| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| VI. The Illusion of Needs |
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| VII. Distortions of Miracle Impulses |
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| 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 |
Denial breeds projection: miscreation replaces a quiet defense. | |
| III. The Altar of God |
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| IV. Healing as Release from Fear |
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| V. The Function of the Miracle Worker |
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| VI. Fear and Conflict |
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| 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 |
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| IV. Error and the Ego |
⬥Consciousness as ego’s domain: questions that cannot answer. | |
| V. Beyond Perception |
Ingenious inventions to fill lack keep separation in place. | |
| VI. Judgment and the Authority Problem |
Judgment’s symptom-making: the ego’s contradiction becomes experience. | |
| VII. Creating versus the Self-Image |
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| T-4. The Illusions of the Ego |
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| Introduction |
Egocentric striving as dis-spiritedness and journeys that go nowhere. | |
| I. Right Teaching and Right Learning |
Stop defending the ego: withdraw protection and relearn teaching. | |
| II. The Ego and False Autonomy |
▲False autonomy exposed: comparison and scarcity cannot stabilize self. | |
| III. Love without Conflict |
Barriers to love: ego’s fear of having everything. | |
| IV. This Need Not Be |
This need not be: refusing ego dictates and saving face. | |
| V. The Ego-Body Illusion |
▲Ego-body illusion: censoring awareness to protect a hidden premise. | |
| VI. The Rewards of God |
Threat is misread: ego has power only through allegiance. | |
| VII. Creation and Communication |
Split-mind concreteness: ego disrupts communication to stay separate. | |
| T-5. Healing and Wholeness |
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| Introduction |
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| I. The Invitation to the Holy Spirit |
Giving is not losing: undo the ego’s false association. | |
| II. The Voice for God |
Two inner voices: the self-made ego and God’s quiet Call. | |
| III. The Guide to Salvation |
Delay as guidance: ego uses time to keep war alive. | |
| IV. Teaching and Healing |
Private thoughts weaken: the ego’s unshared existence cannot endure. | |
| V. The Ego’s Use of Guilt |
▲Guilt as strategy: ego teaches fear and makes separation feel real. | |
| VI. Time and Eternity |
Ego speaks first: time and judgment pose as security. | |
| VII. The Decision for God |
Exclude yourself? The ego’s last-ditch defense against healing. | |
| T-6. The Lessons of Love |
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| Introduction |
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| I. The Message of the Crucifixion |
Ego’s judgment of suffering: meanings that demand reinterpretation. | |
| II. The Alternative to Projection |
Projection as device: differences and superiority preserve separation. | |
| III. The Relinquishment of Attack |
You cannot stop teaching: choose the opposite of ego lessons. | |
| IV. The Only Answer |
The first question: ego doubts, attacks, and recruits the body. | |
| V. The Lessons of the Holy Spirit |
Upside-down solutions: moods reveal temporary allegiance to the ego. | |
| T-7. The Gifts of the Kingdom |
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| I. The Last Step |
Bargaining for rights: competitiveness limits giving and peace. | |
| II. The Law of the Kingdom |
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| III. The Reality of the Kingdom |
War-minded allegiance: ego calls peace treachery and seeks allies. | |
| IV. Healing as the Recognition of Truth |
Ego laws of division: withholding makes danger seem normal. | |
| V. Healing and the Changelessness of Mind |
Mind-body confusion: ego claims the body can create and heal. | |
| VI. From Vigilance to Peace |
Self-preservation exposed: ego denies mind power while using it. | |
| VII. The Totality of the Kingdom |
Ego’s vulnerable picture: distrust and projection dressed as safety. | |
| VIII. The Unbelievable Belief |
Unbelievable belief: withdraw investment from ego’s conflict bargain. | |
| IX. The Extension of the Kingdom |
Fullness as threat: ego blocks extension and therefore blocks joy. | |
| X. The Confusion of Pain and Joy |
Pain and joy reversed: ego reasoning demands sacrifice and weakness. | |
| XI. The State of Grace |
Orders of difficulty: the ego’s hierarchy that grace undoes. | |
| T-8. The Journey Back |
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| I. The Direction of the Curriculum |
Curriculum choice: ego distractions are calls to war, not help. | |
| II. The Difference between Imprisonment and Freedom |
Imprisonment as lesson: disqualifying the ego as teacher. | |
| III. The Holy Encounter |
Private strength questioned: holy encounter reveals ego’s outcome. | |
| IV. The Gift of Freedom |
