1. Miracles demonstrate that learning has occurred under the right guidance, for learning is invisible and what has been learned can be recognized only by its results. 2Its generalization is demonstrated as you use it in more and more situations. 3You will recognize that you have learned there is no order of difficulty in miracles when you apply them to all situations. 4There is no situation to which miracles do not apply, and by applying them to all situations you will gain the real world. 5For in this holy perception you will be made whole, and the Atonement will radiate from your acceptance of it for yourself to everyone the Holy Spirit sends you for your blessing. 6In every child of God His blessing lies, and in your blessing of the children of God is His blessing to you.
2. Everyone in the world must play his part in its redemption, in order to recognize that the world has been redeemed. 2You cannot see the invisible. 3Yet if you see its effects you know it must be there. 4By perceiving what it does, you recognize its being. 5And by what it does, you learn what it is. 6You cannot see your strengths, but you gain confidence in their existence as they enable you to act. 7And the results of your actions you can see.
3. The Holy Spirit is invisible, but you can see the results of His Presence, and through them you will learn that He is there. 2What He enables you to do is clearly not of this world, for miracles violate every law of reality as this world judges it. 3Every law of time and space, of magnitude and mass is transcended, for what the Holy Spirit enables you to do is clearly beyond all of them. 4Perceiving His results, you will understand where He must be, and finally know what He is.
4. You cannot see the Holy Spirit, but you can see His manifestations. 2And unless you do, you will not realize He is there. 3Miracles are His witnesses, and speak for His Presence. 4What you cannot see becomes real to you only through the witnesses that speak for it. 5For you can be aware of what you cannot see, and it can become compellingly real to you as its presence becomes manifest through you. 6Do the Holy Spirit’s work, for you share in His function. 7As your function in Heaven is creation, so your function on earth is healing. 8God shares His function with you in Heaven, and the Holy Spirit shares His with you on earth. 9As long as you believe you have other functions, so long will you need correction. 10For this belief is the destruction of peace, a goal in direct opposition to the Holy Spirit’s purpose.
5. You see what you expect, and you expect what you invite. 2Your perception is the result of your invitation, coming to you as you sent for it. 3Whose manifestations would you see? 4Of whose presence would you be convinced? 5For you will believe in what you manifest, and as you look out so will you see in. 6Two ways of looking at the world are in your mind, and your perception will reflect the guidance you have chosen.
6. I am the manifestation of the Holy Spirit, and when you see me it will be because you have invited Him. 2For He will send you His witnesses if you will but look upon them. 3Remember always that you see what you seek, for what you seek you will find. 4The ego finds what it seeks, and only that. 5It does not find love, for that is not what it is seeking. 6Yet seeking and finding are the same, and if you seek for two goals you will find them, but you will recognize neither. 7You will think they are the same because you want both of them. 8The mind always strives for integration, and if it is split and wants to keep the split, it will still believe it has one goal by making it seem to be one.
7. I said before that what you project or extend is up to you, but you must do one or the other, for that is a law of mind, and you must look in before you look out. 2As you look in, you choose the guide for seeing. 3And then you look out and behold his witnesses. 4This is why you find what you seek. 5What you want in yourself you will make manifest, and you will accept it from the world because you put it there by wanting it. 6When you think you are projecting what you do not want, it is still because you do want it. 7This leads directly to dissociation, for it represents the acceptance of two goals, each perceived in a different place; separated from each other because you made them different. 8The mind then sees a divided world outside itself, but not within. 9This gives it an illusion of integrity, and enables it to believe that it is pursuing one goal. 10Yet as long as you perceive the world as split, you are not healed. 11For to be healed is to pursue one goal, because you have accepted only one and want but one.
8. When you want only love you will see nothing else. 2The contradictory nature of the witnesses you perceive is merely the reflection of your conflicting invitations. 3You have looked upon your mind and accepted opposition there, having sought it there. 4But do not then believe that the witnesses for opposition are true, for they attest only to your decision about reality, returning to you the messages you gave them. 5Love, too, is recognized by its messengers. 6If you make love manifest, its messengers will come to you because you invited them.
9. The power of decision is your one remaining freedom as a prisoner of this world. 2You can decide to see it right. 3What you made of it is not its reality, for its reality is only what you give it. 4You cannot really give anything but love to anyone or anything, nor can you really receive anything but love from them. 5If you think you have received anything else, it is because you have looked within and thought you saw the power to give something else within yourself. 6It was only this decision that determined what you found, for it was the decision for what you sought.
10. You are afraid of me because you looked within and are afraid of what you saw. 2Yet you could not have seen reality, for the reality of your mind is the loveliest of God’s creations. 3Coming only from God, its power and grandeur could only bring you peace if you really looked upon it. 4If you are afraid, it is because you saw something that is not there. 5Yet in that same place you could have looked upon me and all your brothers, in the perfect safety of the Mind which created us. 6For we are there in the peace of the Father, Who wills to extend His peace through you.
11. When you have accepted your mission to extend peace you will find peace, for by making it manifest you will see it. 2Its holy witnesses will surround you because you called upon them, and they will come to you. 3I have heard your call and I have answered it, but you will not look upon me nor hear the answer that you sought. 4That is because you do not yet want only that. 5Yet as I become more real to you, you will learn that you do want only that. 6And you will see me as you look within, and we will look upon the real world together. 7Through the eyes of Christ, only the real world exists and only the real world can be seen. 8As you decide so will you see. 9And all that you see but witnesses to your decision.
12. When you look within and see me, it will be because you have decided to manifest truth. 2And as you manifest it you will see it both without and within. 3You will see it without because you saw it first within. 4Everything you behold without is a judgment of what you beheld within. 5If it is your judgment it will be wrong, for judgment is not your function. 6If it is the judgment of the Holy Spirit it will be right, for judgment is His function. 7You share His function only by judging as He does, reserving no judgment at all for yourself. 8You will judge against yourself, but He will judge for you.
13. Remember, then, that whenever you look without and react unfavorably to what you see, you have judged yourself unworthy and have condemned yourself to death. 2The death penalty is the ego’s ultimate goal, for it fully believes that you are a criminal, as deserving of death as God knows you are deserving of life. 3The death penalty never leaves the ego’s mind, for that is what it always reserves for you in the end. 4Wanting to kill you as the final expression of its feeling for you, it lets you live but to await death. 5It will torment you while you live, but its hatred is not satisfied until you die. 6For your destruction is the one end toward which it works, and the only end with which it will be satisfied.
14. The ego is not a traitor to God, to Whom treachery is impossible. 2But it is a traitor to you who believe that you have been treacherous to your Father. 3That is why the undoing of guilt is an essential part of the Holy Spirit’s teaching. 4For as long as you feel guilty you are listening to the voice of the ego, which tells you that you have been treacherous to God and therefore deserve death. 5You will think that death comes from God and not from the ego because, by confusing yourself with the ego, you believe that you want death. 6And from what you want God does not save you.
15. When you are tempted to yield to the desire for death, remember that I did not die. 2You will realize that this is true when you look within and see me. 3Would I have overcome death for myself alone? 4And would eternal life have been given me of the Father unless He had also given it to you? 5When you learn to make me manifest, you will never see death. 6For you will have looked upon the deathless in yourself, and you will see only the eternal as you look out upon a world that cannot die.