1. You see the flesh or recognize the spirit. 2There is no compromise between the two. 3If one is real the other must be false, for what is real denies its opposite. 4There is no choice in vision but this one. 5What you decide in this determines all you see and think is real and hold as true. 6On this one choice does all your world depend, for here have you established what you are, as flesh or spirit in your own belief. 7If you choose flesh, you never will escape the body as your own reality, for you have chosen that you want it so. 8But choose the spirit, and all Heaven bends to touch your eyes and bless your holy sight, that you may see the world of flesh no more except to heal and comfort and to bless.
2. Salvation is undoing. 2If you choose to see the body, you behold a world of separation, unrelated things, and happenings that make no sense at all. 3This one appears and disappears in death; that one is doomed to suffering and loss. 4And no one is exactly as he was an instant previous, nor will he be the same as he is now an instant hence. 5Who could have trust where so much change is seen, for who is worthy if he be but dust? 6Salvation is undoing of all this. 7For constancy arises in the sight of those whose eyes salvation has released from looking at the cost of keeping guilt, because they chose to let it go instead.
3. Salvation does not ask that you behold the spirit and perceive the body not. 2It merely asks that this should be your choice. 3For you can see the body without help, but do not understand how to behold a world apart from it. 4It is your world salvation will undo, and let you see another world your eyes could never find. 5Be not concerned how this could ever be. 6You do not understand how what you see arose to meet your sight. 7For if you did, it would be gone. 8The veil of ignorance is drawn across the evil and the good, and must be passed that both may disappear, so that perception finds no hiding place. 9How is this done? 10It is not done at all. 11What could there be within the universe that God created that must still be done?
4. Only in arrogance could you conceive that you must make the way to Heaven plain. 2The means are given you by which to see the world that will replace the one you made. 3Your will be done! 4In Heaven as on earth this is forever true. 5It matters not where you believe you are, nor what you think the truth about yourself must really be. 6It makes no difference what you look upon, nor what you choose to feel or think or wish. 7For God Himself has said, “Your will be done.” 8And it is done to you accordingly.
5. You who believe that you can choose to see the Son of God as you would have him be, forget not that no concept of yourself will stand against the truth of what you are. 2Undoing truth would be impossible. 3But concepts are not difficult to change. 4One vision, clearly seen, that does not fit the picture as it was perceived before will change the world for eyes that learn to see, because the concept of the self has changed.
6. Are you invulnerable? 2Then the world is harmless in your sight. 3Do you forgive? 4Then is the world forgiving, for you have forgiven it its trespasses, and so it looks on you with eyes that see as yours. 5Are you a body? 6So is all the world perceived as treacherous, and out to kill. 7Are you a spirit, deathless, and without the promise of corruption and the stain of sin upon you? 8So the world is seen as stable, fully worthy of your trust; a happy place to rest in for a while, where nothing need be feared, but only loved. 9Who is unwelcome to the kind in heart? 10And what could hurt the truly innocent?
7. Your will be done, you holy child of God. 2It does not matter if you think you are in earth or Heaven. 3What your Father wills of you can never change. 4The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself. 5And you are worthy that your will be done!