| Text Introduction |
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| Introduction |
⬥Peace comes from withdrawing belief from what is unreal. | |
| T-1. The Meaning of Miracles |
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| I. Principles of Miracles |
The miracle separates the true from the mind’s false meanings. | |
| II. Revelation, Time and Miracles |
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| III. Atonement and Miracles |
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| IV. The Escape from Darkness |
Darkness is self-deception; miracles dispel illusions about the self. | |
| V. Wholeness and Spirit |
Stop trying to shore up shallow roots; choose a new foundation. | |
| VI. The Illusion of Needs |
▲Needs and lack reveal the world is made, not created. | |
| VII. Distortions of Miracle Impulses |
Fantasy covers miracle impulses when the Self is denied. | |
| T-2. The Separation and the Atonement |
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| I. The Origins of Separation |
Like a dream, illusion loses all status when you awaken. | |
| II. The Atonement as Defense |
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| 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 |
Seeing errors as unreal protects you from chasing bodily effects. | |
| VI. Fear and Conflict |
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| VII. Cause and Effect |
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| VIII. The Meaning of the Last Judgment |
The Last Judgment is right sorting: belief withdrawn, miscreations end. | |
| T-3. The Innocent Perception |
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| I. Atonement without Sacrifice |
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| II. Miracles as True Perception |
Misperception is seeing what is not there; faith can be withdrawn. | |
| III. Perception versus Knowledge |
Question the illusion first; the miracle supplies the answer. | |
| IV. Error and the Ego |
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| V. Beyond Perception |
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| VI. Judgment and the Authority Problem |
Judgment assumes you can pick reality; that assumption is the illusion. | |
| VII. Creating versus the Self-Image |
The self-image is a made story that light quietly undoes. | |
| T-4. The Illusions of the Ego |
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| Introduction |
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| I. Right Teaching and Right Learning |
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| II. The Ego and False Autonomy |
Right perception ends by showing perception itself is unnecessary. | |
| III. Love without Conflict |
Truth needs no defense; the ego protects its hiding place instead. | |
| IV. This Need Not Be |
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| V. The Ego-Body Illusion |
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| VI. The Rewards of God |
Pain is an ego interpretation; God’s gifts are recognized as lasting. | |
| VII. Creation and Communication |
Form doesn’t matter, yet correction meets illusion in its context. | |
| 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 |
Guilt makes a private world by treating delusional ideas as truth. | |
| 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 |
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| II. The Alternative to Projection |
The world is unreal, but perception can be redirected toward God. | |
| III. The Relinquishment of Attack |
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| IV. The Only Answer |
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| V. The Lessons of the Holy Spirit |
The Holy Spirit does not debate dreams; He removes their seeming reality. | |
| 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 |
What is unknown to God cannot be real, even if you sleep. | |
| V. Healing and the Changelessness of Mind |
Bodies share forms; minds share meaning—communion is not physical. | |
| VI. From Vigilance to Peace |
Conflict is meaningless; trying to understand it grants it meaning. | |
| VII. The Totality of the Kingdom |
Illusions live on your investment; withdrawing value lets them fade together. | |
| VIII. The Unbelievable Belief |
An illusion held about another is an illusion held about yourself. | |
| 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 |
Test the ego’s voice by its effects, then accept one reinterpretation. | |
| II. The Difference between Imprisonment and Freedom |
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| III. The Holy Encounter |
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| IV. The Gift of Freedom |
Isolation is the world’s dream; shared light exposes it as nothing. | |
| V. The Undivided Will of the Sonship |
Leave false directions behind; God’s Voice holds one undivided will. | |
| VI. The Treasure of God |
You cannot look on the world and know God; choose what you value. | |
| VII. The Body as a Means of Communication |
Attack seems to have effects only while its imagined results are believed. | |
| VIII. The Body as Means or End |
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| IX. Healing as Corrected Perception |
Wrong perception is wishing things otherwise; a new Teacher can use perception. | |
| T-9. The Acceptance of the Atonement |
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| I. The Acceptance of Reality |
Reality is not sacrifice; fear is clinging to the illusion of safety. | |
| 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 |
Forgiveness refuses to make error real, keeping fantasy without effects. | |
