Attack

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All attack is ultimately self-attack, arising from the perception of separation and guilt. Because the mind cannot actually be damaged or divided, attack has no real effects.

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Attack is the ego’s attempt to make separation and guilt real, and it is undone by withdrawing that purpose and letting the Holy Spirit reinterpret perception.

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Section	Attack

Text Introduction
Introduction
T-1. The Meaning of Miracles
I. Principles of Miracles
II. Revelation, Time and Miracles
III. Atonement and Miracles
IV. The Escape from Darkness
V. Wholeness and Spirit
VI. The Illusion of Needs
VII. Distortions of Miracle Impulses
T-2. The Separation and the Atonement
I. The Origins of Separation
II. The Atonement as Defense	⬥A defense can become a weapon; Atonement cannot attack.
III. The Altar of God
IV. Healing as Release from Fear
V. The Function of the Miracle Worker
VI. Fear and Conflict
VII. Cause and Effect
VIII. The Meaning of the Last Judgment
T-3. The Innocent Perception
I. Atonement without Sacrifice	Truth needs no coercion; attack blocks learning and peace.
II. Miracles as True Perception	True seeing begins when the wish to attack is released.
III. Perception versus Knowledge	Attack turns your brother into a stranger and fear follows.
IV. Error and the Ego	The separated mind imagines attackers; knowledge remains incapable of attack.
V. Beyond Perception
VI. Judgment and the Authority Problem
VII. Creating versus the Self-Image
T-4. The Illusions of the Ego
Introduction
I. Right Teaching and Right Learning
II. The Ego and False Autonomy	To avoid aloneness, the ego allies with egos or attacks them.
III. Love without Conflict
IV. This Need Not Be
V. The Ego-Body Illusion
VI. The Rewards of God
VII. Creation and Communication
T-5. Healing and Wholeness
Introduction
I. The Invitation to the Holy Spirit
II. The Voice for God
III. The Guide to Salvation
IV. Teaching and Healing
V. The Ego’s Use of Guilt	Guilt interprets itself as an attack on God and demands punishment.
VI. Time and Eternity
VII. The Decision for God	Calling it sin invites guilt, and guilt expects attack everywhere.
T-6. The Lessons of Love
Introduction	Anger’s logic assumes attack is real; undo the premises instead.
