1. Vision will come to you at first in glimpses, but they will be enough to show you what is given you who see your brother sinless. 2Truth is restored to you through your desire, as it was lost to you through your desire for something else. 3Open the holy place that you closed off by valuing the “something else,” and what was never lost will quietly return. 4It has been saved for you. 5Vision would not be necessary had judgment not been made. 6Desire now its whole undoing, and it is done for you.
2. Do you not want to know your own Identity? 2Would you not happily exchange your doubts for certainty? 3Would you not willingly be free of misery, and learn again of joy? 4Your holy relationship offers all this to you. 5As it was given you, so will be its effects. 6And as its holy purpose was not made by you, the means by which its happy end is yours is also not of you. 7Rejoice in what is yours but for the asking, and think not that you need make either means or end. 8All this is given you who would but see your brother sinless. 9All this is given, waiting on your desire but to receive it. 10Vision is freely given to those who ask to see.
3. Your brother’s sinlessness is given you in shining light, to look on with the Holy Spirit’s vision and to rejoice in along with Him. 2For peace will come to all who ask for it with real desire and sincerity of purpose, shared with the Holy Spirit and at one with Him on what salvation is. 3Be willing, then, to see your brother sinless, that Christ may rise before your vision and give you joy. 4And place no value on your brother’s body, which holds him to illusions of what he is. 5It is his desire to see his sinlessness, as it is yours. 6And bless the Son of God in your relationship, nor see in him what you have made of him.
4. The Holy Spirit guarantees that what God willed and gave you shall be yours. 2This is your purpose now, and the vision that makes it yours is ready to be given. 3You have the vision that enables you to see the body not. 4And as you look upon your brother, you will see an altar to your Father, holy as Heaven, glowing with radiant purity and sparkling with the shining lilies you laid upon it. 5What can you value more than this? 6Why do you think the body is a better home, a safer shelter for God’s Son? 7Why would you rather look on it than on the truth? 8How can the engine of destruction be preferred, and chosen to replace the holy home the Holy Spirit offers, where He will dwell with you?
5. The body is the sign of weakness, vulnerability and loss of power. 2Can such a savior help you? 3Would you turn in your distress and need for help unto the helpless? 4Is the pitifully little the perfect choice to call upon for strength? 5Judgment will seem to make your savior weak. 6Yet it is you who need his strength. 7There is no problem, no event or situation, no perplexity that vision will not solve. 8All is redeemed when looked upon with vision. 9For this is not your sight, and brings with it the laws beloved of Him Whose sight it is.
6. Everything looked upon with vision falls gently into place, according to the laws brought to it by His calm and certain sight. 2The end for everything He looks upon is always sure. 3For it will meet His purpose, seen in unadjusted form and suited perfectly to meet it. 4Destructiveness becomes benign, and sin is turned to blessing under His gentle gaze. 5What can the body’s eyes perceive, with power to correct? 6Its eyes adjust to sin, unable to overlook it in any form and seeing it everywhere, in everything. 7Look through its eyes, and everything will stand condemned before you. 8All that could save you, you will never see. 9Your holy relationship, the source of your salvation, will be deprived of meaning, and its most holy purpose bereft of means for its accomplishment.
7. Judgment is but a toy, a whim, the senseless means to play the idle game of death in your imagination. 2But vision sets all things right, bringing them gently within the kindly sway of Heaven’s laws. 3What if you recognized this world is an hallucination? 4What if you really understood you made it up? 5What if you realized that those who seem to walk about in it, to sin and die, attack and murder and destroy themselves, are wholly unreal? 6Could you have faith in what you see, if you accepted this? 7And would you see it?
8. Hallucinations disappear when they are recognized for what they are. 2This is the healing and the remedy. 3Believe them not and they are gone. 4And all you need to do is recognize that you did this. 5Once you accept this simple fact and take unto yourself the power you gave them, you are released from them. 6One thing is sure; hallucinations serve a purpose, and when that purpose is no longer held they disappear. 7Therefore, the question never is whether you want them, but always, do you want the purpose that they serve? 8This world seems to hold out many purposes, each different and with different values. 9Yet they are all the same. 10Again there is no order; only a seeming hierarchy of values.
9. Only two purposes are possible. 2And one is sin, the other holiness. 3Nothing is in between, and which you choose determines what you see. 4For what you see is merely how you elect to meet your goal. 5Hallucinations serve to meet the goal of madness. 6They are the means by which the outside world, projected from within, adjusts to sin and seems to witness to its reality. 7It still is true that nothing is without. 8Yet upon nothing are all projections made. 9For it is the projection that gives the “nothing” all the meaning that it holds.
10. What has no meaning cannot be perceived. 2And meaning always looks within to find itself, and then looks out. 3All meaning that you give the world outside must thus reflect the sight you saw within; or better, if you saw at all or merely judged against. 4Vision is the means by which the Holy Spirit translates your nightmares into happy dreams; your wild hallucinations that show you all the fearful outcomes of imagined sin into the calm and reassuring sights with which He would replace them. 5These gentle sights and sounds are looked on happily, and heard with joy. 6They are His substitutes for all the terrifying sights and screaming sounds the ego’s purpose brought to your horrified awareness. 7They step away from sin, reminding you that it is not reality which frightens you, and that the errors which you made can be corrected.
11. When you have looked on what seemed terrifying, and seen it change to sights of loveliness and peace; when you have looked on scenes of violence and death, and watched them change to quiet views of gardens under open skies, with clear, life-giving water running happily beside them in dancing brooks that never waste away; who need persuade you to accept the gift of vision? 2And after vision, who is there who could refuse what must come after? 3Think but an instant just on this; you can behold the holiness God gave His Son. 4And never need you think that there is something else for you to see.