T-5.III:The Guide to Salvation

1. 1The way to recognize your brother is by recognizing the Holy Spirit in him. 2I have already said that the Holy Spirit is the Bridge for the transfer of perception to knowledge, so we can use the terms as if they were related, because in His Mind they are. 3This relationship must be in His Mind because, unless it were, the separation between the two ways of thinking would not be open to healing. 4He is part of the Holy Trinity, because His Mind is partly yours and also partly God’s. 5This needs clarification, not in statement but in experience.

2. 1The Holy Spirit is the idea of healing. 2Being thought, the idea gains as it is shared. 3Being the Call for God, it is also the idea of God. 4Since you are part of God it is also the idea of yourself, as well as of all His creations. 5The idea of the Holy Spirit shares the property of other ideas because it follows the laws of the universe of which it is a part. 6It is strengthened by being given away. 7It increases in you as you give it to your brother. 8Your brother does not have to be aware of the Holy Spirit in himself or in you for this miracle to occur. 9He may have dissociated the Call for God, just as you have. 10This dissociation is healed in both of you as you become aware of the Call for God in him, and thus acknowledge Its being.

3. 1There are two diametrically opposed ways of seeing your brother. 2They must both be in your mind, because you are the perceiver. 3They must also be in his, because you are perceiving him. 4See him through the Holy Spirit in his mind, and you will recognize Him in yours. 5What you acknowledge in your brother you are acknowledging in yourself, and what you share you strengthen.

4. 1The Voice of the Holy Spirit is weak in you. 2That is why you must share It. 3It must be increased in strength before you can hear It. 4It is impossible to hear It in yourself while It is so weak in your mind. 5It is not weak in Itself, but It is limited by your unwillingness to hear It. 6If you make the mistake of looking for the Holy Spirit in yourself alone your thoughts will frighten you because, by adopting the ego’s viewpoint, you are undertaking an ego-alien journey with the ego as guide. 7This is bound to produce fear.

5. 1Delay is of the ego, because time is its concept. 2Both time and delay are meaningless in eternity. 3I have said before that the Holy Spirit is God’s Answer to the ego. 4Everything of which the Holy Spirit reminds you is in direct opposition to the ego’s notions, because true and false perceptions are themselves opposed. 5The Holy Spirit has the task of undoing what the ego has made. 6He undoes it at the same level on which the ego operates, or the mind would be unable to understand the change.

6. 1I have repeatedly emphasized that one level of the mind is not understandable to another. 2So it is with the ego and the Holy Spirit; with time and eternity. 3Eternity is an idea of God, so the Holy Spirit understands it perfectly. 4Time is a belief of the ego, so the lower mind, which is the ego’s domain, accepts it without question. 5The only aspect of time that is eternal is now.

7. 1The Holy Spirit is the Mediator between the interpretations of the ego and the knowledge of the spirit. 2His ability to deal with symbols enables Him to work with the ego’s beliefs in its own language. 3His ability to look beyond symbols into eternity enables Him to understand the laws of God, for which He speaks. 4He can therefore perform the function of reinterpreting what the ego makes, not by destruction but by understanding. 5Understanding is light, and light leads to knowledge. 6The Holy Spirit is in light because He is in you who are light, but you yourself do not know this. 7It is therefore the task of the Holy Spirit to reinterpret you on behalf of God.

8. 1You cannot understand yourself alone. 2This is because you have no meaning apart from your rightful place in the Sonship, and the rightful place of the Sonship is God. 3This is your life, your eternity and your Self. 4It is of this that the Holy Spirit reminds you. 5It is this that the Holy Spirit sees. 6This vision frightens the ego because it is so calm. 7Peace is the ego’s greatest enemy because, according to its interpretation of reality, war is the guarantee of its survival. 8The ego becomes strong in strife. 9If you believe there is strife you will react viciously, because the idea of danger has entered your mind. 10The idea itself is an appeal to the ego. 11The Holy Spirit is as vigilant as the ego to the call of danger, opposing it with His strength just as the ego welcomes it. 12The Holy Spirit counters this welcome by welcoming peace. 13Eternity and peace are as closely related as are time and war.

9. 1Perception derives meaning from relationships. 2Those you accept are the foundations of your beliefs. 3The separation is merely another term for a split mind. 4The ego is the symbol of separation, just as the Holy Spirit is the symbol of peace. 5What you perceive in others you are strengthening in yourself. 6You may let your mind misperceive, but the Holy Spirit lets your mind reinterpret its own misperceptions.

10. 1The Holy Spirit is the perfect Teacher. 2He uses only what your mind already understands to teach you that you do not understand it. 3The Holy Spirit can deal with a reluctant learner without going counter to his mind, because part of it is still for God. 4Despite the ego’s attempts to conceal this part, it is still much stronger than the ego, although the ego does not recognize it. 5The Holy Spirit recognizes it perfectly because it is His Own dwelling place; the place in the mind where He is at home. 6You are at home there, too, because it is a place of peace, and peace is of God. 7You who are part of God are not at home except in His peace. 8If peace is eternal, you are at home only in eternity.

11. 1The ego made the world as it perceives it, but the Holy Spirit, the reinterpreter of what the ego made, sees the world as a teaching device for bringing you home. 2The Holy Spirit must perceive time, and reinterpret it into the timeless. 3He must work through opposites, because He must work with and for a mind that is in opposition. 4Correct and learn, and be open to learning. 5You have not made truth, but truth can still set you free. 6Look as the Holy Spirit looks, and understand as He understands. 7His understanding looks back to God in remembrance of me. 8He is in communion with God always, and He is part of you. 9He is your Guide to salvation, because He holds the remembrance of things past and to come, and brings them to the present. 10He holds this gladness gently in your mind, asking only that you increase it in His Name by sharing it to increase His joy in you.