution of the will to wake. The will to wake is the will to love, since all healing involves replacing fear with love.

 Healing is release from the fear of waking and the substitution of the decision to wake. The decision to wake is the reflection of the will to love, since all healing involves replacing fear with love.

 The ego, which always weakens the will, wants to separate the body from the mind.

 The ego, which always wants to weaken the mind, tries to separate it from the body in an attempt to destroy it.

 You have surely begun to realize that this is a very practical course, which means exactly what it says. So does the Bible, if it is properly understood. There has been a marked tendency on the part of many of the Bible’s followers, and also its translators, to be entirely literal about fear and its effects, but not about love and its results. Thus, “hellfire” means “burning,” but raising the dead becomes allegorical. Actually, it is particularly the references to the outcomes of love which should be taken literally because the Bible is about love, being about God.

The Bible enjoins you to be perfect, to heal all errors, to take no thought of the body as separate, and to accomplish all things in my name. This is not my name alone, for ours is a shared identification. The Name of God's Son is one, and you are enjoined to do the works of love because we share this oneness. Our minds are whole because they are one. If you are sick you are withdrawing from me. Yet you cannot withdraw from me alone. You can only withdraw from yourself and me.

I would not ask you to do the things you cannot do, and it is impossible that I could do things you cannot do.

 The Bible enjoins you to be perfect, to heal all errors, to take no thought of the body as separate and to accomplish all things in my name. This is not my name alone, for ours is a shared identification. The Name of God's Son is one, and you are enjoined to do the works of love because we share this oneness. Our minds are whole because they are one. If you are sick you are withdrawing from me. Yet you cannot withdraw from me alone. You can only withdraw from yourself and me.

         You have surely begun to realize that this is a very practical course, and one that means exactly what it says. I would not ask you to do things you cannot do, and it is impossible that I could do things you cannot do.

 All forms of dysfunction are merely signs that the mind has split, and does not accept a unified purpose.

 All forms of sickness are signs that the mind is split, and does not accept a unified purpose.

Sections “The Acceptance of Reality” and “The Answer to Prayer” in Jesus’ dictation moved to beginning of  Chapter 9 in FIP Second Edition.

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If the purpose of this course is to help you learn what you are, and if you have already DECIDED that what you are is fearful, then it must follow that you will not learn this course.  Yet you might remember that the reason for the course is that you do not know who you are.

If the purpose of this course is to help you remember what you are, and if you believe that what you are is fearful, then it must follow that you will not learn this course. Yet the reason for the course is that you do not know what you are.

If you do not know your reality, how would you know whether it is fearful or not?

If you do not know what your reality is, why would you be so sure that it is fearful?

All that this kind of association means is that you are arbitrarily endowing something quite beyond your… 

All this could mean is that you are arbitrarily associating something beyond your…

You have imprisoned your will in your UNCONSCIOUS, where it remains available but cannot help you.  

You have imprisoned your will beyond your own awareness, where it remains, but cannot help you. 

He is teaching you what you are.

He is helping you to remember what you are.

The former accounts for the atheist and the latter for the martyr.  Martyrdom takes many forms, the category including all doctrines which hold that God demands sacrifices of ANY kind. Either basic type of insane decision will induce panic because the atheist believes he is alone, and the martyr believes that God is crucifying him.  Both really fear abandonment and retaliation, but the atheist is more reactive against abandonment, and the martyr against retaliation.  The atheist maintains that God has left him, but he does not care. He will, however, become very fearful and hence very angry, if anyone suggests that God has NOT left him. The martyr, on the other hand, us more aware of guilt and believing that punishment is inevitable, attempts to teach himself to LIKE it.  The truth is, very simply, that no one wants either abandonment or retaliation.  Many people SEEK both, but it is still true that they do not WANT them. 

The former accounts for the atheist and the latter for the martyr, who believes that God demands sacrifices.  Either of these insane decisions will induce panic, because the atheist believes he is alone, and the martyr believes that God is crucifying him.  Yet no one really wants either abandonment or retaliation, even though many may seek both.

You have forgotten, however, that your return is in proportion to your judgment of worth.

You have forgotten, however, that to price is to value, so that your return is in proportion to your judgment of worth.

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…would no longer be what you want, even if IT is.  This accounts for why certain specific forms of healing are not achieved, even though the state of healing is.  It frequently happens that an individual asks for physical healing…

…would no longer be what you want.  This is why certain forms of healing are not achieved, even when the state of healing is.  An individual may ask for physical healing…

The Bible emphasizes that all prayers are answered, and this must be true if no effort is wasted.  The very fact that one has asked the Holy Spirit fir anything will ensure a response.  …  It is indeed true that no effort is wasted.

The Bible emphasizes that all prayer is answered, and this is indeed true.  The very fact that the Holy Spirit has been asked for anything will ensure a response.

