1. There is no need for help to enter Heaven for you have never left. 2But there is need for help beyond yourself as you are circumscribed by false beliefs of your Identity, which God alone established in reality. 3Helpers are given you in many forms, although upon the altar they are one. 4Beyond each one there is a Thought of God, and this will never change. 5But they have names which differ for a time, for time needs symbols, being itself unreal. 6Their names are legion, but we will not go beyond the names the course itself employs. 7God does not help because He knows no need. 8But He creates all Helpers of His Son while he believes his fantasies are true. 9Thank God for them for they will lead you home.
2. The name of Jesus is the name of one who was a man but saw the face of Christ in all his brothers and remembered God. 2So he became identified with Christ, a man no longer, but at one with God. 3The man was an illusion, for he seemed to be a separate being, walking by himself, within a body that appeared to hold his self from Self, as all illusions do. 4Yet who can save unless he sees illusions and then identifies them as what they are? 5Jesus remains a Savior because he saw the false without accepting it as true. 6And Christ needed his form that He might appear to men and save them from their own illusions.
3. In his complete identification with the Christ—the perfect Son of God, His one creation and His happiness, forever like Himself and one with Him—Jesus became what all of you must be. 2He led the way for you to follow him. 3He leads you back to God because he saw the road before him, and he followed it. 4He made a clear distinction, still obscure to you, between the false and true. 5He offered you a final demonstration that it is impossible to kill God’s Son; nor can his life in any way be changed by sin and evil, malice, fear or death.
4. And therefore all your sins have been forgiven because they carried no effects at all. 2And so they were but dreams. 3Arise with him who showed you this because you owe him this who shared your dreams that they might be dispelled. 4And shares them still, to be at one with you.
5. Is he the Christ? 2O yes, along with you. 3His little life on earth was not enough to teach the mighty lesson that he learned for all of you. 4He will remain with you to lead you from the hell you made to God. 5And when you join your will with his, your sight will be his vision, for the eyes of Christ are shared. 6Walking with him is just as natural as walking with a brother whom you knew since you were born, for such indeed he is. 7Some bitter idols have been made of him who would be only brother to the world. 8Forgive him your illusions, and behold how dear a brother he would be to you. 9For he will set your mind at rest at last and carry it with you unto your God.
6. Is he God’s only Helper? 2No, indeed. 3For Christ takes many forms with different names until their oneness can be recognized. 4But Jesus is for you the bearer of Christ’s single message of the Love of God. 5You need no other. 6It is possible to read his words and benefit from them without accepting him into your life. 7Yet he would help you yet a little more if you will share your pains and joys with him, and leave them both to find the peace of God. 8Yet still it is his lesson most of all that he would have you learn, and it is this:
9There is no death because the Son of God is like his Father. 10Nothing you can do can change Eternal Love. 11Forget your dreams of sin and guilt, and come with me instead to share the resurrection of God’s Son. 12And bring with you all those whom He has sent to you to care for as I care for you.