1. What can it be but arrogance to think your little errors cannot be undone by Heaven’s justice? 2And what could this mean except that they are sins and not mistakes, forever uncorrectable, and to be met with vengeance, not with justice? 3Are you willing to be released from all effects of sin? 4You cannot answer this until you see all that the answer must entail. 5For if you answer “yes” it means you will forego all values of this world in favor of the peace of Heaven. 6Not one sin would you retain. 7And not one doubt that this is possible will you hold dear that sin be kept in place. 8You mean that truth has greater value now than all illusions. 9And you recognize that truth must be revealed to you, because you know not what it is.
2. To give reluctantly is not to gain the gift, because you are reluctant to accept it. 2It is saved for you until reluctance to receive it disappears, and you are willing it be given you. 3God’s justice warrants gratitude, not fear. 4Nothing you give is lost to you or anyone, but cherished and preserved in Heaven, where all of the treasures given to God’s Son are kept for him, and offered anyone who but holds out his hand in willingness they be received. 5Nor is the treasure less as it is given out. 6Each gift but adds to the supply. 7For God is fair. 8He does not fight against His Son’s reluctance to perceive salvation as a gift from Him. 9Yet would His justice not be satisfied until it is received by everyone.
3. Be certain any answer to a problem the Holy Spirit solves will always be one in which no one loses. 2And this must be true, because He asks no sacrifice of anyone. 3An answer which demands the slightest loss to anyone has not resolved the problem, but has added to it and made it greater, harder to resolve and more unfair. 4It is impossible the Holy Spirit could see unfairness as a resolution. 5To Him, what is unfair must be corrected because it is unfair. 6And every error is a perception in which one, at least, is seen unfairly. 7Thus is justice not accorded to the Son of God. 8When anyone is seen as losing, he has been condemned. 9And punishment becomes his due instead of justice.
4. The sight of innocence makes punishment impossible, and justice sure. 2The Holy Spirit’s perception leaves no ground for an attack. 3Only a loss could justify attack, and loss of any kind He cannot see. 4The world solves problems in another way. 5It sees a resolution as a state in which it is decided who shall win and who shall lose; how much the one shall take, and how much can the loser still defend. 6Yet does the problem still remain unsolved, for only justice can set up a state in which there is no loser; no one left unfairly treated and deprived, and thus with grounds for vengeance. 7Problem solving cannot be vengeance, which at best can bring another problem added to the first, in which the murder is not obvious.
5. The Holy Spirit’s problem solving is the way in which the problem ends. 2It has been solved because it has been met with justice. 3Until it has it will recur, because it has not yet been solved. 4The principle that justice means no one can lose is crucial to this course. 5For miracles depend on justice. 6Not as it is seen through this world’s eyes, but as God knows it and as knowledge is reflected in the sight the Holy Spirit gives.
6. No one deserves to lose. 2And what would be unjust to him cannot occur. 3Healing must be for everyone, because he does not merit an attack of any kind. 4What order can there be in miracles, unless someone deserves to suffer more and others less? 5And is this justice to the wholly innocent? 6A miracle is justice. 7It is not a special gift to some, to be withheld from others as less worthy, more condemned, and thus apart from healing. 8Who is there who can be separate from salvation, if its purpose is the end of specialness? 9Where is salvation’s justice if some errors are unforgivable, and warrant vengeance in place of healing and return of peace?
7. Salvation cannot seek to help God’s Son be more unfair than he has sought to be. 2If miracles, the Holy Spirit’s gift, were given specially to an elect and special group, and kept apart from others as less deserving, then is He ally to specialness. 3What He cannot perceive He bears no witness to. 4And everyone is equally entitled to His gift of healing and deliverance and peace. 5To give a problem to the Holy Spirit to solve for you means that you want it solved. 6To keep it for yourself to solve without His help is to decide it should remain unsettled, unresolved, and lasting in its power of injustice and attack. 7No one can be unjust to you, unless you have decided first to be unjust. 8And then must problems rise to block your way, and peace be scattered by the winds of hate.
8. Unless you think that all your brothers have an equal right to miracles with you, you will not claim your right to them because you were unjust to one with equal rights. 2Seek to deny and you will feel denied. 3Seek to deprive, and you have been deprived. 4A miracle can never be received because another could receive it not. 5Only forgiveness offers miracles. 6And pardon must be just to everyone.
9. The little problems that you keep and hide become your secret sins, because you did not choose to let them be removed for you. 2And so they gather dust and grow, until they cover everything that you perceive and leave you fair to no one. 3Not one right do you believe you have. 4And bitterness, with vengeance justified and mercy lost, condemns you as unworthy of forgiveness. 5The unforgiven have no mercy to bestow upon another. 6That is why your sole responsibility must be to take forgiveness for yourself.
10. The miracle that you receive, you give. 2Each one becomes an illustration of the law on which salvation rests; that justice must be done to all, if anyone is to be healed. 3No one can lose, and everyone must benefit. 4Each miracle is an example of what justice can accomplish when it is offered to everyone alike. 5It is received and given equally. 6It is awareness that giving and receiving are the same. 7Because it does not make the same unlike, it sees no differences where none exists. 8And thus it is the same for everyone, because it sees no differences in them. 9Its offering is universal, and it teaches but one message:
10What is God’s belongs to everyone, and is his due.