| V. The Unhealed Healer |
Bring fantasies to light to learn their nothingness, not to interpret them. | |
| VI. The Acceptance of Your Brother |
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| VII. The Two Evaluations |
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| VIII. Grandeur versus Grandiosity |
True grandeur is without illusions; grandiosity is a defensive deception. | |
| T-10. The Idols of Sickness |
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| Introduction |
Disturbance arises in imagination; God’s laws remain protective and unchanged. | |
| I. At Home in God |
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| II. The Decision to Forget |
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| III. The God of Sickness |
Sickness is an illusion honored by belief; peace denies it completely. | |
| IV. The End of Sickness |
Judge unreality as nothing; let self-made obstructions fall away. | |
| V. The Denial of God |
To perceive guilt and suffering as real is to deny God’s creation. | |
| T-11. God or the Ego |
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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 |
The dark road is illusion; turn toward light already present. | |
| IV. The Inheritance of God’s Son |
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| V. The “Dynamics” of the Ego |
Illusions survive avoidance; calm looking takes away their seeming force. | |
| VI. Waking to Redemption |
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| VII. The Condition of Reality |
Mixed realities blur vision until the unreal is withdrawn. | |
| 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 |
The outside world mirrors a fear the mind projected. | |
| 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 |
What you made visible fades when truth is welcomed. | |
| T-13. The Guiltless World |
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| Introduction |
Guilt paints a punishing world and then calls it real. | |
| I. Guiltlessness and Invulnerability |
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| II. The Guiltless Son of God |
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| III. The Fear of Redemption |
Concealment is the root illusion that keeps all others alive. | |
| IV. The Function of Time |
Past pain writes a future only illusion can inhabit. | |
| V. The Two Emotions |
Fear populates a private world with witnesses that never were. | |
| VI. Finding the Present |
The past clouds the present until the image is questioned. | |
| VII. Attainment of the Real World |
▲The ordinary world is the bargain you no longer need. | |
| VIII. From Perception to Knowledge |
Healed perception lets reality shine through a darkened world. | |
| IX. The Cloud of Guilt |
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| X. Release from Guilt |
Guilt lasts only while illusion is treated as support. | |
| XI. The Peace of Heaven |
When conflict is seen as unreal, peace needs no defense. | |
| T-14. Teaching for Truth |
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| Introduction |
The ego seems logical only inside the world it invented. | |
| I. The Conditions of Learning |
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| II. The Happy Learner |
Nothing becomes convincing only because the learner keeps valuing it. | |
| III. The Decision for Guiltlessness |
Truth and illusion never bargain, overlap, or meet halfway. | |
| 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 |
Hidden images vanish when the mind stops polishing the mirror. | |
| 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 |
Change is an ego story told to disturb the holy present. | |
| 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 can seem together while minds remain fiercely separate. | |
| VIII. The Only Real Relationship |
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| IX. The Holy Instant and the Attraction of God |
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| X. The Time of Rebirth |
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| XI. Christmas as the End of Sacrifice |
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| T-16. The Forgiveness of Illusions |
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| I. True Empathy |
Joining another’s pain can preserve the illusion it should release. | |
| II. The Power of Holiness |
Disaster loses its spell when reality is accepted as kind. | |
| III. The Reward of Teaching |
Believing what is not there makes an alien self seem yours. | |
| IV. The Illusion and the Reality of Love |
Special love hides fear until illusion is left without substitutes. | |
| V. The Choice for Completion |
Illusions frighten only when the mind insists they must be true. | |
| VI. The Bridge to the Real World |
A distorted frame wobbles when specialness begins to lose its grip. | |
| VII. The End of Illusions |
▲Forgiveness ends illusion by refusing to carry the past into now. | |
| T-17. Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship |
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| I. Bringing Fantasy to Truth |
▲Bring fantasies to truth; do not smuggle truth into dreams. | |
| II. The Forgiven World |
When nothing is hidden, the forgiven world has room to shine. | |
| III. Shadows of the Past |
Shadow figures keep the past alive until value is withdrawn. | |
| IV. The Two Pictures |
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| V. The Healed Relationship |
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| VI. Setting the Goal |
Fantasy offers peace-like feelings while quietly hiding the goal of truth. | |
