Chapter 10.

THE IDOLS OF SICKNESS

Introduction

T-10.in.1. Nothing beyond yourself can make you fearful or loving, because 
nothing <is> beyond you. 2 Time and eternity are both in your mind, and will 
conflict until you perceive time solely as a means to regain eternity. 3 You 
cannot do this as long as you believe that anything happening to you is caused 
by factors outside yourself. 4 You must learn that time is solely at your 
disposal, and that nothing in the world can take this responsibility from you. 5 
You can violate God's laws in your imagination, but you cannot escape from them. 
6 They were established for your protection and are as inviolate as your safety.

T-10.in.2. God created nothing beside you and nothing beside you exists, for you 
are part of Him. 2 What except Him can exist? 3 Nothing beyond Him can happen, 
because nothing except Him is real. 4 Your creations add to Him as you do, but 
nothing is added that is different because everything has always been. 5 What 
can upset you except the ephemeral, and how can the ephemeral be real if you are 
God's only creation and He created you eternal? 6 Your holy mind establishes 
everything that happens to you. 7 Every response you make to everything you 
perceive is up to you, because your mind determines your perception of it.

T-10.in.3. God does not change His Mind about you, for He is not uncertain of 
Himself. 2 And what He knows can be known, because He does not know it only for 
Himself. 3 He created you for Himself, but He gave you the power to create for 
yourself so you would be like Him. 4 That is why your mind is holy. 5 Can 
anything exceed the Love of God? 6 Can anything, then, exceed your will? 7 
Nothing can reach you from beyond it because, being in God, you encompass 
everything. 8 Believe this, and you will realize how much is up to you. 9 When 
anything threatens your peace of mind, ask yourself, "Has God changed His Mind 
about me?" 10 Then accept His decision, for it is indeed changeless, and refuse 
to change your mind about yourself. 11 God will never decide against you, or He 
would be deciding against Himself. p181




I. At Home in God

T-10.I.1. You do not know your creations simply because you would decide against 
them as long as your mind is split, and to attack what you have created is 
impossible. 2 But remember that <it is as impossible for God.> 3 The law of 
creation is that you love your creations as yourself, because they are part of 
you. 4 Everything that was created is therefore perfectly safe, because the laws 
of God protect it by His Love. 5 Any part of your mind that does not know this 
has banished itself from knowledge, because it has not met its conditions. 6 Who 
could have done this but you? 7 Recognize this gladly, for in this recognition 
lies the realization that your banishment is not of God, and therefore does not 
exist.

T-10.I.2. You are at home in God, dreaming of exile but perfectly capable of 
awakening to reality. 2 Is it your decision to do so? 3 You recognize from your 
own experience that what you see in dreams you think is real while you are 
asleep. 4 Yet the instant you waken you realize that everything that seemed to 
happen in the dream did not happen at all. 5 You do not think this strange, even 
though all the laws of what you awaken to were violated while you slept. 6 Is it 
not possible that you merely shifted from one dream to another, without really 
waking?

T-10.I.3. Would you bother to reconcile what happened in conflicting dreams, or 
would you dismiss both together if you discovered that reality is in accord with 
neither? 2 You do not remember being awake. 3 When you hear the Holy Spirit you 
may feel better because loving then seems possible to you, but you do not 
remember yet that it once was so. 4 And it is in this remembering that you will 
know it can be so again. 5 What is possible has not yet been accomplished. 6 Yet 
what has once been is so now, if it is eternal. 7 When you remember, you will 
know that what you remember is eternal, and therefore is now.

T-10.I.4. You will remember everything the instant you desire it wholly, for if 
to desire wholly is to create, you will have willed away the separation, 
returning your mind simultaneously to your Creator and your creations. 2 Knowing 
Them you will have no wish to sleep, but only the desire to waken and be glad. 3 
Dreams will be impossible because you will want only truth, and being at last 
your will, it will be yours. p182




II. The Decision to Forget

T-10.II.1. Unless you first know something you cannot dissociate it. 2 Knowledge 
must precede dissociation, so that dissociation is nothing more than a decision 
to forget. 3 What has been forgotten then appears to be fearful, but only 
because the dissociation is an attack on truth. 4 You are fearful <because> you 
have forgotten. 5 And you have replaced your knowledge by an awareness of dreams 
because you are afraid of your dissociation, not of what you have dissociated. 6 
When what you have dissociated is accepted, it ceases to be fearful.

T-10.II.2. Yet to give up the dissociation of reality brings more than merely 
lack of fear. 2 In this decision lie joy and peace and the glory of creation. 3 
Offer the Holy Spirit only your willingness to remember, for He retains the 
knowledge of God and of yourself for you, waiting for your acceptance. 4 Give up 
gladly everything that would stand in the way of your remembering, for God is in 
your memory. 5 His Voice will tell you that you are part of Him when you are 
willing to remember Him and know your own reality again. 6 Let nothing in this 
world delay your remembering of Him, for in this remembering is the knowledge of 
yourself.

T-10.II.3. To remember is merely to restore to your mind <what is already 
there.> 2 You do not make what you remember; you merely accept again what is 
already there, but was rejected. 3 The ability to accept truth in this world is 
the perceptual counterpart of creating in the Kingdom. 4 God will do His part if 
you will do yours, and His return in exchange for yours is the exchange of 
knowledge for perception. 5 Nothing is beyond His Will for you. 6 But signify 
your will to remember Him, and behold! 7 He will give you everything but for the 
asking.

T-10.II.4. When you attack, you are denying yourself. 2 You are specifically 
teaching yourself that you are not what you are. 3 Your denial of reality 
precludes the acceptance of God's gift, because you have accepted something else 
in its place. 4 If you understand that this is always an attack on truth, and 
truth is God, you will realize why it is always fearful. 5 If you further 
recognize that you are part of God, you will understand why it is that you 
always attack yourself first.

T-10.II.5. All attack is Self attack. 2 It cannot be anything else. 3 Arising 
from your own decision not to be what you are, it is an attack on your 
identification. 4 Attack is thus the way in which your identification is lost, 
because when you attack, you must have forgotten what you are. p183 5 And if 
your reality is God's, when you attack you are not remembering Him. 6 This is 
not because He is gone, but because you are actively choosing not to remember 
Him.

T-10.II.6. If you realized the complete havoc this makes of your peace of mind 
you could not make such an insane decision. 2 You make it only because you still 
believe it can get you something you want. 3 It follows, then, that you want 
something other than peace of mind, but you have not considered what it must be. 
4 Yet the logical outcome of your decision is perfectly clear, if you will only 
look at it. 5 By deciding against your reality, you have made yourself vigilant 
<against> God and His Kingdom. 6 And it is this vigilance that makes you afraid 
to remember Him.




III. The God of Sickness

T-10.III.1. You have not attacked God and you do love Him. 2 Can you change your 
reality? 3 No one can will to destroy himself. 4 When you think you are 
attacking yourself, it is a sure sign that you hate what you <think> you are. 5 
And this, and only this, can be attacked by you. 6 What you think you are can be 
very hateful, and what this strange image makes you do can be very destructive. 
7 Yet the destruction is no more real than the image, although those who make 
idols do worship them. 8 The idols are nothing, but their worshippers are the 
Sons of God in sickness. 9 God would have them released from their sickness and 
returned to His Mind. 10 He will not limit your power to help them, because He 
has given it to you. 11 Do not be afraid of it, because it is your salvation.

T-10.III.2. What Comforter can there be for the sick children of God except His 
power through you? 2 Remember that it does not matter where in the Sonship He is 
accepted. 3 He is always accepted for all, and when your mind receives Him the 
remembrance of Him awakens throughout the Sonship. 4 Heal your brothers simply 
by accepting God for them. 5 Your minds are not separate, and God has only one 
channel for healing because He has but one Son. 6 God's remaining Communication 
Link with all His children joins them together, and them to Him. 7 To be aware 
of this is to heal them because it is the awareness that no one is separate, and 
so no one is sick. p184

T-10.III.3. To believe that a Son of God can be sick is to believe that part of 
God can suffer. 2 Love cannot suffer, because it cannot attack. 3 The 
remembrance of love therefore brings invulnerability with it. 4 Do not side with 
sickness in the presence of a Son of God even if he believes in it, for your 
acceptance of God in him acknowledges the Love of God he has forgotten. 5 Your 
recognition of him as part of God reminds him of the truth about himself, which 
he is denying. 6 Would you strengthen his denial of God and thus lose sight of 
yourself? 7 Or would you remind him of his wholeness and remember your Creator 
with him?

T-10.III.4. To believe a Son of God is sick is to worship the same idol he does. 
2 God created love, not idolatry. 3 All forms of idolatry are caricatures of 
creation, taught by sick minds too divided to know that creation shares power 
and never usurps it. 4 Sickness is idolatry, because it is the belief that power 
can be taken from you. 5 Yet this is impossible, because you are part of God, 
Who is all power. 6 A sick god must be an idol, made in the image of what its 
maker thinks he is. 7 And that is exactly what the ego does perceive in a Son of 
God; a sick god, self-created, self-sufficient, very vicious and very 
vulnerable. 8 Is this the idol you would worship? 9 Is this the image you would 
be vigilant to save? 10 Are you really afraid of losing this?

T-10.III.5. Look calmly at the logical conclusion of the ego's thought system 
and judge whether its offering is really what you want, for this <is> what it 
offers you. 2 To obtain this you are willing to attack the Divinity of your 
brothers, and thus lose sight of yours. 3 And you are willing to keep it hidden, 
to protect an idol you think will save you from the dangers for which it stands, 
but which do not exist.

T-10.III.6. There are no idolaters in the Kingdom, but there is great 
appreciation for everything that God created, because of the calm knowledge that 
each one is part of Him. 2 God's Son knows no idols, but he does know his 
Father. 3 Health in this world is the counterpart of value in Heaven. 4 It is 
not my merit that I contribute to you but my love, for you do not value 
yourself. 5 When you do not value yourself you become sick, but my value of you 
can heal you, because the value of God's Son is one. 6 When I said, "My peace I 
give unto you," I meant it. 7 Peace comes from God through me to you. 8 It is 
for you although you may not ask for it.

T-10.III.7. When a brother is sick it is because he is not asking for peace, and 
therefore does not know he has it. 2 The acceptance of peace is the denial of 
illusion, and sickness <is> an illusion. p185 3 Yet every Son of God has the 
power to deny illusions anywhere in the Kingdom, merely by denying them 
completely in himself. 4 I can heal you because I know you. 5 I know your value 
for you, and it is this value that makes you whole. 6 A whole mind is not 
idolatrous, and does not know of conflicting laws. 7 I will heal you merely 
because I have only one message, and it is true. 8 Your faith in it will make 
you whole when you have faith in me.

T-10.III.8. I do not bring God's message with deception, and you will learn this 
as you learn that you always receive as much as you accept. 2 You could accept 
peace now for everyone, and offer them perfect freedom from all illusions 
because you heard His Voice. 3 But have no other gods before Him or you will not 
hear. 4 God is not jealous of the gods you make, but you are. 5 You would save 
them and serve them, because you believe that they made you. 6 You think they 
are your father, because you are projecting onto them the fearful fact that you 
made them to replace God. 7 Yet when they seem to speak to you, remember that 
nothing can replace God, and whatever replacements you have attempted are 
nothing.

T-10.III.9. Very simply, then, you may believe you are afraid of nothingness, 
but you are really afraid of nothing. 2 And in that awareness you are healed. 3 
You will hear the god you listen to. 4 You made the god of sickness, and by 
making him you made yourself able to hear him. 5 Yet you did not create him, 
because he is not the Will of the Father. 6 He is therefore not eternal and will 
be unmade for you the instant you signify your willingness to accept only the 
eternal.

T-10.III.10. If God has but one Son, there is but one God. 2 You share reality 
with Him, because reality is not divided. 3 To accept other gods before Him is 
to place other images before yourself. 4 You do not realize how much you listen 
to your gods, and how vigilant you are on their behalf. 5 Yet they exist only 
because you honor them. 6 Place honor where it is due, and peace will be yours. 
7 It is your inheritance from your real Father. 8 You cannot make your Father, 
and the father you made did not make you. 9 Honor is not due to illusions, for 
to honor them is to honor nothing. 10 Yet fear is not due them either, for 
nothing cannot be fearful. 11 You have chosen to fear love because of its 
perfect harmlessness, and because of this fear you have been willing to give up 
your own perfect helpfulness and your own perfect Help. p186

T-10.III.11. Only at the altar of God will you find peace. 2 And this altar is 
in you because God put it there. 3 His Voice still calls you to return, and He 
will be heard when you place no other gods before Him. 4 You can give up the god 
of sickness for your brothers; in fact, you would have to do so if you give him 
up for yourself. 5 For if you see the god of sickness anywhere, you have 
accepted him. 6 And if you accept him you will bow down and worship him, because 
he was made as God's replacement. 7 He is the belief that you can choose which 
god is real. 8 Although it is clear this has nothing to do with reality, it is 
equally clear that it has everything to do with reality as you perceive it.




IV. The End of Sickness

T-10.IV.1. All magic is an attempt at reconciling the irreconcilable. 2 All 
religion is the recognition that the irreconcilable cannot be reconciled. 3 
Sickness and perfection are irreconcilable. 4 If God created you perfect, you 
<are> perfect. 5 If you believe you can be sick, you have placed other gods 
before Him. 6 God is not at war with the god of sickness you made, but you are. 
7 He is the symbol of deciding against God, and you are afraid of him because he 
cannot be reconciled with God's Will. 8 If you attack him, you will make him 
real to you. 9 But if you refuse to worship him in whatever form he may appear 
to you, and wherever you think you see him, he will disappear into the 
nothingness out of which he was made.

T-10.IV.2. Reality can dawn only on an unclouded mind. 2 It is always there to 
be accepted, but its acceptance depends on your willingness to have it. 3 To 
know reality must involve the willingness to judge unreality for what it is. 4 
To overlook nothingness is merely to judge it correctly, and because of your 
ability to evaluate it truly, to let it go. 5 Knowledge cannot dawn on a mind 
full of illusions, because truth and illusions are irreconcilable. 6 Truth is 
whole, and cannot be known by part of a mind.

T-10.IV.3. The Sonship cannot be perceived as partly sick, because to perceive 
it that way is not to perceive it at all. 2 If the Sonship is One, it is One in 
all respects. 3 Oneness cannot be divided. 4 If you perceive other gods your 
mind is split, and you will not be able to limit the split, because it is the 
sign that you have removed part of your mind from God's Will. 5 This means it is 
out of control. 6 To be out of control is to be out of reason, and then the mind 
does become unreasonable. p187 7 By defining the mind wrongly, you perceive it 
as functioning wrongly.

