1. The Holy Spirit will always guide you truly, because your joy is His. ²This is His Will for everyone because He speaks for the Kingdom of God, which is joy. ³Following Him is therefore the easiest thing in the world, and the only thing that is easy, because it is not of the world. ⁴It is therefore natural. ⁵The world goes against your nature, being out of accord with God’s laws. ⁶The world perceives orders of difficulty in everything. ⁷This is because the ego perceives nothing as wholly desirable. ⁸By demonstrating to yourself there is no order of difficulty in miracles, you will convince yourself that, in your natural state, there is no difficulty at all because it is a state of grace.

2. Grace is the natural state of every Son of God. ²When he is not in a state of grace, he is out of his natural environment and does not function well. ³Everything he does becomes a strain, because he was not created for the environment that he has made. ⁴He therefore cannot adapt to it, nor can he adapt it to him. ⁵There is no point in trying. ⁶A Son of God is happy only when he knows he is with God. ⁷That is the only environment in which he will not experience strain, because that is where he belongs. ⁸It is also the only environment that is worthy of him, because his own worth is beyond anything he can make.

3. Consider the kingdom you have made and judge its worth fairly. ²Is it worthy to be a home for a child of God? ³Does it protect his peace and shine love upon him? ⁴Does it keep his heart untouched by fear, and allow him to give always, without any sense of loss? ⁵Does it teach him that this giving is his joy, and that God Himself thanks him for his giving? ⁶That is the only environment in which you can be happy. ⁷You cannot make it, any more than you can make yourself. ⁸It has been created for you, as you were created for it. ⁹God watches over His children and denies them nothing. ¹⁰Yet when they deny Him they do not know this, because they deny themselves everything. ¹¹You who could give the Love of God to everything you see and touch and remember, are literally denying Heaven to yourself.

4. I call upon you to remember that I have chosen you to teach the Kingdom to the Kingdom. ²There are no exceptions to this lesson, because the lack of exceptions is the lesson. ³Every Son who returns to the Kingdom with this lesson in his heart has healed the Sonship and given thanks to God. ⁴Everyone who learns this lesson has become the perfect teacher, because he has learned it of the Holy Spirit.

5. When a mind has only light, it knows only light. ²Its own radiance shines all around it, and extends out into the darkness of other minds, transforming them into majesty. ³The Majesty of God is there, for you to recognize and appreciate and know. ⁴Recognizing the Majesty of God as your brother is to accept your own inheritance. ⁵God gives only equally. ⁶If you recognize His gift in anyone, you have acknowledged what He has given you. ⁷Nothing is so easy to recognize as truth. ⁸This is the recognition that is immediate, clear and natural. ⁹You have trained yourself not to recognize it, and this has been very difficult for you.

6. Out of your natural environment you may well ask, “What is truth?” since truth is the environment by which and for which you were created. ²You do not know yourself, because you do not know your Creator. ³You do not know your creations because you do not know your brothers, who created them with you. ⁴I have already said that only the whole Sonship is worthy to be co-creator with God, because only the whole Sonship can create like Him. ⁵Whenever you heal a brother by recognizing his worth, you are acknowledging his power to create and yours. ⁶He cannot have lost what you recognize, and you must have the glory you see in him. ⁷He is a co-creator with God with you. ⁸Deny his creative power, and you are denying yours and that of God Who created you.

7. You cannot deny part of truth. ²You do not know your creations because you do not know their creator. ³You do not know yourself because you do not know yours. ⁴Your creations cannot establish your reality, any more than you can establish God’s. ⁵But you can know both. ⁶Being is known by sharing. ⁷Because God shared His Being with you, you can know Him. ⁸But you must also know all He created, to know what they have shared. ⁹Without your Father you will not know your fatherhood. ¹⁰The Kingdom of God includes all His Sons and their children, who are as like the Sons as they are like the Father. ¹¹Know, then, the Sons of God, and you will know all creation.