1. Take pity on yourself, so long enslaved. ²Rejoice whom God hath joined have come together and need no longer look on sin apart. ³No two can look on sin together, for they could never see it in the same place and time. ⁴Sin is a strictly individual perception, seen in the other yet believed by each to be within himself. ⁵And each one seems to make a different error, and one the other cannot understand. ⁶Brother, it is the same, made by the same, and forgiven for its maker in the same way. ⁷The holiness of your relationship forgives you and your brother, undoing the effects of what you both believed and saw. ⁸And with their going is the need for sin gone with them.

2. Who has need for sin? ²Only the lonely and alone, who see their brothers different from themselves. ³It is this difference, seen but not real, that makes the need for sin, not real but seen, seem justified. ⁴And all this would be real if sin were so. ⁵For an unholy relationship is based on differences, where each one thinks the other has what he has not. ⁶They come together, each to complete himself and rob the other. ⁷They stay until they think that there is nothing left to steal, and then move on. ⁸And so they wander through a world of strangers, unlike themselves, living with their bodies perhaps under a common roof that shelters neither; in the same room and yet a world apart.

3. A holy relationship starts from a different premise. ²Each one has looked within and seen no lack. ³Accepting his completion, he would extend it by joining with another, whole as himself. ⁴He sees no difference between these selves, for differences are only of the body. ⁵Therefore, he looks on nothing he would take. ⁶He denies not his own reality because it is the truth. ⁷Just under Heaven does he stand, but close enough not to return to earth. ⁸For this relationship has Heaven’s Holiness. ⁹How far from home can a relationship so like to Heaven be?

4. Think what a holy relationship can teach! ²Here is belief in differences undone. ³Here is the faith in differences shifted to sameness. ⁴And here is sight of differences transformed to vision. ⁵Reason now can lead you and your brother to the logical conclusion of your union. ⁶It must extend, as you extended when you and he joined. ⁷It must reach out beyond itself, as you reached out beyond the body, to let you and your brother be joined. ⁸And now the sameness that you saw extends and finally removes all sense of differences, so that the sameness that lies beneath them all becomes apparent. ⁹Here is the golden circle where you recognize the Son of God. ¹⁰For what is born into a holy relationship can never end.