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T-21.V

The Function of Reason

Chapter 21 — Reason and Perception

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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From the Motifs’ Teachings

From each motif's Teachings, the teachings and reversals that draw on this section, in the order of the motifs' salience here. Many draw on other sections too, listed beneath them.

Teachings Drawn from This Section

  1. Decision. Decision condenses to one question: what do you want to see? Responsibility for sight becomes fully apparent—the goal you choose selects the feelings you experience. Reason is the capacity to accept help and correction; madness is the insistence on choosing sin over healing. Because minds are joined, choosing healing is always a relational act.

    Drawn fromT-21.IIT-21.VT-21.VII

  2. Faith. In healing, faith proves necessary for peace—the means by which a situation wholly dedicated to truth is brought to truth. You practice faith by giving your brother to the Holy Spirit, releasing the ego’s demands, and allowing union to be seen. Faith does not make reality; belief can make perception, but it cannot alter what God created.

    Drawn fromT-19.IT-21.V
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