1. Healing and Atonement are not related; they are identical. 2There is no order of difficulty in miracles because there are no degrees of Atonement. 3It is the one complete concept possible in this world, because it is the source of a wholly unified perception. 4Partial Atonement is a meaningless idea, just as special areas of hell in Heaven are inconceivable. 5Accept Atonement and you are healed. 6Atonement is the Word of God. 7Accept His Word and what remains to make sickness possible? 8Accept His Word and every miracle has been accomplished. 9To forgive is to heal. 10The teacher of God has taken accepting the Atonement for himself as his only function. 11What is there, then, he cannot heal? 12What miracle can be withheld from him?
2. The progress of the teacher of God may be slow or rapid, depending on whether he recognizes the Atonement’s inclusiveness, or for a time excludes some problem areas from it. 2In some cases, there is a sudden and complete awareness of the perfect applicability of the lesson of the Atonement to all situations, but this is comparatively rare. 3The teacher of God may have accepted the function God has given him long before he has learned all that his acceptance holds out to him. 4It is only the end that is certain. 5Anywhere along the way, the necessary realization of inclusiveness may reach him. 6If the way seems long, let him be content. 7He has decided on the direction he wants to take. 8What more was asked of him? 9And having done what was required, would God withhold the rest?
3. That forgiveness is healing needs to be understood, if the teacher of God is to make progress. 2The idea that a body can be sick is a central concept in the ego’s thought system. 3This thought gives the body autonomy, separates it from the mind, and keeps the idea of attack inviolate. 4If the body could be sick Atonement would be impossible. 5A body that can order a mind to do as it sees fit could merely take the place of God and prove salvation is impossible. 6What, then, is left to heal? 7The body has become lord of the mind. 8How could the mind be returned to the Holy Spirit unless the body is killed? 9And who would want salvation at such a price?
4. Certainly sickness does not appear to be a decision. 2Nor would anyone actually believe he wants to be sick. 3Perhaps he can accept the idea in theory, but it is rarely if ever consistently applied to all specific forms of sickness, both in the individual’s perception of himself and of all others as well. 4Nor is it at this level that the teacher of God calls forth the miracle of healing. 5He overlooks the mind and body, seeing only the face of Christ shining in front of him, correcting all mistakes and healing all perception. 6Healing is the result of the recognition, by God’s teacher, of who it is that is in need of healing. 7This recognition has no special reference. 8It is true of all things that God created. 9In it are all illusions healed.
5. When a teacher of God fails to heal, it is because he has forgotten Who he is. 2Another’s sickness thus becomes his own. 3In allowing this to happen, he has identified with another’s ego, and has thus confused him with a body. 4In so doing, he has refused to accept the Atonement for himself, and can hardly offer it to his brother in Christ’s Name. 5He will, in fact, be unable to recognize his brother at all, for his Father did not create bodies, and so he is seeing in his brother only the unreal. 6Mistakes do not correct mistakes, and distorted perception does not heal. 7Step back now, teacher of God. 8You have been wrong. 9Lead not the way, for you have lost it. 10Turn quickly to your Teacher, and let yourself be healed.
6. The offer of Atonement is universal. 2It is equally applicable to all individuals in all circumstances. 3And in it is the power to heal all individuals of all forms of sickness. 4Not to believe this is to be unfair to God, and thus unfaithful to Him. 5A sick person perceives himself as separate from God. 6Would you see him as separate from you? 7It is your task to heal the sense of separation that has made him sick. 8It is your function to recognize for him that what he believes about himself is not the truth. 9It is your forgiveness that must show him this. 10Healing is very simple. 11Atonement is received and offered. 12Having been received, it must be accepted. 13It is in the receiving, then, that healing lies. 14All else must follow from this single purpose.
7. Who can limit the power of God Himself? 2Who, then, can say which one can be healed of what, and what must remain beyond God’s power to forgive? 3This is insanity indeed. 4It is not up to God’s teachers to set limits upon Him, because it is not up to them to judge His Son. 5And to judge His Son is to limit his Father. 6Both are equally meaningless. 7Yet this will not be understood until God’s teacher recognizes that they are the same mistake. 8Herein does he receive Atonement, for he withdraws his judgment from the Son of God, accepting him as God created him. 9No longer does he stand apart from God, determining where healing should be given and where it should be withheld. 10Now can he say with God, “This is my beloved Son, created perfect and forever so.”