1. Would God have left the meaning of the world to your interpretation? ²If He had, it has no meaning. ³For it cannot be that meaning changes constantly, and yet is true. ⁴The Holy Spirit looks upon the world as with one purpose, changelessly established. ⁵And no situation can affect its aim, but must be in accord with it. ⁶For only if its aim could change with every situation could each one be open to interpretation which is different every time you think of it. ⁷You add an element into the script you write for every minute in the day, and all that happens now means something else. ⁸You take away another element, and every meaning shifts accordingly.

2. What do your scripts reflect except your plans for what the day should be? ²And thus you judge disaster and success, advance, retreat, and gain and loss. ³These judgments all are made according to the roles the script assigns. ⁴The fact they have no meaning in themselves is demonstrated by the ease with which these labels change with other judgments, made on different aspects of experience. ⁵And then, in looking back, you think you see another meaning in what went before. ⁶What have you really done, except to show there was no meaning there? ⁷But you assigned a meaning in the light of goals that change, with every meaning shifting as they change.

3. Only a constant purpose can endow events with stable meaning. ²But it must accord one meaning to them all. ³If they are given different meanings, it must be that they reflect but different purposes. ⁴And this is all the meaning that they have. ⁵Can this be meaning? ⁶Can confusion be what meaning means? ⁷Perception cannot be in constant flux, and make allowance for stability of meaning anywhere. ⁸Fear is a judgment never justified. ⁹Its presence has no meaning but to show you wrote a fearful script, and are afraid accordingly. ¹⁰But not because the thing you fear has fearful meaning in itself.

4. A common purpose is the only means whereby perception can be stabilized, and one interpretation given to the world and all experiences here. ²In this shared purpose is one judgment shared by everyone and everything you see. ³You do not have to judge, for you have learned one meaning has been given everything, and you are glad to see it everywhere. ⁴It cannot change because you would perceive it everywhere, unchanged by circumstance. ⁵And so you offer it to all events, and let them offer you stability.

5. Escape from judgment simply lies in this; all things have but one purpose, which you share with all the world. ²And nothing in the world can be opposed to it, for it belongs to everything, as it belongs to you. ³In single purpose is the end of all ideas of sacrifice, which must assume a different purpose for the one who gains and him who loses. ⁴There could be no thought of sacrifice apart from this idea. ⁵And it is this idea of different goals that makes perception shift and meaning change. ⁶In one united goal does this become impossible, for your agreement makes interpretation stabilize and last.

6. How can communication really be established while the symbols that are used mean different things? ²The Holy Spirit’s goal gives one interpretation, meaningful to you and to your brother. ³Thus can you communicate with him, and he with you. ⁴In symbols that you both can understand the sacrifice of meaning is undone. ⁵All sacrifice entails the loss of your ability to see relationships among events. ⁶And looked at separately they have no meaning. ⁷For there is no light by which they can be seen and understood. ⁸They have no purpose. ⁹And what they are for cannot be seen. ¹⁰In any thought of loss there is no meaning. ¹¹No one has agreed with you on what it means. ¹²It is a part of a distorted script, which cannot be interpreted with meaning. ¹³It must be forever unintelligible. ¹⁴This is not communication. ¹⁵Your dark dreams are but the senseless, isolated scripts you write in sleep. ¹⁶Look not to separate dreams for meaning. ¹⁷Only dreams of pardon can be shared. ¹⁸They mean the same to both of you.

7. Do not interpret out of solitude, for what you see means nothing. ²It will shift in what it stands for, and you will believe the world is an uncertain place, in which you walk in danger and uncertainty. ³It is but your interpretations which are lacking in stability, for they are not in line with what you really are. ⁴This is a state so seemingly unsafe that fear must rise. ⁵Do not continue thus, my brother. ⁶We have one Interpreter. ⁷And through His use of symbols are we joined, so that they mean the same to all of us. ⁸Our common language lets us speak to all our brothers, and to understand with them forgiveness has been given to us all, and thus we can communicate again.