1. Never forget that the Sonship is your salvation, for the Sonship is your Self. 2As God’s creation It is yours, and belonging to you It is His. 3Your Self does not need salvation, but your mind needs to learn what salvation is. 4You are not saved from anything, but you are saved for glory. 5Glory is your inheritance, given you by your Creator that you might extend it. 6Yet if you hate part of your Self all your understanding is lost, because you are looking on what God created as yourself without love. 7And since what He created is part of Him, you are denying Him His place in His Own altar.
2. Could you try to make God homeless and know that you are at home? 2Can the Son deny the Father without believing that the Father has denied him? 3God’s laws hold only for your protection, and they never hold in vain. 4What you experience when you deny your Father is still for your protection, for the power of your will cannot be lessened without the intervention of God against it, and any limitation on your power is not the Will of God. 5Therefore, look only to the power that God gave to save you, remembering that it is yours because it is His, and join with your brothers in His peace.
3. Your peace lies in its limitlessness. 2Limit the peace you share, and your Self must be unknown to you. 3Every altar to God is part of you, because the light He created is one with Him. 4Would you cut off a brother from the light that is yours? 5You would not do so if you realized that you can darken only your own mind. 6As you bring him back, so will you return. 7That is the law of God, for the protection of the Wholeness of His Son.
4. Only you can deprive yourself of anything. 2Do not oppose this realization, for it is truly the beginning of the dawn of light. 3Remember also that the denial of this simple fact takes many forms, and these you must learn to recognize and to oppose steadfastly, without exception. 4This is a crucial step in the reawakening. 5The beginning phases of this reversal are often quite painful, for as blame is withdrawn from without, there is a strong tendency to harbor it within. 6It is difficult at first to realize that this is exactly the same thing, for there is no distinction between within and without.
5. If your brothers are part of you and you blame them for your deprivation, you are blaming yourself. 2And you cannot blame yourself without blaming them. 3That is why blame must be undone, not seen elsewhere. 4Lay it to yourself and you cannot know yourself, for only the ego blames at all. 5Self-blame is therefore ego identification, and as much an ego defense as blaming others. 6You cannot enter God’s Presence if you attack His Son. 7When His Son lifts his voice in praise of his Creator, he will hear the Voice for his Father. 8Yet the Creator cannot be praised without His Son, for Their glory is shared and They are glorified together.
6. Christ is at God’s altar, waiting to welcome His Son. 2But come wholly without condemnation, for otherwise you will believe that the door is barred and you cannot enter. 3The door is not barred, and it is impossible that you cannot enter the place where God would have you be. 4But love yourself with the Love of Christ, for so does your Father love you. 5You can refuse to enter, but you cannot bar the door that Christ holds open. 6Come unto me who hold it open for you, for while I live it cannot be shut, and I live forever. 7God is my life and yours, and nothing is denied by God to His Son.
7. At God’s altar Christ waits for the restoration of Himself in you. 2God knows His Son as wholly blameless as Himself, and He is approached through the appreciation of His Son. 3Christ waits for your acceptance of Him as yourself, and of His Wholeness as yours. 4For Christ is the Son of God, Who lives in His Creator and shines with His glory. 5Christ is the extension of the Love and the loveliness of God, as perfect as His Creator and at peace with Him.
8. Blessed is the Son of God whose radiance is of his Father, and whose glory he wills to share as his Father shares it with him. 2There is no condemnation in the Son, for there is no condemnation in the Father. 3Sharing the perfect Love of the Father the Son must share what belongs to Him, for otherwise he will not know the Father or the Son. 4Peace be unto you who rest in God, and in whom the whole Sonship rests.