T-10.IV.4. God's laws will keep your mind at peace because peace is His Will, 
and His laws are established to uphold it. 2 His are the laws of freedom, but 
yours are the laws of bondage. 3 Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, 
their laws cannot be understood together. 4 The laws of God work only for your 
good, and there are no other laws beside His. 5 Everything else is merely 
lawless and therefore chaotic. 6 Yet God Himself has protected everything He 
created by His laws. 7 Everything that is not under them does not exist. 8 "Laws 
of chaos" is a meaningless term. 9 Creation is perfectly lawful, and the chaotic 
is without meaning because it is without God. 10 You have "given" your peace to 
the gods you made, but they are not there to take it from you, and you cannot 
give it to them.

T-10.IV.5. You are not free to give up freedom, but only to deny it. 2 You 
cannot do what God did not intend, because what He did not intend does not 
happen. 3 Your gods do not bring chaos; you are endowing them with chaos, and 
accepting it of them. 4 All this has never been. 5 Nothing but the laws of God 
has ever been, and nothing but His Will will ever be. 6 You were created through 
His laws and by His Will, and the manner of your creation established you a 
creator. 7 What you have made is so unworthy of you that you could hardly want 
it, if you were willing to see it as it is. 8 You will see nothing at all. 9 And 
your vision will automatically look beyond it, to what is in you and all around 
you. 10 Reality cannot break through the obstructions you interpose, but it will 
envelop you completely when you let them go.

T-10.IV.6. When you have experienced the protection of God, the making of idols 
becomes inconceivable. 2 There are no strange images in the Mind of God, and 
what is not in His Mind cannot be in yours, because you are of one mind and that 
mind belongs to Him. 3 It is yours <because> it belongs to Him, for to Him 
ownership is sharing. 4 And if it is so for Him, it is so for you. 5 His 
definitions <are> His laws, for by them He established the universe as what it 
is. 6 No false gods you attempt to interpose between yourself and your reality 
affect truth at all. 7 Peace is yours because God created you. 8 And He created 
nothing else.

T-10.IV.7. The miracle is the act of a Son of God who has laid aside all false 
gods, and calls on his brothers to do likewise. 2 It is an act of faith, because 
it is the recognition that his brother can do it. p188 3 It is a call to the 
Holy Spirit in his mind, a call that is strengthened by joining. 4 Because the 
miracle worker has heard God's Voice, he strengthens It in a sick brother by 
weakening his belief in sickness, which he does not share. 5 The power of one 
mind can shine into another, because all the lamps of God were lit by the same 
spark. 6 It is everywhere and it is eternal.

T-10.IV.8. In many only the spark remains, for the Great Rays are obscured. 2 
Yet God has kept the spark alive so that the Rays can never be completely 
forgotten. 3 If you but see the little spark you will learn of the greater 
light, for the Rays are there unseen. 4 Perceiving the spark will heal, but 
knowing the light will create. 5 Yet in the returning the little light must be 
acknowledged first, for the separation was a descent from magnitude to 
littleness. 6 But the spark is still as pure as the Great Light, because it is 
the remaining call of creation. 7 Put all your faith in it, and God Himself will 
answer you.




V. The Denial of God

T-10.V.1. The rituals of the god of sickness are strange and very demanding. 2 
Joy is never permitted, for depression is the sign of allegiance to him. 3 
Depression means that you have forsworn God. 4 Many are afraid of blasphemy, but 
they do not understand what it means. 5 They do not realize that to deny God is 
to deny their own Identity, and in this sense the wages of sin <is> death. 6 The 
sense is very literal; denial of life perceives its opposite, as all forms of 
denial replace what is with what is not. 7 No one can really do this, but that 
you can think you can and believe you have is beyond dispute.

T-10.V.2. Do not forget, however, that to deny God will inevitably result in 
projection, and you will believe that others and not yourself have done this to 
you. 2 You must receive the message you give because it is the message you want. 
3 You may believe that you judge your brothers by the messages they give you, 
but you have judged them by the message you give to them. 4 Do not attribute 
your denial of joy to them, or you cannot see the spark in them that would bring 
joy to you. 5 It is the denial of the spark that brings depression, for whenever 
you see your brothers without it, you are denying God. p189

T-10.V.3. Allegiance to the denial of God is the ego's religion. 2 The god of 
sickness obviously demands the denial of health, because health is in direct 
opposition to its own survival. 3 But consider what this means to you. 4 Unless 
you are sick you cannot keep the gods you made, for only in sickness could you 
possibly want them. 5 Blasphemy, then, is <self-destructive,> not God-
destructive. 6 It means that you are willing not to know yourself in order to be 
sick. 7 This is the offering your god demands because, having made him out of 
your insanity, he is an insane idea. 8 He has many forms, but although he may 
seem to be many different things he is but one idea;-the denial of God.

T-10.V.4. Sickness and death seemed to enter the mind of God's Son against His 
Will. 2 The "attack on God" made His Son think he was Fatherless, and out of his 
depression he made the god of depression. 3 This was his alternative to joy, 
because he would not accept the fact that, although he was a creator, he had 
been created. 4 Yet the Son <is> helpless without the Father, Who alone is his 
Help.

T-10.V.5. I said before that of yourself you can do nothing, but you are not 
<of> yourself. 2 If you were, what you have made would be true, and you could 
never escape. 3 It is because you did not make yourself that you need be 
troubled over nothing. 4 Your gods are nothing, because your Father did not 
create them. 5 You cannot make creators who are unlike your Creator, any more 
than He could have created a Son who was unlike Him. 6 If creation is sharing, 
it cannot create what is unlike itself. 7 It can share only what it is. 8 
Depression is isolation, and so it could not have been created.

T-10.V.6. Son of God, you have not sinned, but you have been much mistaken. 2 
Yet this can be corrected and God will help you, knowing that you could not sin 
against Him. 3 You denied Him because you loved Him, knowing that if you 
recognized your love for Him, you could not deny Him. 4 Your denial of Him 
therefore means that you love Him, and that you know He loves you. 5 Remember 
that what you deny you must have once known. 6 And if you accept denial, you can 
accept its undoing.

T-10.V.7. Your Father has not denied you. 2 He does not retaliate, but He does 
call to you to return. 3 When you think He has not answered your call, you have 
not answered His. 4 He calls to you from every part of the Sonship, because of 
His Love for His Son. 5 If you hear His message He has answered you, and you 
will learn of Him if you hear aright. p190 6 The Love of God is in everything He 
created, for His Son is everywhere. 7 Look with peace upon your brothers, and 
God will come rushing into your heart in gratitude for your gift to Him.

T-10.V.8. Do not look to the god of sickness for healing but only to the God of 
love, for healing is the acknowledgment of Him. 2 When you acknowledge Him you 
will know that He has never ceased to acknowledge you, and that in His 
acknowledgment of you lies your being. 3 You are not sick and you cannot die. 4 
But you can confuse yourself with things that do. 5 Remember, though, that to do 
this is blasphemy, for it means that you are looking without love on God and His 
creation, from which He cannot be separated.

T-10.V.9. Only the eternal can be loved, for love does not die. 2 What is of God 
is His forever, and you are of God. 3 Would He allow Himself to suffer? 4 And 
would He offer His Son anything that is not acceptable to Him? 5 If you will 
accept yourself as God created you, you will be incapable of suffering. 6 Yet to 
do this you must acknowledge Him as your Creator. 7 This is not because you will 
be punished otherwise. 8 It is merely because your acknowledgment of your Father 
is the acknowledgment of yourself as you are. 9 Your Father created you wholly 
without sin, wholly without pain and wholly without suffering of any kind. 10 If 
you deny Him you bring sin, pain and suffering into your own mind because of the 
power He gave it. 11 Your mind is capable of creating worlds, but it can also 
deny what it creates because it is free.

T-10.V.10. You do not realize how much you have denied yourself, and how much 
God, in His Love, would not have it so. 2 Yet He would not interfere with you, 
because He would not know His Son if he were not free. 3 To interfere with you 
would be to attack Himself, and God is not insane. 4 When you deny Him <you> are 
insane. 5 Would you have Him share your insanity? 6 God will never cease to love 
His Son, and His Son will never cease to love Him. 7 That was the condition of 
His Son's creation, fixed forever in the Mind of God. 8 To know that is sanity. 
9 To deny it is insanity. 10 God gave Himself to you in your creation, and His 
gifts are eternal. 11 Would you deny yourself to Him?

T-10.V.11. Out of your gifts to Him the Kingdom will be restored to His Son. 2 
His Son removed himself from His gift by refusing to accept what had been 
created for him, and what he had created in the Name of his Father. 3 Heaven 
waits for his return, for it was created as the dwelling place of God's Son. 
p191 4 You are not at home anywhere else, or in any other condition. 5 Do not 
deny yourself the joy that was created for you for the misery you have made for 
yourself. 6 God has given you the means for undoing what you have made. 7 
Listen, and you will learn how to remember what you are.

T-10.V.12. If God knows His children as wholly sinless, it is blasphemous to 
perceive them as guilty. 2 If God knows His children as wholly without pain, it 
is blasphemous to perceive suffering anywhere. 3 If God knows His children to be 
wholly joyous, it is blasphemous to feel depressed. 4 All of these illusions, 
and the many other forms that blasphemy may take, are refusals to accept 
creation as it is. 5 If God created His Son perfect, that is how you must learn 
to see him to learn of his reality. 6 And as part of the Sonship, that is how 
you must see yourself to learn of yours.

T-10.V.13. Do not perceive anything God did not create or you are denying Him. 2 
His is the only Fatherhood, and it is yours only because He has given it to you. 
3 Your gifts to yourself are meaningless, but your gifts to your creations are 
like His, because they are given in His Name. 4 That is why your creations are 
as real as His. 5 Yet the real Fatherhood must be acknowledged if the real Son 
is to be known. 6 You believe that the sick things you have made are your real 
creations, because you believe that the sick images you perceive are the Sons of 
God. 7 Only if you accept the Fatherhood of God will you have anything, because 
His Fatherhood gave you everything. 8 That is why to deny Him is to deny 
yourself.

T-10.V.14. Arrogance is the denial of love, because love shares and arrogance 
withholds. 2 As long as both appear to you to be desirable the concept of 
choice, which is not of God, will remain with you. 3 While this is not true in 
eternity it <is> true in time, so that while time lasts in your mind there will 
be choices. 4 Time itself is your choice. 5 If you would remember eternity, you 
must look only on the eternal. 6 If you allow yourself to become preoccupied 
with the temporal, you are living in time. 7 As always, your choice is 
determined by what you value. 8 Time and eternity cannot both be real, because 
they contradict each other. 9 If you will accept only what is timeless as real, 
you will begin to understand eternity and make it yours. p192






Chapter 11.

GOD OR THE EGO

Introduction

T-11.in.1. Either God or the ego is insane. 2 If you will examine the evidence 
on both sides fairly, you will realize this must be true. 3 Neither God nor the 
ego proposes a partial thought system. 4 Each is internally consistent, but they 
are diametrically opposed in all respects so that partial allegiance is 
impossible. 5 Remember, too, that their results are as different as their 
foundations, and their fundamentally irreconcilable natures cannot be reconciled 
by vacillations between them. 6 Nothing alive is Fatherless, for life is 
creation. 7 Therefore, your decision is always an answer to the question, "Who 
is my father?" 8 And you will be faithful to the father you choose.

T-11.in.2. Yet what would you say to someone who believed this question really 
involves conflict? 2 If you made the ego, how can the ego have made you? 3 The 
authority problem is still the only source of conflict, because the ego was made 
out of the wish of God's Son to father Him. 4 The ego, then, is nothing more 
than a delusional system in which you made your own father. 5 Make no mistake 
about this. 6 It sounds insane when it is stated with perfect honesty, but the 
ego never looks on what it does with perfect honesty. 7 Yet that is its insane 
premise, which is carefully hidden in the dark cornerstone of its thought 
system. 8 And either the ego, which you made, <is> your father, or its whole 
thought system will not stand.

T-11.in.3. You make by projection, but God creates by extension. 2 The 
cornerstone of God's creation is you, for His thought system is light. 3 
Remember the Rays that are there unseen. 4 The more you approach the center of 
His thought system, the clearer the light becomes. 5 The closer you come to the 
foundation of the ego's thought system, the darker and more obscure becomes the 
way. 6 Yet even the little spark in your mind is enough to lighten it. 7 Bring 
this light fearlessly with you, and bravely hold it up to the foundation of the 
ego's thought system. 8 Be willing to judge it with perfect honesty. 9 Open the 
dark cornerstone of terror on which it rests, and bring it out into the light. 
10 There you will see that it rested on meaninglessness, and that everything of 
which you have been afraid was based on nothing. p193

T-11.in.4. My brother, you are part of God and part of me. 2 When you have at 
last looked at the ego's foundation without shrinking you will also have looked 
upon ours. 3 I come to you from our Father to offer you everything again. 4 Do 
not refuse it in order to keep a dark cornerstone hidden, for its protection 
will not save you. 5 I give you the lamp and I will go with you. 6 You will not 
take this journey alone. 7 I will lead you to your true Father, Who hath need of 
you, as I have. 8 Will you not answer the call of love with joy?




I. The Gifts of Fatherhood

T-11.I.1. You have learned your need of healing. 2 Would you bring anything else 
to the Sonship, recognizing your need of healing for yourself? 3 For in this 
lies the beginning of the return to knowledge; the foundation on which God will 
help build again the thought system you share with Him. 4 Not one stone you 
place upon it but will be blessed by Him, for you will be restoring the holy 
dwelling place of His Son, where He wills His Son to be and where he is. 5 In 
whatever part of the mind of God's Son you restore this reality, you restore it 
to yourself. 6 You dwell in the Mind of God with your brother, for God Himself 
did not will to be alone.

T-11.I.2. To be alone is to be separated from infinity, but how can this be if 
infinity has no end? 2 No one can be beyond the limitless, because what has no 
limits must be everywhere. 3 There are no beginnings and no endings in God, 
Whose universe is Himself. 4 Can you exclude yourself from the universe, or from 
God Who <is> the universe? 5 I and my Father are one with you, for you are part 
of Us. 6 Do you really believe that part of God can be missing or lost to Him?

T-11.I.3. If you were not part of God, His Will would not be unified. 2 Is this 
conceivable? 3 Can part of His Mind contain nothing? 4 If your place in His Mind 
cannot be filled by anyone except you, and your filling it was your creation, 
without you there would be an empty place in God's Mind. 5 Extension cannot be 
blocked, and it has no voids. 6 It continues forever, however much it is denied. 
7 Your denial of its reality may arrest it in time, but not in eternity. 8 That 
is why your creations have not ceased to be extended, and why so much is waiting 
for your return. p194

T-11.I.4. Waiting is possible only in time, but time has no meaning. 2 You who 
made delay can leave time behind simply by recognizing that neither beginnings 
nor endings were created by the Eternal, Who placed no limits on His creation or 
upon those who create like Him. 3 You do not know this simply because you have 
tried to limit what He created, and so you believe that all creation is limited. 
4 How, then, could you know your creations, having denied infinity?

