T-19.I

Healing and Faith

Chapter 19 — The Attainment of Peace

Faith decides whether healing serves separation or joining, as the Holy Spirit reinterprets the body’s evidence and restores peace through forgiveness.

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Faith ▲ Milestone Peace requires inclusive faith; give your brother to the Holy Spirit. Healing Faith joins in a united purpose; the Holy Spirit heals through your vision.

Pillar

Body The body neither heals nor causes sickness. Holy Spirit Give your brother to the Holy Spirit, and faith begins. Illusions Seeing a brother as a body recruits the body for illusion.

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Joining Healing comes when you join the Holy Spirit and see the whole. Separation Faith in the body makes separation seem real; healing begins by locating cause. Forgiveness Faith overlooks errors; faithlessness condemns a brother as unworthy. Peace Dedicate a situation to truth: faith brings peace, and truth follows.

Minor

Sickness The body seems sick when used to separate from a brother. Cause and Effect Effects stay with their source; heal the idea, not the symptom. Form—Content Healing is changing the mind’s use of the body, not fixing the form. Altar Stand together at the same inner altar where grace is given. Ego Healing begins when ego demands on a brother are withdrawn. Holy Instant Stand together in calm sight: the Holy Instant remakes the relationship. Magic A divided goal makes bodily healing seem equal to mind healing. Means—End A divided goal makes healing impossible; attack can’t be the method. Vision Faith gives calm sight that sees your brother already free.

Echo

Atonement Faith accepts Atonement and shares freedom from the past with a brother. Attack Faithlessness attacks by limiting and separating; faith joins and heals. Giving / Receiving Faith cannot be private: the freedom you offer is the freedom you receive. Guilt Faith sees your brother forgiven now, and guilt loses its job. Holy Relationship Lend faith to your brother and let the relationship be remade. Judgment Faith refuses the past as evidence for condemning your brother now. Miracle Faith remakes the relationship; the miracle arrives as calm sight. Sonship Faith sees the Son already forgiven and therefore heals without exceptions. Time Faith refuses to judge from the past, freeing time’s prison. Defenses Concealment hides mind-cause and makes effects seem like proof. Fear Faith joins; fear attacks and therefore cannot heal. Love Faith rests on Love’s joining and keeps no one separate. Perception—Knowledge Faith brings a new perception that can be exchanged for knowing. Real World Faith redirects perception: the last step before knowledge. Salvation Faith reunites what distrust split; recognize salvation in your brother again.