1. Healing must occur in exact proportion to which the valuelessness of sickness is recognized. 2One need but say, “There is no gain at all to me in this” and he is healed. 3But to say this, one first must recognize certain facts. 4First, it is obvious that decisions are of the mind, not of the body. 5If sickness is but a faulty problem-solving approach, it is a decision. 6And if it is a decision, it is the mind and not the body that makes it. 7The resistance to recognizing this is enormous, because the existence of the world as you perceive it depends on the body being the decision maker. 8Terms like “instincts,” “reflexes” and the like represent attempts to endow the body with non-mental motivators. 9Actually, such terms merely state or describe the problem. 10They do not answer it.
2. The acceptance of sickness as a decision of the mind, for a purpose for which it would use the body, is the basis of healing. 2And this is so for healing in all forms. 3A patient decides that this is so, and he recovers. 4If he decides against recovery, he will not be healed. 5Who is the physician? 6Only the mind of the patient himself. 7The outcome is what he decides that it is. 8Special agents seem to be ministering to him, yet they but give form to his own choice. 9He chooses them in order to bring tangible form to his desires. 10And it is this they do, and nothing else. 11They are not actually needed at all. 12The patient could merely rise up without their aid and say, “I have no use for this.” 13There is no form of sickness that would not be cured at once.
3. What is the single requisite for this shift in perception? 2It is simply this; the recognition that sickness is of the mind, and has nothing to do with the body. 3What does this recognition “cost”? 4It costs the whole world you see, for the world will never again appear to rule the mind. 5For with this recognition is responsibility placed where it belongs; not with the world, but on him who looks on the world and sees it as it is not. 6He looks on what he chooses to see. 7No more and no less. 8The world does nothing to him. 9He only thought it did. 10Nor does he do anything to the world, because he was mistaken about what it is. 11Herein is the release from guilt and sickness both, for they are one. 12Yet to accept this release, the insignificance of the body must be an acceptable idea.
4. With this idea is pain forever gone. 2But with this idea goes also all confusion about creation. 3Does not this follow of necessity? 4Place cause and effect in their true sequence in one respect, and the learning will generalize and transform the world. 5The transfer value of one true idea has no end or limit. 6The final outcome of this lesson is the remembrance of God. 7What do guilt and sickness, pain, disaster and all suffering mean now? 8Having no purpose, they are gone. 9And with them also go all the effects they seemed to cause. 10Cause and effect but replicate creation. 11Seen in their proper perspective, without distortion and without fear, they re-establish Heaven.