I. The Message of the Crucifixion	▲Even extreme assault cannot justify fear; don’t turn symbols into weapons.
II. The Alternative to Projection	Projection sustains separation by justifying attack—especially against yourself.
III. The Relinquishment of Attack	▲You learn safety by refusing to teach attack in any form.
IV. The Only Answer	Don’t battle the ego with force; answer it with correction.
V. The Lessons of the Holy Spirit	Fear makes disagreement look like attack; attack ends communication.
T-7. The Gifts of the Kingdom
I. The Last Step
II. The Law of the Kingdom
III. The Reality of the Kingdom
IV. Healing as the Recognition of Truth
V. Healing and the Changelessness of Mind
VI. From Vigilance to Peace	▲If you see attack anywhere, you spread it everywhere in mind.
VII. The Totality of the Kingdom	Attack is scarcity thinking; the Holy Spirit translates it into blessing.
VIII. The Unbelievable Belief	End anger by owning projection; responsibility restores your power to choose.
IX. The Extension of the Kingdom
X. The Confusion of Pain and Joy
XI. The State of Grace
T-8. The Journey Back
I. The Direction of the Curriculum	Attacking an opponent rejects the peace you say you want.
II. The Difference between Imprisonment and Freedom
III. The Holy Encounter
IV. The Gift of Freedom
V. The Undivided Will of the Sonship
VI. The Treasure of God
VII. The Body as a Means of Communication	Attack uses the body to get; communication uses it to extend.
VIII. The Body as Means or End	Change the body’s purpose from attack, and sickness loses its witness.
IX. Healing as Corrected Perception	The ego calls attack power while using it to weaken the mind.
T-9. The Acceptance of the Atonement
I. The Acceptance of Reality
II. The Answer to Prayer	Doubt is not neutral; it quietly sides with separation and attack.
III. The Correction of Error	Making a brother’s error real attacks yourself by affirming guilt.
IV. The Holy Spirit’s Plan of Forgiveness	The mind’s power is repurposed: from attacking to sharing through forgiveness.
V. The Unhealed Healer	Helping fails when it assumes attack is real for both minds.
VI. The Acceptance of Your Brother
VII. The Two Evaluations	When love contradicts the ego, it attacks your motives and self-worth.
VIII. Grandeur versus Grandiosity	Grandiosity needs competition and attack; true value cannot be threatened.
T-10. The Idols of Sickness
Introduction
I. At Home in God	The split mind imagines attack, but creation remains untouched and safe.
II. The Decision to Forget	Attack is a decision to forget your Self; fear follows that denial.
III. The God of Sickness	Attack targets a hated self-image; love cannot join sickness or guilt.
IV. The End of Sickness	Attacking the idol of sickness reinforces it; withdraw belief instead.
V. The Denial of God	The imagined attack on God breeds fatherlessness; God does not coerce.
T-11. God or the Ego
Introduction
I. The Gifts of Fatherhood
II. The Invitation to Healing	Attack is the opposite of healing; it denies Fatherhood and Sonship.
III. From Darkness to Light	Pain witnesses to self-conflict; God knows no attack at all.
IV. The Inheritance of God’s Son	Condemnation is attack that seems to bar God’s Presence, yet the Door is open.
V. The “Dynamics” of the Ego	Ego “analysis” fragments wholeness; belief in attack’s power produces fear.
VI. Waking to Redemption	Redemption withdraws allegiance from condemnation and joins resurrection, not attack.
VII. The Condition of Reality
VIII. The Problem and the Answer
T-12. The Holy Spirit’s Curriculum
I. The Judgment of the Holy Spirit	Apparent attack becomes a call for help when the Holy Spirit reinterprets it.
II. The Way to Remember God
III. The Investment in Reality	Attack begins in the mind and ends there—through giving, not saving.
IV. Seeking and Finding
V. The Sane Curriculum	▲See self-attack has no effect, and the urge to equalize through attack ends.
VI. The Vision of Christ
VII. Looking Within
VIII. The Attraction of Love for Love	Attack searches for love to take; sharing reveals love.
T-13. The Guiltless World
Introduction	Guilt breeds condemnation, and condemnation recruits attack as defense.
