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

2. Could you try to make God homeless and know that you are at home? ²Can the Son deny the Father without believing that the Father has denied him? ³God’s laws hold only for your protection, and they never hold in vain. ⁴What 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. ⁵Therefore, 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.

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

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 ⁵The beginning phases of this reversal are often quite painful, for as blame is withdrawn from without, there is a strong tendency to harbor it within.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

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

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

7. At God’s altar Christ waits for the restoration of Himself in you. ²God knows His Son as wholly blameless as Himself, and He is approached through the appreciation of His Son. ³Christ waits for your acceptance of Him as yourself, and of His Wholeness as yours. ⁴For Christ is the Son of God, Who lives in His Creator and shines with His glory. ⁵Christ is the extension of the Love and the loveliness of God, as perfect as His Creator and at peace with Him.

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. ²There is no condemnation in the Son, for there is no condemnation in the Father. ³Sharing 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. ⁴Peace be unto you who rest in God, and in whom the whole Sonship rests.