T-11.I.5. The laws of the universe do not permit contradiction. 2 What holds for 
God holds for you. 3 If you believe you are absent from God, you will believe 
that He is absent from you. 4 Infinity is meaningless without you, and you are 
meaningless without God. 5 There is no end to God and His Son, for we <are> the 
universe. 6 God is not incomplete, and He is not childless. 7 Because He did not 
will to be alone, He created a Son like Himself. 8 Do not deny Him His Son, for 
your unwillingness to accept His Fatherhood has denied you yours. 9 See His 
creations as His Son, for yours were created in honor of Him. 10 The universe of 
love does not stop because you do not see it, nor have your closed eyes lost the 
ability to see. 11 Look upon the glory of His creation, and you will learn what 
God has kept for you.

T-11.I.6. God has given you a place in His Mind that is yours forever. 2 Yet you 
can keep it only by giving it, as it was given you. 3 Could you be alone there, 
when it was given you because God did not will to be alone? 4 God's Mind cannot 
be lessened. 5 It can only be increased, for everything He creates has the 
function of creating. 6 Love does not limit, and what it creates is not limited. 
7 To give without limit is God's Will for you, because only this can bring you 
the joy that is His and that He wills to share with you. 8 Your love is as 
boundless as His because it <is> His.

T-11.I.7. Could any part of God be without His Love, and could any part of His 
Love be contained? 2 God is your heritage, because His one gift is Himself. 3 
How can you give except like Him if you would know His gift to you? 4 Give, 
then, without limit and without end, to learn how much He has given you. 5 Your 
ability to accept Him depends on your willingness to give as He gives. 6 Your 
fatherhood and your Father are One. 7 God wills to create, and your will is His. 
8 It follows, then, that you will to create, since your will follows from His. 9 
And being an extension of His Will, yours must be the same. p195

T-11.I.8. Yet what you will you do not know. 2 This is not strange when you 
realize that to deny is to "not know." 3 God's Will is that you are His Son. 4 
By denying this you deny your own will, and therefore do not know what it is. 5 
You must ask what God's Will is in everything, because it is yours. 6 You do not 
know what it is, but the Holy Spirit remembers it for you. 7 Ask Him, therefore, 
what God's Will is for you, and He will tell you yours. 8 It cannot be too often 
repeated that you do not know it. 9 Whenever what the Holy Spirit tells you 
appears to be coercive, it is only because you have not recognized your will.

T-11.I.9. The projection of the ego makes it appear as if God's Will is outside 
yourself, and therefore not yours. 2 In this interpretation it seems possible 
for God's Will and yours to conflict. 3 God, then, may seem to demand of you 
what you do not want to give, and thus deprive you of what you want. 4 Would 
God, Who wants only your will, be capable of this? 5 Your will is His life, 
which He has given to you. 6 Even in time you cannot live apart from Him. 7 
Sleep is not death. 8 What He created can sleep, but cannot die. 9 Immortality 
is His Will for His Son, and His Son's will for himself. 10 God's Son cannot 
will death for himself because his Father is life, and His Son is like Him. 11 
Creation is your will <because> it is His.

T-11.I.10. You cannot be happy unless you do what you will truly, and you cannot 
change this because it is immutable. 2 It is immutable by God's Will and yours, 
for otherwise His Will would not be extended. 3 You are afraid to know God's 
Will, because you believe it is not yours. 4 This belief is your whole sickness 
and your whole fear. 5 Every symptom of sickness and fear arises here, because 
this is the belief that makes you <want> not to know. 6 Believing this you hide 
in darkness, denying that the light is in you.

T-11.I.11. You are asked to trust the Holy Spirit only because He speaks for 
you. 2 He is the Voice for God, but never forget that God did not will to be 
alone. 3 He shares His Will with you; He does not thrust it upon you. 4 Always 
remember that what He gives He keeps, so that nothing He gives can contradict 
Him. 5 You who share His life must share it to know it, for sharing <is> 
knowing. 6 Blessed are you who learn that to hear the Will of your Father is to 
know your own. 7 For it is your will to be like Him, Whose Will it is that it be 
so. 8 God's Will is that His Son be One, and united with Him in His Oneness. 9 
That is why healing is the beginning of the recognition that your will is His. 
p196




II. The Invitation to Healing

T-11.II.1. If sickness is separation, the decision to heal and to be healed is 
the first step toward recognizing what you truly want. 2 Every attack is a step 
away from this, and every healing thought brings it closer. 3 The Son of God 
<has> both Father and Son, because he <is> both Father and Son. 4 To unite 
<having> and <being> is to unite your will with His, for He wills you Himself. 5 
And you will yourself to Him because, in your perfect understanding of Him, you 
know there is but one Will. 6 Yet when you attack any part of God and His 
Kingdom your understanding is not perfect, and what you really want is therefore 
lost to you.

T-11.II.2. Healing thus becomes a lesson in understanding, and the more you 
practice it the better teacher and learner you become. 2 If you have denied 
truth, what better witnesses to its reality could you have than those who have 
been healed by it? 3 But be sure to count yourself among them, for in your 
willingness to join them is your healing accomplished. 4 Every miracle that you 
accomplish speaks to you of the Fatherhood of God. 5 Every healing thought that 
you accept, either from your brother or in your own mind, teaches you that you 
are God's Son. 6 In every hurtful thought you hold, wherever you perceive it, 
lies the denial of God's Fatherhood and of your Sonship.

T-11.II.3. And denial is as total as love. 2 You cannot deny part of yourself, 
because the rest will seem to be separate and therefore without meaning. 3 And 
being without meaning to you, you will not understand it. 4 To deny meaning is 
to fail to understand. 5 You can heal only yourself, for only God's Son needs 
healing. 6 You need it because you do not understand yourself, and therefore 
know not what you do. 7 Having forgotten your will, you do not know what you 
really want.

T-11.II.4. Healing is a sign that you want to make whole. 2 And this willingness 
opens your ears to the Voice of the Holy Spirit, Whose message is wholeness. 3 
He will enable you to go far beyond the healing you would undertake, for beside 
your small willingness to make whole He will lay His Own complete Will and make 
yours whole. 4 What can the Son of God not accomplish with the Fatherhood of God 
in him? 5 And yet the invitation must come from you, for you have surely learned 
that whom you invite as your guest will abide with you.

T-11.II.5. The Holy Spirit cannot speak to an unwelcoming host, because He will 
not be heard. p197 2 The Eternal Guest remains, but His Voice grows faint in 
alien company. 3 He needs your protection, only because your care is a sign that 
you want Him. 4 Think like Him ever so slightly, and the little spark becomes a 
blazing light that fills your mind so that He becomes your only Guest. 5 
Whenever you ask the ego to enter, you lessen His welcome. 6 He will remain, but 
you have allied yourself against Him. 7 Whatever journey you choose to take, He 
will go with you, waiting. 8 You can safely trust His patience, for He cannot 
leave a part of God. 9 Yet you need far more than patience.

T-11.II.6. You will never rest until you know your function and fulfill it, for 
only in this can your will and your Father's be wholly joined. 2 To have Him is 
to be like Him, and He has given Himself to you. 3 You who have God must be as 
God, for His function became yours with His gift. 4 Invite this knowledge back 
into your mind, and let nothing that obscures it enter. 5 The Guest Whom God 
sent you will teach you how to do this, if you but recognize the little spark 
and are willing to let it grow. 6 Your willingness need not be perfect, because 
His is. 7 If you will merely offer Him a little place, He will lighten it so 
much that you will gladly let it be increased. 8 And by this increase, you will 
begin to remember creation.

T-11.II.7. Would you be hostage to the ego or host to God? 2 You will accept 
only whom you invite. 3 You are free to determine who shall be your guest, and 
how long he shall remain with you. 4 Yet this is not real freedom, for it still 
depends on how you see it. 5 The Holy Spirit is there, although He cannot help 
you without your invitation. 6 And the ego is nothing, whether you invite it in 
or not. 7 Real freedom depends on welcoming reality, and of your guests only the 
Holy Spirit is real. 8 Know, then, Who abides with you merely by recognizing 
what is there already, and do not be satisfied with imaginary comforters, for 
the Comforter of God is in you.




III. From Darkness to Light

T-11.III.1. When you are weary, remember you have hurt yourself. 2 Your 
Comforter will rest you, but you cannot. 3 You do not know how, for if you did 
you could never have grown weary. 4 Unless you hurt yourself you could never 
suffer in any way, for that is not God's Will for His Son. 5 Pain is not of Him, 
for He knows no attack and His peace surrounds you silently. p198 6 God is very 
quiet, for there is no conflict in Him. 7 Conflict is the root of all evil, for 
being blind it does not see whom it attacks. 8 Yet it always attacks the Son of 
God, and the Son of God is you.

T-11.III.2. God's Son is indeed in need of comfort, for he knows not what he 
does, believing his will is not his own. 2 The Kingdom is his, and yet he 
wanders homeless. 3 At home in God he is lonely, and amid all his brothers he is 
friendless. 4 Would God let this be real, when He did not will to be alone 
Himself? 5 And if your will is His it cannot be true of you, because it is not 
true of Him.

T-11.III.3. O my child, if you knew what God wills for you, your joy would be 
complete! 2 And what He wills has happened, for it was always true. 3 When the 
light comes and you have said, "God's Will is mine," you will see such beauty 
that you will know it is not of you. 4 Out of your joy you will create beauty in 
His Name, for your joy could no more be contained than His. 5 The bleak little 
world will vanish into nothingness, and your heart will be so filled with joy 
that it will leap into Heaven, and into the Presence of God. 6 I cannot tell you 
what this will be like, for your heart is not ready. 7 Yet I can tell you, and 
remind you often, that what God wills for Himself He wills for you, and what He 
wills for you is yours.

T-11.III.4. The way is not hard, but it <is> very different. 2 Yours is the way 
of pain, of which God knows nothing. 3 That way is hard indeed, and very lonely. 
4 Fear and grief are your guests, and they go with you and abide with you on the 
way. 5 But the dark journey is not the way of God's Son. 6 Walk in light and do 
not see the dark companions, for they are not fit companions for the Son of God, 
who was created <of> light and <in> light. 7 The Great Light always surrounds 
you and shines out from you. 8 How can you see the dark companions in a light 
such as this? 9 If you see them, it is only because you are denying the light. 
10 But deny them instead, for the light is here and the way is clear.

T-11.III.5. God hides nothing from His Son, even though His Son would hide 
himself. 2 Yet the Son of God cannot hide his glory, for God wills him to be 
glorious, and gave him the light that shines in him. 3 You will never lose your 
way, for God leads you. 4 When you wander, you but undertake a journey that is 
not real. 5 The dark companions, the dark way, are all illusions. 6 Turn toward 
the light, for the little spark in you is part of a light so great that it can 
sweep you out of all darkness forever. 7 For your Father <is> your Creator, and 
you <are> like Him. p199

T-11.III.6. The children of light cannot abide in darkness, for darkness is not 
in them. 2 Do not be deceived by the dark comforters, and never let them enter 
the mind of God's Son, for they have no place in His temple. 3 When you are 
tempted to deny Him remember that there <are> no other gods to place before Him, 
and accept His Will for you in peace. 4 For you cannot accept it otherwise.

T-11.III.7. Only God's Comforter can comfort you. 2 In the quiet of His temple, 
He waits to give you the peace that is yours. 3 Give His peace, that you may 
enter the temple and find it waiting for you. 4 But be holy in the Presence of 
God, or you will not know that you are there. 5 For what is unlike God cannot 
enter His Mind, because it was not His Thought and therefore does not belong to 
Him. 6 And your mind must be as pure as His, if you would know what belongs to 
you. 7 Guard carefully His temple, for He Himself dwells there and abides in 
peace. 8 You cannot enter God's Presence with the dark companions beside you, 
but you also cannot enter alone. 9 All your brothers must enter with you, for 
until you have accepted them <you> cannot enter. 10 For you cannot understand 
wholeness unless you are whole, and no part of the Son can be excluded if he 
would know the Wholeness of his Father.

T-11.III.8. In your mind you can accept the whole Sonship and bless it with the 
light your Father gave it. 2 Then you will be worthy to dwell in the temple with 
Him, because it is your will not to be alone. 3 God blessed His Son forever. 4 
If you will bless him in time, you will be in eternity. 5 Time cannot separate 
you from God if you use it on behalf of the eternal.




IV. The Inheritance of God's Son

T-11.IV.1. Never forget that the Sonship is your salvation, for the Sonship is 
your Self. 2 As God's creation It is yours, and belonging to you It is His. 3 
Your Self does not need salvation, but your mind needs to learn what salvation 
is. 4 You are not saved <from> anything, but you are saved <for> glory. 5 Glory 
is your inheritance, given you by your Creator that you might extend it. 6 Yet 
if you hate part of your Self all your understanding is lost, because you are 
looking on what God created as yourself without love. 7 And since what He 
created is part of Him, you are denying Him His place in His Own altar. p200

T-11.IV.2. Could you try to make God homeless and know that you are at home? 2 
Can the Son deny the Father without believing that the Father has denied him? 3 
God's laws hold only for your protection, and they never hold in vain. 4 What 
you experience when you deny your Father is still for your protection, for the 
power of your will cannot be lessened without the intervention of God against 
it, and any limitation on your power is not the Will of God. 5 Therefore, look 
only to the power that God gave to save you, remembering that it is yours 
<because> it is His, and join with your brothers in His peace.

T-11.IV.3. Your peace lies in its limitlessness. 2 Limit the peace you share, 
and your Self must be unknown to you. 3 Every altar to God is part of you, 
because the light He created is one with Him. 4 Would you cut off a brother from 
the light that is yours? 5 You would not do so if you realized that you can 
darken only your own mind. 6 As you bring him back, so will you return. 7 That 
is the law of God, for the protection of the Wholeness of His Son.

T-11.IV.4. <Only you can deprive yourself of anything.> 2 Do not oppose this 
realization, for it is truly the beginning of the dawn of light. 3 Remember also 
that the denial of this simple fact takes many forms, and these you must learn 
to recognize and to oppose steadfastly, without exception. 4 This is a crucial 
step in the reawakening. 5 The beginning phases of this reversal are often quite 
painful, for as blame is withdrawn from without, there is a strong tendency to 
harbor it within. 6 It is difficult at first to realize that this is exactly the 
same thing, for there is no distinction between within and without.

