1. You who have spent your life in bringing truth to illusion, reality to fantasy, have walked the way of dreams. 2For you have gone from waking to sleeping, and on and on to a yet deeper sleep. 3Each dream has led to other dreams, and every fantasy that seemed to bring a light into the darkness but made the darkness deeper. 4Your goal was darkness, in which no ray of light could enter. 5And you sought a blackness so complete that you could hide from truth forever, in complete insanity. 6What you forgot was simply that God cannot destroy Himself. 7The light is in you. 8Darkness can cover it, but cannot put it out.
2. As the light comes nearer you will rush to darkness, shrinking from the truth, sometimes retreating to the lesser forms of fear, and sometimes to stark terror. 2But you will advance, because your goal is the advance from fear to truth. 3The goal you accepted is the goal of knowledge, for which you signified your willingness. 4Fear seems to live in darkness, and when you are afraid you have stepped back. 5Let us then join quickly in an instant of light, and it will be enough to remind you that your goal is light.
3. Truth has rushed to meet you since you called upon it. 2If you knew Who walks beside you on the way that you have chosen, fear would be impossible. 3You do not know because the journey into darkness has been long and cruel, and you have gone deep into it. 4A little flicker of your eyelids, closed so long, has not yet been sufficient to give you confidence in yourself, so long despised. 5You go toward love still hating it, and terribly afraid of its judgment upon you. 6And you do not realize that you are not afraid of love, but only of what you have made of it. 7You are advancing to love’s meaning, and away from all illusions in which you have surrounded it. 8When you retreat to the illusion your fear increases, for there is little doubt that what you think it means is fearful. 9Yet what is that to us who travel surely and very swiftly away from fear?
4. You who hold your brother’s hand also hold mine, for when you joined each other you were not alone. 2Do you believe that I would leave you in the darkness that you agreed to leave with me? 3In your relationship is this world’s light. 4And fear must disappear before you now. 5Be tempted not to snatch away the gift of faith you offered to your brother. 6You will succeed only in frightening yourself. 7The gift is given forever, for God Himself received it. 8You cannot take it back. 9You have accepted God. 10The holiness of your relationship is established in Heaven. 11You do not understand what you accepted, but remember that your understanding is not necessary. 12All that was necessary was merely the wish to understand. 13That wish was the desire to be holy. 14The Will of God is granted you. 15For you desire the only thing you ever had, or ever were.
5. Each instant that we spend together will teach you that this goal is possible, and will strengthen your desire to reach it. 2And in your desire lies its accomplishment. 3Your desire is now in complete accord with all the power of the Holy Spirit’s Will. 4No little, faltering footsteps that you may take can separate your desire from His Will and from His strength. 5I hold your hand as surely as you agreed to take your brother’s. 6You will not separate, for I stand with you and walk with you in your advance to truth. 7And where we go we carry God with us.
6. In your relationship you have joined with me in bringing Heaven to the Son of God, who hid in darkness. 2You have been willing to bring the darkness to light, and this willingness has given strength to everyone who would remain in darkness. 3Those who would see will see. 4And they will join with me in carrying their light into the darkness, when the darkness in them is offered to the light, and is removed forever. 5My need for you, joined with me in the holy light of your relationship, is your need for salvation. 6Would I not give you what you gave to me? 7For when you joined your brother, you answered me.
7. You who are now the bringer of salvation have the function of bringing light to darkness. 2The darkness in you has been brought to light. 3Carry it back to darkness, from the holy instant to which you brought it. 4We are made whole in our desire to make whole. 5Let not time worry you, for all the fear that you and your brother experience is really past. 6Time has been readjusted to help us do, together, what your separate pasts would hinder. 7You have gone past fear, for no two minds can join in the desire for love without love’s joining them.
8. Not one light in Heaven but goes with you. 2Not one Ray that shines forever in the Mind of God but shines on you. 3Heaven is joined with you in your advance to Heaven. 4When such great lights have joined with you to give the little spark of your desire the power of God Himself, can you remain in darkness? 5You and your brother are coming home together, after a long and meaningless journey that you undertook apart, and that led nowhere. 6You have found your brother, and you will light each other’s way. 7And from this light will the Great Rays extend back into darkness and forward unto God, to shine away the past and so make room for His eternal Presence, in which everything is radiant in the light.