1. Do you not see the opposite of frailty and weakness is sinlessness? ²Innocence is strength, and nothing else is strong. ³The sinless cannot fear, for sin of any kind is weakness. ⁴The show of strength attack would use to cover frailty conceals it not, for how can the unreal be hidden? ⁵No one is strong who has an enemy, and no one can attack unless he thinks he has. ⁶Belief in enemies is therefore the belief in weakness, and what is weak is not the Will of God. ⁷Being opposed to it, it is God’s “enemy.” ⁸And God is feared as an opposing will.

2. How strange indeed becomes this war against yourself! ²You will believe that everything you use for sin can hurt you and become your enemy. ³And you will fight against it, and try to weaken it because of this; and you will think that you succeeded, and attack again. ⁴It is as certain you will fear what you attack as it is sure that you will love what you perceive as sinless. ⁵He walks in peace who travels sinlessly along the way love shows him. ⁶For love walks with him there, protecting him from fear. ⁷And he will see only the sinless, who can not attack.

3. Walk you in glory, with your head held high, and fear no evil. ²The innocent are safe because they share their innocence. ³Nothing they see is harmful, for their awareness of the truth releases everything from the illusion of harmfulness. ⁴And what seemed harmful now stands shining in their innocence, released from sin and fear and happily returned to love. ⁵They share the strength of love because they looked on innocence. ⁶And every error disappeared because they saw it not. ⁷Who looks for glory finds it where it is. ⁸Where could it be but in the innocent?

4. Let not the little interferers pull you to littleness. ²There can be no attraction of guilt in innocence. ³Think what a happy world you walk, with truth beside you! ⁴Do not give up this world of freedom for a little sigh of seeming sin, nor for a tiny stirring of guilt’s attraction. ⁵Would you, for all these meaningless distractions, lay Heaven aside? ⁶Your destiny and purpose are far beyond them, in the clean place where littleness does not exist. ⁷Your purpose is at variance with littleness of any kind. ⁸And so it is at variance with sin.

5. Let us not let littleness lead God’s Son into temptation. ²His glory is beyond it, measureless and timeless as eternity. ³Do not let time intrude upon your sight of him. ⁴Leave him not frightened and alone in his temptation, but help him rise above it and perceive the light of which he is a part. ⁵Your innocence will light the way to his, and so is yours protected and kept in your awareness. ⁶For who can know his glory, and perceive the little and the weak about him? ⁷Who can walk trembling in a fearful world, and realize that Heaven’s glory shines on him?

6. Nothing around you but is part of you. ²Look on it lovingly, and see the light of Heaven in it. ³So will you come to understand all that is given you. ⁴In kind forgiveness will the world sparkle and shine, and everything you once thought sinful now will be reinterpreted as part of Heaven. ⁵How beautiful it is to walk, clean and redeemed and happy, through a world in bitter need of the redemption that your innocence bestows upon it! ⁶What can you value more than this? ⁷For here is your salvation and your freedom. ⁸And it must be complete if you would recognize it.