1. 1Harm is impossible for God’s teachers. 2They can neither harm nor be harmed. 3Harm is the outcome of judgment. 4It is the dishonest act that follows a dishonest thought. 5It is a verdict of guilt upon a brother, and therefore on oneself. 6It is the end of peace and the denial of learning. 7It demonstrates the absence of God’s curriculum, and its replacement by insanity. 8No teacher of God but must learn,—and fairly early in his training,—that harmfulness completely obliterates his function from his awareness. 9It will make him confused, fearful, angry and suspicious. 10It will make the Holy Spirit’s lessons impossible to learn. 11Nor can God’s Teacher be heard at all, except by those who realize that harm can actually achieve nothing. 12No gain can come of it.

2. 1Therefore, God’s teachers are wholly gentle. 2They need the strength of gentleness, for it is in this that the function of salvation becomes easy. 3To those who would do harm, it is impossible. 4To those to whom harm has no meaning, it is merely natural. 5What choice but this has meaning to the sane? 6Who chooses hell when he perceives a way to Heaven? 7And who would choose the weakness that must come from harm in place of the unfailing, all-encompassing and limitless strength of gentleness? 8The might of God’s teachers lies in their gentleness, for they have understood their evil thoughts came neither from God’s Son nor his Creator. 9Thus did they join their thoughts with Him Who is their Source. 10And so their will, which always was His Own, is free to be itself.