Atonement as a Lesson in Sharing

The Holy Spirit’s Plan of Forgiveness

If one has no idea of what is happening, how appropriately can you EXPECT him to react?  You might still ask yourself, regardless of how you can ACCOUNT for the reactions, whether they place the ego in a very sound position as the guide for YOURS.  It seems absurd to have to emphasize repeatedly that the ego’s qualifications as a guide are singularly unfortunate, and that it is a remarkably poor choice as a teacher of salvation. Yet this question, ridiculous as it seems, is really the crucial issue in the whole separation fantasy. 

If you have no idea what is happening, how appropriately can you expect to react?  You might ask yourself, regardless of how you may account for the reaction, whether its unpredictability places the ego in a sound position as your guide.  Let me repeat that the ego’s qualifications as a guide are singularly unfortunate, and that it is a remarkably poor choice as a teacher of salvation. 

It is noteworthy that this is a contradiction even in the ego’s terms, and one which it usually DOES note, even in its confusion.  If the way to counteract fear is to REDUCE the importance of the fearer, how can this build ego STRENGTH?

If the way to counteract fear is to reduce the importance of the mind, how can this build ego strength?

The Awareness of the Holy Spirit

The Acceptance of Your Brother

Though it does not understand this, the ego believes that its “enemy” has struck, and attempts to offer gifts to induce you to return to its “protection”.  SELF-inflation of the ego is its alternative to the grandeur of God. 

When this occurs, even though it does not understand it, the ego believes that its “enemy” has struck, and attempts to offer gifts to induce you to return to its “protection”. Self-inflation is the only offering it can make. The grandiosity of the ego is its alternative to the grandeur of God. 

the faintest hint of your reality literally drives the ego from your mind because of complete lack of investment in it.

…the faintest hint of your reality literally drives the ego from your mind, because you will give up all investment in it.

His own exalted answer to the question of your being…

His Own exalted Answer to what you are…

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Even in this world’s therapy, when dissociated material is ACCEPTED it ceases to be fearful, for the laws of mind always hold.

When what you have dissociated is accepted, it ceases to be fearful.

If you understand that the misuse of defenses always constitutes an attack on truth…   

If you understand that this is always an attack on truth…

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All attack is self attack.  It cannot be anything else.  Arising from your own decision not to be what you are, it is an attack on your identification. Attack is thus the way in which your identification is lost, because when you attack, you must have forgotten what you are.  And if your reality is God’s, when you attack you are not remembering Him.  This is not because He is gone, but because you are actively choosing not to remember Him.

Magic Versus Miracles 

The End of Sickness

All magic is a form of reconciling the irreconcilable.

All magic is an attempt at reconciling the irreconcilable.

…judge unreality for what it is.  This is the RIGHT use of selective perception.

-OMITTED-

…and the mind DOES become unreasonable without reason.  This is merely a matter of definition.

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Listen, and you will learn how to remember what you are.

Listen, and you will learn what you are.

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…fundamentally irreconcilable natures CANNOT be reconciled by your vacillations.

…fundamentally irreconcilable natures cannot be reconciled by vacillations between them.

The closer you come to the ego’s thought system,

The closer you come to the foundation of the ego’s thought system,

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The Gifts of Fatherhood

God’s Son NEEDS healing.  He needs it because he does not understand himself, and therefore knows not what he does.  Having forgotten his will, he does not know what he wants.

God’s son needs healing.  You need it because you do not understand yourself, and therefore know not what you do.  Having forgotten your will, you do not know what you really want.

…He will lighten it so much that you will gladly extend it.  And by THIS extending, you will begin to remember creation.

…He will lighten it so much that you will gladly let it be increased.  And by this increase, you will begin to remember creation.

…for the Sonship is your Soul.  As God’s creation it is yours, and belonging to you, it is His.  Your Soul does not need salvation… 

…for the Sonship is your Self. As God’s creation It is yours, and belonging to you It is His.  Your Self does not need salvation…

Glory is your inheritance, given your Soul by its Creator that you might EXTEND it.  Yet if you hate part of your own Soul All your understanding is lost…

Glory is your inheritance, given you by your Creator that you might extend it.

The peace of your Soul lies in its limitlessness.

Your peace lies in its limitlessness.

Every altar to God is part of your Soul because the Light He created…

Every altar to God is part of you…

It is impossible for you to be unable to enter the place where God would have you be.

It is impossible that you cannot enter the place where God would have you be.

…but you have surely learned by now that FEAR is not real.  We have accepted the fact already that its EFFECTS can be dispelled…

…and you are beginning to learn that fear is not real.  You are also learning that its effects can be dispelled…

INCONSISTENCY must be true if truth has meaning.

…inconsistency must be true.

Experience and Perception

Waking to Redemption

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Yet different experiences lead to different beliefs, and experience teaches.  

