1. Before your brother’s holiness the world is still, and peace descends on it in gentleness and blessing so complete that not one trace of conflict still remains to haunt you in the darkness of the night. 2He is your savior from the dreams of fear. 3He is the healing of your sense of sacrifice and fear that what you have will scatter with the wind and turn to dust. 4In him is your assurance God is here, and with you now. 5While he is what he is, you can be sure that God is knowable and will be known to you. 6For He could never leave His Own creation. 7And the sign that this is so lies in your brother, offered you that all your doubts about yourself may disappear before his holiness. 8See in him God’s creation. 9For in him his Father waits for your acknowledgment that He created you as part of Him.
2. Without you there would be a lack in God, a Heaven incomplete, a Son without a Father. 2There could be no universe and no reality. 3For what God wills is whole, and part of Him because His Will is One. 4Nothing alive that is not part of Him, and nothing is but is alive in Him. 5Your brother’s holiness shows you that God is one with him and you; that what he has is yours because you are not separate from him nor from his Father.
3. Nothing is lost to you in all the universe. 2Nothing that God created has He failed to lay before you lovingly, as yours forever. 3And no Thought within His Mind is absent from your own. 4It is His Will you share His Love for you, and look upon yourself as lovingly as He conceived of you before the world began, and as He knows you still. 5God changes not His Mind about His Son with passing circumstance which has no meaning in eternity where He abides, and you with Him. 6Your brother is as He created him. 7And it is this that saves you from a world that He created not.
4. Forget not that the healing of God’s Son is all the world is for. 2That is the only purpose the Holy Spirit sees in it, and thus the only one it has. 3Until you see the healing of the Son as all you wish to be accomplished by the world, by time and all appearances, you will not know the Father nor yourself. 4For you will use the world for what is not its purpose, and will not escape its laws of violence and death. 5Yet it is given you to be beyond its laws in all respects, in every way and every circumstance, in all temptation to perceive what is not there, and all belief God’s Son can suffer pain because he sees himself as he is not.
5. Look on your brother, and behold in him the whole reversal of the laws that seem to rule this world. 2See in his freedom yours, for such it is. 3Let not his specialness obscure the truth in him, for not one law of death you bind him to will you escape. 4And not one sin you see in him but keeps you both in hell. 5Yet will his perfect sinlessness release you both, for holiness is quite impartial, with one judgment made for all it looks upon. 6And that is made, not of itself, but through the Voice that speaks for God in everything that lives and shares His Being.
6. It is His sinlessness that eyes that see can look upon. 2It is His loveliness they see in everything. 3And it is He they look for everywhere, and find no sight nor place nor time where He is not. 4Within your brother’s holiness, the perfect frame for your salvation and the world’s, is set the shining memory of Him in Whom your brother lives, and you along with him. 5Let not your eyes be blinded by the veil of specialness that hides the face of Christ from him, and you as well. 6And let the fear of God no longer hold the vision you were meant to see from you. 7Your brother’s body shows not Christ to you. 8He is set forth within his holiness.
7. Choose, then, his body or his holiness as what you want to see, and which you choose is yours to look upon. 2Yet will you choose in countless situations, and through time that seems to have no end, until the truth be your decision. 3For eternity is not regained by still one more denial of Christ in him. 4And where is your salvation, if he is but a body? 5Where is your peace but in his holiness? 6And where is God Himself but in that part of Him He set forever in your brother’s holiness, that you might see the truth about yourself, set forth at last in terms you recognized and understood?
8. Your brother’s holiness is sacrament and benediction unto you. 2His errors cannot withhold God’s blessing from himself, nor you who see him truly. 3His mistakes can cause delay, which it is given you to take from him, that both may end a journey that has never begun, and needs no end. 4What never was is not a part of you. 5Yet you will think it is, until you realize that it is not a part of him who stands beside you. 6He is the mirror of yourself, wherein you see the judgment you have laid on both of you. 7The Christ in you beholds his holiness. 8Your specialness looks on his body and beholds him not.
9. See him as what he is, that your deliverance may not be long. 2A senseless wandering, without a purpose and without accomplishment of any kind, is all the other choice can offer you. 3Futility of function not fulfilled will haunt you while your brother lies asleep, till what has been assigned to you is done and he is risen from the past. 4He who condemned himself, and you as well, is given you to save from condemnation, along with you. 5And both shall see God’s glory in His Son, whom you mistook as flesh, and bound to laws that have no power over him at all.
10. Would you not gladly realize these laws are not for you? 2Then see him not as prisoner to them. 3It cannot be what governs part of God holds not for all the rest. 4You place yourself under the laws you see as ruling him. 5Think, then, how great the Love of God for you must be, that He has given you a part of Him to save from pain and give you happiness. 6And never doubt but that your specialness will disappear before the Will of God, Who loves each part of Him with equal love and care. 7The Christ in you can see your brother truly. 8Would you decide against the holiness He sees?
11. Specialness is the function that you gave yourself. 2It stands for you alone, as self-created, self-maintained, in need of nothing, and unjoined with anything beyond the body. 3In its eyes you are a separate universe, with all the power to hold itself complete within itself, with every entry shut against intrusion, and every window barred against the light. 4Always attacked and always furious, with anger always fully justified, you have pursued this goal with vigilance you never thought to yield, and effort that you never thought to cease. 5And all this grim determination was for this; you wanted specialness to be the truth.
12. Now you are merely asked that you pursue another goal with far less vigilance; with little effort and with little time, and with the power of God maintaining it, and promising success. 2Yet of the two, it is this one you find more difficult. 3The “sacrifice” of self you understand, nor do you deem this cost too heavy. 4But a tiny willingness, a nod to God, a greeting to the Christ in you, you find a burden wearisome and tedious, too heavy to be borne. 5Yet to the dedication to the truth as God established it no sacrifice is asked, no strain called forth, and all the power of Heaven and the might of truth itself is given to provide the means, and guarantee the goal’s accomplishment.
13. You who believe it easier to see your brother’s body than his holiness, be sure you understand what made this judgment. 2Here is the voice of specialness heard clearly, judging against the Christ and setting forth for you the purpose that you can attain, and what you cannot do. 3Forget not that this judgment must apply to what you do with it as your ally. 4For what you do through Christ it does not know. 5To Him this judgment makes no sense at all, for only what His Father wills is possible, and there is no alternative for Him to see. 6Out of His lack of conflict comes your peace. 7And from His purpose comes the means for effortless accomplishment and rest.