1. To heal is the only kind of thinking in this world that resembles the Thought of God, and because of the elements they share, can transfer easily to it. 2When a brother perceives himself as sick, he is perceiving himself as not whole, and therefore in need. 3If you, too, see him this way, you are seeing him as if he were absent from the Kingdom or separated from it, thus making the Kingdom itself obscure to both of you. 4Sickness and separation are not of God, but the Kingdom is. 5If you obscure the Kingdom, you are perceiving what is not of God.
2. To heal, then, is to correct perception in your brother and yourself by sharing the Holy Spirit with him. 2This places you both within the Kingdom, and restores its wholeness in your mind. 3This reflects creation, because it unifies by increasing and integrates by extending. 4What you project or extend is real for you. 5This is an immutable law of the mind in this world as well as in the Kingdom. 6However, the content is different in this world, because the thoughts it governs are very different from the Thoughts in the Kingdom. 7Laws must be adapted to circumstances if they are to maintain order. 8The outstanding characteristic of the laws of mind as they operate in this world is that by obeying them, and I assure you that you must obey them, you can arrive at diametrically opposed results. 9This is because the laws have been adapted to the circumstances of this world, in which diametrically opposed outcomes seem possible because you can respond to two conflicting voices.
3. Outside the Kingdom, the law that prevails inside is adapted to “What you project you believe.” 2This is its teaching form, because outside the Kingdom learning is essential. 3This form implies that you will learn what you are from what you have projected onto others, and therefore believe they are. 4In the Kingdom there is no teaching or learning, because there is no belief. 5There is only certainty. 6God and His Sons, in the surety of being, know that what you extend you are. 7That form of the law is not adapted at all, being the law of creation. 8God Himself created the law by creating by it. 9And His Sons, who create like Him, follow it gladly, knowing that the increase of the Kingdom depends on it, just as their own creation did.
4. Laws must be communicated if they are to be helpful. 2In effect, they must be translated for those who speak different languages. 3Nevertheless, a good translator, although he must alter the form of what he translates, never changes the meaning. 4In fact, his whole purpose is to change the form so that the original meaning is retained. 5The Holy Spirit is the Translator of the laws of God to those who do not understand them. 6You could not do this yourself because a conflicted mind cannot be faithful to one meaning, and will therefore change the meaning to preserve the form.
5. The Holy Spirit’s purpose in translating is exactly the opposite. 2He translates only to preserve the original meaning in all respects and in all languages. 3Therefore, He opposes the idea that differences in form are meaningful, emphasizing always that these differences do not matter. 4The meaning of His message is always the same; only the meaning matters. 5God’s law of creation does not involve the use of truth to convince His Sons of truth. 6The extension of truth, which is the law of the Kingdom, rests only on the knowledge of what truth is. 7This is your inheritance and requires no learning at all, but when you disinherited yourself you became a learner of necessity.
6. No one questions the connection of learning and memory. 2Learning is impossible without memory since it must be consistent to be remembered. 3That is why the Holy Spirit’s teaching is a lesson in remembering. 4I said before that He teaches remembering and forgetting, but the forgetting is only to make the remembering consistent. 5You forget in order to remember better. 6You will not understand His translations while you listen to two ways of interpreting them. 7Therefore you must forget or relinquish one to understand the other. 8This is the only way you can learn consistency, so that you can finally be consistent.
7. What can the perfect consistency of the Kingdom mean to those who are confused? 2It is apparent that confusion interferes with meaning, and therefore prevents the learner from appreciating it. 3There is no confusion in the Kingdom, because there is only one meaning. 4This meaning comes from God and is God. 5Because it is also you, you share it and extend it as your Creator did. 6This needs no translation because it is perfectly understood, but it does need extension because it means extension. 7Communication is perfectly direct and perfectly united. 8It is totally free, because nothing discordant ever enters. 9That is why it is the Kingdom of God. 10It belongs to Him and is therefore like Him. 11That is its reality, and nothing can assail it.