1. The Holy Spirit teaches one lesson, and applies it to all individuals in all situations. 2Being conflict-free, He maximizes all efforts and all results. 3By teaching the power of the Kingdom of God Himself, He teaches you that all power is yours. 4Its application does not matter. 5It is always maximal. 6Your vigilance does not establish it as yours, but it does enable you to use it always and in all ways. 7When I said “I am with you always,” I meant it literally. 8I am not absent to anyone in any situation. 9Because I am always with you, you are the way, the truth and the life. 10You did not make this power, any more than I did. 11It was created to be shared, and therefore cannot be meaningfully perceived as belonging to anyone at the expense of another. 12Such a perception makes it meaningless by eliminating or overlooking its real and only meaning.
2. God’s meaning waits in the Kingdom, because that is where He placed it. 2It does not wait in time. 3It merely rests in the Kingdom because it belongs there, as you do. 4How can you who are God’s meaning perceive yourself as absent from it? 5You can see yourself as separated from your meaning only by experiencing yourself as unreal. 6This is why the ego is insane; it teaches that you are not what you are. 7That is so contradictory it is clearly impossible. 8It is therefore a lesson you cannot really learn, and therefore cannot really teach. 9Yet you are always teaching. 10You must, therefore, be teaching something else, even though the ego does not know what it is. 11The ego, then, is always being undone, and does suspect your motives. 12Your mind cannot be unified in allegiance to the ego, because the mind does not belong to it. 13Yet what is “treacherous” to the ego is faithful to peace. 14The ego’s “enemy” is therefore your friend.
3. I said before that the ego’s friend is not part of you, because the ego perceives itself at war and therefore in need of allies. 2You who are not at war must look for brothers and recognize all whom you see as brothers, because only equals are at peace. 3Because God’s equal Sons have everything, they cannot compete. 4Yet if they perceive any of their brothers as anything other than their perfect equals, the idea of competition has entered their minds. 5Do not underestimate your need to be vigilant against this idea, because all your conflicts come from it. 6It is the belief that conflicting interests are possible, and therefore you have accepted the impossible as true. 7Is that different from saying you perceive yourself as unreal?
4. To be in the Kingdom is merely to focus your full attention on it. 2As long as you believe you can attend to what is not true, you are accepting conflict as your choice. 3Is it really a choice? 4It seems to be, but seeming and reality are hardly the same. 5You who are the Kingdom are not concerned with seeming. 6Reality is yours because you are reality. 7This is how having and being are ultimately reconciled, not in the Kingdom, but in your mind. 8The altar there is the only reality. 9The altar is perfectly clear in thought, because it is a reflection of perfect Thought. 10Your right mind sees only brothers, because it sees only in its own light.
5. God has lit your mind Himself, and keeps your mind lit by His light because His light is what your mind is. 2This is totally beyond question, and when you question it you are answered. 3The Answer merely undoes the question by establishing the fact that to question reality is to question meaninglessly. 4That is why the Holy Spirit never questions. 5His sole function is to undo the questionable and thus lead to certainty. 6The certain are perfectly calm, because they are not in doubt. 7They do not raise questions, because nothing questionable enters their minds. 8This holds them in perfect serenity, because this is what they share, knowing what they are.