1. Healing is not creating; it is reparation. 2The Holy Spirit promotes healing by looking beyond it to what the children of God were before healing was needed, and will be when they have been healed. 3This alteration of the time sequence should be quite familiar, because it is very similar to the shift in the perception of time that the miracle introduces. 4The Holy Spirit is the motivation for miracle-mindedness; the decision to heal the separation by letting it go. 5Your will is still in you because God placed it in your mind, and although you can keep it asleep you cannot obliterate it. 6God Himself keeps your will alive by transmitting it from His Mind to yours as long as there is time. 7The miracle itself is a reflection of this union of Will between Father and Son.
2. The Holy Spirit is the spirit of joy. 2He is the Call to return with which God blessed the minds of His separated Sons. 3This is the vocation of the mind. 4The mind had no calling until the separation, because before that it had only being, and would not have understood the Call to right thinking. 5The Holy Spirit is God’s Answer to the separation; the means by which the Atonement heals until the whole mind returns to creating.
3. The principle of Atonement and the separation began at the same time. 2When the ego was made, God placed in the mind the Call to joy. 3This Call is so strong that the ego always dissolves at Its sound. 4That is why you must choose to hear one of two voices within you. 5One you made yourself, and that one is not of God. 6But the other is given you by God, Who asks you only to listen to it. 7The Holy Spirit is in you in a very literal sense. 8His is the Voice that calls you back to where you were before and will be again. 9It is possible even in this world to hear only that Voice and no other. 10It takes effort and great willingness to learn. 11It is the final lesson that I learned, and God’s Sons are as equal as learners as they are as Sons.
4. You are the Kingdom of Heaven, but you have let the belief in darkness enter your mind and so you need a new light. 2The Holy Spirit is the radiance that you must let banish the idea of darkness. 3His is the glory before which dissociation falls away, and the Kingdom of Heaven breaks through into its own. 4Before the separation you did not need guidance. 5You knew as you will know again, but as you do not know now.
5. God does not guide, because He can share only perfect knowledge. 2Guidance is evaluative, because it implies there is a right way and also a wrong way, one to be chosen and the other to be avoided. 3By choosing one you give up the other. 4The choice for the Holy Spirit is the choice for God. 5God is not in you in a literal sense; you are part of Him. 6When you chose to leave Him He gave you a Voice to speak for Him because He could no longer share His knowledge with you without hindrance. 7Direct communication was broken because you had made another voice.
6. The Holy Spirit calls you both to remember and to forget. 2You have chosen to be in a state of opposition in which opposites are possible. 3As a result, there are choices you must make. 4In the holy state the will is free, so that its creative power is unlimited and choice is meaningless. 5Freedom to choose is the same power as freedom to create, but its application is different. 6Choosing depends on a split mind. 7The Holy Spirit is one way of choosing. 8God did not leave His children comfortless, even though they chose to leave Him. 9The voice they put in their minds was not the Voice for His Will, for which the Holy Spirit speaks.
7. The Voice of the Holy Spirit does not command, because It is incapable of arrogance. 2It does not demand, because It does not seek control. 3It does not overcome, because It does not attack. 4It merely reminds. 5It is compelling only because of what It reminds you of. 6It brings to your mind the other way, remaining quiet even in the midst of the turmoil you may make. 7The Voice for God is always quiet, because It speaks of peace. 8Peace is stronger than war because it heals. 9War is division, not increase. 10No one gains from strife. 11What profiteth it a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? 12If you listen to the wrong voice you have lost sight of your soul. 13You cannot lose it, but you can not know it. 14It is therefore “lost” to you until you choose right.
8. The Holy Spirit is your Guide in choosing. 2He is in the part of your mind that always speaks for the right choice, because He speaks for God. 3He is your remaining communication with God, which you can interrupt but cannot destroy. 4The Holy Spirit is the way in which God’s Will is done on earth as it is in Heaven. 5Both Heaven and earth are in you, because the call of both is in your mind. 6The Voice for God comes from your own altars to Him. 7These altars are not things; they are devotions. 8Yet you have other devotions now. 9Your divided devotion has given you the two voices, and you must choose at which altar you want to serve. 10The call you answer now is an evaluation because it is a decision. 11The decision is very simple. 12It is made on the basis of which call is worth more to you.
9. My mind will always be like yours, because we were created as equals. 2It was only my decision that gave me all power in Heaven and earth. 3My only gift to you is to help you make the same decision. 4This decision is the choice to share it, because the decision itself is the decision to share. 5It is made by giving, and is therefore the one choice that resembles true creation. 6I am your model for decision. 7By deciding for God I showed you that this decision can be made, and that you can make it.
10. I have assured you that the Mind that decided for me is also in you, and that you can let it change you just as it changed me. 2This Mind is unequivocal, because it hears only one Voice and answers in only one way. 3You are the light of the world with me. 4Rest does not come from sleeping but from waking. 5The Holy Spirit is the Call to awaken and be glad. 6The world is very tired, because it is the idea of weariness. 7Our task is the joyous one of waking it to the Call for God. 8Everyone will answer the Call of the Holy Spirit, or the Sonship cannot be as one. 9What better vocation could there be for any part of the Kingdom than to restore it to the perfect integration that can make it whole? 10Hear only this through the Holy Spirit within you, and teach your brothers to listen as I am teaching you.
11. When you are tempted by the wrong voice, call on me to remind you how to heal by sharing my decision and making it stronger. 2As we share this goal, we increase its power to attract the whole Sonship, and to bring it back into the oneness in which it was created. 3Remember that “yoke” means “join together,” and “burden” means “message.” 4Let us restate “My yoke is easy and my burden light” in this way; “Let us join together, for my message is light.”
12. I have enjoined you to behave as I behaved, but we must respond to the same Mind to do this. 2This Mind is the Holy Spirit, Whose Will is for God always. 3He teaches you how to keep me as the model for your thought, and to behave like me as a result. 4The power of our joint motivation is beyond belief, but not beyond accomplishment. 5What we can accomplish together has no limits, because the Call for God is the Call to the unlimited. 6Child of God, my message is for you, to hear and give away as you answer the Holy Spirit within you.