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T-26.VI

The Appointed Friend

Chapter 26 — The Transition

By exposing how a cherished illusion becomes a lonely friend importing sin, attack, and fear, the teaching invites a new decision: enthrone the Holy Spirit’s forgiveness instead.

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▲ MilestoneTreating one shadow as real invites a whole sick dream. ▲ Milestone
Pillar
Refuse the illusion’s friendship and welcome the Friend God appointed.
Respectable idols: good goals that usurp the Friend appointed by God.
Supporting
Stop befriending preferred illusions; make room for the Appointed Friend.
Minor
Making one illusion real invites the whole chain of pain.
Solitude comes from enthroning shadows; welcome the appointed Friend and loneliness fades.
Echo
Make room for the appointed Friend; false companions obscure forgiveness.
God does not will loneliness: accept the Friend appointed for you.
Make one illusion real, and the whole sin package enters with it.
Attack seems real only when illusions are granted reality.
Cherish one illusion, and the whole sickness-death system enters with it.
Make illusion real, inherit its laws—sacrifice included.
Refuse shadow friendships; accept the Friend who knows God’s Son.
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