1. You see the flesh or recognize the spirit. ²There is no compromise between the two. ³If one is real the other must be false, for what is real denies its opposite. ⁴There is no choice in vision but this one. ⁵What you decide in this determines all you see and think is real and hold as true. ⁶On this one choice does all your world depend, for here have you established what you are, as flesh or spirit in your own belief. ⁷If you choose flesh, you never will escape the body as your own reality, for you have chosen that you want it so. ⁸But choose the spirit, and all Heaven bends to touch your eyes and bless your holy sight, that you may see the world of flesh no more except to heal and comfort and to bless.

2. Salvation is undoing. ²If you choose to see the body, you behold a world of separation, unrelated things, and happenings that make no sense at all. ³This one appears and disappears in death; that one is doomed to suffering and loss. ⁴And no one is exactly as he was an instant previous, nor will he be the same as he is now an instant hence. ⁵Who could have trust where so much change is seen, for who is worthy if he be but dust? ⁶Salvation is undoing of all this. ⁷For constancy arises in the sight of those whose eyes salvation has released from looking at the cost of keeping guilt, because they chose to let it go instead.

3. Salvation does not ask that you behold the spirit and perceive the body not. ²It merely asks that this should be your choice. ³For you can see the body without help, but do not understand how to behold a world apart from it. ⁴It is your world salvation will undo, and let you see another world your eyes could never find. ⁵Be not concerned how this could ever be. ⁶You do not understand how what you see arose to meet your sight. ⁷For if you did, it would be gone. ⁸The veil of ignorance is drawn across the evil and the good, and must be passed that both may disappear, so that perception finds no hiding place. ⁹How is this done? ¹⁰It is not done at all. ¹¹What could there be within the universe that God created that must still be done?

4. Only in arrogance could you conceive that you must make the way to Heaven plain. ²The means are given you by which to see the world that will replace the one you made. ³Your will be done! ⁴In Heaven as on earth this is forever true. ⁵It matters not where you believe you are, nor what you think the truth about yourself must really be. ⁶It makes no difference what you look upon, nor what you choose to feel or think or wish. ⁷For God Himself has said, “Your will be done.” ⁸And it is done to you accordingly.

5. You who believe that you can choose to see the Son of God as you would have him be, forget not that no concept of yourself will stand against the truth of what you are. ²Undoing truth would be impossible. ³But concepts are not difficult to change. ⁴One vision, clearly seen, that does not fit the picture as it was perceived before will change the world for eyes that learn to see, because the concept of the self has changed.

6. Are you invulnerable? ²Then the world is harmless in your sight. ³Do you forgive? ⁴Then is the world forgiving, for you have forgiven it its trespasses, and so it looks on you with eyes that see as yours. ⁵Are you a body? ⁶So is all the world perceived as treacherous, and out to kill. ⁷Are you a spirit, deathless, and without the promise of corruption and the stain of sin upon you? ⁸So the world is seen as stable, fully worthy of your trust; a happy place to rest in for a while, where nothing need be feared, but only loved. ⁹Who is unwelcome to the kind in heart? ¹⁰And what could hurt the truly innocent?

7. Your will be done, you holy child of God. ²It does not matter if you think you are in earth or Heaven. ³What your Father wills of you can never change. ⁴The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself. ⁵And you are worthy that your will be done!