T-21.V

The Function of Reason

Reason restores peace by returning perception to its cause: the Teacher you choose—so faith, vision, and miracles replace the ego’s screams with shared purpose.

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Primary
Reason unmasks selective perception and points awareness back to reality.
Pillar
Let reason ask the question the ego avoids: which voice will I follow?
Faith steers perception, not reality; let reason support trust in the other Voice.
Supporting
The ego screams because reason would end the deception.
Let reason reveal the ego’s premises; choose another Voice.
Reason serves the Holy Spirit when you remember He already abides.
Reason ends the fiction of an other mind.
Belief in separate minds blocks reason; miracles confuse without joining.
Reason cannot serve madness; it belongs to undoing insanity.
Consent restores reason: the joined Will is present now and guarantees receiving.
Minor
Reason questions perception’s witnesses and loosens the world the ego made.
Reason serves salvation by opening to God’s complete plan already accepted.
The miracle answers a call for help by changing your mind.
Reason, used rightly, clears space for another vision to extend.
Ego’s voice makes you tiny, vulnerable, and controlled by the world.
Echo
Vulnerability and depression signal ego-guidance; reason points beyond them.
Reason rests on shared will: God and His Son do not will apart.
Reason remembers the answer was given at once, not delayed.
Reason remembers your will inside God’s own self-extending Thoughts.

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