1. Healing and Atonement are not related; they are identical. ²There is no order of difficulty in miracles because there are no degrees of Atonement. ³It is the one complete concept possible in this world, because it is the source of a wholly unified perception. ⁴Partial Atonement is a meaningless idea, just as special areas of hell in Heaven are inconceivable. ⁵Accept Atonement and you are healed. ⁶Atonement is the Word of God. ⁷Accept His Word and what remains to make sickness possible? ⁸Accept His Word and every miracle has been accomplished. ⁹To forgive is to heal. ¹⁰The teacher of God has taken accepting the Atonement for himself as his only function. ¹¹What is there, then, he cannot heal? ¹²What miracle can be withheld from him?

2. The progress of the teacher of God may be slow or rapid, depending on whether he recognizes the Atonement’s inclusiveness, or for a time excludes some problem areas from it. ²In some cases, there is a sudden and complete awareness of the perfect applicability of the lesson of the Atonement to all situations, but this is comparatively rare. ³The teacher of God may have accepted the function God has given him long before he has learned all that his acceptance holds out to him. ⁴It is only the end that is certain. ⁵Anywhere along the way, the necessary realization of inclusiveness may reach him. ⁶If the way seems long, let him be content. ⁷He has decided on the direction he wants to take. ⁸What more was asked of him? ⁹And having done what was required, would God withhold the rest?

3. That forgiveness is healing needs to be understood, if the teacher of God is to make progress. ²The idea that a body can be sick is a central concept in the ego’s thought system. ³This thought gives the body autonomy, separates it from the mind, and keeps the idea of attack inviolate. ⁴If the body could be sick Atonement would be impossible. ⁵A body that can order a mind to do as it sees fit could merely take the place of God and prove salvation is impossible. ⁶What, then, is left to heal? ⁷The body has become lord of the mind. ⁸How could the mind be returned to the Holy Spirit unless the body is killed? ⁹And who would want salvation at such a price?

4. Certainly sickness does not appear to be a decision. ²Nor would anyone actually believe he wants to be sick. ³Perhaps he can accept the idea in theory, but it is rarely if ever consistently applied to all specific forms of sickness, both in the individual’s perception of himself and of all others as well. ⁴Nor is it at this level that the teacher of God calls forth the miracle of healing. ⁵He overlooks the mind and body, seeing only the face of Christ shining in front of him, correcting all mistakes and healing all perception. ⁶Healing is the result of the recognition, by God’s teacher, of who it is that is in need of healing. ⁷This recognition has no special reference. ⁸It is true of all things that God created. ⁹In it are all illusions healed.

5. When a teacher of God fails to heal, it is because he has forgotten Who he is. ²Another’s sickness thus becomes his own. ³In allowing this to happen, he has identified with another’s ego, and has thus confused him with a body. ⁴In so doing, he has refused to accept the Atonement for himself, and can hardly offer it to his brother in Christ’s Name. ⁵He will, in fact, be unable to recognize his brother at all, for his Father did not create bodies, and so he is seeing in his brother only the unreal. ⁶Mistakes do not correct mistakes, and distorted perception does not heal. ⁷Step back now, teacher of God. ⁸You have been wrong. ⁹Lead not the way, for you have lost it. ¹⁰Turn quickly to your Teacher, and let yourself be healed.

6. The offer of Atonement is universal. ²It is equally applicable to all individuals in all circumstances. ³And in it is the power to heal all individuals of all forms of sickness. ⁴Not to believe this is to be unfair to God, and thus unfaithful to Him. ⁵A sick person perceives himself as separate from God. ⁶Would you see him as separate from you? ⁷It is your task to heal the sense of separation that has made him sick. ⁸It is your function to recognize for him that what he believes about himself is not the truth. ⁹It is your forgiveness that must show him this. ¹⁰Healing is very simple. ¹¹Atonement is received and offered. ¹²Having been received, it must be accepted. ¹³It is in the receiving, then, that healing lies. ¹⁴All else must follow from this single purpose.

7. Who can limit the power of God Himself? ²Who, then, can say which one can be healed of what, and what must remain beyond God’s power to forgive? ³This is insanity indeed. ⁴It is not up to God’s teachers to set limits upon Him, because it is not up to them to judge His Son. ⁵And to judge His Son is to limit his Father. ⁶Both are equally meaningless. ⁷Yet this will not be understood until God’s teacher recognizes that they are the same mistake. ⁸Herein does he receive Atonement, for he withdraws his judgment from the Son of God, accepting him as God created him. ⁹No longer does he stand apart from God, determining where healing should be given and where it should be withheld. ¹⁰Now can he say with God, “This is my beloved Son, created perfect and forever so.”