1. Justice is the divine correction for injustice. 2Injustice is the basis for all the judgments of the world. 3Justice corrects the interpretations to which injustice gives rise, and cancels them out. 4Neither justice nor injustice exists in Heaven, for error is impossible and correction meaningless. 5In this world, however, forgiveness depends on justice, since all attack can only be unjust. 6Justice is the Holy Spirit’s verdict upon the world. 7Except in His judgment justice is impossible, for no one in the world is capable of making only just interpretations and laying all injustices aside. 8If God’s Son were fairly judged, there would be no need for salvation. 9The thought of separation would have been forever inconceivable.
2. Justice, like its opposite, is an interpretation. 2It is, however, the one interpretation that leads to truth. 3This becomes possible because, while it is not true in itself, justice includes nothing that opposes truth. 4There is no inherent conflict between justice and truth; one is but the first small step in the direction of the other. 5The path becomes quite different as one goes along. 6Nor could all the magnificence, the grandeur of the scene and the enormous opening vistas that rise to meet one as the journey continues, be foretold from the outset. 7Yet even these, whose splendor reaches indescribable heights as one proceeds, fall short indeed of all that wait when the pathway ceases and time ends with it. 8But somewhere one must start. 9Justice is the beginning.
3. All concepts of your brothers and yourself; all fears of future states and all concerns about the past, stem from injustice. 2Here is the lens which, held before the body’s eyes, distorts perception and brings witness of the distorted world back to the mind that made the lens and holds it very dear. 3Selectively and arbitrarily is every concept of the world built up in just this way. 4“Sins” are perceived and justified by careful selectivity in which all thought of wholeness must be lost. 5Forgiveness has no place in such a scheme, for not one “sin” but seems forever true.
4. Salvation is God’s justice. 2It restores to your awareness the wholeness of the fragments you perceive as broken off and separate. 3And it is this that overcomes the fear of death. 4For separate fragments must decay and die, but wholeness is immortal. 5It remains forever and forever like its Creator, being one with Him. 6God’s Judgment is His justice. 7Onto this,—a Judgment wholly lacking in condemnation; an evaluation based entirely on love,—you have projected your injustice, giving God the lens of warped perception through which you look. 8Now it belongs to Him and not to you. 9You are afraid of Him, and do not see you hate and fear your Self as enemy.
5. Pray for God’s justice, and do not confuse His mercy with your own insanity. 2Perception can make whatever picture the mind desires to see. 3Remember this. 4In this lies either Heaven or hell, as you elect. 5God’s justice points to Heaven just because it is entirely impartial. 6It accepts all evidence that is brought before it, omitting nothing and assessing nothing as separate and apart from all the rest. 7From this one standpoint does it judge, and this alone. 8Here all attack and condemnation becomes meaningless and indefensible. 9Perception rests, the mind is still, and light returns again. 10Vision is now restored. 11What had been lost has now been found. 12The peace of God descends on all the world, and we can see. 13And we can see!