Yet experiences lead to different beliefs, and with them different perceptions.  For perceptions are learned with belief, and experience does teach.

The Problem and the Answer

The Condition of Reality

Yet everything in what you have made that IS true IS like Him.  Only this is the real world, and perceiving ONLY this will lead you to the real Heaven…

Yet everything true is like Him.  Perceiving only the real world will lead you to the real Heaven.

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The Problem and the Answer

…for you to understand it and USE it.  Yet it has been VERY specific, and you have NOT done what it specifically advocates.

…for you to understand and use.  Yet perhaps you have not done what it specifically advocates.

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Chapter 11

GOD’S PLAN FOR SALVATION

In FIP Second Edition, the chapters are re-organized and chapter 11 is Chapter 12

Chapter 12

THE HOLY SPIRIT'S CURRICULUM

… Understand that you do not respond to stimuli, but to stimuli AS YOU INTERPRET THEM.

Understand that you do not respond to anything directly, but to your interpretation of it.

There is but one interpretation of all motivation that makes any sense.

There is but one interpretation of motivation that makes any sense.

Perhaps the danger of this to your own mind is not yet fully apparent to you, but this by no means signifies that it is not perfectly clear. If you maintain that an appeal for help is something else you will REACT to something else, and your response will be inappropriate to reality as IT is, but NOT to your perception of it. This is poor reality testing by definition.

Perhaps the danger of this to your own mind is not yet fully apparent. If you believe that an appeal for help is something else you will react to something else. Your response will therefore be inappropriate to reality as it is, but not to your perception of it.

You would not do this except for your UNWILLINGNESS to perceive reality, which you withhold from YOURSELF.

You would not do this except for your unwillingness to accept reality as it is, and which you therefore withhold from yourself.

Thereby you teach yourself that fear does not exist IN YOU, for you have IN YOURSELF the means for removing it, and have demonstrated this by GIVING it.

Thereby you teach yourself that fear does not exist in you. The means for removing it is in yourself, and you have demonstrated this by giving it.

The mask which YOU have drawn across the face of love has disappeared.

The veil that you have drawn across the face of love has disappeared.

The Mechanism Of Miracles

The Way to Remember God

If YOU give no power to the fog to obscure the light it HAS none, for it has power only because the Son of God gave power to it

If you give no power to the fog to obscure the light, it has none. For it has power only if the Son of God gives power to it.

It is easy to help an uncertain child, for he recognizes that he does not know what his perceptions mean. Yet you believe that you DO know.

It is easy to help an uncertain child, for he recognizes that he does not understand what his perceptions mean. Yet you believe that you do understand yours.

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The goal of love is but your right, and it belongs to you DESPITE your preference.

The goal of love is but your right, and it belongs to you despite your dreams.

Our mission is to escape CRUCIFIXION, not redemption.

Our mission is to escape from crucifixion, not from redemption.

You will not fail in your mission because I failed not in mine.

You will not fail in your mission because I did not fail in mine.

You cannot lay aside the obstacle to real vision without looking upon it…

You cannot lay aside the obstacles to real vision without looking upon them…

You do NOT know how to use what He knows. Whatever is revealed to Him that is not of God is gone. Yet you must reveal it to YOURSELF in perfect willingness, for otherwise His knowledge remains useless to you.

You do not understand how to use what He knows. Whatever is given Him that is not of God is gone. Yet you must look at it yourself in perfect willingness, for otherwise His knowledge remains useless to you.

I once asked if you were willing to sell all you have and give to the poor and follow me. This is what I meant: If you had no investment in anything in this world, you could teach the poor where their treasure IS.

 I once asked you to sell all you have and give to the poor and follow me. This is what I meant: If you have no investment in anything in this world, you can teach the poor where their treasure is.

It is only YOU, therefore, who have made the request outrageous, for nothing can BE asked of you, and every request of a brother is for YOU.

It is only you, therefore, who have made the request outrageous, and every request of a brother is for you.

God gave you the real world in exchange for the one you made out of your split mind, and which IS the symbol of death. For if you could REALLY separate yourselves from the Mind of God you WOULD die, and the world you perceive IS a world of separation.

You were willing to accept even death to deny your Father.

God gave you the real world in exchange for the one you made out of your split mind, and which is the symbol of death. For if you could really separate yourself from the Mind of God you would die.

       The world you perceive is a world of separation. Perhaps you are willing to accept even death to deny your Father.

You still could not will against Him, and that is why you have no control over the world you made.

You still cannot will against Him, and that is why you have no control over the world you made.

For it was made out of what you do NOT want, projected from your mind because you were afraid of it.

For it is made out of what you do not want, projected from your mind because you are afraid of it.

Yet to find the place, you must relinquish your investment in the world as YOU have projected it, allowing the Holy Spirit to project the real world to you from the altar of God.