T-11.IV.5. If your brothers are part of you and you blame them for your 
deprivation, you are blaming yourself. 2 And you cannot blame yourself without 
blaming them. 3 That is why blame must be undone, not seen elsewhere. 4 Lay it 
to yourself and you cannot know yourself, for only the ego blames at all. 5 
Self-blame is therefore ego identification, and as much an ego defense as 
blaming others. 6 <You cannot enter God's Presence if you attack His Son.> 7 
When His Son lifts his voice in praise of his Creator, he will hear the Voice 
for his Father. 8 Yet the Creator cannot be praised without His Son, for Their 
glory is shared and They are glorified together.

T-11.IV.6. Christ is at God's altar, waiting to welcome His Son. 2 But come 
wholly without condemnation, for otherwise you will believe that the door is 
barred and you cannot enter. 3 The door is not barred, and it is impossible that 
you cannot enter the place where God would have you be. p201 4 But love yourself 
with the Love of Christ, for so does your Father love you. 5 You can refuse to 
enter, but you cannot bar the door that Christ holds open. 6 Come unto me who 
hold it open for you, for while I live it cannot be shut, and I live forever. 7 
God is my life and yours, and nothing is denied by God to His Son.

T-11.IV.7. At God's altar Christ waits for the restoration of Himself in you. 2 
God knows His Son as wholly blameless as Himself, and He is approached through 
the appreciation of His Son. 3 Christ waits for your acceptance of Him as 
yourself, and of His Wholeness as yours. 4 For Christ is the Son of God, Who 
lives in His Creator and shines with His glory. 5 Christ is the extension of the 
Love and the loveliness of God, as perfect as His Creator and at peace with Him.

T-11.IV.8. Blessed is the Son of God whose radiance is of his Father, and whose 
glory he wills to share as his Father shares it with him. 2 There is no 
condemnation in the Son, for there is no condemnation in the Father. 3 Sharing 
the perfect Love of the Father the Son must share what belongs to Him, for 
otherwise he will not know the Father or the Son. 4 Peace be unto you who rest 
in God, and in whom the whole Sonship rests.




V. The "Dynamics" of the Ego

T-11.V.1. No one can escape from illusions unless he looks at them, for not 
looking is the way they are protected. 2 There is no need to shrink from 
illusions, for they cannot be dangerous. 3 We are ready to look more closely at 
the ego's thought system because together we have the lamp that will dispel it, 
and since you realize you do not want it, you must be ready. 4 Let us be very 
calm in doing this, for we are merely looking honestly for truth. 5 The 
"dynamics" of the ego will be our lesson for a while, for we must look first at 
this to see beyond it, since you have made it real. 6 We will undo this error 
quietly together, and then look beyond it to truth.

T-11.V.2. What is healing but the removal of all that stands in the way of 
knowledge? 2 And how else can one dispel illusions except by looking at them 
directly, without protecting them? 3 Be not afraid, therefore, for what you will 
be looking at is the source of fear, and you are beginning to learn that fear is 
not real. 4 You are also learning that its effects can be dispelled merely by 
denying their reality. p202 5 The next step is obviously to recognize that what 
has no effects does not exist. 6 Laws do not operate in a vacuum, and what leads 
to nothing has not happened. 7 If reality is recognized by its extension, what 
leads to nothing could not be real. 8 Do not be afraid, then, to look upon fear, 
for it cannot be seen. 9 Clarity undoes confusion by definition, and to look 
upon darkness through light must dispel it.

T-11.V.3. Let us begin this lesson in "ego dynamics" by understanding that the 
term itself does not mean anything. 2 It contains the very contradiction in 
terms that makes it meaningless. 3 "Dynamics" implies the power to do something, 
and the whole separation fallacy lies in the belief that the ego <has> the power 
to do anything. 4 The ego is fearful to you because you believe this. 5 Yet the 
truth is very simple:




6 All power is of God.

7 What is not of Him has no power to do anything.




T-11.V.4. When we look at the ego, then, we are not considering dynamics but 
delusions. 2 You can surely regard a delusional system without fear, for it 
cannot have any effects if its source is not real. 3 Fear becomes more obviously 
inappropriate if you recognize the ego's goal, which is so clearly senseless 
that any effort on its behalf is necessarily expended on nothing. 4 The ego's 
goal is quite explicitly ego autonomy. 5 From the beginning, then, its purpose 
is to be separate, sufficient unto itself and independent of any power except 
its own. 6 This is why it is the symbol of separation.

T-11.V.5. Every idea has a purpose, and its purpose is always the natural 
outcome of what it is. 2 Everything that stems from the ego is the natural 
outcome of its central belief, and the way to undo its results is merely to 
recognize that their source is not natural, being out of accord with your true 
nature. 3 I said before that to will contrary to God is wishful thinking and not 
real willing. 4 His Will is One <because> the extension of His Will cannot be 
unlike itself. 5 The real conflict you experience, then, is between the ego's 
idle wishes and the Will of God, which you share. 6 Can this be a real conflict?

T-11.V.6. Yours is the independence of creation, not of autonomy. 2 Your whole 
creative function lies in your complete dependence on God, Whose function He 
shares with you. p203 3 By His willingness to share it, He became as dependent 
on you as you are on Him. 4 Do not ascribe the ego's arrogance to Him Who wills 
not to be independent of you. 5 He has included you in His Autonomy. 6 Can you 
believe that autonomy is meaningful apart from Him? 7 The belief in ego autonomy 
is costing you the knowledge of your dependence on God, in which your freedom 
lies. 8 The ego sees all dependency as threatening, and has twisted even your 
longing for God into a means of establishing itself. 9 But do not be deceived by 
its interpretation of your conflict.

T-11.V.7. The ego always attacks on behalf of separation. 2 Believing it has the 
power to do this it does nothing else, because its goal of autonomy <is> nothing 
else. 3 The ego is totally confused about reality, but it does not lose sight of 
its goal. 4 It is much more vigilant than you are, because it is perfectly 
certain of its purpose. 5 You are confused because you do not recognize yours.

T-11.V.8. You must recognize that the last thing the ego wishes you to realize 
is that you are afraid of it. 2 For if the ego could give rise to fear, it would 
diminish your independence and weaken your power. 3 Yet its one claim to your 
allegiance is that it can give power to you. 4 Without this belief you would not 
listen to it at all. 5 How, then, can its existence continue if you realize 
that, by accepting it, you are belittling yourself and depriving yourself of 
power?

T-11.V.9. The ego can and does allow you to regard yourself as supercilious, 
unbelieving, "lighthearted," distant, emotionally shallow, callous, uninvolved 
and even desperate, but not really afraid. 2 Minimizing fear, but not its 
undoing, is the ego's constant effort, and is indeed a skill at which it is very 
ingenious. 3 How can it preach separation without upholding it through fear, and 
would you listen to it if you recognized this is what it is doing?

T-11.V.10. Your recognition that whatever seems to separate you from God is only 
fear, regardless of the form it takes and quite apart from how the ego wants you 
to experience it, is therefore the basic ego threat. 2 Its dream of autonomy is 
shaken to its foundation by this awareness. 3 For though you may countenance a 
false idea of independence, you will not accept the cost of fear if you 
recognize it. 4 Yet this is the cost, and the ego cannot minimize it. 5 If you 
overlook love you are overlooking yourself, and you must fear unreality 
<because> you have denied yourself. 6 By believing that you have successfully 
attacked truth, you are believing that attack has power. p204 7 Very simply, 
then, you have become afraid of yourself. 8 And no one wants to find what he 
believes would destroy him.

T-11.V.11. If the ego's goal of autonomy could be accomplished God's purpose 
could be defeated, and this is impossible. 2 Only by learning what fear is can 
you finally learn to distinguish the possible from the impossible and the false 
from the true. 3 According to the ego's teaching, <its> goal can be accomplished 
and God's purpose can <not.> 4 According to the Holy Spirit's teaching, <only> 
God's purpose can be accomplished, and it is accomplished already.

T-11.V.12. God is as dependent on you as you are on Him, because His Autonomy 
encompasses yours, and is therefore incomplete without it. 2 You can only 
establish your autonomy by identifying with Him, and fulfilling your function as 
it exists in truth. 3 The ego believes that to accomplish its goal is happiness. 
4 But it is given you to know that God's function is yours, and happiness cannot 
be found apart from Your joint Will. 5 Recognize only that the ego's goal, which 
you have pursued so diligently, has merely brought you fear, and it becomes 
difficult to maintain that fear is happiness. 6 Upheld by fear, this is what the 
ego would have you believe. 7 Yet God's Son is not insane, and cannot believe 
it. 8 Let him but recognize it and he will not accept it. 9 For only the insane 
would choose fear in place of love, and only the insane could believe that love 
can be gained by attack. 10 But the sane realize that only attack could produce 
fear, from which the Love of God completely protects them.

T-11.V.13. The ego analyzes; the Holy Spirit accepts. 2 The appreciation of 
wholeness comes only through acceptance, for to analyze means to break down or 
to separate out. 3 The attempt to understand totality by breaking it down is 
clearly the characteristically contradictory approach of the ego to everything. 
4 The ego believes that power, understanding and truth lie in separation, and to 
establish this belief it must attack. 5 Unaware that the belief cannot be 
established, and obsessed with the conviction that separation is salvation, the 
ego attacks everything it perceives by breaking it into small, disconnected 
parts, without meaningful relationships and therefore without meaning. 6 The ego 
will always substitute chaos for meaning, for if separation is salvation, 
harmony is threat.

T-11.V.14. The ego's interpretations of the laws of perception are, and would 
have to be, the exact opposite of the Holy Spirit's. p205 2 The ego focuses on 
error and overlooks truth. 3 It makes real every mistake it perceives, and with 
characteristically circular reasoning concludes that because of the mistake 
consistent truth must be meaningless. 4 The next step, then, is obvious. 5 If 
consistent truth is meaningless, inconsistency must be true. 6 Holding error 
clearly in mind, and protecting what it has made real, the ego proceeds to the 
next step in its thought system: Error is real and truth is error.

T-11.V.15. The ego makes no attempt to understand this, and it is clearly not 
understandable, but the ego does make every attempt to demonstrate it, and this 
it does constantly. 2 Analyzing to attack meaning, the ego succeeds in 
overlooking it and is left with a series of fragmented perceptions which it 
unifies on behalf of itself. 3 This, then, becomes the universe it perceives. 4 
And it is this universe which, in turn, becomes its demonstration of its own 
reality.

T-11.V.16. Do not underestimate the appeal of the ego's demonstrations to those 
who would listen. 2 Selective perception chooses its witnesses carefully, and 
its witnesses are consistent. 3 The case for insanity is strong to the insane. 4 
For reasoning ends at its beginning, and no thought system transcends its 
source. 5 Yet reasoning without meaning cannot demonstrate anything, and those 
who are convinced by it must be deluded. 6 Can the ego teach truly when it 
overlooks truth? 7 Can it perceive what it has denied? 8 Its witnesses do attest 
to its denial, but hardly to what it has denied. 9 The ego looks straight at the 
Father and does not see Him, for it has denied His Son.

T-11.V.17. Would <you> remember the Father? 2 Accept His Son and you will 
remember Him. 3 Nothing can demonstrate that His Son is unworthy, for nothing 
can prove that a lie is true. 4 What you see of His Son through the eyes of the 
ego is a demonstration that His Son does not exist, yet where the Son is the 
Father must be. 5 Accept what God does not deny, and it will demonstrate its 
truth. 6 The witnesses for God stand in His light and behold what He created. 7 
Their silence is the sign that they have beheld God's Son, and in the Presence 
of Christ they need demonstrate nothing, for Christ speaks to them of Himself 
and of His Father. 8 They are silent because Christ speaks to them, and it is 
His words they speak.

T-11.V.18. Every brother you meet becomes a witness for Christ or for the ego, 
depending on what you perceive in him. p206 2 Everyone convinces you of what you 
want to perceive, and of the reality of the kingdom you have chosen for your 
vigilance. 3 Everything you perceive is a witness to the thought system you want 
to be true. 4 Every brother has the power to release you, if you choose to be 
free. 5 You cannot accept false witness of him unless you have evoked false 
witnesses against him. 6 If he speaks not of Christ to you, you spoke not of 
Christ to him. 7 You hear but your own voice, and if Christ speaks through you, 
you will hear Him.




VI. Waking to Redemption

T-11.VI.1. It is impossible not to believe what you see, but it is equally 
impossible to see what you do not believe. 2 Perceptions are built up on the 
basis of experience, and experience leads to beliefs. 3 It is not until beliefs 
are fixed that perceptions stabilize. 4 In effect, then, what you believe you 
<do> see. 5 That is what I meant when I said, "Blessed are ye who have not seen 
and still believe," for those who believe in the resurrection will see it. 6 The 
resurrection is the complete triumph of Christ over the ego, not by attack but 
by transcendence. 7 For Christ does rise above the ego and all its works, and 
ascends to the Father and His Kingdom.

T-11.VI.2. Would you join in the resurrection or the crucifixion? 2 Would you 
condemn your brothers or free them? 3 Would you transcend your prison and ascend 
to the Father? 4 These questions are all the same, and are answered together. 5 
There has been much confusion about what perception means, because the word is 
used both for awareness and for the interpretation of awareness. 6 Yet you 
cannot be aware without interpretation, for what you perceive <is> your 
interpretation.

T-11.VI.3. This course is perfectly clear. 2 If you do not see it clearly, it is 
because you are interpreting against it, and therefore do not believe it. 3 And 
since belief determines perception, you do not perceive what it means and 
therefore do not accept it. 4 Yet different experiences lead to different 
beliefs, and with them different perceptions. 5 For perceptions are learned 
<with> beliefs, and experience does teach. 6 I am leading you to a new kind of 
experience that you will become less and less willing to deny. 7 Learning of 
Christ is easy, for to perceive with Him involves no strain at all. 8 His 
perceptions are your natural awareness, and it is only the distortions you 
introduce that tire you. p207 9 Let the Christ in you interpret for you, and do 
not try to limit what you see by narrow little beliefs that are unworthy of 
God's Son. 10 For until Christ comes into His Own, the Son of God will see 
himself as Fatherless.

T-11.VI.4. I am <your> resurrection and <your> life. 2 You live in me because 
you live in God. 3 And everyone lives in you, as you live in everyone. 4 Can 
you, then, perceive unworthiness in a brother and not perceive it in yourself? 5 
And can you perceive it in yourself and not perceive it in God? 6 Believe in the 
resurrection because it has been accomplished, and it has been accomplished in 
you. 7 This is as true now as it will ever be, for the resurrection is the Will 
of God, which knows no time and no exceptions. 8 But make no exceptions 
yourself, or you will not perceive what has been accomplished for you. 9 For we 
ascend unto the Father together, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever 
shall be, for such is the nature of God's Son as his Father created him.

