1. 1Take pity on yourself, so long enslaved. 2Rejoice whom God hath joined have come together and need no longer look on sin apart. 3No two can look on sin together, for they could never see it in the same place and time. 4Sin is a strictly individual perception, seen in the other yet believed by each to be within himself. 5And each one seems to make a different error, and one the other cannot understand. 6Brother, it is the same, made by the same, and forgiven for its maker in the same way. 7The holiness of your relationship forgives you and your brother, undoing the effects of what you both believed and saw. 8And with their going is the need for sin gone with them.

2. 1Who has need for sin? 2Only the lonely and alone, who see their brothers different from themselves. 3It is this difference, seen but not real, that makes the need for sin, not real but seen, seem justified. 4And all this would be real if sin were so. 5For an unholy relationship is based on differences, where each one thinks the other has what he has not. 6They come together, each to complete himself and rob the other. 7They stay until they think that there is nothing left to steal, and then move on. 8And so they wander through a world of strangers, unlike themselves, living with their bodies perhaps under a common roof that shelters neither; in the same room and yet a world apart.

3. 1A holy relationship starts from a different premise. 2Each one has looked within and seen no lack. 3Accepting his completion, he would extend it by joining with another, whole as himself. 4He sees no difference between these selves, for differences are only of the body. 5Therefore, he looks on nothing he would take. 6He denies not his own reality because it is the truth. 7Just under Heaven does he stand, but close enough not to return to earth. 8For this relationship has Heaven’s Holiness. 9How far from home can a relationship so like to Heaven be?

4. 1Think what a holy relationship can teach! 2Here is belief in differences undone. 3Here is the faith in differences shifted to sameness. 4And here is sight of differences transformed to vision. 5Reason now can lead you and your brother to the logical conclusion of your union. 6It must extend, as you extended when you and he joined. 7It must reach out beyond itself, as you reached out beyond the body, to let you and your brother be joined. 8And now the sameness that you saw extends and finally removes all sense of differences, so that the sameness that lies beneath them all becomes apparent. 9Here is the golden circle where you recognize the Son of God. 10For what is born into a holy relationship can never end.