Yet to find the place, you must relinquish your investment in the world as you project it, allowing the Holy Spirit to extend the real world to you from the altar of God.

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For the ego pursues its goal with fanatic insistence, and its reality testing, though severely impaired, is completely consistent.

For the ego pursues its goal with fanatic insistence, and its judgment, though severely impaired, is completely consistent.

You do not know how to look within yourself, for you do not BELIEVE your home is there. Yet the Holy Spirit knows it FOR you, and He will guide you TO your home because that is His mission.

You do not remember how to look within for you do not believe your home is there. Yet the Holy Spirit remembers it for you, and He will guide you to your home because that is His mission.

The Atonement was not the price of our wholeness, but it WAS the price of your AWARENESS of your wholeness.

The Atonement is not the price of your wholeness, but it is the price of your awareness of your wholeness.

Although you have attacked yourself, and very brutally, you will demonstrate that NOTHING HAPPENED.

Although you have attacked yourself, you will be demonstrating that nothing really happened.

You will never realize the utter uselessness of attack EXCEPT by recognizing that your attack on YOURSELF had no effects.

You will never realize the utter uselessness of attack except by recognizing that your attack on yourself has no effects.

The Holy Spirit’s love is your strength, for yours is divided and therefore not real. You could not trust your own love when you have ATTACKED it. You cannot learn of perfect love with a split mind because a split mind had MADE itself a poor learner.

The Holy Spirit's Love is your strength, for yours is divided and therefore not real. You cannot trust your own love when you attack it. You cannot learn of perfect love with a split mind, because a split mind has made itself a poor learner.

A necessary minor, supplementing this major curriculum goal, is learning how NOT to overcome the split which made this goal believable. And you can NOT overcome it, for all YOUR learning is on its BEHALF. Yet your will speaks against your learning as your learning speaks against your will, and so you fight AGAINST learning and succeed, for that IS your will. But you do not realize, even yet, that there IS something you DO will to learn, and that you can learn it because it IS your will to do so. You who have tried to learn what you do NOT will should take heart, for although the curriculum you set yourself is depressing indeed….

A supplementary goal in this curriculum is learning how not to overcome the split that makes its primary aim believable. And you will not overcome the split in this curriculum, for all your learning will be on its behalf. Yet your mind speaks against your learning as your learning speaks against your mind, and so you fight against all learning and succeed, for that is what you want. But perhaps you do not realize, even yet, that there is something you want to learn, and that you can learn it because it is your choice to do so. You who have tried to learn what you do not want should take heart, for although the curriculum you set yourself is depressing indeed…

For it is YOUR will to learn aright, and nothing can oppose the will of God’s Son.

For you really want to learn aright, and nothing can oppose the decision of God's Son.

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The Holy Spirit is your strength because He perceives nothing BUT your Soul as you. He is perfectly aware that you do NOT know yourselves, and perfectly aware of how to teach you what you are.

The Holy Spirit is your strength because He knows nothing but the spirit as you. He is perfectly aware that you do not know yourself, and perfectly aware of how to teach you to remember what you are.

You chose to forget your Father but you did not WILL to do so, and therefore you can decide otherwise.

You chose to forget your Father but you do not really want to do so, and therefore you can decide otherwise.

Every Child of God is one in Christ, for his Being is in Christ as Christ’s is in God.

Every child of God is one in Christ, for his being is in Christ as Christ's is in God.

Love transfers to love without any interference, for the situations are identical.

Love transfers to love without any interference, for the two are one.

The Guide For Miracles

Looking Within

You cannot SEE your abilities….

You cannot see your strengths…

Every law of time and space, of magnitude and mass, of prediction and control is transcended, for what the Holy Spirit enables you to do is clearly beyond ALL of them.

Every law of time and space, of magnitude and mass is transcended, for what the Holy Spirit enables you to do is clearly beyond all of them.

What you cannot see becomes real to you only through the witnesses who speak for it.

What you cannot see becomes real to you only through the witnesses that speak for It.

As long as you believe you have two functions, so long will you need correction.

As long as you believe you have other functions, so long will you need correction.

Two ways of looking at the world are in your mind, and your perception will reflect the guidance you chose.

Two ways of looking at the world are in your mind, and your perception will reflect the guidance you have chosen.

The mind always strives for integration, and if it is split and wants to KEEP the split, it will believe it has one goal by MAKING it one.

The mind always strives for integration, and if it is split and wants to keep the split, it will still believe it has one goal by making it seem to be one.

We said before that WHAT you project is up to you, but it is NOT up to you WHETHER to project, for projection is a law of mind. Perception IS projection, and you look in BEFORE you look out. As you look in you choose the guide for seeing, and THEN you look out and behold his witnesses. This is WHY you find what you seek. What you want in YOURSELF you will make manifest by projection, and you will accept it FROM the world because you put it there BY wanting it.

