1. The Kingdom is the result of premises, just as this world is. 2You may have carried the ego’s reasoning to its logical conclusion, which is total confusion about everything. 3If you really saw this result you could not want it. 4The only reason you could possibly want any part of it is because you do not see the whole of it. 5You are willing to look at the ego’s premises, but not at their logical outcome. 6Is it not possible that you have done the same thing with the premises of God? 7Your creations are the logical outcome of His premises. 8His thinking has established them for you. 9They are exactly where they belong. 10They belong in your mind as part of your identification with His, but your state of mind and your recognition of what is in it depend on what you believe about your mind. 11Whatever these beliefs may be, they are the premises that will determine what you accept into your mind.
2. It is surely clear that you can both accept into your mind what is not there, and deny what is. 2Yet the function God Himself gave your mind through His you may deny, but you cannot prevent. 3It is the logical outcome of what you are. 4The ability to see a logical outcome depends on the willingness to see it, but its truth has nothing to do with your willingness. 5Truth is God’s Will. 6Share His Will and you share what He knows. 7Deny His Will as yours, and you are denying His Kingdom and yours.
3. The Holy Spirit will direct you only so as to avoid pain. 2Surely no one would object to this goal if he recognized it. 3The problem is not whether what the Holy Spirit says is true, but whether you want to listen to what He says. 4You no more recognize what is painful than you know what is joyful, and are, in fact, very apt to confuse the two. 5The Holy Spirit’s main function is to teach you to tell them apart. 6What is joyful to you is painful to the ego, and as long as you are in doubt about what you are, you will be confused about joy and pain. 7This confusion is the cause of the whole idea of sacrifice. 8Obey the Holy Spirit, and you will be giving up the ego. 9But you will be sacrificing nothing. 10On the contrary, you will be gaining everything. 11If you believed this, there would be no conflict.
4. That is why you need to demonstrate the obvious to yourself. 2It is not obvious to you. 3You believe that doing the opposite of God’s Will can be better for you. 4You also believe that it is possible to do the opposite of God’s Will. 5Therefore, you believe that an impossible choice is open to you, and one which is both fearful and desirable. 6Yet God wills. 7He does not wish. 8Your will is as powerful as His because it is His. 9The ego’s wishes do not mean anything, because the ego wishes for the impossible. 10You can wish for the impossible, but you can will only with God. 11This is the ego’s weakness and your strength.
5. The Holy Spirit always sides with you and with your strength. 2As long as you avoid His guidance in any way, you want to be weak. 3Yet weakness is frightening. 4What else, then, can this decision mean except that you want to be fearful? 5The Holy Spirit never asks for sacrifice, but the ego always does. 6When you are confused about this distinction in motivation, it can only be due to projection. 7Projection is a confusion in motivation, and given this confusion, trust becomes impossible. 8No one gladly obeys a guide he does not trust, but this does not mean that the guide is untrustworthy. 9In this case, it always means that the follower is. 10However, this, too, is merely a matter of his own belief. 11Believing that he can betray, he believes that everything can betray him. 12Yet this is only because he has elected to follow false guidance. 13Unable to follow this guidance without fear, he associates fear with guidance, and refuses to follow any guidance at all. 14If the result of this decision is confusion, this is hardly surprising.
6. The Holy Spirit is perfectly trustworthy, as you are. 2God Himself trusts you, and therefore your trustworthiness is beyond question. 3It will always remain beyond question, however much you may question it. 4I said before that you are the Will of God. 5His Will is not an idle wish, and your identification with His Will is not optional, since it is what you are. 6Sharing His Will with me is not really open to choice, though it may seem to be. 7The whole separation lies in this error. 8The only way out of the error is to decide that you do not have to decide anything. 9Everything has been given you by God’s decision. 10That is His Will, and you cannot undo it.
7. Even the relinquishment of your false decision-making prerogative, which the ego guards so jealously, is not accomplished by your wish. 2It was accomplished for you by the Will of God, Who has not left you comfortless. 3His Voice will teach you how to distinguish between pain and joy, and will lead you out of the confusion you have made. 4There is no confusion in the mind of a Son of God, whose will must be the Will of the Father, because the Father’s Will is His Son.
8. Miracles are in accord with the Will of God, Whose Will you do not know because you are confused about what you will. 2This means that you are confused about what you are. 3If you are God’s Will and do not accept His Will, you are denying joy. 4The miracle is therefore a lesson in what joy is. 5Being a lesson in sharing it is a lesson in love, which is joy. 6Every miracle is thus a lesson in truth, and by offering truth you are learning the difference between pain and joy.