1. The journey that we undertake together is the exchange of dark for light, of ignorance for understanding. 2Nothing you understand is fearful. 3It is only in darkness and in ignorance that you perceive the frightening, and shrink away from it to further darkness. 4And yet it is only the hidden that can terrify, not for what it is, but for its hiddenness. 5The obscure is frightening because you do not understand its meaning. 6If you did, it would be clear and you would be no longer in the dark. 7Nothing has hidden value, for what is hidden cannot be shared, and so its value is unknown. 8The hidden is kept apart, but value always lies in joint appreciation. 9What is concealed cannot be loved, and so it must be feared.
2. The quiet light in which the Holy Spirit dwells within you is merely perfect openness, in which nothing is hidden and therefore nothing is fearful. 2Attack will always yield to love if it is brought to love, not hidden from it. 3There is no darkness that the light of love will not dispel, unless it is concealed from love’s beneficence. 4What is kept apart from love cannot share its healing power, because it has been separated off and kept in darkness. 5The sentinels of darkness watch over it carefully, and you who made these guardians of illusion out of nothing are now afraid of them.
3. Would you continue to give imagined power to these strange ideas of safety? 2They are neither safe nor unsafe. 3They do not protect; neither do they attack. 4They do nothing at all, being nothing at all. 5As guardians of darkness and of ignorance look to them only for fear, for what they keep obscure is fearful. 6But let them go, and what was fearful will be so no longer. 7Without protection of obscurity only the light of love remains, for only this has meaning and can live in light. 8Everything else must disappear.
4. Death yields to life simply because destruction is not true. 2The light of guiltlessness shines guilt away because, when they are brought together, the truth of one must make the falsity of its opposite perfectly clear. 3Keep not guilt and guiltlessness apart, for your belief that you can have them both is meaningless. 4All you have done by keeping them apart is lose their meaning by confusing them with each other. 5And so you do not realize that only one means anything. 6The other is wholly without sense of any kind.
5. You have regarded the separation as a means for breaking your communication with your Father. 2The Holy Spirit reinterprets it as a means of re-establishing what was not broken, but has been made obscure. 3All things you made have use to Him, for His most holy purpose. 4He knows you are not separate from God, but He perceives much in your mind that lets you think you are. 5All this and nothing else would He separate from you. 6The power of decision, which you made in place of the power of creation, He would teach you how to use on your behalf. 7You who made it to crucify yourself must learn of Him how to apply it to the holy cause of restoration.
6. You who speak in dark and devious symbols do not understand the language you have made. 2It has no meaning, for its purpose is not communication, but rather the disruption of communication. 3If the purpose of language is communication, how can this tongue mean anything? 4Yet even this strange and twisted effort to communicate through not communicating holds enough of love to make it meaningful if its Interpreter is not its maker. 5You who made it are but expressing conflict, from which the Holy Spirit would release you. 6Leave what you would communicate to Him. 7He will interpret it to you with perfect clarity, for He knows with Whom you are in perfect communication.
7. You know not what you say, and so you know not what is said to you. 2Yet your Interpreter perceives the meaning in your alien language. 3He will not attempt to communicate the meaningless. 4But He will separate out all that has meaning, dropping off the rest and offering your true communication to those who would communicate as truly with you. 5You speak two languages at once, and this must lead to unintelligibility. 6Yet if one means nothing and the other everything, only that one is possible for purposes of communication. 7The other but interferes with it.
8. The Holy Spirit’s function is entirely communication. 2He therefore must remove whatever interferes with communication in order to restore it. 3Therefore, keep no source of interference from His sight, for He will not attack your sentinels. 4But bring them to Him and let His gentleness teach you that, in the light, they are not fearful, and cannot serve to guard the dark doors behind which nothing at all is carefully concealed. 5We must open all doors and let the light come streaming through. 6There are no hidden chambers in God’s temple. 7Its gates are open wide to greet His Son. 8No one can fail to come where God has called him, if he close not the door himself upon his Father’s welcome.