1. It is impossible not to believe what you see, but it is equally impossible to see what you do not believe. ²Perceptions are built up on the basis of experience, and experience leads to beliefs. ³It is not until beliefs are fixed that perceptions stabilize. ⁴In effect, then, what you believe you do see. ⁵That 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. ⁶The resurrection is the complete triumph of Christ over the ego, not by attack but by transcendence. ⁷For Christ does rise above the ego and all its works, and ascends to the Father and His Kingdom.

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

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

4. I am your resurrection and your life. ²You live in me because you live in God. ³And everyone lives in you, as you live in everyone. ⁴Can you, then, perceive unworthiness in a brother and not perceive it in yourself? ⁵And can you perceive it in yourself and not perceive it in God? ⁶Believe in the resurrection because it has been accomplished, and it has been accomplished in you. ⁷This is as true now as it will ever be, for the resurrection is the Will of God, which knows no time and no exceptions. ⁸But make no exceptions yourself, or you will not perceive what has been accomplished for you. ⁹For 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.

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

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

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. ²The Love of God surrounds His Son whom the god of crucifixion condemns. ³Teach not that I died in vain. ⁴Teach rather that I did not die by demonstrating that I live in you. ⁵For the undoing of the crucifixion of God’s Son is the work of the redemption, in which everyone has a part of equal value. ⁶God does not judge His guiltless Son. ⁷Having given Himself to him, how could it be otherwise?

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

9. You will awaken to your own call, for the Call to awake is within you. ²If I live in you, you are awake. ³Yet you must see the works I do through you, or you will not perceive that I have done them unto you. ⁴Do not set limits on what you believe I can do through you, or you will not accept what I can do for you. ⁵Yet 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. ⁶Redemption is recognized only by sharing it.

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