T-11.VI.5. Do not underestimate the power of the devotion of God's Son, nor the 
power the god he worships has over him. 2 For he places himself at the altar of 
his god, whether it be the god he made or the God Who created him. 3 That is why 
his slavery is as complete as his freedom, for he will obey only the god he 
accepts. 4 The god of crucifixion demands that he crucify, and his worshippers 
obey. 5 In his name they crucify themselves, believing that the power of the Son 
of God is born of sacrifice and pain. 6 The God of resurrection demands nothing, 
for He does not will to take away. 7 He does not require obedience, for 
obedience implies submission. 8 He would only have you learn your will and 
follow it, not in the spirit of sacrifice and submission, but in the gladness of 
freedom.

T-11.VI.6. Resurrection must compel your allegiance gladly, because it is the 
symbol of joy. 2 Its whole compelling power lies in the fact that it represents 
what you want to be. 3 The freedom to leave behind everything that hurts you and 
humbles you and frightens you cannot be thrust upon you, but it can be offered 
you through the grace of God. 4 And you can accept it by His grace, for God is 
gracious to His Son, accepting him without question as His Own. 5 Who, then, is 
<your> own? 6 The Father has given you all that is His, and He Himself is yours 
with them. 7 Guard them in their resurrection, for otherwise you will not awake 
in God, safely surrounded by what is yours forever.

T-11.VI.7. You will not find peace until you have removed the nails from the 
hands of God's Son, and taken the last thorn from his forehead. p208 2 The Love 
of God surrounds His Son whom the god of crucifixion condemns. 3 Teach not that 
I died in vain. 4 Teach rather that I did not die by demonstrating that I live 
in you. 5 For the undoing of the crucifixion of God's Son is the work of the 
redemption, in which everyone has a part of equal value. 6 God does not judge 
His guiltless Son. 7 Having given Himself to him, how could it be otherwise?

T-11.VI.8. You have nailed yourself to a cross, and placed a crown of thorns 
upon your own head. 2 Yet you cannot crucify God's Son, for the Will of God 
cannot die. 3 His Son has been redeemed from his own crucifixion, and you cannot 
assign to death whom God has given eternal life. 4 The dream of crucifixion 
still lies heavy on your eyes, but what you see in dreams is not reality. 5 
While you perceive the Son of God as crucified, you are asleep. 6 And as long as 
you believe that you can crucify him, you are only having nightmares. 7 You who 
are beginning to wake are still aware of dreams, and have not yet forgotten 
them. 8 The forgetting of dreams and the awareness of Christ come with the 
awakening of others to share your redemption.

T-11.VI.9. You will awaken to your own call, for the Call to awake is within 
you. 2 If I live in you, you are awake. 3 Yet you must see the works I do 
through you, or you will not perceive that I have done them unto you. 4 Do not 
set limits on what you believe I can do through you, or you will not accept what 
I can do <for> you. 5 Yet it is done already, and unless you give all that you 
have received you will not know that your redeemer liveth, and that you have 
awakened with him. 6 Redemption is recognized only by sharing it.

T-11.VI.10. God's Son <is> saved. 2 Bring only this awareness to the Sonship, 
and you will have a part in the redemption as valuable as mine. 3 For your part 
must be like mine if you learn it of me. 4 If you believe that yours is limited, 
you are limiting mine. 5 There is no order of difficulty in miracles because all 
of God's Sons are of equal value, and their equality is their oneness. 6 The 
whole power of God is in every part of Him, and nothing contradictory to His 
Will is either great or small. 7 What does not exist has no size and no measure. 
8 To God all things are possible. 9 And to Christ it is given to be like the 
Father. p209




VII. The Condition of Reality

T-11.VII.1. The world as you perceive it cannot have been created by the Father, 
for the world is not as you see it. 2 God created only the eternal, and 
everything you see is perishable. 3 Therefore, there must be another world that 
you do not see. 4 The Bible speaks of a new Heaven and a new earth, yet this 
cannot be literally true, for the eternal are not re-created. 5 To perceive anew 
is merely to perceive again, implying that before, or in the interval between, 
you were not perceiving at all. 6 What, then, is the world that awaits your 
perception when you see it?

T-11.VII.2. Every loving thought that the Son of God ever had is eternal. 2 The 
loving thoughts his mind perceives in this world are the world's only reality. 3 
They are still perceptions, because he still believes that he is separate. 4 Yet 
they are eternal because they are loving. 5 And being loving they are like the 
Father, and therefore cannot die. 6 The real world can actually be perceived. 7 
All that is necessary is a willingness to perceive nothing else. 8 For if you 
perceive both good and evil, you are accepting both the false and the true and 
making no distinction between them.

T-11.VII.3. The ego may see some good, but never only good. 2 That is why its 
perceptions are so variable. 3 It does not reject goodness entirely, for that 
you could not accept. 4 But it always adds something that is not real to the 
real, thus confusing illusion and reality. 5 For perceptions cannot be partly 
true. 6 If you believe in truth and illusion, you cannot tell which is true. 7 
To establish your personal autonomy you tried to create unlike your Father, 
believing that what you made is capable of being unlike Him. 8 Yet everything 
true <is> like Him. 9 Perceiving only the real world will lead you to the real 
Heaven, because it will make you capable of understanding it.

T-11.VII.4. The perception of goodness is not knowledge, but the denial of the 
opposite of goodness enables you to recognize a condition in which opposites do 
not exist. 2 And this <is> the condition of knowledge. 3 Without this awareness 
you have not met its conditions, and until you do you will not know it is yours 
already. 4 You have made many ideas that you have placed between yourself and 
your Creator, and these beliefs are the world as you perceive it. 5 Truth is not 
absent here, but it is obscure. 6 You do not know the difference between what 
you have made and what God created, and so you do not know the difference 
between what you have made and what <you> have created. p210 7 To believe that 
you can perceive the real world is to believe that you can know yourself. 8 You 
can know God because it is His Will to be known. 9 The real world is all that 
the Holy Spirit has saved for you out of what you have made, and to perceive 
only this is salvation, because it is the recognition that reality is only what 
is true.




VIII. The Problem and the Answer

T-11.VIII.1. This is a very simple course. 2 Perhaps you do not feel you need a 
course which, in the end, teaches that only reality is true. 3 But do you 
believe it? 4 When you perceive the real world, you will recognize that you did 
not believe it. 5 Yet the swiftness with which your new and only real perception 
will be translated into knowledge will leave you but an instant to realize that 
this alone is true. 6 And then everything you made will be forgotten; the good 
and the bad, the false and the true. 7 For as Heaven and earth become one, even 
the real world will vanish from your sight. 8 The end of the world is not its 
destruction, but its translation into Heaven. 9 The reinterpretation of the 
world is the transfer of all perception to knowledge.

T-11.VIII.2. The Bible tells you to become as little children. 2 Little children 
recognize that they do not understand what they perceive, and so they ask what 
it means. 3 Do not make the mistake of believing that you understand what you 
perceive, for its meaning is lost to you. 4 Yet the Holy Spirit has saved its 
meaning for you, and if you will let Him interpret it, He will restore to you 
what you have thrown away. 5 Yet while you think you know its meaning, you will 
see no need to ask it of Him.

T-11.VIII.3. You do not know the meaning of anything you perceive. 2 Not one 
thought you hold is wholly true. 3 The recognition of this is your firm 
beginning. 4 You are not misguided; you have accepted no guide at all. 5 
Instruction in perception is your great need, for you understand nothing. 6 
Recognize this but do not accept it, for understanding is your inheritance. 7 
Perceptions are learned, and you are not without a Teacher. 8 Yet your 
willingness to learn of Him depends on your willingness to question everything 
you learned of yourself, for you who learned amiss should not be your own 
teacher.

T-11.VIII.4. No one can withhold truth except from himself. 2 Yet God will not 
refuse you the Answer He gave. p211 3 Ask, then, for what is yours, but which 
you did not make, and do not defend yourself against truth. 4 You made the 
problem God has answered. 5 Ask yourself, therefore, but one simple question:




6 Do I want the problem or do I want the answer?




7 Decide for the answer and you will have it, for you will see it as it is, and 
it is yours already.

T-11.VIII.5. You may complain that this course is not sufficiently specific for 
you to understand and use. 2 Yet perhaps you have not done what it specifically 
advocates. 3 This is not a course in the play of ideas, but in their practical 
application. 4 Nothing could be more specific than to be told that if you ask 
you will receive. 5 The Holy Spirit will answer every specific problem as long 
as you believe that problems are specific. 6 His answer is both many and one, as 
long as you believe that the one is many. 7 You may be afraid of His 
specificity, for fear of what you think it will demand of you. 8 Yet only by 
asking will you learn that nothing of God demands anything of you. 9 God gives; 
He does not take. 10 When you refuse to ask, it is because you believe that 
asking is taking rather than sharing.

T-11.VIII.6. The Holy Spirit will give you only what is yours, and will take 
nothing in return. 2 For what is yours is everything, and you share it with God. 
3 That is its reality. 4 Would the Holy Spirit, Who wills only to restore, be 
capable of misinterpreting the question you must ask to learn His answer? 5 You 
<have> heard the answer, but you have misunderstood the question. 6 You believe 
that to ask for guidance of the Holy Spirit is to ask for deprivation.

T-11.VIII.7. Little child of God, you do not understand your Father. 2 You 
believe in a world that takes, because you believe that you can get by taking. 3 
And by that perception you have lost sight of the real world. 4 You are afraid 
of the world as you see it, but the real world is still yours for the asking. 5 
Do not deny it to yourself, for it can only free you. 6 Nothing of God will 
enslave His Son whom He created free and whose freedom is protected by His 
Being. 7 Blessed are you who are willing to ask the truth of God without fear, 
for only thus can you learn that His answer is the release from fear.

T-11.VIII.8. Beautiful child of God, you are asking only for what I promised 
you. 2 Do you believe I would deceive you? 3 The Kingdom of Heaven <is> within 
you. p212 4 Believe that the truth is in me, for I know that it is in you. 5 
God's Sons have nothing they do not share. 6 Ask for truth of any Son of God, 
and you have asked it of me. 7 Not one of us but has the answer in him, to give 
to anyone who asks it of him.

T-11.VIII.9. Ask anything of God's Son and his Father will answer you, for 
Christ is not deceived in His Father and His Father is not deceived in Him. 2 Do 
not, then, be deceived in your brother, and see only his loving thoughts as his 
reality, for by denying that his mind is split you will heal yours. 3 Accept him 
as his Father accepts him and heal him unto Christ, for Christ is his healing 
and yours. 4 Christ is the Son of God Who is in no way separate from His Father, 
Whose every thought is as loving as the Thought of His Father by which He was 
created. 5 Be not deceived in God's Son, for thereby you must be deceived in 
yourself. 6 And being deceived in yourself you are deceived in your Father, in 
Whom no deceit is possible.

T-11.VIII.10. In the real world there is no sickness, for there is no separation 
and no division. 2 Only loving thoughts are recognized, and because no one is 
without your help, the Help of God goes with you everywhere. 3 As you become 
willing to accept this Help by asking for It, you will give It because you want 
It. 4 Nothing will be beyond your healing power, because nothing will be denied 
your simple request. 5 What problems will not disappear in the Presence of God's 
Answer? 6 Ask, then, to learn of the reality of your brother, because this is 
what you will perceive in him, and you will see your beauty reflected in his.

T-11.VIII.11. Do not accept your brother's variable perception of himself for 
his split mind is yours, and you will not accept your healing without his. 2 For 
you share the real world as you share Heaven, and his healing is yours. 3 To 
love yourself is to heal yourself, and you cannot perceive part of you as sick 
and achieve your goal. 4 Brother, we heal together as we live together and love 
together. 5 Be not deceived in God's Son, for he is one with himself and one 
with his Father. 6 Love him who is beloved of his Father, and you will learn of 
the Father's Love for you.

T-11.VIII.12. If you perceive offense in a brother pluck the offense from your 
mind, for you are offended by Christ and are deceived in Him. 2 Heal in Christ 
and be not offended by Him, for there is no offense in Him. 3 If what you 
perceive offends you, you are offended in yourself and are condemning God's Son 
whom God condemneth not. p213 4 Let the Holy Spirit remove all offenses of God's 
Son against himself and perceive no one but through His guidance, for He would 
save you from all condemnation. 5 Accept His healing power and use it for all He 
sends you, for He wills to heal the Son of God, in whom He is not deceived.

T-11.VIII.13. Children perceive frightening ghosts and monsters and dragons, and 
they are terrified. 2 Yet if they ask someone they trust for the meaning of what 
they perceive, and are willing to let their own interpretations go in favor of 
reality, their fear goes with them. 3 When a child is helped to translate his 
"ghost" into a curtain, his "monster" into a shadow, and his "dragon" into a 
dream he is no longer afraid, and laughs happily at his own fear.

T-11.VIII.14. You, my child, are afraid of your brothers and of your Father and 
of yourself. 2 But you are merely deceived in them. 3 Ask what they are of the 
Teacher of reality, and hearing His answer, you too will laugh at your fears and 
replace them with peace. 4 For fear lies not in reality, but in the minds of 
children who do not understand reality. 5 It is only their lack of understanding 
that frightens them, and when they learn to perceive truly they are not afraid. 
6 And because of this they will ask for truth again when they are frightened. 7 
It is not the reality of your brothers or your Father or yourself that frightens 
you. 8 You do not know what they are, and so you perceive them as ghosts and 
monsters and dragons. 9 Ask what their reality is from the One Who knows it, and 
He will tell you what they are. 10 For you do not understand them, and because 
you are deceived by what you see you need reality to dispel your fears.

T-11.VIII.15. Would you not exchange your fears for truth, if the exchange is 
yours for the asking? 2 For if God is not deceived in you, you can be deceived 
only in yourself. 3 Yet you can learn the truth about yourself from the Holy 
Spirit, Who will teach you that, as part of God, deceit in you is impossible. 4 
When you perceive yourself without deceit, you will accept the real world in 
place of the false one you have made. 5 And then your Father will lean down to 
you and take the last step for you, by raising you unto Himself. p214






Chapter 12.

THE HOLY SPIRIT'S CURRICULUM

I. The Judgment of the Holy Spirit

T-12.I.1. You have been told not to make error real, and the way to do this is 
very simple. 2 If you want to believe in error, you would have to make it real 
because it is not true. 3 But truth is real in its own right, and to believe in 
truth <you do not have to do anything>. 4 Understand that you do not respond to 
anything directly, but to your interpretation of it. 5 Your interpretation thus 
becomes the justification for the response. 6 That is why analyzing the motives 
of others is hazardous to you. 7 If you decide that someone is really trying to 
attack you or desert you or enslave you, you will respond as if he had actually 
done so, having made his error real to you. 8 To interpret error is to give it 
power, and having done this you will overlook truth.

