| Text Introduction |
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| Introduction |
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| T-1. The Meaning of Miracles |
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| I. Principles of Miracles |
⬥Miracles shift identity from body to spirit. | |
| II. Revelation, Time and Miracles |
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| III. Atonement and Miracles |
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| IV. The Escape from Darkness |
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| V. Wholeness and Spirit |
The body serves briefly as a learning tool. | |
| VI. The Illusion of Needs |
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| VII. Distortions of Miracle Impulses |
Bodily expression is useful only when purpose is healed. | |
| T-2. The Separation and the Atonement |
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| I. The Origins of Separation |
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| II. The Atonement as Defense |
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| III. The Altar of God |
Protecting the body becomes a defense against Atonement. | |
| IV. Healing as Release from Fear |
Symptoms witness misthought, not bodily power. | |
| V. The Function of the Miracle Worker |
The body learns nothing but can still be used. | |
| VI. Fear and Conflict |
Behavior follows thought; the body is not cause. | |
| VII. Cause and Effect |
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| VIII. The Meaning of the Last Judgment |
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| T-3. The Innocent Perception |
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| I. Atonement without Sacrifice |
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| II. Miracles as True Perception |
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| III. Perception versus Knowledge |
Perception may involve the body, but knowledge does not. | |
| IV. Error and the Ego |
Perception invents the body, then mistakes it for self. | |
| V. Beyond Perception |
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| VI. Judgment and the Authority Problem |
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| VII. Creating versus the Self-Image |
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| T-4. The Illusions of the Ego |
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| Introduction |
Death at the bodily level proves nothing real. | |
| I. Right Teaching and Right Learning |
The body can be entrusted because it is not identity. | |
| II. The Ego and False Autonomy |
The ego calls the body home and appetite guide. | |
| III. Love without Conflict |
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| IV. This Need Not Be |
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| V. The Ego-Body Illusion |
▲Vulnerability makes the body the ego’s false shelter. | |
| VI. The Rewards of God |
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| VII. Creation and Communication |
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| T-5. Healing and Wholeness |
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| Introduction |
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| I. The Invitation to the Holy Spirit |
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| II. The Voice for God |
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| III. The Guide to Salvation |
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| IV. Teaching and Healing |
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| V. The Ego’s Use of Guilt |
A healed mind, not a body, is what heals. | |
| VI. Time and Eternity |
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| VII. The Decision for God |
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| T-6. The Lessons of Love |
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| Introduction |
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| I. The Message of the Crucifixion |
Bodily assault cannot touch what God created. | |
| II. The Alternative to Projection |
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| III. The Relinquishment of Attack |
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| IV. The Only Answer |
The ego recruits the body against the mind. | |
| V. The Lessons of the Holy Spirit |
The body’s meaning changes with the teacher chosen. | |
| T-7. The Gifts of the Kingdom |
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| I. The Last Step |
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| II. The Law of the Kingdom |
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| III. The Reality of the Kingdom |
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| IV. Healing as the Recognition of Truth |
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| V. Healing and the Changelessness of Mind |
A neutral body takes on only assigned purpose. | |
| VI. From Vigilance to Peace |
Attack concludes with a body as false identity. | |
| VII. The Totality of the Kingdom |
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| VIII. The Unbelievable Belief |
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| IX. The Extension of the Kingdom |
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| X. The Confusion of Pain and Joy |
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| XI. The State of Grace |
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| T-8. The Journey Back |
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| I. The Direction of the Curriculum |
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| II. The Difference between Imprisonment and Freedom |
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| III. The Holy Encounter |
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| IV. The Gift of Freedom |
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| V. The Undivided Will of the Sonship |
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| VI. The Treasure of God |
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| VII. The Body as a Means of Communication |
▲Purpose turns the body into weapon or bridge. | |
| VIII. The Body as Means or End |
Health and sickness mirror interpretation, not flesh. | |
| IX. Healing as Corrected Perception |
Healing asks for corrected perception, not bodily repair. | |