       I said before that what you project or extend is up to you, but you must do one or the other, for that is a law of mind, and you must look in before you look out. As you look in, you choose the guide for seeing. And then you look out and behold his witnesses. This is why you find what you seek. What you want in yourself you will make manifest, and you will accept it from the world because you put it there by wanting it.

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…for its reality is only what you GAVE it.

…for its reality is only what you give it.

For we are there in the peace of the Father, who wills to project His peace through YOU.

For we are there in the peace of the Father, Who wills to extend His peace through you.

And you will see me as you look within, and we will look upon the world as God created it together.

And you will see me as you look within, and we will look upon the real world together.

Reality And Redemption

VIII. The Attraction of Love for Love

God would reunite you with yourself, and did not abandon you in your seeming distress.

God would reunite you with yourself, and did not abandon you in your distress.

Yet the memory of God cannot shine in a mind which has MADE it invisible and wants to KEEP it so. For the memory of God can dawn only in a mind that wills to remember, and that has relinquished the insane desire to control reality.

Yet the memory of God cannot shine in a mind that has obliterated it and wants to keep it so. For the memory of God can dawn only in a mind that chooses to remember, and that has relinquished the insane desire to control reality.

Valuing nothing, you have sought nothing and FOUND nothing.

Valuing nothing, you have sought nothing.

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Guiltlessness And Invulnerability

The Guiltless World

And their bodies wither and gasp and are laid in the ground and seem to be no more.

And their bodies wither and gasp and are laid in the ground, and are no more.

The Holy Spirit wills ONLY this, for sharing the Father’s Love for His Son, He wills to remove ALL guilt from his mind that he may remember his Father in peace.

The Holy Spirit wants only this, for sharing the Father's Love for His Son, He seeks to remove all guilt from his mind that he may remember his Father in peace.

The journey which the Son of God has set himself is foolish indeed…

The journey the Son of God has set himself is useless indeed…

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The analysis of the ego’s “real” motivation is the modern equivalent of the inquisition, for in both a brother’s errors are “uncovered” and he is then attacked FOR HIS OWN GOOD. What can this be BUT projection? For HIS errors lay in the minds of his interpreters, for which they punished HIM.

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The Problem Of Guilt

The Guiltless Son Of God

The ultimate purpose of projection as the ego uses it is ALWAYS to get rid of guilt.

The ultimate purpose of projection is always to get rid of guilt.

You do not yet understand that all your fear of this course stems ultimately from this interpretation,

You do not yet understand that any fear you may experience in connection with this course stems ultimately from this interpretation,

This course has explicitly stated that its goal for you is happiness and peace. Yet you are AFRAID of it. You have been told again and again that it will make you free, yet you react as if it is trying to imprison you. Most of the time you dismiss it, but you do NOT dismiss the EGO’S thought system. You have SEEN its results and you STILL lack faith in it. You MUST, then, believe that by NOT learning the course you are PROTECTING yourself. And you do not realize that it is only your guiltlessness which CAN protect you.

This course has explicitly stated that its goal for you is happiness and peace. Yet you are afraid of it. You have been told again and again that it will set you free, yet you sometimes react as if it is trying to imprison you. You often dismiss it more readily than you dismiss the ego's thought system. To some extent, then, you must believe that by not learning the course you are protecting yourself. And you do not realize that it is only your guiltlessness that can protect you.

The Atonement has always been interpreted as the release from guilt, and this is correct if it is understood. Yet even when I have interpreted it FOR you you have rejected it and have NOT accepted it for yourself. You have recognized the futility of the ego and its offerings, but though you do not want the ego you do not look upon the alternative with gladness. You are AFRAID of redemption, and you believe it will kill you. Make no mistake about the depth of your fear. For you believe that, in the presence of truth, you will turn on yourself and destroy yourself.

The Atonement has always been interpreted as the release from guilt, and this is correct if it is understood. Yet even when I interpret it for you, you may reject it and do not accept it for yourself. You have perhaps recognized the futility of the ego and its offerings, but though you do not want them, you may not yet look upon the alternative with gladness. In the extreme, you are afraid of redemption and you believe it will kill you. Make no mistake about the depth of this fear. For you believe that, in the presence of truth, you might turn on yourself and destroy yourself.

Yet there is one more complication which you have interposed between yourself and the Atonement which you do not yet realize.

Yet there is one more obstacle you have interposed between yourself and the Atonement.

…and the whole world you think you control WOULD vanish.

… and the whole world you thought you made would vanish.

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For your INDIVIDUAL death is more valued than your living oneness, and what is GIVEN you is not so dear as what YOU made. You are more afraid of God than of the ego, and love cannot enter where it is not

Your individual death seems more valuable than your living oneness, for what is given you is not so dear as what you made. You are more afraid of God than of the ego, and love cannot enter where it is not welcome. But hatred can, for it enters of its own volition and cares not for yours.

