1. We are the joint will of the Sonship, whose Wholeness is for all. 2We begin the journey back by setting out together, and gather in our brothers as we continue together. 3Every gain in our strength is offered for all, so they too can lay aside their weakness and add their strength to us. 4God’s welcome waits for us all, and He will welcome us as I am welcoming you. 5Forget not the Kingdom of God for anything the world has to offer.
2. The world can add nothing to the power and the glory of God and His holy Sons, but it can blind the Sons to the Father if they behold it. 2You cannot behold the world and know God. 3Only one is true. 4I am come to tell you that the choice of which is true is not yours to make. 5If it were, you would have destroyed yourself. 6Yet God did not will the destruction of His creations, having created them for eternity. 7His Will has saved you, not from yourself but from your illusion of yourself. 8He has saved you for yourself.
3. Let us glorify Him Whom the world denies, for over His Kingdom the world has no power. 2No one created by God can find joy in anything except the eternal; not because he is deprived of anything else, but because nothing else is worthy of him. 3What God and His Sons create is eternal, and in this and this only is Their joy.
4. Listen to the story of the prodigal son, and learn what God’s treasure is and yours: This son of a loving father left his home and thought he had squandered everything for nothing of any value, although he had not understood its worthlessness at the time. 2He was ashamed to return to his father, because he thought he had hurt him. 3Yet when he came home the father welcomed him with joy, because the son himself was his father’s treasure. 4He wanted nothing else.
5. God wants only His Son because His Son is His only treasure. 2You want your creations as He wants His. 3Your creations are your gift to the Holy Trinity, created in gratitude for your creation. 4They do not leave you any more than you left your Creator, but they extend your creation as God extended Himself to you. 5Can the creations of God Himself take joy in what is not real? 6And what is real except the creations of God and those that are created like His? 7Your creations love you as you love your Father for the gift of creation. 8There is no other gift that is eternal, and therefore there is no other gift that is true. 9How, then, can you accept anything else or give anything else, and expect joy in return? 10And what else but joy would you want? 11You made neither yourself nor your function. 12You made only the decision to be unworthy of both. 13Yet you cannot make yourself unworthy because you are the treasure of God, and what He values is valuable. 14There can be no question of its worth, because its value lies in God’s sharing Himself with it and establishing its value forever.
6. Your function is to add to God’s treasure by creating yours. 2His Will to you is His Will for you. 3He would not withhold creation from you because His joy is in it. 4You cannot find joy except as God does. 5His joy lay in creating you, and He extends His Fatherhood to you so that you can extend yourself as He did. 6You do not understand this because you do not understand Him. 7No one who does not accept his function can understand what it is, and no one can accept his function unless he knows what he is. 8Creation is the Will of God. 9His Will created you to create. 10Your will was not created separate from His, and so you must will as He wills.
7. An “unwilling will” does not mean anything, being a contradiction in terms that actually means nothing. 2When you think you are unwilling to will with God, you are not thinking. 3God’s Will is Thought. 4It cannot be contradicted by thought. 5God does not contradict Himself, and His Sons, who are like Him, cannot contradict themselves or Him. 6Yet their thought is so powerful that they can even imprison the mind of God’s Son, if they so choose. 7This choice does make the Son’s function unknown to him, but never to his Creator. 8And because it is not unknown to his Creator, it is forever knowable to him.
8. There is no question but one you should ever ask of yourself;—“Do I want to know my Father’s Will for me?” 2He will not hide it. 3He has revealed it to me because I asked it of Him, and learned of what He had already given. 4Our function is to work together, because apart from each other we cannot function at all. 5The whole power of God’s Son lies in all of us, but not in any of us alone. 6God would not have us be alone because He does not will to be alone. 7That is why He created His Son, and gave him the power to create with Him. 8Our creations are as holy as we are, and we are the Sons of God Himself, as holy as He is. 9Through our creations we extend our love, and thus increase the joy of the Holy Trinity. 10You do not understand this, because you who are God’s Own treasure do not regard yourself as valuable. 11Given this belief, you cannot understand anything.
9. I share with God the knowledge of the value He puts upon you. 2My devotion to you is of Him, being born of my knowledge of myself and Him. 3We cannot be separated. 4Whom God has joined cannot be separated, and God has joined all His Sons with Himself. 5Can you be separated from your life and your being? 6The journey to God is merely the reawakening of the knowledge of where you are always, and what you are forever. 7It is a journey without distance to a goal that has never changed. 8Truth can only be experienced. 9It cannot be described and it cannot be explained. 10I can make you aware of the conditions of truth, but the experience is of God. 11Together we can meet its conditions, but truth will dawn upon you of itself.
10. What God has willed for you is yours. 2He has given His Will to His treasure, whose treasure it is. 3Your heart lies where your treasure is, as His does. 4You who are beloved of God are wholly blessed. 5Learn this of me, and free the holy will of all those who are as blessed as you are.