| T-9. The Acceptance of the Atonement |
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| I. The Acceptance of Reality |
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| II. The Answer to Prayer |
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| III. The Correction of Error |
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| IV. The Holy Spirit’s Plan of Forgiveness |
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| V. The Unhealed Healer |
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| VI. The Acceptance of Your Brother |
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| VII. The Two Evaluations |
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| VIII. Grandeur versus Grandiosity |
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| T-10. The Idols of Sickness |
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| Introduction |
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| I. At Home in God |
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| II. The Decision to Forget |
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| III. The God of Sickness |
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| IV. The End of Sickness |
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| V. The Denial of God |
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| T-11. God or the Ego |
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| Introduction |
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| I. The Gifts of Fatherhood |
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| II. The Invitation to Healing |
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| III. From Darkness to Light |
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| IV. The Inheritance of God’s Son |
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| V. The “Dynamics” of the Ego |
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| VI. Waking to Redemption |
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| VII. The Condition of Reality |
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| VIII. The Problem and the Answer |
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| T-12. The Holy Spirit’s Curriculum |
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| I. The Judgment of the Holy Spirit |
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| II. The Way to Remember God |
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| III. The Investment in Reality |
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| IV. Seeking and Finding |
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| V. The Sane Curriculum |
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| VI. The Vision of Christ |
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| VII. Looking Within |
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| VIII. The Attraction of Love for Love |
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| T-13. The Guiltless World |
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| Introduction |
Bodily vulnerability pictures the laws of death. | |
| I. Guiltlessness and Invulnerability |
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| II. The Guiltless Son of God |
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| III. The Fear of Redemption |
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| IV. The Function of Time |
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| V. The Two Emotions |
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| VI. Finding the Present |
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| VII. Attainment of the Real World |
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| VIII. From Perception to Knowledge |
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| IX. The Cloud of Guilt |
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| X. Release from Guilt |
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| XI. The Peace of Heaven |
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| T-14. Teaching for Truth |
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| Introduction |
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| I. The Conditions of Learning |
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| II. The Happy Learner |
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| III. The Decision for Guiltlessness |
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| IV. Your Function in the Atonement |
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| V. The Circle of Atonement |
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| VI. The Light of Communication |
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| VII. Sharing Perception with the Holy Spirit |
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| VIII. The Holy Meeting Place |
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| IX. The Reflection of Holiness |
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| X. The Equality of Miracles |
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| XI. The Test of Truth |
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| T-15. The Holy Instant |
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| I. The Two Uses of Time |
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| II. The End of Doubt |
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| III. Littleness versus Magnitude |
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| IV. Practicing the Holy Instant |
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| V. The Holy Instant and Special Relationships |
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| VI. The Holy Instant and the Laws of God |
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| VII. The Needless Sacrifice |
Bodies together still keep minds apart. | |
| VIII. The Only Real Relationship |
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| IX. The Holy Instant and the Attraction of God |
The holy instant loosens the body’s claim on relationship. | |
| X. The Time of Rebirth |
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| XI. Christmas as the End of Sacrifice |
Bodily identity makes sacrifice and loneliness seem natural. | |
| T-16. The Forgiveness of Illusions |
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| I. True Empathy |
