1. The only way to heal is to be healed. 2The miracle extends without your help, but you are needed that it can begin. 3Accept the miracle of healing, and it will go forth because of what it is. 4It is its nature to extend itself the instant it is born. 5And it is born the instant it is offered and received. 6No one can ask another to be healed. 7But he can let himself be healed, and thus offer the other what he has received. 8Who can bestow upon another what he does not have? 9And who can share what he denies himself? 10The Holy Spirit speaks to you. 11He does not speak to someone else. 12Yet by your listening His Voice extends, because you have accepted what He says.
2. Health is the witness unto health. 2As long as it is unattested, it remains without conviction. 3Only when it has been demonstrated is it proved, and must provide a witness that compels belief. 4No one is healed through double messages. 5If you wish only to be healed, you heal. 6Your single purpose makes this possible. 7But if you are afraid of healing, then it cannot come through you. 8The only thing that is required for a healing is a lack of fear. 9The fearful are not healed, and cannot heal. 10This does not mean the conflict must be gone forever from your mind to heal. 11For if it were, there were no need for healing then. 12But it does mean, if only for an instant, you love without attack. 13An instant is sufficient. 14Miracles wait not on time.
3. The holy instant is the miracle’s abiding place. 2From there, each one is born into this world as witness to a state of mind that has transcended conflict, and has reached to peace. 3It carries comfort from the place of peace into the battleground, and demonstrates that war has no effects. 4For all the hurt that war has sought to bring, the broken bodies and the shattered limbs, the screaming dying and the silent dead, are gently lifted up and comforted.
4. There is no sadness where a miracle has come to heal. 2And nothing more than just one instant of your love without attack is necessary that all this occur. 3In that one instant you are healed, and in that single instant is all healing done. 4What stands apart from you, when you accept the blessing that the holy instant brings? 5Be not afraid of blessing, for the One Who blesses you loves all the world, and leaves nothing within the world that could be feared. 6But if you shrink from blessing, will the world indeed seem fearful, for you have withheld its peace and comfort, leaving it to die.
5. Would not a world so bitterly bereft be looked on as a condemnation by the one who could have saved it, but stepped back because he was afraid of being healed? 2The eyes of all the dying bring reproach, and suffering whispers, “What is there to fear?” 3Consider well its question. 4It is asked of you on your behalf. 5A dying world asks only that you rest an instant from attack upon yourself, that it be healed.
6. Come to the holy instant and be healed, for nothing that is there received is left behind on your returning to the world. 2And being blessed you will bring blessing. 3Life is given you to give the dying world. 4And suffering eyes no longer will accuse, but shine in thanks to you who blessing gave. 5The holy instant’s radiance will light your eyes, and give them sight to see beyond all suffering and see Christ’s face instead. 6Healing replaces suffering. 7Who looks on one cannot perceive the other, for they cannot both be there. 8And what you see the world will witness, and will witness to.
7. Thus is your healing everything the world requires, that it may be healed. 2It needs one lesson that has perfectly been learned. 3And then, when you forget it, will the world remind you gently of what you have taught. 4No reinforcement will its thanks withhold from you who let yourself be healed that it might live. 5It will call forth its witnesses to show the face of Christ to you who brought the sight to them, by which they witnessed it. 6The world of accusation is replaced by one in which all eyes look lovingly upon the Friend who brought them their release. 7And happily your brother will perceive the many friends he thought were enemies.
8. Problems are not specific but they take specific forms, and these specific shapes make up the world. 2And no one understands the nature of his problem. 3If he did, it would be there no more for him to see. 4Its very nature is that it is not. 5And thus, while he perceives it he can not perceive it as it is. 6But healing is apparent in specific instances, and generalizes to include them all. 7This is because they really are the same, despite their different forms. 8All learning aims at transfer, which becomes complete within two situations that are seen as one, for only common elements are there. 9Yet this can only be attained by One Who does not see the differences you see. 10The total transfer of your learning is not made by you. 11But that it has been made in spite of all the differences you see, convinces you that they could not be real.
9. Your healing will extend, and will be brought to problems that you thought were not your own. 2And it will also be apparent that your many different problems will be solved as any one of them has been escaped. 3It cannot be their differences which made this possible, for learning does not jump from situations to their opposites and bring the same results. 4All healing must proceed in lawful manner, in accord with laws that have been properly perceived but never violated. 5Fear you not the way that you perceive them. 6You are wrong, but there is One within you Who is right.
10. Leave, then, the transfer of your learning to the One Who really understands its laws, and Who will guarantee that they remain unviolated and unlimited. 2Your part is merely to apply what He has taught you to yourself, and He will do the rest. 3And it is thus the power of your learning will be proved to you by all the many different witnesses it finds. 4Your brother first among them will be seen, but thousands stand behind him, and beyond each one of them there are a thousand more. 5Each one may seem to have a problem that is different from the rest. 6Yet they are solved together. 7And their common answer shows the questions could not have been separate.
11. Peace be to you to whom is healing offered. 2And you will learn that peace is given you when you accept the healing for yourself. 3Its total value need not be appraised by you to let you understand that you have benefited from it. 4What occurred within the instant that love entered in without attack will stay with you forever. 5Your healing will be one of its effects, as will your brother’s. 6Everywhere you go, will you behold its multiplied effects. 7Yet all the witnesses that you behold will be far less than all there really are. 8Infinity cannot be understood by merely counting up its separate parts. 9God thanks you for your healing, for He knows it is a gift of love unto His Son, and therefore is it given unto Him.