T-9.VI:The Acceptance of Your Brother

1. 1How can you become increasingly aware of the Holy Spirit in you except by His effects? 2You cannot see Him with your eyes nor hear Him with your ears. 3How, then, can you perceive Him at all? 4If you inspire joy and others react to you with joy, even though you are not experiencing joy yourself there must be something in you that is capable of producing it. 5If it is in you and can produce joy, and if you see that it does produce joy in others, you must be dissociating it in yourself.

2. 1It seems to you that the Holy Spirit does not produce joy consistently in you only because you do not consistently arouse joy in others. 2Their reactions to you are your evaluations of His consistency. 3When you are inconsistent you will not always give rise to joy, and so you will not always recognize His consistency. 4What you offer to your brother you offer to Him, because He cannot go beyond your offering in His giving. 5This is not because He limits His giving, but simply because you have limited your receiving. 6The decision to receive is the decision to accept.

3. 1If your brothers are part of you, will you accept them? 2Only they can teach you what you are, for your learning is the result of what you taught them. 3What you call upon in them you call upon in yourself. 4And as you call upon it in them it becomes real to you. 5God has but one Son, knowing them all as one. 6Only God Himself is more than they but they are not less than He is. 7Would you know what this means? 8If what you do to my brother you do to me, and if you do everything for yourself because we are part of you, everything we do belongs to you as well. 9Everyone God created is part of you and shares His glory with you. 10His glory belongs to Him, but it is equally yours. 11You cannot, then, be less glorious than He is.

4. 1God is more than you only because He created you, but not even this would He keep from you. 2Therefore you can create as He did, and your dissociation will not alter this. 3Neither God’s light nor yours is dimmed because you do not see. 4Because the Sonship must create as one, you remember creation whenever you recognize part of creation. 5Each part you remember adds to your wholeness because each part is whole. 6Wholeness is indivisible, but you cannot learn of your wholeness until you see it everywhere. 7You can know yourself only as God knows His Son, for knowledge is shared with God. 8When you awake in Him you will know your magnitude by accepting His limitlessness as yours. 9But meanwhile you will judge it as you judge your brother’s, and will accept it as you accept his.

5. 1You are not yet awake, but you can learn how to awaken. 2Very simply, the Holy Spirit teaches you to awaken others. 3As you see them waken you will learn what waking means, and because you have chosen to wake them, their gratitude and their appreciation of what you have given them will teach you its value. 4They will become the witnesses to your reality, as you were created witness to God’s. 5Yet when the Sonship comes together and accepts its Oneness it will be known by its creations, who witness to its reality as the Son does to the Father.

6. 1Miracles have no place in eternity, because they are reparative. 2Yet while you still need healing, your miracles are the only witnesses to your reality that you can recognize. 3You cannot perform a miracle for yourself, because miracles are a way of giving acceptance and receiving it. 4In time the giving comes first, though they are simultaneous in eternity, where they cannot be separated. 5When you have learned they are the same, the need for time is over.

7. 1Eternity is one time, its only dimension being “always.” 2This cannot mean anything to you until you remember God’s open Arms, and finally know His open Mind. 3Like Him, you are “always”; in His Mind and with a mind like His. 4In your open mind are your creations, in perfect communication born of perfect understanding. 5Could you but accept one of them you would not want anything the world has to offer. 6Everything else would be totally meaningless. 7God’s meaning is incomplete without you, and you are incomplete without your creations. 8Accept your brother in this world and accept nothing else, for in him you will find your creations because he created them with you. 9You will never know that you are co-creator with God until you learn that your brother is co-creator with you.