T-29.II

The Coming of the Guest

Welcoming the Holy Spirit as an inner Guest dethrones the body as cause, undoing sickness-and-sacrifice thinking and letting healing, peace, and joining be received and therefore given.

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Primary
★ ZenithNothingness of the body frees you from sickness and death.	★ Zenith
Pillar
Demanding the body be something makes sickness seem justified.
Welcome the Guest fully, and notice the gifts already placed.
Accept healing’s cause, and its effects are already with you.
Supporting
Body made a god: separation premise and the love–hate swing.
Receive the Guest’s gifts by giving them to all.
When the cause is welcomed, its healing effects are already here.
The Guest is welcomed when conflict is no longer cherished.
Welcoming the Guest means inviting everyone in; aloneness cannot remain.
Pain becomes a false companion until the temple unto death is refused.
Welcome truth’s Guest: Heaven’s way asks no loss of you.
Minor
Heaven knows no change; the body’s shifts are not identity.
One body can teach opposite lessons under opposite goals.
Your welcome is not private; others heal when gifts are accepted.
Sin and pain share one false cause; seen causeless, love can enter.
When the body is idolized, attack and guilt travel together.
You invited the Guest; regret dissolves when you choose His purpose.
Making the body your protection turns it into a prison.
When guilt’s causes are withdrawn, welcome Love’s effects; grace announces the Guest.
No miracle is causeless; accepted healing already carries its effect.
The body is not your refuge; salvation is remembering its nothingness.
The body teaches what the mind’s teacher assigns; reinterpret its purpose.
Echo
Fear belongs to guilt’s illusion cluster; withdraw belief and welcome the Guest.
Do not enthrone guilt; welcoming love requires releasing the attack-guilt pair.
Returning to God involves no true loss; Heaven remains changeless.
Only what is in God lives; your reality cannot be measured in parts.
Bodies change in time; immortality is untouched by events.
Change belongs to the dream; the body is its central symbol.
Replacing God with the body sets the limit called littleness.
Life is one: every living thing is included in God’s Son.

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