T-9.VI

The Acceptance of Your Brother

Chapter 9 — The Acceptance of the Atonement

Accepting your brother means choosing the Holy Spirit’s interpretation, where shared Sonship makes giving and receiving one, and time becomes a classroom for remembering changeless oneness.

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Accepting one brother opens the way to the one Son.
Pillar
In your brother you find shared creations; each part recalls the whole.
Your receiving is limited by what you offer.
Recognize the Holy Spirit by His effects: shared joy and awakening.
Wholeness is learned by recognizing it in every brother.
What you call forth in your brother returns as your own lesson about yourself.
Supporting
Accept your brother as part of you; self-knowledge arrives through inclusion.
Time teaches by contrast what eternity already is.
Minor
Miracle is shared acceptance in time—the witness you can recognize.
Effects are perceived now; true knowing lies beyond sense.
Let joy’s effect in others reveal what you’re truly extending.
Light isn’t dimmed by not seeing; wholeness stays indivisible.
Receiving expands as you decide to offer acceptance to your brother.
Echo
Eternity rests in God’s open Mind, making the world’s offers meaningless.
Eternity becomes meaningful as you remember God’s open embrace.
Perfect understanding flowers as perfect communication among creations.
Healing is still needed in time; miracles witness reality while correction continues.

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