1. Forgetfulness and sleep and even death become the ego’s best advice for dealing with the perceived and harsh intrusion of guilt on peace. 2Yet no one sees himself in conflict and ravaged by a cruel war unless he believes that both opponents in the war are real. 3Believing this he must escape, for such a war would surely end his peace of mind, and so destroy him. 4Yet if he could but realize the war is between real and unreal powers, he could look upon himself and see his freedom. 5No one finds himself ravaged and torn in endless battles if he himself perceives them as wholly without meaning.
2. God would not have His Son embattled, and so His Son’s imagined “enemy” is totally unreal. 2You are but trying to escape a bitter war from which you have escaped. 3The war is gone. 4For you have heard the hymn of freedom rising unto Heaven. 5Gladness and joy belong to God for your release, because you made it not. 6Yet as you made not freedom, so you made not a war that could endanger freedom. 7Nothing destructive ever was or will be. 8The war, the guilt, the past are gone as one into the unreality from which they came.
3. When we are all united in Heaven, you will value nothing that you value here. 2For nothing that you value here do you value wholly, and so you do not value it at all. 3Value is where God placed it, and the value of what God esteems cannot be judged, for it has been established. 4It is wholly of value. 5It can merely be appreciated or not. 6To value it partially is not to know its value. 7In Heaven is everything God values, and nothing else. 8Heaven is perfectly unambiguous. 9Everything is clear and bright, and calls forth one response. 10There is no darkness and there is no contrast. 11There is no variation. 12There is no interruption. 13There is a sense of peace so deep that no dream in this world has ever brought even a dim imagining of what it is.
4. Nothing in this world can give this peace, for nothing in this world is wholly shared. 2Perfect perception can merely show you what is capable of being wholly shared. 3It can also show you the results of sharing, while you still remember the results of not sharing. 4The Holy Spirit points quietly to the contrast, knowing that you will finally let Him judge the difference for you, allowing Him to demonstrate which must be true. 5He has perfect faith in your final judgment, because He knows that He will make it for you. 6To doubt this would be to doubt that His mission will be fulfilled. 7How is this possible, when His mission is of God?
5. You whose mind is darkened by doubt and guilt, remember this: God gave the Holy Spirit to you, and gave Him the mission to remove all doubt and every trace of guilt that His dear Son has laid upon himself. 2It is impossible that this mission fail. 3Nothing can prevent what God would have accomplished from accomplishment. 4Whatever your reactions to the Holy Spirit’s Voice may be, whatever voice you choose to listen to, whatever strange thoughts may occur to you, God’s Will is done. 5You will find the peace in which He has established you, because He does not change His Mind. 6He is invariable as the peace in which you dwell, and of which the Holy Spirit reminds you.
6. You will not remember change and shift in Heaven. 2You have need of contrast only here. 3Contrast and differences are necessary teaching aids, for by them you learn what to avoid and what to seek. 4When you have learned this, you will find the answer that makes the need for any differences disappear. 5Truth comes of its own will unto its own. 6When you have learned that you belong to truth, it will flow lightly over you without a difference of any kind. 7For you will need no contrast to help you realize that this is what you want, and only this. 8Fear not the Holy Spirit will fail in what your Father has given Him to do. 9The Will of God can fail in nothing.
7. Have faith in only this one thing, and it will be sufficient: God wills you be in Heaven, and nothing can keep you from it, or it from you. 2Your wildest misperceptions, your weird imaginings, your blackest nightmares all mean nothing. 3They will not prevail against the peace God wills for you. 4The Holy Spirit will restore your sanity because insanity is not the Will of God. 5If that suffices Him, it is enough for you. 6You will not keep what God would have removed, because it breaks communication with you with whom He would communicate. 7His Voice will be heard.
8. The Communication Link that God Himself placed within you, joining your mind with His, cannot be broken. 2You may believe you want It broken, and this belief does interfere with the deep peace in which the sweet and constant communication God would share with you is known. 3Yet His channels of reaching out cannot be wholly closed and separated from Him. 4Peace will be yours because His peace still flows to you from Him Whose Will is peace. 5You have it now. 6The Holy Spirit will teach you how to use it, and by extending it, to learn that it is in you. 7God willed you Heaven, and will always will you nothing else. 8The Holy Spirit knows only of His Will. 9There is no chance that Heaven will not be yours, for God is sure, and what He wills is as sure as He is.
9. You will learn salvation because you will learn how to save. 2It will not be possible to exempt yourself from what the Holy Spirit wants to teach you. 3Salvation is as sure as God. 4His certainty suffices. 5Learn that even the darkest nightmare that disturbs the mind of God’s sleeping Son holds no power over him. 6He will learn the lesson of awaking. 7God watches over him and light surrounds him.
10. Can God’s Son lose himself in dreams, when God has placed within him the glad Call to waken and be glad? 2He cannot separate himself from what is in him. 3His sleep will not withstand the Call to wake. 4The mission of redemption will be fulfilled as surely as the creation will remain unchanged throughout eternity. 5You do not have to know that Heaven is yours to make it so. 6It is so. 7Yet to know it, the Will of God must be accepted as your will.
11. The Holy Spirit will undo for you everything you have learned that teaches that what is not true must be reconciled with truth. 2This is the reconciliation the ego would substitute for your reconciliation to sanity and to peace. 3The Holy Spirit has a very different kind of reconciliation in His Mind for you, and one He will effect as surely as the ego will not effect what it attempts. 4Failure is of the ego, not of God. 5From Him you cannot wander, and there is no possibility that the plan the Holy Spirit offers to everyone, for the salvation of everyone, will not be perfectly accomplished. 6You will be released, and you will not remember anything you made that was not created for you and by you in return. 7For how can you remember what was never true, or not remember what has always been? 8It is this reconciliation with truth, and only truth, in which the peace of Heaven lies.