The reason you must look upon your delusions and not keep them hidden is that they do NOT rest on their own foundation. In concealment they appear to do so, and thus they seem to be self-sustained. This is the fundamental illusion on which they rest.

You must look upon your illusions and not keep them hidden, because they do not rest on their own foundation. In concealment they appear to do so, and thus they seem to be self-sustained. This is the fundamental illusion on which the others rest.

Beneath all your grandiosity, which you hold so dear, is your real call for help.

Beneath all your grandiosity, which you hold so dear, is your real call for help.

You who prefer specialness to sanity could not obtain it in your right minds.

You who prefer separation to sanity cannot obtain it in your right mind.

Healing And Time

The Function of Time

Unless you learn that past pain is delusional, you are choosing a future of illusions and losing the endless opportunities which you could find for release in the present.

Unless you learn that past pain is an illusion, you are choosing a future of illusions and losing the many opportunities you could find for release in the present.

Again and again have men attacked each other because they saw in them a shadow figure in their OWN private world. And thus it is that you MUST attack yourself first, for what you attack is NOT in others.

Again and again have you attacked your brother, because you saw in him a shadow figure in your private world. And thus it is you must attack yourself first, for what you attack is not in others.

Vision depends on light, and you cannot see in darkness. Yet in the darkness, in the private world of sleep, you SEE in dreams although your eyes are closed.

Vision depends on light. You cannot see in darkness. Yet in darkness, in the private world of sleep, you see in dreams although your eyes are closed.

If you see it now in your delusions it has NOT gone from you, although it is not there.

If you see it now in your illusions, it has not gone from you, although it is not there.

It extends to all aspects of consciousness AT THE SAME TIME, and thus enables them to reach EACH OTHER. The present is before time was, and will be when time is no more. In it is everything that is eternal, and they are one.

It extends to all aspects of the Sonship at the same time, and thus enables them to reach each other. The present is before time was, and will be when time is no more. In it are all things that are eternal, and they are one.

Awakening unto Christ is following the laws of love of your free will…

Awaking unto Christ is following the laws of love of your free will..

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The only effort you need make to give this world away in glad exchange for what you did not make is willingness to learn THE ONE YOU MADE IS FALSE.

All that you need to give this world away in glad exchange for what you did not make is willingness to learn the one you made is false.

All vision starts WITH THE PERCEIVER,

All seeing starts with the perceiver,

Yet while he still lays value on his own, he will DENY the vision of the other world,

Yet while he still lays value on his own, he will deny the vision of the other,

Possession for its OWN sake is the ego’s fundamental creed, a basic cornerstone in the churches that it builds unto itself.

Possession for its own sake is the ego's fundamental creed, a basic cornerstone in the churches it builds to itself.

Whenever you are tempted to undertake a foolish journey that would lead AWAY from light,

Whenever you are tempted to undertake a useless journey that would lead away from light,

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Chapter Title: From Perception To Knowledge

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VIII. From Perception to Knowledge

All therapy is release from the past. That is why the Holy Spirit is the only therapist.

All healing is release from the past. That is why the Holy Spirit is the only Healer.

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When you have seen your brothers as yourself you will be RELEASED to knowledge, having learned to free yourself of Him Who knows of freedom.

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When you have seen your brothers as yourself you will be released to knowledge, having learned to free yourself through Him Who knows of freedom.

The miracle which God created is perfect, as are the miracles which YOU created in His Name. They need no healing, nor do you, when you know THEM.

The miracle that God created is perfect, as are the miracles that you established in His Name. They need no healing, nor do you, when you accept them.

The Shadow of Guilt

IX. The Cloud of Guilt

Fidelity unto this law lets no light in,

Fidelity to this law lets no light in,

Release and Restoration

You are therefore willing, with little opposition, to look upon all sorts of “sources” underneath awareness, provided that they are not the deeper source to which they bear no real relationship at all.

X. Release from Guilt

You are therefore willing to look upon all kinds of "sources," provided they are not the deeper source to which they bear no real relationship at all.

Praise be unto you who make the Father One with His Own Son. Alone we are all lowly, but together we shine with brightness so intense that none of us alone can even think on it.

Praise be to you who make the Father one with His Own Son. Alone we are all lowly, but together we shine with brightness so intense that none of us alone can even think of it.

United in this praise we stand before the gates of Heaven, where we will surely enter in our blamelessness.

United in this praise we stand before the gates of Heaven where we will surely enter in our sinlessness.

God would not have His Son embattled, and so His Son’s imagined ”enemy,” which he made, is TOTALLY unreal. You

God would not have His Son embattled, and so His Son's imagined "enemy" is totally unreal

The Guarantee of Heaven

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The Holy Spirit will teach you how to USE it, and by projecting it to learn that it is in you.