| VII. The Call for Faith |
Faithlessness serves illusion until every situation is given a new use. | |
| VIII. The Conditions of Peace |
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| T-18. The Passing of the Dream |
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| I. The Substitute Reality |
Substitutes fill the world only until truth is wanted without compromise. | |
| II. The Basis of the Dream |
The dream swings from satisfaction to terror because its basis is wish. | |
| III. Light in the Dream |
Love needs no fantasy light; illusion only deepens the dark. | |
| IV. The Little Willingness |
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| V. The Happy Dream |
The happy dream is still a dream, but not a prison. | |
| VI. Beyond the Body |
The body-prison disappears when barriers are recognized as imagined. | |
| VII. I Need Do Nothing |
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| VIII. The Little Garden |
A tiny thought seems a universe until perspective is restored. | |
| IX. The Two Worlds |
Cloud-banked fear looks solid only while make-believe is believed. | |
| T-19. The Attainment of Peace |
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| I. Healing and Faith |
Seeing a brother as a body recruits the body for illusion. | |
| II. Sin versus Error |
Sin is the grand illusion; error is the door out. | |
| III. The Unreality of Sin |
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| IV. The Obstacles to Peace |
A tiny illusion of sin forms a fading wall of shadows. | |
| T-20. The Vision of Holiness |
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| I. Holy Week |
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| II. The Gift of Lilies |
Vision looks past thorns and ends the illusion of obstacles. | |
| III. Sin as an Adjustment |
Judgment paints a merciless world that mirrors a self-image. | |
| IV. Entering the Ark |
Suffering is sustained only by the power you give the untrue. | |
| V. Heralds of Eternity |
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| VI. The Temple of the Holy Spirit |
Bodies and time lend separation a momentary look of reality. | |
| VII. The Consistency of Means and End |
Closing the eyes makes a body-brother; vision reveals he is no illusion. | |
| VIII. The Vision of Sinlessness |
A world-hallucination fades when belief in its purpose is withdrawn. | |
| T-21. Reason and Perception |
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| Introduction |
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| I. The Forgotten Song |
An imagined world is reconstructed from clues; vision remembers what was open. | |
| II. The Responsibility for Sight |
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| III. Faith, Belief and Vision |
Faith is powerful; it either supports illusions of self or releases them. | |
| IV. The Fear to Look Within |
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| V. The Function of Reason |
Reason questions perception’s witnesses and loosens the world the ego made. | |
| VI. Reason versus Madness |
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| VII. The Last Unanswered Question |
The powerless chase a shifting enemy; unstable happiness proves illusion. | |
| VIII. The Inner Shift |
Illusions cannot weaken your will; sanity is still your decision. | |
| T-22. Salvation and the Holy Relationship |
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| I. The Message of the Holy Relationship |
Drop the alien interpreter; truth comes instantly when illusions are denied. | |
| II. Your Brother’s Sinlessness |
Misery changes forms, but no illusion can be brought into Heaven. | |
| III. Reason and the Forms of Error |
Because form changes, it cannot be reality; perception sees only illusion. | |
| IV. The Branching of the Road |
Joined hands touch the veil and find the barrier was nothing. | |
| V. Weakness and Defensiveness |
Defending an immovable block makes it seem real; truth passes over it. | |
| VI. The Light of the Holy Relationship |
When peace is the goal, every shadow is recognized as a mistake. | |
| T-23. The War Against Yourself |
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Harmfulness is an illusion; truth reveals innocence where enemies seemed. | |
| I. The Irreconcilable Beliefs |
War is illusion against illusion; truth never enters the battleground. | |
| II. The Laws of Chaos |
Chaos rests on a hierarchy of illusions pretending some are truer. | |
| III. Salvation without Compromise |
No shelter within conflict can substitute for the safety of truth. | |
| IV. Above the Battleground |
From above the battleground, no illusion can attack God’s peace. | |
| T-24. The Goal of Specialness |
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| Introduction |
Illusions cannot delay God; the seeming barrier is only shadow. | |
| I. Specialness as a Substitute for Love |
Specialness turns your brother into an image to rank, attack, and defend. | |
| II. The Treachery of Specialness |
Specialness bargains for love and calls despair realistic; both are illusion. | |
| III. The Forgiveness of Specialness |
Forgiveness targets only illusions; once released, they disappear completely. | |
| IV. Specialness versus Sinlessness |
Truth threatens specialness because its comforts depend on illusions that cannot stand. | |
| V. The Christ in You |
Purpose decides whether an illusion leads to danger or lights the way home. | |
| VI. Salvation from Fear |
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| VII. The Meeting Place |
Perception pictures a wish; a body-theory supplies the evidence it demands. | |