I. Guiltlessness and Invulnerability	Self-attack promises salvation, but it only makes guilt feel real.
II. The Guiltless Son of God	Innocence feels threatening to the ego, so it calls it enemy.
III. The Fear of Redemption	Attack is the ego’s cover for fear of redemption and equality.
IV. The Function of Time	Time is misused when old pain authorizes present retaliation.
V. The Two Emotions	You attack a shadow in your mind and call it your brother.
VI. Finding the Present
VII. Attainment of the Real World
VIII. From Perception to Knowledge
IX. The Cloud of Guilt	Calling guilt real is attack; the self-made verdict is insanity.
X. Release from Guilt
XI. The Peace of Heaven
T-14. Teaching for Truth
Introduction
I. The Conditions of Learning
II. The Happy Learner
III. The Decision for Guiltlessness	Offer attack and you’ll feel it returned; refuse the story of harm.
IV. Your Function in the Atonement
V. The Circle of Atonement	When a mind needs teaching, attack is your refusal to learn.
VI. The Light of Communication	Bring attack into light; gentleness disarms the mind’s guards.
VII. Sharing Perception with the Holy Spirit
VIII. The Holy Meeting Place
IX. The Reflection of Holiness
X. The Equality of Miracles
XI. The Test of Truth	Peace comes by changing teachers: leave attack’s instruction behind.
T-15. The Holy Instant
I. The Two Uses of Time	Withholding your brother’s release keeps you in time’s attack cycle.
II. The End of Doubt
III. Littleness versus Magnitude
IV. Practicing the Holy Instant
V. The Holy Instant and Special Relationships
VI. The Holy Instant and the Laws of God
VII. The Needless Sacrifice	Making guilt real is attack, even when dressed up as love.
VIII. The Only Real Relationship
IX. The Holy Instant and the Attraction of God	The body’s ego purpose is attack; renounce it for communication.
X. The Time of Rebirth	If love requires sacrifice, love will look like attack and fear.
XI. Christmas as the End of Sacrifice	Deprivation breeds attack, then calls the sacrifice of others “justified.”
T-16. The Forgiveness of Illusions
I. True Empathy	Ego empathy joins in weakness; true empathy refuses to weaken.
II. The Power of Holiness	Recognizing attack’s weakness is progress; holiness no longer seems fragile.
III. The Reward of Teaching
IV. The Illusion and the Reality of Love
V. The Choice for Completion	Specialness attacks the self to accuse another; completion requires inclusion.
VI. The Bridge to the Real World
VII. The End of Illusions	Hate fantasies in specialness are vengeance on yourself, not intimacy.
T-17. Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship
I. Bringing Fantasy to Truth
II. The Forgiven World
III. Shadows of the Past
IV. The Two Pictures
V. The Healed Relationship	Blame makes the holy instant seem powerless, though it still remains.
VI. Setting the Goal
VII. The Call for Faith
VIII. The Conditions of Peace
T-18. The Passing of the Dream
I. The Substitute Reality
II. The Basis of the Dream	The dream attacks reality by twisting everything to serve private wishes.
III. Light in the Dream
IV. The Little Willingness
V. The Happy Dream
VI. Beyond the Body	The mind “proves” attack by hurting the body; truth needs no proof.
VII. I Need Do Nothing
VIII. The Little Garden	Isolation defends a tiny kingdom and invites war with the universe.
IX. The Two Worlds	Attack guards the withered kingdom; forgiven perception shows an attack-free world.
T-19. The Attainment of Peace
I. Healing and Faith	Faithlessness attacks by limiting and separating; faith joins and heals.
II. Sin versus Error	Sin assumes minds can truly attack; error can be corrected without punishment.
III. The Unreality of Sin
IV. The Obstacles to Peace	A cherished little attack builds a wall that blocks peace’s extension.
T-20. The Vision of Holiness
I. Holy Week
II. The Gift of Lilies
III. Sin as an Adjustment	A murderous self-image sees danger everywhere and calls it the world.
IV. Entering the Ark
V. Heralds of Eternity
VI. The Temple of the Holy Spirit
VII. The Consistency of Means and End
VIII. The Vision of Sinlessness
T-21. Reason and Perception
Introduction	An attack purpose projects catastrophe; choosing holiness restores hope.
I. The Forgotten Song
II. The Responsibility for Sight
III. Faith, Belief and Vision
IV. The Fear to Look Within
V. The Function of Reason
VI. Reason versus Madness	Madness attacks reason; joining with your brother restores sanity’s guidance.
VII. The Last Unanswered Question	Thought can be used to release or to kill; choose its purpose.
VIII. The Inner Shift
T-22. Salvation and the Holy Relationship
Introduction
I. The Message of the Holy Relationship	Attack proves a divided will; the holy relationship shelters innocence.
II. Your Brother’s Sinlessness
III. Reason and the Forms of Error	Seeing sins in bodies invites attack; reason looks past form to holiness.
IV. The Branching of the Road
V. Weakness and Defensiveness	Love’s strength is quiet and defenseless; attack belongs to fear’s illusion.
VI. The Light of the Holy Relationship	Difference is attack’s premise; oneness makes condemnation meaningless.
T-23. The War Against Yourself
Introduction	Attack masquerades as strength, but it signals weakness and invents enemies.