The Holy Spirit will teach you how to use it, and by extending it, to learn that it is in you.

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It will not be possible to exempt yourself from what the Holy Spirit wills to teach you.

It will not be possible to exempt yourself from what the Holy Spirit wants to teach you.

Yet the Will of God must be accepted as YOUR will, to know it.

Yet to know it, the Will of God must be accepted as your will.

The Holy Spirit cannot fail to undo FOR you everything you have learned that teaches you what is not true must be reconciled with truth.

The Holy Spirit will undo for you everything you have learned that teaches that what is not true must be reconciled with truth.

The Testimony of Miracles

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Chapter 14

TEACHING FOR TRUTH

Introduction

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I. The Conditions of Learning

That is why your miracles offer YOU the testimony that you are blessed.

That is why miracles offer you the testimony that you are blessed.

How could you learn what has been done for you, but which you do not know, unless you do what you would HAVE to do if it HAD been done unto you? INdirect proof of truth is needed in a world made of denial and without direction. You will perceive the need for this if you will realize that to deny is the decision NOT to know. The logic of the world MUST therefore lead to nothing, for its GOAL is nothing.

How could you learn what has been done for you, unknown to you, unless you do what you would have to do if it had been done for you?

       Indirect proof of truth is needed in a world made of denial and without direction. You will perceive the need for this if you realize that to deny is the decision not to know. The logic of the world must therefore lead to nothing, for its goal is nothing.

Any direction which will lead you where the Holy Spirit leads you not goes nowhere.

Any direction that would lead you where the Holy Spirit leads you not, goes nowhere.

Those who choose to BE deceived will merely attack direct approaches, which would seem but to encroach upon deception and strike at it.

Those who choose to be deceived will merely attack direct approaches, because they seem to encroach upon deception and strike at it.

You do not realize that the foundation on which this most peculiar learning goal depends means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. It DOES make sense to you. Have faith in nothing, and you will FIND the “treasure” that you sought. Yet you will add another burden to your mind, ALREADY burdened or you would not have sought another.

You do not realize that the foundation on which this most peculiar learning goal depends means absolutely nothing. Yet it may still make sense to you. Have faith in nothing and you will find the "treasure" that you seek. Yet you will add another burden to your already burdened mind.

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FIP SECOND EDITION

The happy learner meets the conditions of learning here, as he also meets the conditions of knowledge in the Kingdom.

The happy learner meets the conditions of learning here, as he meets the conditions of knowledge in the Kingdom.

Accept this key to freedom from the hands of Christ Who gives it to you, that you may join Him in the holy task of bringing light to darkness.

Accept this key to freedom from the hands of Christ Who gives it to you, that you may join Him in the holy task of bringing light.

Learning will be commensurate with motivation, and the interference in your motivation for learning is exactly the same as that which interferes with ALL your thinking. The happy learner cannot FEEL GUILTY about learning. This is so essential to learning that it should never be forgotten. The guiltless learner learns so easily because his thoughts are free. Yet this entails the recognition that guilt is INTERFERENCE, NOT salvation, and serves no useful function at all.

The happy learner cannot feel guilty about learning. This is so essential to learning that it should never be forgotten. The guiltless learner learns easily because his thoughts are free. Yet this entails the recognition that guilt is interference, not salvation, and serves no useful function at all.

You are accustomed to using guiltlessness merely to offset the pain of guilt,

Perhaps you are accustomed to using guiltlessness merely to offset the pain of guilt,

The ego is the choice for guilt; the Holy Spirit the decision for guiltlessness.

The ego is the choice for guilt; the Holy Spirit the choice for guiltlessness.

By GIVING power to nothing, he threw away the joyous opportunity to learn that nothing HAS no power.

By giving power to nothing, he throws away the joyous opportunity to learn that nothing has no power.

Yet because they do not understand their will, the Holy Spirit quietly understands it FOR them, and GIVES them what they will without effort, strain, or the impossible burden of deciding what they want and need alone.

Yet because they do not understand their will, the Holy Spirit quietly understands it for them, and gives them what they want without effort, strain, or the impossible burden of deciding what they want and need alone.

It will never happen that you will have to make decisions for yourself.

It will never happen that you must make decisions for yourself.

He is the strong protector of your innocence which sets you free.

He is the strong protector of the innocence that sets you free.

WITHOUT His guidance you will think you know alone, and will decide AGAINST your peace as surely as you made the wrong decision in ever thinking that salvation lay in you alone.

Without His guidance you will think you know alone, and will decide against your peace as surely as you decided that salvation lay in you alone.

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He leaves you no-one OUTSIDE yourself, alone WITHOUT you.

He leaves you no one outside you.

The Way of Salvation

IV. Your Function in the Atonement

This need not be taught.

This cannot be taught.