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| V. The Undivided Will of the Sonship |
One Companion: renouncing ego retaliation to keep direction. | |
| VI. The Treasure of God |
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| VII. The Body as a Means of Communication |
Body reinterpreted: ego separates, Holy Spirit communicates. | |
| VIII. The Body as Means or End |
Courtroom of sickness: ego’s false case collapses when laid aside. | |
| IX. Healing as Corrected Perception |
Sickness as decoy: the ego keeps cause away from mind. | |
| T-9. The Acceptance of the Atonement |
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| I. The Acceptance of Reality |
The ego requests nothing and calls the emptiness safety. | |
| II. The Answer to Prayer |
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| III. The Correction of Error |
Correction begins when the critic in me is relinquished. | |
| IV. The Holy Spirit’s Plan of Forgiveness |
Forgiveness fails when the ego insists on making error real. | |
| V. The Unhealed Healer |
Healing is distorted when the helper wants something back. | |
| VI. The Acceptance of Your Brother |
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| VII. The Two Evaluations |
Loveless evaluation keeps the ego’s verdict alive inside me. | |
| VIII. Grandeur versus Grandiosity |
After a glimpse of greatness, grandiosity rushes in as substitute. | |
| 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 |
The ego’s idol is a sick god made in my image. | |
| IV. The End of Sickness |
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| V. The Denial of God |
Denial becomes religion when the ego sacralizes sickness and loss. | |
| T-11. God or the Ego |
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| Introduction |
No partial treaty: the ego rests on a hidden cornerstone of terror. | |
| I. The Gifts of Fatherhood |
Projection puts God’s Will outside and then fears the conflict. | |
| II. The Invitation to Healing |
The ego enters as a guest and crowds out real comfort. | |
| III. From Darkness to Light |
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| IV. The Inheritance of God’s Son |
Blame outward or inward, the ego is still the author. | |
| V. The “Dynamics” of the Ego |
▲Autonomy survives by fragments, fear, and carefully chosen witnesses. | |
| VI. Waking to Redemption |
Redemption begins where sacrifice and self-crucifixion are no longer sacred. | |
| VII. The Condition of Reality |
The ego mixes real and unreal until nothing feels stable. | |
| 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 |
Motive analysis becomes ego involvement when fear is kept disguised. | |
| II. The Way to Remember God |
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| III. The Investment in Reality |
Saving the ego always turns into attack on myself. | |
| IV. Seeking and Finding |
The ego sends me searching for love it cannot let me find. | |
| V. The Sane Curriculum |
The ego’s curriculum teaches effort without success or arrival. | |
| VI. The Vision of Christ |
The ego trades awareness for profit and still leaves me poor. | |
| VII. Looking Within |
The ego hunts for what it wants and calls the result seeing. | |
| VIII. The Attraction of Love for Love |
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| T-13. The Guiltless World |
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| Introduction |
When attack looks saving, the ego has become the interpreter. | |
| I. Guiltlessness and Invulnerability |
The ego lasts only as long as guilt is kept alive. | |
| II. The Guiltless Son of God |
The ego guards its secret by making freedom feel dangerous. | |
| III. The Fear of Redemption |
Redemption is feared because the ego built a fortress around concealment. | |
| IV. The Function of Time |
The ego uses time to keep destruction looking like my function. | |
| V. The Two Emotions |
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| VI. Finding the Present |
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| VII. Attainment of the Real World |
Possession is the ego’s law, so nothing owned can satisfy. | |
| VIII. From Perception to Knowledge |
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| IX. The Cloud of Guilt |
The ego’s commandments promise pain and forbid looking within. | |
| X. Release from Guilt |
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| XI. The Peace of Heaven |
Escape is the ego’s best advice because it wants war preserved. | |
| T-14. Teaching for Truth |
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| Introduction |
Ego logic can look coherent only inside an unreal frame. | |
| I. The Conditions of Learning |
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| II. The Happy Learner |
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| III. The Decision for Guiltlessness |
Guilt looks protective only while the ego is still trusted. | |
| IV. Your Function in the Atonement |
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| V. The Circle of Atonement |
Seeing guilt everywhere means serving the ego’s aim of crucifixion. | |
| 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 |
Error disappears when the ego is carried to truth instead of defended. | |