T-12.I.2. The analysis of ego motivation is very complicated, very obscuring, 
and never without your own ego involvement. 2 The whole process represents a 
clear-cut attempt to demonstrate your own ability to understand what you 
perceive. 3 This is shown by the fact that you react to your interpretations as 
if they were correct. 4 You may then control your reactions behaviorally, but 
not emotionally. 5 This would obviously be a split or an attack on the integrity 
of your mind, pitting one level within it against another.

T-12.I.3. There is but one interpretation of motivation that makes any sense. 2 
And because it is the Holy Spirit's judgment it requires no effort at all on 
your part. 3 Every loving thought is true. 4 Everything else is an appeal for 
healing and help, regardless of the form it takes. 5 Can anyone be justified in 
responding with anger to a brother's plea for help? 6 No response can be 
appropriate except the willingness to give it to him, for this and only this is 
what he is asking for. 7 Offer him anything else, and you are assuming the right 
to attack his reality by interpreting it as you see fit. 8 Perhaps the danger of 
this to your own mind is not yet fully apparent. 9 If you believe that an appeal 
for help is something else you will react to something else. 10 Your response 
will therefore be inappropriate to reality as it is, but not to your perception 
of it.

T-12.I.4. There is nothing to prevent you from recognizing all calls for help as 
exactly what they are except your own imagined need to attack. p215 2 It is only 
this that makes you willing to engage in endless "battles" with reality, in 
which you deny the reality of the need for healing by making it unreal. 3 You 
would not do this except for your unwillingness to accept reality as it is, and 
which you therefore withhold from yourself.

T-12.I.5. It is surely good advice to tell you not to judge what you do not 
understand. 2 No one with a personal investment is a reliable witness, for truth 
to him has become what he wants it to be. 3 If you are unwilling to perceive an 
appeal for help as what it is, it is because you are unwilling to give help and 
to receive it. 4 To fail to recognize a call for help is to refuse help. 5 Would 
you maintain that you do not need it? 6 Yet this is what you are maintaining 
when you refuse to recognize a brother's appeal, for only by answering his 
appeal <can> you be helped. 7 Deny him your help and you will not recognize 
God's Answer to you. 8 The Holy Spirit does not need your help in interpreting 
motivation, but you do need His.

T-12.I.6. Only appreciation is an appropriate response to your brother. 2 
Gratitude is due him for both his loving thoughts and his appeals for help, for 
both are capable of bringing love into your awareness if you perceive them 
truly. 3 And all your sense of strain comes from your attempts not to do just 
this. 4 How simple, then, is God's plan for salvation. 5 There is but one 
response to reality, for reality evokes no conflict at all. 6 There is but one 
Teacher of reality, Who understands what it is. 7 He does not change His Mind 
about reality because reality does not change. 8 Although your interpretations 
of reality are meaningless in your divided state, His remain consistently true. 
9 He gives them to you because they are <for> you. 10 Do not attempt to "help" a 
brother in your way, for you cannot help yourself. 11 But hear his call for the 
Help of God, and you will recognize your own need for the Father.

T-12.I.7. Your interpretations of your brother's needs are your interpretation 
of yours. 2 By giving help you are asking for it, and if you perceive but one 
need in yourself you will be healed. 3 For you will recognize God's Answer as 
you want It to be, and if you want It in truth, It will be truly yours. 4 Every 
appeal you answer in the Name of Christ brings the remembrance of your Father 
closer to your awareness. 5 For the sake of your need, then, hear every call for 
help as what it is, so God can answer <you.> p216

T-12.I.8. By applying the Holy Spirit's interpretation of the reactions of 
others more and more consistently, you will gain an increasing awareness that 
His criteria are equally applicable to you. 2 For to recognize fear is not 
enough to escape from it, although the recognition is necessary to demonstrate 
the need for escape. 3 The Holy Spirit must still translate the fear into truth. 
4 If you were left with the fear, once you had recognized it, you would have 
taken a step away from reality, not towards it. 5 Yet we have repeatedly 
emphasized the need to recognize fear and face it without disguise as a crucial 
step in the undoing of the ego. 6 Consider how well the Holy Spirit's 
interpretation of the motives of others will serve you then. 7 Having taught you 
to accept only loving thoughts in others and to regard everything else as an 
appeal for help, He has taught you that fear itself is an appeal for help. 8 
This is what recognizing fear really means. 9 If you do not protect it, He will 
reinterpret it. 10 That is the ultimate value in learning to perceive attack as 
a call for love. 11 We have already learned that fear and attack are inevitably 
associated. 12 If only attack produces fear, and if you see attack as the call 
for help that it is, the unreality of fear must dawn on you. 13 For fear <is> a 
call for love, in unconscious recognition of what has been denied.

T-12.I.9. Fear is a symptom of your own deep sense of loss. 2 If when you 
perceive it in others you learn to supply the loss, the basic cause of fear is 
removed. 3 Thereby you teach yourself that fear does not exist in you. 4 The 
means for removing it is in yourself, and you have demonstrated this by giving 
it. 5 Fear and love are the only emotions of which you are capable. 6 One is 
false, for it was made out of denial; and denial depends on the belief in what 
is denied for its own existence. 7 By interpreting fear correctly as a positive 
affirmation of the underlying belief it masks, you are undermining its perceived 
usefulness by rendering it useless. 8 Defenses that do not work at all are 
automatically discarded. 9 If you raise what fear conceals to clear-cut 
unequivocal predominance, fear becomes meaningless. 10 You have denied its power 
to conceal love, which was its only purpose. 11 The veil that you have drawn 
across the face of love has disappeared.

T-12.I.10. If you would look upon love, which <is> the world's reality, how 
could you do better than to recognize, in every defense against it, the 
underlying appeal <for> it? 2 And how could you better learn of its reality than 
by answering the appeal for it by giving it? 3 The Holy Spirit's interpretation 
of fear does dispel it, for the awareness of truth cannot be denied. p217 4 Thus 
does the Holy Spirit replace fear with love and translate error into truth. 5 
And thus will you learn of Him how to replace your dream of separation with the 
fact of unity. 6 For the separation is only the denial of union, and correctly 
interpreted, attests to your eternal knowledge that union is true.




II. The Way to Remember God

T-12.II.1. Miracles are merely the translation of denial into truth. 2 If to 
love oneself is to heal oneself, those who are sick do not love themselves. 3 
Therefore, they are asking for the love that would heal them, but which they are 
denying to themselves. 4 If they knew the truth about themselves they could not 
be sick. 5 The task of the miracle worker thus becomes <to deny the denial of 
truth.> 6 The sick must heal themselves, for the truth is in them. 7 Yet having 
obscured it, the light in another mind must shine into theirs because that light 
<is> theirs.

T-12.II.2. The light in them shines as brightly regardless of the density of the 
fog that obscures it. 2 If you give no power to the fog to obscure the light, it 
has none. 3 For it has power only if the Son of God gives power to it. 4 He must 
himself withdraw that power, remembering that all power is of God. 5 You can 
remember this for all the Sonship. 6 Do not allow your brother not to remember, 
for his forgetfulness is yours. 7 But your remembering is his, for God cannot be 
remembered alone. 8 <This is what you have forgotten.> 9 To perceive the healing 
of your brother as the healing of yourself is thus the way to remember God. 10 
For you forgot your brothers with Him, and God's Answer to your forgetting is 
but the way to remember.

T-12.II.3. Perceive in sickness but another call for love, and offer your 
brother what he believes he cannot offer himself. 2 Whatever the sickness, there 
is but one remedy. 3 You will be made whole as you make whole, for to perceive 
in sickness the appeal for health is to recognize in hatred the call for love. 4 
And to give a brother what he really wants is to offer it unto yourself, for 
your Father wills you to know your brother as yourself. 5 Answer his call for 
love, and yours is answered. 6 Healing is the Love of Christ for His Father and 
for Himself.

T-12.II.4. Remember what was said about the frightening perceptions of little 
children, which terrify them because they do not understand them. p218 2 If they 
ask for enlightenment and accept it, their fears vanish. 3 But if they hide 
their nightmares they will keep them. 4 It is easy to help an uncertain child, 
for he recognizes that he does not understand what his perceptions mean. 5 Yet 
you believe that you do understand yours. 6 Little child, you are hiding your 
head under the cover of the heavy blankets you have laid upon yourself. 7 You 
are hiding your nightmares in the darkness of your own false certainty, and 
refusing to open your eyes and look at them.

T-12.II.5. Let us not save nightmares, for they are not fitting offerings for 
Christ, and so they are not fit gifts for you. 2 Take off the covers and look at 
what you are afraid of. 3 Only the anticipation will frighten you, for the 
reality of nothingness cannot be frightening. 4 Let us not delay this, for your 
dream of hatred will not leave you without help, and Help is here. 5 Learn to be 
quiet in the midst of turmoil, for quietness is the end of strife and this is 
the journey to peace. 6 Look straight at every image that rises to delay you, 
for the goal is inevitable because it is eternal. 7 The goal of love is but your 
right, and it belongs to you despite your dreams.

T-12.II.6. You still want what God wills, and no nightmare can defeat a child of 
God in his purpose. 2 For your purpose was given you by God, and you must 
accomplish it because it is His Will. 3 Awake and remember your purpose, for it 
is your will to do so. 4 What has been accomplished for you must be yours. 5 Do 
not let your hatred stand in the way of love, for nothing can withstand the Love 
of Christ for His Father, or His Father's Love for Him.

T-12.II.7. A little while and you will see me, for I am not hidden because <you> 
are hiding. 2 I will awaken you as surely as I awakened myself, for I awoke for 
you. 3 In my resurrection is your release. 4 Our mission is to escape from 
crucifixion, not from redemption. 5 Trust in my help, for I did not walk alone, 
and I will walk with you as our Father walked with me. 6 Do you not know that I 
walked with Him in peace? 7 And does not that mean that peace goes with <us> on 
the journey?

T-12.II.8. There is no fear in perfect love. 2 We will but be making perfect to 
you what is already perfect in you. 3 You do not fear the unknown but the known. 
4 You will not fail in your mission because I did not fail in mine. 5 Give me 
but a little trust in the name of the complete trust I have in you, and we will 
easily accomplish the goal of perfection together. 6 For perfection <is,> and 
cannot be denied. p219 7 To deny the denial of perfection is not so difficult as 
to deny truth, and what we can accomplish together will be believed when you see 
it as accomplished.

T-12.II.9. You who have tried to banish love have not succeeded, but you who 
choose to banish fear must succeed. 2 The Lord is with you, but you know it not. 
3 Yet your Redeemer liveth, and abideth in you in the peace out of which He was 
created. 4 Would you not exchange this awareness for the awareness of fear? 5 
When we have overcome fear-not by hiding it, not by minimizing it, and not by 
denying its full import in any way-this is what you will really see. 6 You 
cannot lay aside the obstacles to real vision without looking upon them, for to 
lay aside means to judge against. 7 If you will look, the Holy Spirit will 
judge, and He will judge truly. 8 Yet He cannot shine away what you keep hidden, 
for you have not offered it to Him and He cannot take it from you.

T-12.II.10. We are therefore embarking on an organized, well-structured and 
carefully planned program aimed at learning how to offer to the Holy Spirit 
everything you do not want. 2 He knows what to do with it. 3 You do not 
understand how to use what He knows. 4 Whatever is given Him that is not of God 
is gone. 5 Yet you must look at it yourself in perfect willingness, for 
otherwise His knowledge remains useless to you. 6 Surely He will not fail to 
help you, since help is His only purpose. 7 Do you not have greater reason for 
fearing the world as you perceive it, than for looking at the cause of fear and 
letting it go forever?




III. The Investment in Reality

T-12.III.1. I once asked you to sell all you have and give to the poor and 
follow me. 2 This is what I meant: If you have no investment in anything in this 
world, you can teach the poor where their treasure is. 3 The poor are merely 
those who have invested wrongly, and they are poor indeed! 4 Because they are in 
need it is given you to help them, since you are among them. 5 Consider how 
perfectly your lesson would be learned if you were unwilling to share their 
poverty. 6 For poverty is lack, and there is but one lack since there is but one 
need.

T-12.III.2. Suppose a brother insists on having you do something you think you 
do not want to do. 2 His very insistence should tell you that he believes 
salvation lies in it. 3 If you insist on refusing and experience a quick 
response of opposition, you are believing that your salvation lies in <not> 
doing it. p220 4 You, then, are making the same mistake he is, and are making 
his error real to both of you. 5 Insistence means investment, and what you 
invest in is always related to your notion of salvation. 6 The question is 
always twofold; first, <what> is to be saved? 7 And second, <how> can it be 
saved?

T-12.III.3. Whenever you become angry with a brother, for whatever reason, you 
are believing that the ego is to be saved, and to be saved by attack. 2 If he 
attacks, you are agreeing with this belief; and if you attack, you are 
reinforcing it. 3 <Remember that those who attack are poor.> 4 Their poverty 
asks for gifts, not for further impoverishment. 5 You who could help them are 
surely acting destructively if you accept their poverty as yours. 6 If you had 
not invested as they had, it would never occur to you to overlook their need.

T-12.III.4. <Recognize what does not matter,> and if your brothers ask you for 
something "outrageous," do it <because> it does not matter. 2 Refuse, and your 
opposition establishes that it does matter to you. 3 It is only you, therefore, 
who have made the request outrageous, and every request of a brother is for you. 
4 Why would you insist in denying him? 5 For to do so is to deny yourself and 
impoverish both. 6 He is asking for salvation, as you are. 7 Poverty is of the 
ego, and never of God. 8 No "outrageous" requests can be made of one who 
recognizes what is valuable and wants to accept nothing else.

T-12.III.5. Salvation is for the mind, and it is attained through peace. 2 This 
is the only thing that can be saved and the only way to save it. 3 Any response 
other than love arises from a confusion about the "what" and the "how" of 
salvation, and this is the only answer. 4 Never lose sight of this, and never 
allow yourself to believe, even for an instant, that there is another answer. 5 
For you will surely place yourself among the poor, who do not understand that 
they dwell in abundance and that salvation is come.

T-12.III.6. To identify with the ego is to attack yourself and make yourself 
poor. 2 That is why everyone who identifies with the ego feels deprived. 3 What 
he experiences then is depression or anger, because what he did was to exchange 
Self-love for self-hate, making him afraid of himself. 4 He does not realize 
this. 5 Even if he is fully aware of anxiety he does not perceive its source as 
his own ego identification, and he always tries to handle it by making some sort 
of insane "arrangement" with the world. 6 He always perceives this world as 
outside himself, for this is crucial to his adjustment. p221 7 He does not 
realize that he makes this world, for there is no world outside of him.

