1. The miracle is much like the body in that both are learning aids for facilitating a state in which they become unnecessary. 2When spirit’s original state of direct communication is reached, neither the body nor the miracle serves any purpose. 3While you believe you are in a body, however, you can choose between loveless and miraculous channels of expression. 4You can make an empty shell, but you cannot express nothing at all. 5You can wait, delay, paralyze yourself, or reduce your creativity almost to nothing. 6But you cannot abolish it. 7You can destroy your medium of communication, but not your potential. 8You did not create yourself.
2. The basic decision of the miracle-minded is not to wait on time any longer than is necessary. 2Time can waste as well as be wasted. 3The miracle worker, therefore, accepts the time-control factor gladly. 4He recognizes that every collapse of time brings everyone closer to the ultimate release from time, in which the Son and the Father are One. 5Equality does not imply equality now. 6When everyone recognizes that he has everything, individual contributions to the Sonship will no longer be necessary.
3. When the Atonement has been completed, all talents will be shared by all the Sons of God. 2God is not partial. 3All His children have His total Love, and all His gifts are freely given to everyone alike. 4“Except ye become as little children” means that unless you fully recognize your complete dependence on God, you cannot know the real power of the Son in his true relationship with the Father. 5The specialness of God’s Sons does not stem from exclusion but from inclusion. 6All my brothers are special. 7If they believe they are deprived of anything, their perception becomes distorted. 8When this occurs the whole family of God, or the Sonship, is impaired in its relationships.
4. Ultimately, every member of the family of God must return. 2The miracle calls him to return because it blesses and honors him, even though he may be absent in spirit. 3“God is not mocked” is not a warning but a reassurance. 4God would be mocked if any of His creations lacked holiness. 5The creation is whole, and the mark of wholeness is holiness. 6Miracles are affirmations of Sonship, which is a state of completion and abundance.
5. Whatever is true is eternal, and cannot change or be changed. 2Spirit is therefore unalterable because it is already perfect, but the mind can elect what it chooses to serve. 3The only limit put on its choice is that it cannot serve two masters. 4If it elects to do so, the mind can become the medium by which spirit creates along the line of its own creation. 5If it does not freely elect to do so, it retains its creative potential but places itself under tyrannous rather than Authoritative control. 6As a result it imprisons, because such are the dictates of tyrants. 7To change your mind means to place it at the disposal of true Authority.
6. The miracle is a sign that the mind has chosen to be led by me in Christ’s service. 2The abundance of Christ is the natural result of choosing to follow Him. 3All shallow roots must be uprooted, because they are not deep enough to sustain you. 4The illusion that shallow roots can be deepened, and thus made to hold, is one of the distortions on which the reverse of the Golden Rule rests. 5As these false underpinnings are given up, the equilibrium is temporarily experienced as unstable. 6However, nothing is less stable than an upside-down orientation. 7Nor can anything that holds it upside down be conducive to increased stability.