| X. The Equality of Miracles |
The ego is chaos pretending to study form intelligently. | |
| XI. The Test of Truth |
Peace departs whenever I trust the ego more than guidance. | |
| T-15. The Holy Instant |
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| I. The Two Uses of Time |
The ego uses time to make death feel inevitable and near. | |
| II. The End of Doubt |
The ego is sustained when brothers are recruited to witness weakness. | |
| III. Littleness versus Magnitude |
Littleness makes me the ego’s hostage instead of God’s host. | |
| IV. Practicing the Holy Instant |
Complexity protects the ego by obscuring what the holy instant simplifies. | |
| V. The Holy Instant and Special Relationships |
Past judgment turns specialness into a false guide. | |
| VI. The Holy Instant and the Laws of God |
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| VII. The Needless Sacrifice |
Getting and keeping is the ego’s idea of relationship. | |
| VIII. The Only Real Relationship |
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| IX. The Holy Instant and the Attraction of God |
The ego limits love by reducing brothers to bodies. | |
| X. The Time of Rebirth |
Many fear-forms hide one bargain: love must cost. | |
| XI. Christmas as the End of Sacrifice |
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| T-16. The Forgiveness of Illusions |
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| I. True Empathy |
The ego’s empathy bonds through shared pain, not healing. | |
| II. The Power of Holiness |
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| III. The Reward of Teaching |
The ego teaches fast because its judgments are welcomed. | |
| IV. The Illusion and the Reality of Love |
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| V. The Choice for Completion |
Completion becomes conquest when the ego defines relationship. | |
| VI. The Bridge to the Real World |
Special value makes love exclusive and calls the prison freedom. | |
| VII. The End of Illusions |
Vengeance keeps the past alive by calling it justice. | |
| 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 |
Shadow figures make separation look reasonable and even loving. | |
| IV. The Two Pictures |
The special relationship is the ego’s favorite hiding place. | |
| V. The Healed Relationship |
When healing begins, the ego proposes another substitute. | |
| VI. Setting the Goal |
The ego sets no goal, then judges by outcomes. | |
| VII. The Call for Faith |
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| VIII. The Conditions of Peace |
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| T-18. The Passing of the Dream |
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| I. The Substitute Reality |
Substitution is the ego’s strongest defense against joining. | |
| II. The Basis of the Dream |
Dreams become tribute whenever attack restores the ego’s importance. | |
| III. Light in the Dream |
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| IV. The Little Willingness |
Adding ego effort makes the Holy Instant seem difficult. | |
| V. The Happy Dream |
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| VI. Beyond the Body |
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| VII. I Need Do Nothing |
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| VIII. The Little Garden |
The ego rules a tiny kingdom by teaching war with the whole. | |
| IX. The Two Worlds |
Guilt is the only ground the ego can seem to stand on. | |
| T-19. The Attainment of Peace |
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| I. Healing and Faith |
Healing begins when ego demands on a brother are withdrawn. | |
| II. Sin versus Error |
Sin becomes sacred when the ego turns error into religion. | |
| III. The Unreality of Sin |
Punishment keeps sin believable because the ego fears love. | |
| IV. The Obstacles to Peace |
The obstacles to peace are the ego’s monuments to death. | |
| T-20. The Vision of Holiness |
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| I. Holy Week |
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| II. The Gift of Lilies |
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| III. Sin as an Adjustment |
Adjustment is the ego’s interference in every relationship. | |
| IV. Entering the Ark |
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| V. Heralds of Eternity |
Wanting someone for the ego always means valuing them less. | |
| VI. The Temple of the Holy Spirit |
The body becomes an idol when relationships are used for power. | |
| VII. The Consistency of Means and End |
Unholy means always reveal the ego’s hidden end. | |
| VIII. The Vision of Sinlessness |
Nightmare images announce the purpose the ego has chosen. | |
| T-21. Reason and Perception |
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| Introduction |
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| I. The Forgotten Song |
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| II. The Responsibility for Sight |
Victimhood begins with the ego’s mad reversal of cause. | |
| III. Faith, Belief and Vision |
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| IV. The Fear to Look Within |
Fear guards the inward door because the ego is afraid. | |
