1. Unless you first know something you cannot dissociate it. 2Knowledge must precede dissociation, so that dissociation is nothing more than a decision to forget. 3What has been forgotten then appears to be fearful, but only because the dissociation is an attack on truth. 4You are fearful because you have forgotten. 5And you have replaced your knowledge by an awareness of dreams because you are afraid of your dissociation, not of what you have dissociated. 6When what you have dissociated is accepted, it ceases to be fearful.
2. Yet to give up the dissociation of reality brings more than merely lack of fear. 2In this decision lie joy and peace and the glory of creation. 3Offer the Holy Spirit only your willingness to remember, for He retains the knowledge of God and of yourself for you, waiting for your acceptance. 4Give up gladly everything that would stand in the way of your remembering, for God is in your memory. 5His Voice will tell you that you are part of Him when you are willing to remember Him and know your own reality again. 6Let nothing in this world delay your remembering of Him, for in this remembering is the knowledge of yourself.
3. To remember is merely to restore to your mind what is already there. 2You do not make what you remember; you merely accept again what is already there, but was rejected. 3The ability to accept truth in this world is the perceptual counterpart of creating in the Kingdom. 4God will do His part if you will do yours, and His return in exchange for yours is the exchange of knowledge for perception. 5Nothing is beyond His Will for you. 6But signify your will to remember Him, and behold! 7He will give you everything but for the asking.
4. When you attack, you are denying yourself. 2You are specifically teaching yourself that you are not what you are. 3Your denial of reality precludes the acceptance of God’s gift, because you have accepted something else in its place. 4If you understand that this is always an attack on truth, and truth is God, you will realize why it is always fearful. 5If you further recognize that you are part of God, you will understand why it is that you always attack yourself first.
5. All attack is Self attack. 2It cannot be anything else. 3Arising from your own decision not to be what you are, it is an attack on your identification. 4Attack is thus the way in which your identification is lost, because when you attack, you must have forgotten what you are. 5And if your reality is God’s, when you attack you are not remembering Him. 6This is not because He is gone, but because you are actively choosing not to remember Him.
6. If you realized the complete havoc this makes of your peace of mind you could not make such an insane decision. 2You make it only because you still believe it can get you something you want. 3It follows, then, that you want something other than peace of mind, but you have not considered what it must be. 4Yet the logical outcome of your decision is perfectly clear, if you will only look at it. 5By deciding against your reality, you have made yourself vigilant against God and His Kingdom. 6And it is this vigilance that makes you afraid to remember Him.