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BRINGING ILLUSIONS TO TRUTH

TEACHING FOR TRUTH

You who have thrown your selves away and valued God so little, hear me speak for Him and for yourselves.

You who have tried to throw yourself away and valued God so little, hear me speak for Him and for yourself.

The Atonement was established as the means of restoring guiltlessness to the mind which has denied it, and thus denied Heaven to Itself.

The Atonement was established as the means of restoring guiltlessness to minds that have denied it, and thus denied Heaven to themselves. Atonement teaches you the true condition of the Son of God.

Guilt and Guiltlessness

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The Circle of Atonement

Would you have ALL of it transformed into a radiant message of God’s Love, to share with all the lonely ones who denied Him with you?

Would you have all of it transformed into a radiant message of God's Love, to share with all the lonely ones who have denied Him?

Each one of you has a special part to play in the Atonement, but the message given to each to share is always the same; GOD’S SON IS GUILTLESS.

Everyone has a special part to play in the Atonement, but the message given to each one is always the same; God's Son is guiltless.

Out of the Darkness

The Light of Communication

You have interpreted the separation as a means which you have made for breaking your communication with your Father. The Holy Spirit re-interprets it as a means of re-establishing what has not been broken but HAS been made obscure.

You have regarded the separation as a means for breaking your communication with your Father. The Holy Spirit reinterprets it as a means of re-establishing what was not broken, but has been made obscure.

Perception without Deceit

 Sharing Perception with the Holy Spirit

Opposites must be brought together, and not kept apart.

Opposites must be brought together, not kept apart.

You must have noticed that the emphasis has been on bringing what is undesirable TO the desirable; what you do NOT want to what you DO.

Our emphasis has been on bringing what is undesirable to the desirable; what you do not want to what you do.

It has BEEN recognized that, if they were brought TOGETHER, their joint acceptance would become impossible.

If they are brought together, their joint acceptance becomes impossible.

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The link with which the Father joins Himself to those He gives the power to create like Him can NEVER be dissolved.

The link with which the Father joins Himself to those He gives the power to create can never be dissolved.

The Recognition of Holiness

The Reflection of Holiness

The bringing together of truth and illusion, of the ego to God, is the Holy Spirit’s only function.

Bringing illusion to truth, or the ego to God, is the Holy Spirit's only function.

The making of time to TAKE THE PLACE of timelessness lay in the decision to be not as you were.

The making of time to take the place of timelessness lay in the decision to be not as you are.

All bring their different problems to its healing light, but all their problems are met ONLY with healing there.

All bring their different problems to its healing light, and all their problems find but healing there.

The Shift to Miracles

The Equality of Miracles

You have experienced lack of competition among your thoughts, which, even though they may conflict, can occur to you together and in great numbers. You are so used to this that it can cause you little surprise.

Perhaps you have been aware of lack of competition among your thoughts, which even though they may conflict, can occur together and in great numbers. You may indeed be so used to this that it causes you little surprise.

The only judgment involved at all is the Holy Spirit’s ONE division into two categories; one of love, and the other the call for love. YOU cannot safely make this division, for you are much too confused either to recognize love, or to believe that everything else is nothing but a need for love.

The only judgment involved is the Holy Spirit's one division into two categories; one of love, and the other the call for love. You cannot safely make this division, for you are much too confused either to recognize love, or to believe that everything else is nothing but a call for love.

You who believe you understand something of the dynamics of the mind, let me assure you that you know nothing of it at all. For of yourselves you COULD not know of it. The study of the ego is NOT the study of the mind. In fact, the ego enjoys the study of itself, and thoroughly approves the undertakings of students who would analyze it,

If you believe you understand something of the "dynamics" of the ego, let me assure you that you understand nothing of it. For of yourself you could not understand it. The study of the ego is not the study of the mind. In fact, the ego enjoys studying itself, and thoroughly approves the undertakings of students who would "analyze" it,

Everyone seeks for love as you do, and knows it not unless he joins with you in seeking it.

Everyone seeks for love as you do, but knows it not unless he joins with you in seeking it.

Let the Holy Spirit SHOW him to you, and teach you both his love and need for love.

Let the Holy Spirit show him to you, and teach you both his love and his call for love.

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But where there is NEED for love, YOU must give it because of what YOU are.

But where there is a call for love, you must give it because of what you are.

…for the light of darkness by which you try to see can ONLY obscure.

…for the darkness in which you try to see can only obscure.

And each bright lesson, with which the Holy Spirit will replace the dark ones you do not accept and hide, teaches you that you will WITH the Father unto His Son.

And each bright lesson with which the Holy Spirit will replace the dark ones you do not accept, teaches you that you will with the Father and His Son.

He ALWAYS gives what He has made IN PLACE of you.

He always gives His gifts in place of yours.

Only those who see they cannot know UNLESS the effects of understanding are with them can really learn at all. And for this, it must be peace they WANT, and nothing else.