1. It is impossible not to believe what you see, but it is equally impossible to see what you do not believe. 2Perceptions are built up on the basis of experience, and experience leads to beliefs. 3It is not until beliefs are fixed that perceptions stabilize. 4In effect, then, what you believe you do see. 5That is what I meant when I said, “Blessed are ye who have not seen and still believe,” for those who believe in the resurrection will see it. 6The resurrection is the complete triumph of Christ over the ego, not by attack but by transcendence. 7For Christ does rise above the ego and all its works, and ascends to the Father and His Kingdom.
2. Would you join in the resurrection or the crucifixion? 2Would you condemn your brothers or free them? 3Would you transcend your prison and ascend to the Father? 4These questions are all the same, and are answered together. 5There has been much confusion about what perception means, because the word is used both for awareness and for the interpretation of awareness. 6Yet you cannot be aware without interpretation, for what you perceive is your interpretation.
3. This course is perfectly clear. 2If you do not see it clearly, it is because you are interpreting against it, and therefore do not believe it. 3And since belief determines perception, you do not perceive what it means and therefore do not accept it. 4Yet different experiences lead to different beliefs, and with them different perceptions. 5For perceptions are learned with beliefs, and experience does teach. 6I am leading you to a new kind of experience that you will become less and less willing to deny. 7Learning of Christ is easy, for to perceive with Him involves no strain at all. 8His perceptions are your natural awareness, and it is only the distortions you introduce that tire you. 9Let the Christ in you interpret for you, and do not try to limit what you see by narrow little beliefs that are unworthy of God’s Son. 10For until Christ comes into His Own, the Son of God will see himself as Fatherless.
4. I am your resurrection and your life. 2You live in me because you live in God. 3And everyone lives in you, as you live in everyone. 4Can you, then, perceive unworthiness in a brother and not perceive it in yourself? 5And can you perceive it in yourself and not perceive it in God? 6Believe in the resurrection because it has been accomplished, and it has been accomplished in you. 7This is as true now as it will ever be, for the resurrection is the Will of God, which knows no time and no exceptions. 8But make no exceptions yourself, or you will not perceive what has been accomplished for you. 9For we ascend unto the Father together, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, for such is the nature of God’s Son as his Father created him.
5. Do not underestimate the power of the devotion of God’s Son, nor the power the god he worships has over him. 2For he places himself at the altar of his god, whether it be the god he made or the God Who created him. 3That is why his slavery is as complete as his freedom, for he will obey only the god he accepts. 4The god of crucifixion demands that he crucify, and his worshippers obey. 5In his name they crucify themselves, believing that the power of the Son of God is born of sacrifice and pain. 6The God of resurrection demands nothing, for He does not will to take away. 7He does not require obedience, for obedience implies submission. 8He would only have you learn your will and follow it, not in the spirit of sacrifice and submission, but in the gladness of freedom.
6. Resurrection must compel your allegiance gladly, because it is the symbol of joy. 2Its whole compelling power lies in the fact that it represents what you want to be. 3The freedom to leave behind everything that hurts you and humbles you and frightens you cannot be thrust upon you, but it can be offered you through the grace of God. 4And you can accept it by His grace, for God is gracious to His Son, accepting him without question as His Own. 5Who, then, is your own? 6The Father has given you all that is His, and He Himself is yours with them. 7Guard them in their resurrection, for otherwise you will not awake in God, safely surrounded by what is yours forever.
7. You will not find peace until you have removed the nails from the hands of God’s Son, and taken the last thorn from his forehead. 2The Love of God surrounds His Son whom the god of crucifixion condemns. 3Teach not that I died in vain. 4Teach rather that I did not die by demonstrating that I live in you. 5For the undoing of the crucifixion of God’s Son is the work of the redemption, in which everyone has a part of equal value. 6God does not judge His guiltless Son. 7Having given Himself to him, how could it be otherwise?
8. You have nailed yourself to a cross, and placed a crown of thorns upon your own head. 2Yet you cannot crucify God’s Son, for the Will of God cannot die. 3His Son has been redeemed from his own crucifixion, and you cannot assign to death whom God has given eternal life. 4The dream of crucifixion still lies heavy on your eyes, but what you see in dreams is not reality. 5While you perceive the Son of God as crucified, you are asleep. 6And as long as you believe that you can crucify him, you are only having nightmares. 7You who are beginning to wake are still aware of dreams, and have not yet forgotten them. 8The forgetting of dreams and the awareness of Christ come with the awakening of others to share your redemption.
9. You will awaken to your own call, for the Call to awake is within you. 2If I live in you, you are awake. 3Yet you must see the works I do through you, or you will not perceive that I have done them unto you. 4Do not set limits on what you believe I can do through you, or you will not accept what I can do for you. 5Yet it is done already, and unless you give all that you have received you will not know that your redeemer liveth, and that you have awakened with him. 6Redemption is recognized only by sharing it.
10. God’s Son is saved. 2Bring only this awareness to the Sonship, and you will have a part in the redemption as valuable as mine. 3For your part must be like mine if you learn it of me. 4If you believe that yours is limited, you are limiting mine. 5There is no order of difficulty in miracles because all of God’s Sons are of equal value, and their equality is their oneness. 6The whole power of God is in every part of Him, and nothing contradictory to His Will is either great or small. 7What does not exist has no size and no measure. 8To God all things are possible. 9And to Christ it is given to be like the Father.