T-12.III.7. If only the loving thoughts of God's Son are the world's reality, 
the real world must be in his mind. 2 His insane thoughts, too, must be in his 
mind, but an internal conflict of this magnitude he cannot tolerate. 3 A split 
mind is endangered, and the recognition that it encompasses completely opposed 
thoughts within itself is intolerable. 4 Therefore the mind projects the split, 
not the reality. 5 Everything you perceive as the outside world is merely your 
attempt to maintain your ego identification, for everyone believes that 
identification is salvation. 6 Yet consider what has happened, for thoughts do 
have consequences to the thinker. 7 You have become at odds with the world as 
you perceive it, because you think it is antagonistic to you. 8 This is a 
necessary consequence of what you have done. 9 You have projected outward what 
is antagonistic to what is inward, and therefore you would have to perceive it 
this way. 10 That is why you must realize that your hatred is in your mind and 
not outside it before you can get rid of it; and why you must get rid of it 
before you can perceive the world as it really is.

T-12.III.8. I said before that God so loved the world that He gave it to His 
only begotten Son. 2 God does love the real world, and those who perceive its 
reality cannot see the world of death. 3 For death is not of the real world, in 
which everything reflects the eternal. 4 God gave you the real world in exchange 
for the one you made out of your split mind, and which is the symbol of death. 5 
For if you could really separate yourself from the Mind of God you would die.

T-12.III.9. The world you perceive is a world of separation. 2 Perhaps you are 
willing to accept even death to deny your Father. 3 Yet He would not have it so, 
and so it is not so. 4 You still cannot will against Him, and that is why you 
have no control over the world you made. 5 It is not a world of will because it 
is governed by the desire to be unlike God, and this desire is not will. 6 The 
world you made is therefore totally chaotic, governed by arbitrary and senseless 
"laws," and without meaning of any kind. 7 For it is made out of what you do not 
want, projected from your mind because you are afraid of it. 8 Yet this world is 
only in the mind of its maker, along with his real salvation. 9 Do not believe 
it is outside of yourself, for only by recognizing where it is will you gain 
control over it. p222 10 For you do have control over your mind, since the mind 
is the mechanism of decision.

T-12.III.10. If you will recognize that all the attack you perceive is in your 
own mind and nowhere else, you will at last have placed its source, and where it 
begins it must end. 2 For in this same place also lies salvation. 3 The altar of 
God where Christ abideth is there. 4 You have defiled the altar, but not the 
world. 5 Yet Christ has placed the Atonement on the altar for you. 6 Bring your 
perceptions of the world to this altar, for it is the altar to truth. 7 There 
you will see your vision changed, and there you will learn to see truly. 8 From 
this place, where God and His Son dwell in peace and where you are welcome, you 
will look out in peace and behold the world truly. 9 Yet to find the place, you 
must relinquish your investment in the world as you project it, allowing the 
Holy Spirit to extend the real world to you from the altar of God.




IV. Seeking and Finding

T-12.IV.1. The ego is certain that love is dangerous, and this is always its 
central teaching. 2 It never puts it this way; on the contrary, everyone who 
believes that the ego is salvation seems to be intensely engaged in the search 
for love. 3 Yet the ego, though encouraging the search for love very actively, 
makes one proviso; do not find it. 4 Its dictates, then, can be summed up simply 
as: "Seek and do <not> find." 5 This is the one promise the ego holds out to 
you, and the one promise it will keep. 6 For the ego pursues its goal with 
fanatic insistence, and its judgment, though severely impaired, is completely 
consistent.

T-12.IV.2. The search the ego undertakes is therefore bound to be defeated. 2 
And since it also teaches that it is your identification, its guidance leads you 
to a journey which must end in perceived self-defeat. 3 For the ego cannot love, 
and in its frantic search for love it is seeking what it is afraid to find. 4 
The search is inevitable because the ego is part of your mind, and because of 
its source the ego is not wholly split off, or it could not be believed at all. 
5 For it is your mind that believes in it and gives existence to it. 6 Yet it is 
also your mind that has the power to deny the ego's existence, and you will 
surely do so when you realize exactly what the journey is on which the ego sets 
you.

T-12.IV.3. It is surely obvious that no one wants to find what would utterly 
defeat him. p223 2 Being unable to love, the ego would be totally inadequate in 
love's presence, for it could not respond at all. 3 Then, you would have to 
abandon the ego's guidance, for it would be quite apparent that it had not 
taught you the response you need. 4 The ego will therefore distort love, and 
teach you that love really calls forth the responses the ego <can> teach. 5 
Follow its teaching, then, and you will search for love, but will not recognize 
it.

T-12.IV.4. Do you realize that the ego must set you on a journey which cannot 
but lead to a sense of futility and depression? 2 To seek and not to find is 
hardly joyous. 3 Is this the promise you would keep? 4 The Holy Spirit offers 
you another promise, and one that will lead to joy. 5 For His promise is always, 
"Seek and you <will> find," and under His guidance you cannot be defeated. 6 His 
is the journey to accomplishment, and the goal He sets before you He will give 
you. 7 For He will never deceive God's Son whom He loves with the Love of the 
Father.

T-12.IV.5. You <will> undertake a journey because you are not at home in this 
world. 2 And you <will> search for your home whether you realize where it is or 
not. 3 If you believe it is outside you the search will be futile, for you will 
be seeking it where it is not. 4 You do not remember how to look within for you 
do not believe your home is there. 5 Yet the Holy Spirit remembers it for you, 
and He will guide you to your home because that is His mission. 6 As He fulfills 
His mission He will teach you yours, for your mission is the same as His. 7 By 
guiding your brothers home you are but following Him.

T-12.IV.6. Behold the Guide your Father gave you, that you might learn you have 
eternal life. 2 For death is not your Father's Will nor yours, and whatever is 
true is the Will of the Father. 3 You pay no price for life for that was given 
you, but you do pay a price for death, and a very heavy one. 4 If death is your 
treasure, you will sell everything else to purchase it. 5 And you will believe 
that you have purchased it, because you have sold everything else. 6 Yet you 
cannot sell the Kingdom of Heaven. 7 Your inheritance can neither be bought nor 
sold. 8 There can be no disinherited parts of the Sonship, for God is whole and 
all His extensions are like Him.

T-12.IV.7. The Atonement is not the price of your wholeness, but it <is> the 
price of your awareness of your wholeness. 2 For what you chose to "sell" had to 
be kept for you, since you could not "buy" it back. 3 Yet you must invest in it, 
not with money but with spirit. p224 4 For spirit is will, and will is the 
"price" of the Kingdom. 5 Your inheritance awaits only the recognition that you 
have been redeemed. 6 The Holy Spirit guides you into life eternal, but you must 
relinquish your investment in death, or you will not see life though it is all 
around you.




V. The Sane Curriculum

T-12.V.1. Only love is strong because it is undivided. 2 The strong do not 
attack because they see no need to do so. 3 Before the idea of attack can enter 
your mind, you must have perceived yourself as weak. 4 Because you attacked 
yourself and believed that the attack was effective, you behold yourself as 
weakened. 5 No longer perceiving yourself and your brothers as equal, and 
regarding yourself as weaker, you attempt to "equalize" the situation you made. 
6 You use attack to do so because you believe that attack was successful in 
weakening you.

T-12.V.2. That is why the recognition of your own invulnerability is so 
important to the restoration of your sanity. 2 For if you accept your 
invulnerability, you are recognizing that attack has no effect. 3 Although you 
have attacked yourself, you will be demonstrating that nothing really happened. 
4 Therefore, by attacking you have not done anything. 5 Once you realize this 
you will no longer see any sense in attack, for it manifestly does not work and 
cannot protect you. 6 Yet the recognition of your invulnerability has more than 
negative value. 7 If your attacks on yourself have failed to weaken you, you are 
still strong. 8 You therefore have no need to "equalize" the situation to 
establish your strength.

T-12.V.3. You will never realize the utter uselessness of attack except by 
recognizing that your attack on yourself has no effects. 2 For others do react 
to attack if they perceive it, and if you are trying to attack them you will be 
unable to avoid interpreting this as reinforcement. 3 The only place you can 
cancel out all reinforcement is in yourself. 4 For you are always the first 
point of your attack, and if this has never been, it has no consequences.

T-12.V.4. The Holy Spirit's Love is your strength, for yours is divided and 
therefore not real. 2 You cannot trust your own love when you attack it. 3 You 
cannot learn of perfect love with a split mind, because a split mind has made 
itself a poor learner. 4 You tried to make the separation eternal, because you 
wanted to retain the characteristics of creation, but with your own content. 
p225 5 Yet creation is not of you, and poor learners do need special teaching.

T-12.V.5. You have learning handicaps in a very literal sense. 2 There are areas 
in your learning skills that are so impaired that you can progress only under 
constant, clear-cut direction, provided by a Teacher Who can transcend your 
limited resources. 3 He becomes your Resource because of yourself you cannot 
learn. 4 The learning situation in which you placed yourself is impossible, and 
in this situation you clearly require a special Teacher and a special 
curriculum. 5 Poor learners are not good choices as teachers, either for 
themselves or for anyone else. 6 You would hardly turn to them to establish the 
curriculum by which they can escape from their limitations. 7 If they understood 
what is beyond them, they would not be handicapped.

T-12.V.6. You do not know the meaning of love, and that is your handicap. 2 Do 
not attempt to teach yourself what you do not understand, and do not try to set 
up curriculum goals where yours have clearly failed. 3 Your learning goal has 
been <not> to learn, and this cannot lead to successful learning. 4 You cannot 
transfer what you have not learned, and the impairment of the ability to 
generalize is a crucial learning failure. 5 Would you ask those who have failed 
to learn what learning aids are for? 6 They do not know. 7 If they could 
interpret the aids correctly, they would have learned from them.

T-12.V.7. I have said that the ego's rule is, "Seek and do not find." 2 
Translated into curricular terms this means, "Try to learn but do not succeed." 
3 The result of this curriculum goal is obvious. 4 Every legitimate teaching 
aid, every real instruction, and every sensible guide to learning will be 
misinterpreted, since they are all for facilitating the learning this strange 
curriculum is against. 5 If you are trying to learn how not to learn, and the 
aim of your teaching is to defeat itself, what can you expect but confusion? 6 
Such a curriculum does not make sense. 7 This attempt at "learning" has so 
weakened your mind that you cannot love, for the curriculum you have chosen is 
against love, and amounts to a course in how to attack yourself. 8 A 
supplementary goal in this curriculum is learning how <not> to overcome the 
split that makes its primary aim believable. 9 And you will not overcome the 
split in this curriculum, for all your learning will be on its behalf. 10 Yet 
your mind speaks against your learning as your learning speaks against your 
mind, and so you fight against all learning and succeed, for that is what you 
want. p226 11 But perhaps you do not realize, even yet, that there is something 
you want to learn, and that you can learn it because it <is> your choice to do 
so.

T-12.V.8. You who have tried to learn what you do not want should take heart, 
for although the curriculum you set yourself is depressing indeed, it is merely 
ridiculous if you look at it. 2 Is it possible that the way to achieve a goal is 
not to attain it? 3 Resign now as your own teacher. 4 This resignation will not 
lead to depression. 5 It is merely the result of an honest appraisal of what you 
have taught yourself, and of the learning outcomes that have resulted. 6 Under 
the proper learning conditions, which you can neither provide nor understand, 
you will become an excellent learner and an excellent teacher. 7 But it is not 
so yet, and will not be so until the whole learning situation as you have set it 
up is reversed.

T-12.V.9. Your learning potential, properly understood, is limitless because it 
will lead you to God. 2 You can teach the way to Him and learn it, if you follow 
the Teacher Who knows the way to Him and understands His curriculum for learning 
it. 3 The curriculum is totally unambiguous, because the goal is not divided and 
the means and the end are in complete accord. 4 You need offer only undivided 
attention. 5 Everything else will be given you. 6 For you really want to learn 
aright, and nothing can oppose the decision of God's Son. 7 His learning is as 
unlimited as he is.




VI. The Vision of Christ

T-12.VI.1. The ego is trying to teach you how to gain the whole world and lose 
your own soul. 2 The Holy Spirit teaches that you cannot lose your soul and 
there is no gain in the world, for of itself it profits nothing. 3 To invest 
without profit is surely to impoverish yourself, and the overhead is high. 4 Not 
only is there no profit in the investment, but the cost to you is enormous. 5 
For this investment costs you the world's reality by denying yours, and gives 
you nothing in return. 6 You cannot sell your soul, but you can sell your 
awareness of it. 7 You cannot perceive your soul, but you will not know it while 
you perceive something else as more valuable.

T-12.VI.2. The Holy Spirit is your strength because He knows nothing but the 
spirit as you. 2 He is perfectly aware that you do not know yourself, and 
perfectly aware of how to teach you to remember what you are. p227 3 Because He 
loves you, He will gladly teach you what He loves, for He wills to share it. 4 
Remembering you always, He cannot let you forget your worth. 5 For the Father 
never ceases to remind Him of His Son, and He never ceases to remind His Son of 
the Father. 6 God is in your memory because of Him. 7 You chose to forget your 
Father but you do not really want to do so, and therefore you can decide 
otherwise. 8 As it was my decision, so is it yours.

T-12.VI.3. You do not want the world. 2 The only thing of value in it is 
whatever part of it you look upon with love. 3 This gives it the only reality it 
will ever have. 4 Its value is not in itself, but yours is in you. 5 As self-
value comes from self-extension, so does the perception of self-value come from 
the extension of loving thoughts outward. 6 Make the world real unto yourself, 
for the real world is the gift of the Holy Spirit, and so it belongs to you.

T-12.VI.4. Correction is for all who cannot see. 2 To open the eyes of the blind 
is the Holy Spirit's mission, for He knows that they have not lost their vision, 
but merely sleep. 3 He would awaken them from the sleep of forgetting to the 
remembering of God. 4 Christ's eyes are open, and He will look upon whatever you 
see with love if you accept His vision as yours. 5 The Holy Spirit keeps the 
vision of Christ for every Son of God who sleeps. 6 In His sight the Son of God 
is perfect, and He longs to share His vision with you. 7 He will show you the 
real world because God gave you Heaven. 8 Through Him your Father calls His Son 
to remember. 9 The awakening of His Son begins with his investment in the real 
world, and by this he will learn to re-invest in himself. 10 For reality is one 
with the Father and the Son, and the Holy Spirit blesses the real world in Their 
Name.