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| II. The Power of Holiness |
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| III. The Reward of Teaching |
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| IV. The Illusion and the Reality of Love |
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| V. The Choice for Completion |
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| VI. The Bridge to the Real World |
Specialness needs bodies; joining does not. | |
| VII. The End of Illusions |
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| T-17. Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship |
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| I. Bringing Fantasy to Truth |
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| II. The Forgiven World |
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| III. Shadows of the Past |
Unholy purpose makes the body central to vengeance. | |
| IV. The Two Pictures |
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| V. The Healed Relationship |
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| VI. Setting the Goal |
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| VII. The Call for Faith |
Faith fails the moment bodies become the issue. | |
| VIII. The Conditions of Peace |
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| T-18. The Passing of the Dream |
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| I. The Substitute Reality |
Fear fragments by judging bodies in parts. | |
| II. The Basis of the Dream |
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| III. Light in the Dream |
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| IV. The Little Willingness |
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| V. The Happy Dream |
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| VI. Beyond the Body |
▲The body becomes guilt’s scapegoat and prison symbol. | |
| VII. I Need Do Nothing |
Release begins when bodily doing is no longer worshiped. | |
| VIII. The Little Garden |
Bodily awareness fences love into littleness. | |
| IX. The Two Worlds |
Bodily sight reports surfaces and serves guilt. | |
| T-19. The Attainment of Peace |
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| I. Healing and Faith |
The body neither heals nor causes sickness. | |
| II. Sin versus Error |
A world of bodies makes corruption seem inevitable. | |
| III. The Unreality of Sin |
Body-bounded identity makes sin seem believable. | |
| IV. The Obstacles to Peace |
The body tempts by promising salvation in form. | |
| T-20. The Vision of Holiness |
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| I. Holy Week |
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| II. The Gift of Lilies |
Bodies cannot give; perception must look deeper. | |
| III. Sin as an Adjustment |
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| IV. Entering the Ark |
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| V. Heralds of Eternity |
Seeing a brother’s body hides the gift. | |
| VI. The Temple of the Holy Spirit |
The body can’t be a temple; lay it aside for love. | |
| VII. The Consistency of Means and End |
A body can’t be sinful or sinless; judgment makes it so. | |
| VIII. The Vision of Sinlessness |
Why choose the body’s shelter when it teaches weakness and sin? | |
| T-21. Reason and Perception |
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| Introduction |
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| I. The Forgotten Song |
Loneliness comes from seeing brothers as bodies and keeping little. | |
| II. The Responsibility for Sight |
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| III. Faith, Belief and Vision |
Faith placed in the body makes sacrifice inevitable; give faith to vision. | |
| IV. The Fear to Look Within |
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| V. The Function of Reason |
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| VI. Reason versus Madness |
Reason shows the body cannot separate what mind would join. | |
| VII. The Last Unanswered Question |
Choose vision, or see your brother through the body’s eyes. | |
| VIII. The Inner Shift |
Bodily vulnerability makes thoughts seem dangerous and death seem proof. | |
| T-22. Salvation and the Holy Relationship |
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| Introduction |
Under one roof, bodies share space while minds remain apart. | |
| I. The Message of the Holy Relationship |
The brain speaks for the body; vision speaks past it. | |
| II. Your Brother’s Sinlessness |
You placed the body between you; the holy relationship looks beyond. | |
| III. Reason and the Forms of Error |
Bodily sight stops at externals and calls them barriers to love. | |
| IV. The Branching of the Road |
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| V. Weakness and Defensiveness |
From the body’s eyes, a barrier looks like an immovable mountain. | |
| VI. The Light of the Holy Relationship |
Seek freedom in mind, not body; the body’s purpose can be healed. | |
| T-23. The War Against Yourself |
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| Introduction |
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| I. The Irreconcilable Beliefs |
The ego’s home is body-identity, where every false belief converges. | |
| II. The Laws of Chaos |
In chaos, guilt is hidden in bodies and violence looks like salvation. | |
| III. Salvation without Compromise |
The body stands on a battleground when the mind is divided. | |
| IV. Above the Battleground |
From above conflict, the body’s limits vanish and Life is remembered. | |
| T-24. The Goal of Specialness |
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| Introduction |
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| I. Specialness as a Substitute for Love |
Specialness makes the body precious, because difference must be defended. | |
| II. The Treachery of Specialness |
The body becomes a private prison where specialness tries to keep God out. | |
| III. The Forgiveness of Specialness |
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| IV. Specialness versus Sinlessness |
The body has no goal; it serves hurting or healing by purpose. | |
| V. The Christ in You |
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| VI. Salvation from Fear |
