1. It is clear that while the content of any particular ego illusion does not matter, its correction is more helpful in a specific context. 2Ego illusions are quite specific, although the mind is naturally abstract. 3Part of the mind becomes concrete, however, when it splits. 4The concrete part believes in the ego, because the ego depends on the concrete. 5The ego is the part of the mind that believes your existence is defined by separation.
2. Everything the ego perceives is a separate whole, without the relationships that imply being. 2The ego is thus against communication, except insofar as it is utilized to establish separateness rather than to abolish it. 3The communication system of the ego is based on its own thought system, as is everything else it dictates. 4Its communication is controlled by its need to protect itself, and it will disrupt communication when it experiences threat. 5This disruption is a reaction to a specific person or persons. 6The specificity of the ego’s thinking, then, results in spurious generalization which is really not abstract at all. 7It merely responds in certain specific ways to everything it perceives as related.
3. In contrast, spirit reacts in the same way to everything it knows is true, and does not respond at all to anything else. 2Nor does it make any attempt to establish what is true. 3It knows that what is true is everything that God created. 4It is in complete and direct communication with every aspect of creation, because it is in complete and direct communication with its Creator. 5This communication is the Will of God. 6Creation and communication are synonymous. 7God created every mind by communicating His Mind to it, thus establishing it forever as a channel for the reception of His Mind and Will. 8Since only beings of a like order can truly communicate, His creations naturally communicate with Him and like Him. 9This communication is perfectly abstract, since its quality is universal in application and not subject to any judgment, any exception or any alteration. 10God created you by this and for this. 11The mind can distort its function, but it cannot endow itself with functions it was not given. 12That is why the mind cannot totally lose the ability to communicate, even though it may refuse to utilize it on behalf of being.
4. Existence as well as being rests on communication. 2Existence, however, is specific in how, what and with whom communication is judged to be worth undertaking. 3Being is completely without these distinctions. 4It is a state in which the mind is in communication with everything that is real. 5To whatever extent you permit this state to be curtailed you are limiting your sense of your own reality, which becomes total only by recognizing all reality in the glorious context of its real relationship to you. 6This is your reality. 7Do not desecrate it or recoil from it. 8It is your real home, your real temple and your real Self.
5. God, Who encompasses all being, created beings who have everything individually, but who want to share it to increase their joy. 2Nothing real can be increased except by sharing. 3That is why God created you. 4Divine Abstraction takes joy in sharing. 5That is what creation means. 6“How,” “what” and “to whom” are irrelevant, because real creation gives everything, since it can create only like itself. 7Remember that in the Kingdom there is no difference between having and being, as there is in existence. 8In the state of being the mind gives everything always.
6. The Bible repeatedly states that you should praise God. 2This hardly means that you should tell Him how wonderful He is. 3He has no ego with which to accept such praise, and no perception with which to judge it. 4But unless you take your part in the creation, His joy is not complete because yours is incomplete. 5And this He does know. 6He knows it in His Own Being and its experience of His Son’s experience. 7The constant going out of His Love is blocked when His channels are closed, and He is lonely when the minds He created do not communicate fully with Him.
7. God has kept your Kingdom for you, but He cannot share His joy with you until you know it with your whole mind. 2Revelation is not enough, because it is only communication from God. 3God does not need revelation returned to Him, which would clearly be impossible, but He does want it brought to others. 4This cannot be done with the actual revelation; its content cannot be expressed, because it is intensely personal to the mind that receives it. 5It can, however, be returned by that mind to other minds, through the attitudes the knowledge from the revelation brings.
8. God is praised whenever any mind learns to be wholly helpful. 2This is impossible without being wholly harmless, because the two beliefs must coexist. 3The truly helpful are invulnerable, because they are not protecting their egos and so nothing can hurt them. 4Their helpfulness is their praise of God, and He will return their praise of Him because they are like Him, and they can rejoice together. 5God goes out to them and through them, and there is great joy throughout the Kingdom. 6Every mind that is changed adds to this joy with its individual willingness to share in it. 7The truly helpful are God’s miracle workers, whom I direct until we are all united in the joy of the Kingdom. 8I will direct you to wherever you can be truly helpful, and to whoever can follow my guidance through you.