T-12.VI.5. When you have seen this real world, as you will surely do, you will 
remember Us. 2 Yet you must learn the cost of sleeping, and refuse to pay it. 3 
Only then will you decide to awaken. 4 And then the real world will spring to 
your sight, for Christ has never slept. 5 He is waiting to be seen, for He has 
never lost sight of you. 6 He looks quietly on the real world, which He would 
share with you because He knows of the Father's Love for Him. 7 And knowing 
this, He would give you what is yours. 8 In perfect peace He waits for you at 
His Father's altar, holding out the Father's Love to you in the quiet light of 
the Holy Spirit's blessing. 9 For the Holy Spirit will lead everyone home to his 
Father, where Christ waits as his Self. p228

T-12.VI.6. Every child of God is one in Christ, for his being is in Christ as 
Christ's is in God. 2 Christ's Love for you is His Love for His Father, which He 
knows because He knows His Father's Love for Him. 3 When the Holy Spirit has at 
last led you to Christ at the altar to His Father, perception fuses into 
knowledge because perception has become so holy that its transfer to holiness is 
merely its natural extension. 4 Love transfers to love without any interference, 
for the two are one. 5 As you perceive more and more common elements in all 
situations, the transfer of training under the Holy Spirit's guidance increases 
and becomes generalized. 6 Gradually you learn to apply it to everyone and 
everything, for its applicability is universal. 7 When this has been 
accomplished, perception and knowledge have become so similar that they share 
the unification of the laws of God.

T-12.VI.7. What is one cannot be perceived as separate, and the denial of the 
separation is the reinstatement of knowledge. 2 At the altar of God, the holy 
perception of God's Son becomes so enlightened that light streams into it, and 
the spirit of God's Son shines in the Mind of the Father and becomes one with 
it. 3 Very gently does God shine upon Himself, loving the extension of Himself 
that is His Son. 4 The world has no purpose as it blends into the purpose of 
God. 5 For the real world has slipped quietly into Heaven, where everything 
eternal in it has always been. 6 There the Redeemer and the redeemed join in 
perfect love of God and of each other. 7 Heaven is your home, and being in God 
it must also be in you.




VII. Looking Within

T-12.VII.1. Miracles demonstrate that learning has occurred under the right 
guidance, for learning is invisible and what has been learned can be recognized 
only by its results. 2 Its generalization is demonstrated as you use it in more 
and more situations. 3 You will recognize that you have learned there is no 
order of difficulty in miracles when you apply them to all situations. 4 There 
is no situation to which miracles do not apply, and by applying them to all 
situations you will gain the real world. 5 For in this holy perception you will 
be made whole, and the Atonement will radiate from your acceptance of it for 
yourself to everyone the Holy Spirit sends you for your blessing. 6 In every 
child of God His blessing lies, and in your blessing of the children of God is 
His blessing to you. p229

T-12.VII.2. Everyone in the world must play his part in its redemption, in order 
to recognize that the world has been redeemed. 2 You cannot see the invisible. 3 
Yet if you see its effects you know it must be there. 4 By perceiving what it 
does, you recognize its being. 5 And by what it does, you learn what it is. 6 
You cannot see your strengths, but you gain confidence in their existence as 
they enable you to act. 7 And the results of your actions you <can> see.

T-12.VII.3. The Holy Spirit is invisible, but you can see the results of His 
Presence, and through them you will learn that He is there. 2 What He enables 
you to do is clearly not of this world, for miracles violate every law of 
reality as this world judges it. 3 Every law of time and space, of magnitude and 
mass is transcended, for what the Holy Spirit enables you to do is clearly 
beyond all of them. 4 Perceiving His results, you will understand where He must 
be, and finally know what He is.

T-12.VII.4. You cannot see the Holy Spirit, but you can see His manifestations. 
2 And unless you do, you will not realize He is there. 3 Miracles are His 
witnesses, and speak for His Presence. 4 What you cannot see becomes real to you 
only through the witnesses that speak for it. 5 For you can be aware of what you 
cannot see, and it can become compellingly real to you as its presence becomes 
manifest through you. 6 Do the Holy Spirit's work, for you share in His 
function. 7 As your function in Heaven is creation, so your function on earth is 
healing. 8 God shares His function with you in Heaven, and the Holy Spirit 
shares His with you on earth. 9 As long as you believe you have other functions, 
so long will you need correction. 10 For this belief is the destruction of 
peace, a goal in direct opposition to the Holy Spirit's purpose.

T-12.VII.5. You see what you expect, and you expect what you invite. 2 Your 
perception is the result of your invitation, coming to you as you sent for it. 3 
Whose manifestations would you see? 4 Of whose presence would you be convinced? 
5 For you will believe in what you manifest, and as you look out so will you see 
in. 6 Two ways of looking at the world are in your mind, and your perception 
will reflect the guidance you have chosen.

T-12.VII.6. I am the manifestation of the Holy Spirit, and when you see me it 
will be because you have invited Him. 2 For He will send you His witnesses if 
you will but look upon them. 3 Remember always that you see what you seek, for 
what you seek you will find. 4 The ego finds what it seeks, and only that. p230 
5 It does not find love, for that is not what it is seeking. 6 Yet seeking and 
finding are the same, and if you seek for two goals you will find them, but you 
will recognize neither. 7 You will think they are the same because you want both 
of them. 8 The mind always strives for integration, and if it is split and wants 
to keep the split, it will still believe it has one goal by making it seem to be 
one.

T-12.VII.7. I said before that what you project or extend is up to you, but you 
must do one or the other, for that is a law of mind, and you must look in before 
you look out. 2 As you look in, you choose the guide for seeing. 3 And then you 
look out and behold his witnesses. 4 This is why you find what you seek. 5 What 
you want in yourself you will make manifest, and you will accept it from the 
world because you put it there by wanting it. 6 When you think you are 
projecting what you do not want, it is still because you <do> want it. 7 This 
leads directly to dissociation, for it represents the acceptance of two goals, 
each perceived in a different place; separated from each other because you made 
them different. 8 The mind then sees a divided world outside itself, but not 
within. 9 This gives it an illusion of integrity, and enables it to believe that 
it is pursuing one goal. 10 Yet as long as you perceive the world as split, you 
are not healed. 11 For to be healed is to pursue one goal, because you have 
accepted only one and want but one.

T-12.VII.8. When you want only love you will see nothing else. 2 The 
contradictory nature of the witnesses you perceive is merely the reflection of 
your conflicting invitations. 3 You have looked upon your mind and accepted 
opposition there, having sought it there. 4 But do not then believe that the 
witnesses for opposition are true, for they attest only to your decision about 
reality, returning to you the messages you gave them. 5 Love, too, is recognized 
by its messengers. 6 If you make love manifest, its messengers will come to you 
because you invited them.

T-12.VII.9. The power of decision is your one remaining freedom as a prisoner of 
this world. 2 You can decide to see it right. 3 What you made of it is not its 
reality, for its reality is only what you give it. 4 You cannot really give 
anything but love to anyone or anything, nor can you really receive anything but 
love from them. 5 If you think you have received anything else, it is because 
you have looked within and thought you saw the power to give something else 
within yourself. 6 It was only this decision that determined what you found, for 
it was the decision for what you sought. p231

T-12.VII.10. You are afraid of me because you looked within and are afraid of 
what you saw. 2 Yet you could not have seen reality, for the reality of your 
mind is the loveliest of God's creations. 3 Coming only from God, its power and 
grandeur could only bring you peace <if you really looked upon it.> 4 If you are 
afraid, it is because you saw something that is not there. 5 Yet in that same 
place you could have looked upon me and all your brothers, in the perfect safety 
of the Mind which created us. 6 For we are there in the peace of the Father, Who 
wills to extend His peace through you.

T-12.VII.11. When you have accepted your mission to extend peace you will find 
peace, for by making it manifest you will see it. 2 Its holy witnesses will 
surround you because you called upon them, and they will come to you. 3 I have 
heard your call and I have answered it, but you will not look upon me nor hear 
the answer that you sought. 4 That is because you do not yet want T:"Times New 
Roman",SR><only> that. 5 Yet as I become more real to you, you will learn that 
you do want only that. 6 And you will see me as you look within, and we will 
look upon the real world together. 7 Through the eyes of Christ, only the real 
world exists and only the real world can be seen. 8 As you decide so will you 
see. 9 And all that you see but witnesses to your decision.

T-12.VII.12. When you look within and see me, it will be because you have 
decided to manifest truth. 2 And as you manifest it you will see it both without 
and within. 3 You will see it without <because> you saw it first within. 4 
Everything you behold without is a judgment of what you beheld within. 5 If it 
is your judgment it will be wrong, for judgment is not your function. 6 If it is 
the judgment of the Holy Spirit it will be right, for judgment <is> His 
function. 7 You share His function only by judging as He does, reserving no 
judgment at all for yourself. 8 You will judge against yourself, but He will 
judge <for> you.

T-12.VII.13. Remember, then, that whenever you look without and react 
unfavorably to what you see, you have judged yourself unworthy and have 
condemned yourself to death. 2 The death penalty is the ego's ultimate goal, for 
it fully believes that you are a criminal, as deserving of death as God knows 
you are deserving of life. 3 The death penalty never leaves the ego's mind, for 
that is what it always reserves for you in the end. 4 Wanting to kill you as the 
final expression of its feeling for you, it lets you live but to await death. 5 
It will torment you while you live, but its hatred is not satisfied until you 
die. p232 6 For your destruction is the one end toward which it works, and the 
only end with which it will be satisfied.

T-12.VII.14. The ego is not a traitor to God, to Whom treachery is impossible. 2 
But it is a traitor to you who believe that you have been treacherous to your 
Father. 3 That is why the undoing of guilt is an essential part of the Holy 
Spirit's teaching. 4 For as long as you feel guilty you are listening to the 
voice of the ego, which tells you that you have been treacherous to God and 
therefore deserve death. 5 You will think that death comes from God and not from 
the ego because, by confusing yourself with the ego, you believe that you want 
death. 6 And from what you want God does not save you.

T-12.VII.15. When you are tempted to yield to the desire for death, <remember 
that I did not die.> 2 You will realize that this is true when you look within 
and <see> me. 3 Would I have overcome death for myself alone? 4 And would 
eternal life have been given me of the Father unless He had also given it to 
you? 5 When you learn to make me manifest, you will never see death. 6 For you 
will have looked upon the deathless in yourself, and you will see only the 
eternal as you look out upon a world that cannot die.




VIII. The Attraction of Love for Love

T-12.VIII.1. Do you really believe that you can kill the Son of God? 2 The 
Father has hidden His Son safely within Himself, and kept him far away from your 
destructive thoughts, but you know neither the Father nor the Son because of 
them. 3 You attack the real world every day and every hour and every minute, and 
yet you are surprised that you cannot see it. 4 If you seek love in order to 
attack it, you will never find it. 5 For if love is sharing, how can you find it 
except through itself? 6 Offer it and it will come to you, because it is drawn 
to itself. 7 But offer attack and love will remain hidden, for it can live only 
in peace.

T-12.VIII.2. God's Son is as safe as his Father, for the Son knows his Father's 
protection and cannot fear. 2 His Father's Love holds him in perfect peace, and 
needing nothing, he asks for nothing. 3 Yet he is far from you whose Self he is, 
for you chose to attack him and he disappeared from your sight into his Father. 
4 He did not change, but you did. 5 For a split mind and all its works were not 
created by the Father, and could not live in the knowledge of Him.

T-12.VIII.3. When you made visible what is not true, what <is> true became 
invisible to you. 2 Yet it cannot be invisible in itself, for the Holy Spirit 
sees it with perfect clarity. 3 It is invisible to you because you are looking 
at something else. 4 Yet it is no more up to you to decide what is visible and 
what is invisible, than it is up to you to decide what reality is. 5 What can be 
seen is what the Holy Spirit sees. p233 6 The definition of reality is God's, 
not yours. 7 He created it, and He knows what it is. 8 You who knew have 
forgotten, and unless He had given you a way to remember you would have 
condemned yourself to oblivion.

T-12.VIII.4. Because of your Father's Love you can never forget Him, for no one 
can forget what God Himself placed in his memory. 2 You can deny it, but you 
cannot lose it. 3 A Voice will answer every question you ask, and a vision will 
correct the perception of everything you see. 4 For what you have made invisible 
is the only truth, and what you have not heard is the only Answer. 5 God would 
reunite you with yourself, and did not abandon you in your distress. 6 You are 
waiting only for Him, and do not know it. 7 Yet His memory shines in your mind 
and cannot be obliterated. 8 It is no more past than future, being forever 
always.

T-12.VIII.5. You have but to ask for this memory, and you will remember. 2 Yet 
the memory of God cannot shine in a mind that has obliterated it and wants to 
keep it so. 3 For the memory of God can dawn only in a mind that chooses to 
remember, and that has relinquished the insane desire to control reality. 4 You 
who cannot even control yourself should hardly aspire to control the universe. 5 
But look upon what you have made of it, and rejoice that it is not so.

T-12.VIII.6. Son of God, be not content with nothing! 2 What is not real cannot 
be seen and has no value. 3 God could not offer His Son what has no value, nor 
could His Son receive it. 4 You were redeemed the instant you thought you had 
deserted Him. 5 Everything you made has never been, and is invisible because the 
Holy Spirit does not see it. 6 Yet what He does see is yours to behold, and 
through His vision your perception is healed. 7 You have made invisible the only 
truth that this world holds. 8 Valuing nothing, you have sought nothing. 9 By 
making nothing real to you, you have seen it. 10 <But it is not there.> 11 And 
Christ is invisible to you because of what you have made visible to yourself.

T-12.VIII.7. Yet it does not matter how much distance you have tried to 
interpose between your awareness and truth. p234 2 God's Son can be seen because 
his vision is shared. 3 The Holy Spirit looks upon him, and sees nothing else in 
you. 4 What is invisible to you is perfect in His sight, and encompasses all of 
it. 5 He has remembered you because He forgot not the Father. 6 You looked upon 
the unreal and found despair. 7 Yet by seeking the unreal, what else could you 
find? 8 The unreal world <is> a thing of despair, for it can never be. 9 And you 
who share God's Being with Him could never be content without reality. 10 What 
God did not give you has no power over you, and the attraction of love for love 
remains irresistible. 11 For it is the function of love to unite all things unto 
itself, and to hold all things together by extending its wholeness.

T-12.VIII.8. The real world was given you by God in loving exchange for the 
world you made and the world you see. 2 Only take it from the hand of Christ and 
look upon it. 3 Its reality will make everything else invisible, for beholding 
it is total perception. 4 And as you look upon it you will remember that it was 
always so. 5 Nothingness will become invisible, for you will at last have seen 
truly. 6 Redeemed perception is easily translated into knowledge, for only 
perception is capable of error and perception has never been. 7 Being corrected 
it gives place to knowledge, which is forever the only reality. 8 The Atonement 
is but the way back to what was never lost. 9 Your Father could not cease to 
love His Son. p235