To see your brother as flesh is to postpone peace; choose holiness instead. | |
| VII. The Meeting Place |
The body is a self-contained theory of you, proved only by its senses. | |
| T-25. The Justice of God |
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| Introduction |
▲Christ is not in a body; the body can only frame holiness temporarily. | |
| I. The Link to Truth |
Beholding bodies points to death—unless holiness directs you to look past. | |
| II. The Savior from the Dark |
The body’s eyes adore an empty frame; true vision sees the masterpiece. | |
| III. Perception and Choice |
Specialness lights up the body and leaves sinlessness out of mind. | |
| IV. The Light You Bring |
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| V. The State of Sinlessness |
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| VI. The Special Function |
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| VII. The Rock of Salvation |
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| VIII. Justice Returned to Love |
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| IX. The Justice of Heaven |
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| T-26. The Transition |
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| I. The “Sacrifice” of Oneness |
The body fences off a private self and makes sacrifice seem necessary. | |
| II. Many Forms; One Correction |
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| III. The Borderland |
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| IV. Where Sin Has Left |
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| V. The Little Hindrance |
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| VI. The Appointed Friend |
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| VII. The Laws of Healing |
Separate bodies mirror the wish for separate spaces in time and place. | |
| VIII. The Immediacy of Salvation |
Time is as neutral as a body; purpose decides what it seems to be. | |
| IX. For They Have Come |
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| X. The End of Injustice |
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| T-27. The Healing of the Dream |
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| I. The Picture of Crucifixion |
A body-picture can witness guilt or innocence; let the past’s purpose go. | |
| II. The Fear of Healing |
A damaged body seems to accuse, yet healing makes it testify to innocence. | |
| III. Beyond All Symbols |
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| IV. The Quiet Answer |
Worldly questioning consults the body’s witnesses and never leaves their frame. | |
| V. The Healing Example |
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| VI. The Witnesses to Sin |
Pain and pleasure are witnesses for the ego’s claim that you are a body. | |
| VII. The Dreamer of the Dream |
When the self is a body, death looks like peace; choose life instead. | |
| VIII. The “Hero” of the Dream |
The body is the dream’s hero, organizing every story of survival and loss. | |
| T-28. The Undoing of Fear |
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| I. The Present Memory |
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| II. Reversing Effect and Cause |
Mind is not in the body; sickness is an effect to be reinterpreted. | |
| III. The Agreement to Join |
Separate bodies picture the gap; joining begins when you see the body as effect. | |
| IV. The Greater Joining |
The gap between bodies is nothing when minds accept greater joining. | |
| V. The Alternate to Dreams of Fear |
The body’s senses report fragments; the mind supplies the world they seem to prove. | |
| VI. The Secret Vows |
▲No will in the body; purpose and blame belong to mind. | |
| VII. The Ark of Safety |
A house on straw: the body can’t be your home. | |
| T-29. The Awakening |
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| I. The Closing of the Gap |
The body is a chosen barrier, not the decider of joining. | |
| II. The Coming of the Guest |
★Nothingness of the body frees you from sickness and death. | |
| III. God’s Witnesses |
See the brother beyond the body; do not condemn the savior. | |
| IV. Dream Roles |
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| V. The Changeless Dwelling Place |
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| VI. Forgiveness and the End of Time |
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| VII. Seek Not Outside Yourself |
When the body is the beneficiary, the goal is lack and death. | |
| VIII. The Anti-Christ |
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| IX. The Forgiving Dream |
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| T-30. The New Beginning |
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| Introduction |
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| I. Rules for Decision |
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| II. Freedom of Will |
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| III. Beyond All Idols |
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| IV. The Truth behind Illusions |
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| V. The Only Purpose |
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| VI. The Justification for Forgiveness |
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| VII. The New Interpretation |
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| VIII. Changeless Reality |
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| T-31. The Final Vision |
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| I. The Simplicity of Salvation |
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| II. Walking with Christ |
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| III. The Self-Accused |
The body does not sin; the willing mind chooses the prison. | |
| IV. The Real Alternative |
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| V. Self-Concept versus Self |
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| VI. Recognizing the Spirit |
No compromise: choose spirit, and the world of flesh becomes a classroom. | |
| VII. The Savior’s Vision |
Seeing the good makes the body less insistent; judgment keeps it central. | |
| VIII. Choose Once Again |
Temptation says you are born to die; choose Christ’s strength again. | |