I. The Irreconcilable Beliefs	Any look without love splits the mind; nothing real can be attacked.
II. The Laws of Chaos	Chaos starts with different truths and ends in attack; stop the first step.
III. Salvation without Compromise	▲Compromise hides attack’s single purpose and keeps guilt alive.
IV. Above the Battleground	★Step above the battleground: choose the miracle instead of attack.
T-24. The Goal of Specialness
Introduction
I. Specialness as a Substitute for Love	Specialness turns love into covert war, and attack feels natural.
II. The Treachery of Specialness	Specialness first elevates a savior, then attacks to stay separate.
III. The Forgiveness of Specialness	Truth is invulnerable; stop waging war on specialness’s illusions.
IV. Specialness versus Sinlessness	The enemy is a thought; attack always lands on the self.
V. The Christ in You	Ego’s “salvation” is war; Christ’s way blesses and joins.
VI. Salvation from Fear
VII. The Meeting Place
T-25. The Justice of God
Introduction
I. The Link to Truth	Projected guilt makes the brother a threat, and attack follows.
II. The Savior from the Dark
III. Perception and Choice	Choose the Interpreter: attack becomes an altar for forgiveness.
IV. The Light You Bring	Joined minds bring light where revenge once seemed reasonable.
V. The State of Sinlessness	The wish to attack makes everyone an enemy; sinlessness ends it.
VI. The Special Function	Your special function turns what harmed into a lesson in safety.
VII. The Rock of Salvation
VIII. Justice Returned to Love
IX. The Justice of Heaven	Belief in loss breeds attack; Heaven’s justice sees nothing taken.
T-26. The Transition
I. The “Sacrifice” of Oneness	Sacrifice makes attack seem workable, but only by accepting conflict.
II. Many Forms; One Correction
III. The Borderland
IV. Where Sin Has Left
V. The Little Hindrance
VI. The Appointed Friend	Attack seems real only when illusions are granted reality.
VII. The Laws of Healing	The world hides attack under “innocence”; forgiveness removes its effects.
VIII. The Immediacy of Salvation
IX. For They Have Come	Condemnation attacks God’s home in your brother—and hides it in you.
X. The End of Injustice	▲Give up judging “fair” attacks; all attack is causeless and senseless.
T-27. The Healing of the Dream
I. The Picture of Crucifixion	Suffering becomes an accusation; release the picture that proves attack.
II. The Fear of Healing	Healing undoes the “I was hurt” story that fuels defense.
III. Beyond All Symbols
IV. The Quiet Answer
V. The Healing Example	Even brief rest from self-attack opens the door to healing.
VI. The Witnesses to Sin
VII. The Dreamer of the Dream	Stop assigning attacker roles; the dream changes when its source is owned.
VIII. The “Hero” of the Dream	The dream’s enemy is a role you wrote; attack rebounds within.
T-28. The Undoing of Fear
I. The Present Memory
II. Reversing Effect and Cause	Fear shows the cause is within; the miracle reverses the story.
III. The Agreement to Join
IV. The Greater Joining
V. The Alternate to Dreams of Fear	Sharing fear-dreams makes war seem normal; choose the other dream.
VI. The Secret Vows	A hidden pact to be hurt keeps the attack story alive.
VII. The Ark of Safety
T-29. The Awakening
I. The Closing of the Gap	Believing a gap makes love seem unsafe and hatred feel protective.
II. The Coming of the Guest	When the body is idolized, attack and guilt travel together.
III. God’s Witnesses
IV. Dream Roles	Assigned roles breed anger; the miracle sees fear beneath the “failure.”
V. The Changeless Dwelling Place	Dreams lose their attack purpose when forgiven and shared with love.
VI. Forgiveness and the End of Time
VII. Seek Not Outside Yourself
VIII. The Anti-Christ
IX. The Forgiving Dream	The forgiving dream ends fear by undoing self-condemnation and attack.
T-30. The New Beginning
Introduction
I. Rules for Decision
II. Freedom of Will	Making an enemy is a choice; freedom begins when hate is withdrawn.
III. Beyond All Idols
IV. The Truth behind Illusions	Stop striking at illusions; quiet looking lets defensiveness dissolve.
V. The Only Purpose	Understanding cannot be forced; attack makes it vanish, and forgiveness restores it.
VI. The Justification for Forgiveness	Anger needs “justified attack”; true forgiveness questions the whole premise.
VII. The New Interpretation
VIII. Changeless Reality
T-31. The Final Vision
I. The Simplicity of Salvation	Behind every call to war is a deeper call for love.
II. Walking with Christ	Truth does not fight back; stillness with Christ ends the battle.
III. The Self-Accused	Self-accusation demands attack and punishment; forgiveness removes the need.
IV. The Real Alternative
V. Self-Concept versus Self	The “innocent” self-image breeds grievance, then calls retaliation self-defense.
VI. Recognizing the Spirit
VII. The Savior’s Vision	Withdraw value from attack, and evil thoughts lose their sting.
VIII. Choose Once Again

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