1. Miracles are merely the translation of denial into truth. 2If to love oneself is to heal oneself, those who are sick do not love themselves. 3Therefore, they are asking for the love that would heal them, but which they are denying to themselves. 4If they knew the truth about themselves they could not be sick. 5The task of the miracle worker thus becomes to deny the denial of truth. 6The sick must heal themselves, for the truth is in them. 7Yet having obscured it, the light in another mind must shine into theirs because that light is theirs.
2. The light in them shines as brightly regardless of the density of the fog that obscures it. 2If you give no power to the fog to obscure the light, it has none. 3For it has power only if the Son of God gives power to it. 4He must himself withdraw that power, remembering that all power is of God. 5You can remember this for all the Sonship. 6Do not allow your brother not to remember, for his forgetfulness is yours. 7But your remembering is his, for God cannot be remembered alone. 8This is what you have forgotten. 9To perceive the healing of your brother as the healing of yourself is thus the way to remember God. 10For you forgot your brothers with Him, and God’s Answer to your forgetting is but the way to remember.
3. Perceive in sickness but another call for love, and offer your brother what he believes he cannot offer himself. 2Whatever the sickness, there is but one remedy. 3You will be made whole as you make whole, for to perceive in sickness the appeal for health is to recognize in hatred the call for love. 4And to give a brother what he really wants is to offer it unto yourself, for your Father wills you to know your brother as yourself. 5Answer his call for love, and yours is answered. 6Healing is the Love of Christ for His Father and for Himself.
4. Remember what was said about the frightening perceptions of little children, which terrify them because they do not understand them. 2If they ask for enlightenment and accept it, their fears vanish. 3But if they hide their nightmares they will keep them. 4It is easy to help an uncertain child, for he recognizes that he does not understand what his perceptions mean. 5Yet you believe that you do understand yours. 6Little child, you are hiding your head under the cover of the heavy blankets you have laid upon yourself. 7You are hiding your nightmares in the darkness of your own false certainty, and refusing to open your eyes and look at them.
5. Let us not save nightmares, for they are not fitting offerings for Christ, and so they are not fit gifts for you. 2Take off the covers and look at what you are afraid of. 3Only the anticipation will frighten you, for the reality of nothingness cannot be frightening. 4Let us not delay this, for your dream of hatred will not leave you without help, and Help is here. 5Learn to be quiet in the midst of turmoil, for quietness is the end of strife and this is the journey to peace. 6Look straight at every image that rises to delay you, for the goal is inevitable because it is eternal. 7The goal of love is but your right, and it belongs to you despite your dreams.
6. You still want what God wills, and no nightmare can defeat a child of God in his purpose. 2For your purpose was given you by God, and you must accomplish it because it is His Will. 3Awake and remember your purpose, for it is your will to do so. 4What has been accomplished for you must be yours. 5Do not let your hatred stand in the way of love, for nothing can withstand the Love of Christ for His Father, or His Father’s Love for Him.
7. A little while and you will see me, for I am not hidden because you are hiding. 2I will awaken you as surely as I awakened myself, for I awoke for you. 3In my resurrection is your release. 4Our mission is to escape from crucifixion, not from redemption. 5Trust in my help, for I did not walk alone, and I will walk with you as our Father walked with me. 6Do you not know that I walked with Him in peace? 7And does not that mean that peace goes with us on the journey?
8. There is no fear in perfect love. 2We will but be making perfect to you what is already perfect in you. 3You do not fear the unknown but the known. 4You will not fail in your mission because I did not fail in mine. 5Give me but a little trust in the name of the complete trust I have in you, and we will easily accomplish the goal of perfection together. 6For perfection is, and cannot be denied. 7To deny the denial of perfection is not so difficult as to deny truth, and what we can accomplish together will be believed when you see it as accomplished.
9. You who have tried to banish love have not succeeded, but you who choose to banish fear must succeed. 2The Lord is with you, but you know it not. 3Yet your Redeemer liveth, and abideth in you in the peace out of which He was created. 4Would you not exchange this awareness for the awareness of fear? 5When we have overcome fear—not by hiding it, not by minimizing it, and not by denying its full import in any way—this is what you will really see. 6You cannot lay aside the obstacles to real vision without looking upon them, for to lay aside means to judge against. 7If you will look, the Holy Spirit will judge, and He will judge truly. 8Yet He cannot shine away what you keep hidden, for you have not offered it to Him and He cannot take it from you.
10. We are therefore embarking on an organized, well-structured and carefully planned program aimed at learning how to offer to the Holy Spirit everything you do not want. 2He knows what to do with it. 3You do not understand how to use what He knows. 4Whatever is given Him that is not of God is gone. 5Yet you must look at it yourself in perfect willingness, for otherwise His knowledge remains useless to you. 6Surely He will not fail to help you, since help is His only purpose. 7Do you not have greater reason for fearing the world as you perceive it, than for looking at the cause of fear and letting it go forever?