T-8.VII

The Body as a Means of Communication

Let the Holy Spirit assign purpose, and the body becomes a communication link—ending separation as joining and healing replace the ego’s use of form.

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Primary
▲ MilestonePurpose turns the body into weapon or bridge.	▲ Milestone
▲ MilestoneThe body finds purpose only as a communication device.	▲ Milestone
Pillar
Attack uses the body to get; communication uses it to extend.
Give the body one function: communication for joining.
Purpose changes the body: the Holy Spirit turns it into communication.
Use the body to communicate, not to separate; communication is joining.
Supporting
Body reinterpreted: ego separates, Holy Spirit communicates.
Attack isolates; communication restores the joined mind beyond bodily identity.
The body has no value; its reality is the service it renders.
Joy’s curriculum uses the body to communicate, not to define.
Use the body only to communicate; that united purpose makes whole and heals.
Illness follows arrested extension; communication beyond the body restores wholeness.
Blocked extension makes the body seem sick and separate.
Minor
Power is shared in the Sonship; awareness comes through willingness to share.
Purpose decides the body’s meaning; misuse makes it seem to hurt.
Attack appeals only when believed; disbelief releases the body story.
Vulnerability is a block to extension; open again to wholeness.
Joy comes from one purpose: accept God’s unified intent, not your own.
Attack seems to have effects only while its imagined results are believed.
Body-identification shrinks you and your brother into depression.
Body-identification cuts the mind off from shared salvation.
The use you choose is the body you perceive.
Echo
Seeing a brother as a body is already a condemning verdict.
Giving a brother freedom loosens your own littleness.

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