| V. The Function of Reason |
The ego screams because reason would end the deception. | |
| VI. Reason versus Madness |
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| VII. The Last Unanswered Question |
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| VIII. The Inner Shift |
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| T-22. Salvation and the Holy Relationship |
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| Introduction |
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| I. The Message of the Holy Relationship |
The self I made becomes the guide that keeps me blind. | |
| II. Your Brother’s Sinlessness |
When truth seems meaningless, the ego has defined the options. | |
| III. Reason and the Forms of Error |
The ego cannot learn because correction ends its identity. | |
| IV. The Branching of the Road |
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| V. Weakness and Defensiveness |
Defenses save fear only by making insanity seem sensible. | |
| VI. The Light of the Holy Relationship |
A holy relationship cannot keep even a small ego bargain. | |
| T-23. The War Against Yourself |
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| Introduction |
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| I. The Irreconcilable Beliefs |
War survives only because the ego still wants victory. | |
| II. The Laws of Chaos |
▲The laws of chaos are the ego’s counterfeit salvation. | |
| III. Salvation without Compromise |
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| IV. Above the Battleground |
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| T-24. The Goal of Specialness |
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| Introduction |
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| I. Specialness as a Substitute for Love |
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| II. The Treachery of Specialness |
Comparison builds specialness by inventing an alien will. | |
| III. The Forgiveness of Specialness |
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| IV. Specialness versus Sinlessness |
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| V. The Christ in You |
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| VI. Salvation from Fear |
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| VII. The Meeting Place |
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| T-25. The Justice of God |
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| Introduction |
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| I. The Link to Truth |
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| II. The Savior from the Dark |
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| III. Perception and Choice |
The ego makes a war-world, then says perception cannot change. | |
| IV. The Light You Bring |
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| V. The State of Sinlessness |
The ego’s shrieks keep the enemy image where Christ should be. | |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| VIII. The Immediacy of Salvation |
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| 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 |
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| II. The Fear of Healing |
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| III. Beyond All Symbols |
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| IV. The Quiet Answer |
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| V. The Healing Example |
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| VI. The Witnesses to Sin |
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| VII. The Dreamer of the Dream |
Victimhood’s “salvation”: scapegoats, wrath, and the ego’s crooked logic. | |
| VIII. The “Hero” of the Dream |
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| T-28. The Undoing of Fear |
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| I. The Present Memory |
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| II. Reversing Effect and Cause |
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| III. The Agreement to Join |
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| IV. The Greater Joining |
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| V. The Alternate to Dreams of Fear |
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| VI. The Secret Vows |
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| VII. The Ark of Safety |
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| T-29. The Awakening |
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| I. The Closing of the Gap |
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| II. The Coming of the Guest |
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| III. God’s Witnesses |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| IV. The Real Alternative |
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| V. Self-Concept versus Self |
★Self-concept unmasked: gentle questioning loosens the world of shadows. | |
| VI. Recognizing the Spirit |
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| VII. The Savior’s Vision |
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| VIII. Choose Once Again |
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