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

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

3. You make by projection, but God creates by extension. ²The cornerstone of God’s creation is you, for His thought system is light. ³Remember the Rays that are there unseen. ⁴The more you approach the center of His thought system, the clearer the light becomes. ⁵The closer you come to the foundation of the ego’s thought system, the darker and more obscure becomes the way. ⁶Yet even the little spark in your mind is enough to lighten it. ⁷Bring this light fearlessly with you, and bravely hold it up to the foundation of the ego’s thought system. ⁸Be willing to judge it with perfect honesty. ⁹Open the dark cornerstone of terror on which it rests, and bring it out into the light. ¹⁰There you will see that it rested on meaninglessness, and that everything of which you have been afraid was based on nothing.

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