1. God in His knowledge is not waiting, but His Kingdom is bereft while you wait. 2All the Sons of God are waiting for your return, just as you are waiting for theirs. 3Delay does not matter in eternity, but it is tragic in time. 4You have elected to be in time rather than eternity, and therefore believe you are in time. 5Yet your election is both free and alterable. 6You do not belong in time. 7Your place is only in eternity, where God Himself placed you forever.
2. Guilt feelings are the preservers of time. 2They induce fears of retaliation or abandonment, and thus ensure that the future will be like the past. 3This is the ego’s continuity. 4It gives the ego a false sense of security by believing that you cannot escape from it. 5But you can and must. 6God offers you the continuity of eternity in exchange. 7When you choose to make this exchange, you will simultaneously exchange guilt for joy, viciousness for love, and pain for peace. 8My role is only to unchain your will and set it free. 9Your ego cannot accept this freedom, and will oppose it at every possible moment and in every possible way. 10And as its maker, you recognize what it can do because you gave it the power to do it.
3. Remember the Kingdom always, and remember that you who are part of the Kingdom cannot be lost. 2The Mind that was in me is in you, for God creates with perfect fairness. 3Let the Holy Spirit remind you always of His fairness, and let me teach you how to share it with your brothers. 4How else can the chance to claim it for yourself be given you? 5The two voices speak for different interpretations of the same thing simultaneously; or almost simultaneously, for the ego always speaks first. 6Alternate interpretations were unnecessary until the first one was made.
4. The ego speaks in judgment, and the Holy Spirit reverses its decision, much as a higher court has the power to reverse a lower court’s decisions in this world. 2The ego’s decisions are always wrong, because they are based on the error they were made to uphold. 3Nothing the ego perceives is interpreted correctly. 4Not only does the ego cite Scripture for its purpose, but it even interprets Scripture as a witness for itself. 5The Bible is a fearful thing in the ego’s judgment. 6Perceiving it as frightening, it interprets it fearfully. 7Being afraid, you do not appeal to the Higher Court because you believe its judgment would also be against you.
5. There are many examples of how the ego’s interpretations are misleading, but a few will suffice to show how the Holy Spirit can reinterpret them in His Own light.
6. “As ye sow, so shall ye reap” He interprets to mean what you consider worth cultivating you will cultivate in yourself. 2Your judgment of what is worthy makes it worthy for you.
7. “Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord” is easily reinterpreted if you remember that ideas increase only by being shared. 2The statement emphasizes that vengeance cannot be shared. 3Give it therefore to the Holy Spirit, Who will undo it in you because it does not belong in your mind, which is part of God.
8. “I will visit the sins of the fathers unto the third and fourth generation,” as interpreted by the ego, is particularly vicious. 2It becomes merely an attempt to guarantee the ego’s own survival. 3To the Holy Spirit, the statement means that in later generations He can still reinterpret what former generations had misunderstood, and thus release the thoughts from the ability to produce fear.
9. “The wicked shall perish” becomes a statement of Atonement, if the word “perish” is understood as “be undone.” 2Every loveless thought must be undone, a word the ego cannot even understand. 3To the ego, to be undone means to be destroyed. 4The ego will not be destroyed because it is part of your thought, but because it is uncreative and therefore unsharing, it will be reinterpreted to release you from fear. 5The part of your mind that you have given to the ego will merely return to the Kingdom, where your whole mind belongs. 6You can delay the completion of the Kingdom, but you cannot introduce the concept of fear into it.
10. You need not fear the Higher Court will condemn you. 2It will merely dismiss the case against you. 3There can be no case against a child of God, and every witness to guilt in God’s creations is bearing false witness to God Himself. 4Appeal everything you believe gladly to God’s Own Higher Court, because it speaks for Him and therefore speaks truly. 5It will dismiss the case against you, however carefully you have built it up. 6The case may be fool-proof, but it is not God-proof. 7The Holy Spirit will not hear it, because He can only witness truly. 8His verdict will always be “thine is the Kingdom,” because He was given to you to remind you of what you are.
11. When I said “I am come as a light into the world,” I meant that I came to share the light with you. 2Remember my reference to the ego’s dark glass, and remember also that I said, “Do not look there.” 3It is still true that where you look to find yourself is up to you. 4Your patience with your brother is your patience with yourself. 5Is not a child of God worth patience? 6I have shown you infinite patience because my will is that of our Father, from Whom I learned of infinite patience. 7His Voice was in me as It is in you, speaking for patience towards the Sonship in the Name of its Creator.
12. Now you must learn that only infinite patience produces immediate effects. 2This is the way in which time is exchanged for eternity. 3Infinite patience calls upon infinite love, and by producing results now it renders time unnecessary. 4We have repeatedly said that time is a learning device to be abolished when it is no longer useful. 5The Holy Spirit, Who speaks for God in time, also knows that time is meaningless. 6He reminds you of this in every passing moment of time, because it is His special function to return you to eternity and remain to bless your creations there. 7He is the only blessing you can truly give, because He is truly blessed. 8Because He has been given you freely by God, you must give Him as you received Him.