| T-25. The Justice of God |
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| Introduction |
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| I. The Link to Truth |
Learning transfers false ideas to truth, guided by the inner Teacher. | |
| II. The Savior from the Dark |
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| III. Perception and Choice |
Specialness uses the world as a shelter where it tries to make illusions real. | |
| IV. The Light You Bring |
Your light turns a world of darkness into distant shadows and mistakes. | |
| V. The State of Sinlessness |
Attack and sin prop each other up until the wish to attack is gone. | |
| VI. The Special Function |
The world is not your home; your part is undoing what you made. | |
| VII. The Rock of Salvation |
Either God’s Thought is true, or the world’s meaning is illusion. | |
| VIII. Justice Returned to Love |
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| IX. The Justice of Heaven |
Heaven’s justice is accepting correction and relinquishing the world’s values. | |
| T-26. The Transition |
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| I. The “Sacrifice” of Oneness |
See witnesses to truth in your brother, and the world’s purpose shifts. | |
| II. Many Forms; One Correction |
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| III. The Borderland |
At the borderland, illusions are laid beside truth and judged meaningless. | |
| IV. Where Sin Has Left |
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| V. The Little Hindrance |
Past echoes cannot hold you; the Holy Spirit transforms time’s senseless maze. | |
| VI. The Appointed Friend |
▲Treating one shadow as real invites a whole sick dream. | |
| VII. The Laws of Healing |
All shadows are equally false; purpose can turn any form to healing. | |
| VIII. The Immediacy of Salvation |
Time and distance are one delay-story the mind can drop now. | |
| 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 |
The body’s witnesses invent a purpose; healing frees you from the past goal. | |
| II. The Fear of Healing |
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| III. Beyond All Symbols |
A brother-image holds a double thought; let it dissolve into harmless empty space. | |
| IV. The Quiet Answer |
The ego’s only question asks which illusion will finally soothe you. | |
| V. The Healing Example |
Healing generalizes because different problems share one unreal basis. | |
| VI. The Witnesses to Sin |
Pain and pleasure testify for sin until the miracle replaces their evidence. | |
| VII. The Dreamer of the Dream |
Remember the maker: illusions lose independence when you accept you are dreaming. | |
| VIII. The “Hero” of the Dream |
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| T-28. The Undoing of Fear |
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| I. The Present Memory |
The past feels present only because memory is treated as cause. | |
| II. Reversing Effect and Cause |
Self-images and moods are effects; recognizing you made them ends their fear. | |
| III. The Agreement to Join |
Stop wrestling with glittering images; value the bridge instead. | |
| IV. The Greater Joining |
Illusions have no effects without your support; join the dreamer and release the dream. | |
| V. The Alternate to Dreams of Fear |
The middle ground is fog: senses report nothing, and the mind supplies meaning. | |
| 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 |
Sin and pain share one false cause; seen causeless, love can enter. | |
| III. God’s Witnesses |
Forgive your brother’s dreams so completely that he becomes your savior from dreaming. | |
| IV. Dream Roles |
A miracle cannot bless a preferred dream; truth has no partial exceptions. | |
| V. The Changeless Dwelling Place |
Hands that release weapons remember a resting place where illusion cannot linger. | |
| VI. Forgiveness and the End of Time |
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| VII. Seek Not Outside Yourself |
The outside-search multiplies idols and keeps the truth within unnamed. | |
| VIII. The Anti-Christ |
An idol is a wish in form; the light remains untouched behind it. | |
| 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 |
★When toys disappoint, stop attacking and withdraw worship from what was never real. | |
| V. The Only Purpose |
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| VI. The Justification for Forgiveness |
If any appearance is exempt, forgiveness is capped and idols remain. | |
| VII. The New Interpretation |
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| VIII. Changeless Reality |
Change proves unreality; ask for a miracle instead of defending appearances. | |
| T-31. The Final Vision |
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| I. The Simplicity of Salvation |
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| II. Walking with Christ |
Lay aside role-images; the companion’s light is steady through appearances. | |
| III. The Self-Accused |
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| IV. The Real Alternative |
Many roads and new places repeat one mistake; real choice is not in form. | |
| V. Self-Concept versus Self |
Concepts born in shadow cannot define the Self; doubt them and let truth return. | |
| VI. Recognizing the Spirit |
Salvation undoes the world you made and reveals another world that is given. | |
| VII. The Savior’s Vision |
The self-concept is the veil; ask for meaning and let vision bring light. | |
| VIII. Choose Once Again |
Temptation is the moment to let images dissolve and choose holiness again. | |