1. Only you can limit your creative power, but God wills to release it. 2He no more wills you to deprive yourself of your creations than He wills to deprive Himself of His. 3Do not withhold your gifts to the Sonship, or you withhold yourself from God! 4Selfishness is of the ego, but Self-fullness is of spirit because that is how God created it. 5The Holy Spirit is in the part of the mind that lies between the ego and the spirit, mediating between them always in favor of the spirit. 6To the ego this is partiality, and it responds as if it were being sided against. 7To spirit this is truth, because it knows its fullness and cannot conceive of any part from which it is excluded.
2. Spirit knows that the awareness of all its brothers is included in its own, as it is included in God. 2The power of the whole Sonship and of its Creator is therefore spirit’s own fullness, rendering its creations equally whole and equal in perfection. 3The ego cannot prevail against a totality that includes God, and any totality must include God. 4Everything He created is given all His power, because it is part of Him and shares His Being with Him. 5Creating is the opposite of loss, as blessing is the opposite of sacrifice. 6Being must be extended. 7That is how it retains the knowledge of itself. 8Spirit yearns to share its being as its Creator did. 9Created by sharing, its will is to create. 10It does not wish to contain God, but wills to extend His Being.
3. The extension of God’s Being is spirit’s only function. 2Its fullness cannot be contained, any more than can the fullness of its Creator. 3Fullness is extension. 4The ego’s whole thought system blocks extension, and thus blocks your only function. 5It therefore blocks your joy, so that you perceive yourself as unfulfilled. 6Unless you create you are unfulfilled, but God does not know unfulfillment and therefore you must create. 7You may not know your own creations, but this can no more interfere with their reality than your unawareness of your spirit can interfere with its being.
4. The Kingdom is forever extending because it is in the Mind of God. 2You do not know your joy because you do not know your own Self-fullness. 3Exclude any part of the Kingdom from yourself and you are not whole. 4A split mind cannot perceive its fullness, and needs the miracle of its wholeness to dawn upon it and heal it. 5This reawakens the wholeness in it, and restores it to the Kingdom because of its acceptance of wholeness. 6The full appreciation of the mind’s Self-fullness makes selfishness impossible and extension inevitable. 7That is why there is perfect peace in the Kingdom. 8Spirit is fulfilling its function, and only complete fulfillment is peace.
5. Your creations are protected for you because the Holy Spirit, Who is in your mind, knows of them and can bring them into your awareness whenever you will let Him. 2They are there as part of your own being, because your fulfillment includes them. 3The creations of every Son of God are yours, since every creation belongs to everyone, being created for the Sonship as a whole.
6. You have not failed to increase the inheritance of the Sons of God, and thus have not failed to secure it for yourself. 2Since it was the Will of God to give it to you, He gave it forever. 3Since it was His Will that you have it forever, He gave you the means for keeping it. 4And you have done so. 5Disobeying God’s Will is meaningful only to the insane. 6In truth it is impossible. 7Your Self-fullness is as boundless as God’s. 8Like His, It extends forever and in perfect peace. 9Its radiance is so intense that It creates in perfect joy, and only the whole can be born of Its Wholeness.
7. Be confident that you have never lost your Identity and the extensions which maintain It in wholeness and peace. 2Miracles are an expression of this confidence. 3They are reflections of both your proper identification with your brothers, and of your awareness that your identification is maintained by extension. 4The miracle is a lesson in total perception. 5By including any part of totality in the lesson, you have included the whole.