1. The abilities you now possess are only shadows of your real strength. 2All of your present functions are divided and open to question and doubt. 3This is because you are not certain how you will use them, and are therefore incapable of knowledge. 4You are also incapable of knowledge because you can still perceive lovelessly. 5Perception did not exist until the separation introduced degrees, aspects and intervals. 6Spirit has no levels, and all conflict arises from the concept of levels. 7Only the Levels of the Trinity are capable of unity. 8The levels created by the separation cannot but conflict. 9This is because they are meaningless to each other.
2. Consciousness, the level of perception, was the first split introduced into the mind after the separation, making the mind a perceiver rather than a creator. 2Consciousness is correctly identified as the domain of the ego. 3The ego is a wrong-minded attempt to perceive yourself as you wish to be, rather than as you are. 4Yet you can know yourself only as you are, because that is all you can be sure of. 5Everything else is open to question.
3. The ego is the questioning aspect of the post-separation self, which was made rather than created. 2It is capable of asking questions but not of perceiving meaningful answers, because these would involve knowledge and cannot be perceived. 3The mind is therefore confused, because only One-mindedness can be without confusion. 4A separated or divided mind must be confused. 5It is necessarily uncertain about what it is. 6It has to be in conflict because it is out of accord with itself. 7This makes its aspects strangers to each other, and this is the essence of the fear-prone condition, in which attack is always possible. 8You have every reason to feel afraid as you perceive yourself. 9This is why you cannot escape from fear until you realize that you did not and could not create yourself. 10You can never make your misperceptions true, and your creation is beyond your own error. 11That is why you must eventually choose to heal the separation.
4. Right-mindedness is not to be confused with the knowing mind, because it is applicable only to right perception. 2You can be right-minded or wrong-minded, and even this is subject to degrees, clearly demonstrating that knowledge is not involved. 3The term “right-mindedness” is properly used as the correction for “wrong-mindedness,” and applies to the state of mind that induces accurate perception. 4It is miracle-minded because it heals misperception, and this is indeed a miracle in view of how you perceive yourself.
5. Perception always involves some misuse of mind, because it brings the mind into areas of uncertainty. 2The mind is very active. 3When it chooses to be separated it chooses to perceive. 4Until then it wills only to know. 5Afterwards it can only choose ambiguously, and the only way out of ambiguity is clear perception. 6The mind returns to its proper function only when it wills to know. 7This places it in the service of spirit, where perception is changed. 8The mind chooses to divide itself when it chooses to make its own levels. 9But it could not entirely separate itself from spirit, because it is from spirit that it derives its whole power to make or create. 10Even in miscreation the mind is affirming its Source, or it would merely cease to be. 11This is impossible, because the mind belongs to spirit which God created and which is therefore eternal.
6. The ability to perceive made the body possible, because you must perceive something and with something. 2That is why perception involves an exchange or translation, which knowledge does not need. 3The interpretative function of perception, a distorted form of creation, then permits you to interpret the body as yourself in an attempt to escape from the conflict you have induced. 4Spirit, which knows, could not be reconciled with this loss of power, because it is incapable of darkness. 5This makes spirit almost inaccessible to the mind and entirely inaccessible to the body. 6Thereafter, spirit is perceived as a threat, because light abolishes darkness merely by showing you it is not there. 7Truth will always overcome error in this way. 8This cannot be an active process of correction because, as I have already emphasized, knowledge does not do anything. 9It can be perceived as an attacker, but it cannot attack. 10What you perceive as its attack is your own vague recognition that knowledge can always be remembered, never having been destroyed.
7. God and His creations remain in surety, and therefore know that no miscreation exists. 2Truth cannot deal with errors that you want. 3I was a man who remembered spirit and its knowledge. 4As a man I did not attempt to counteract error with knowledge, but to correct error from the bottom up. 5I demonstrated both the powerlessness of the body and the power of the mind. 6By uniting my will with that of my Creator, I naturally remembered spirit and its real purpose. 7I cannot unite your will with God’s for you, but I can erase all misperceptions from your mind if you will bring it under my guidance. 8Only your misperceptions stand in your way. 9Without them your choice is certain. 10Sane perception induces sane choosing. 11I cannot choose for you, but I can help you make your own right choice. 12“Many are called but few are chosen” should be, “All are called but few choose to listen.” 13Therefore, they do not choose right. 14The “chosen ones” are merely those who choose right sooner. 15Right minds can do this now, and they will find rest unto their souls. 16God knows you only in peace, and this is your reality.