1. The answer to this question is—one. ²One wholly perfect teacher, whose learning is complete, suffices. ³This one, sanctified and redeemed, becomes the Self Who is the Son of God. ⁴He who was always wholly spirit now no longer sees himself as a body, or even as in a body. ⁵Therefore he is limitless. ⁶And being limitless, his thoughts are joined with God’s forever and ever. ⁷His perception of himself is based upon God’s Judgment, not his own. ⁸Thus does he share God’s Will, and bring His Thoughts to still deluded minds. ⁹He is forever one, because he is as God created him. ¹⁰He has accepted Christ, and he is saved.

2. Thus does the son of man become the Son of God. ²It is not really a change; it is a change of mind. ³Nothing external alters, but everything internal now reflects only the Love of God. ⁴God can no longer be feared, for the mind sees no cause for punishment. ⁵God’s teachers appear to be many, for that is what is the world’s need. ⁶Yet being joined in one purpose, and one they share with God, how could they be separate from each other? ⁷What does it matter if they then appear in many forms? ⁸Their minds are one; their joining is complete. ⁹And God works through them now as one, for that is what they are.

3. Why is the illusion of many necessary? ²Only because reality is not understandable to the deluded. ³Only very few can hear God’s Voice at all, and even they cannot communicate His messages directly through the Spirit which gave them. ⁴They need a medium through which communication becomes possible to those who do not realize that they are spirit. ⁵A body they can see. ⁶A voice they understand and listen to, without the fear that truth would encounter in them. ⁷Do not forget that truth can come only where it is welcomed without fear. ⁸So do God’s teachers need a body, for their unity could not be recognized directly.

4. Yet what makes God’s teachers is their recognition of the proper purpose of the body. ²As they advance in their profession, they become more and more certain that the body’s function is but to let God’s Voice speak through it to human ears. ³And these ears will carry to the mind of the hearer messages that are not of this world, and the mind will understand because of their Source. ⁴From this understanding will come the recognition, in this new teacher of God, of what the body’s purpose really is; the only use there really is for it. ⁵This lesson is enough to let the thought of unity come in, and what is one is recognized as one. ⁶The teachers of God appear to share the illusion of separation, but because of what they use the body for, they do not believe in the illusion despite appearances.

5. The central lesson is always this; that what you use the body for it will become to you. ²Use it for sin or for attack, which is the same as sin, and you will see it as sinful. ³Because it is sinful it is weak, and being weak, it suffers and it dies. ⁴Use it to bring the Word of God to those who have it not, and the body becomes holy. ⁵Because it is holy it cannot be sick, nor can it die. ⁶When its usefulness is done it is laid by, and that is all. ⁷The mind makes this decision, as it makes all decisions that are responsible for the body’s condition. ⁸Yet the teacher of God does not make this decision alone. ⁹To do that would be to give the body another purpose from the one that keeps it holy. ¹⁰God’s Voice will tell him when he has fulfilled his role, just as It tells him what his function is. ¹¹He does not suffer either in going or remaining. ¹²Sickness is now impossible to him.

6. Oneness and sickness cannot coexist. ²God’s teachers choose to look on dreams a while. ³It is a conscious choice. ⁴For they have learned that all choices are made consciously, with full awareness of their consequences. ⁵The dream says otherwise, but who would put his faith in dreams once they are recognized for what they are? ⁶Awareness of dreaming is the real function of God’s teachers. ⁷They watch the dream figures come and go, shift and change, suffer and die. ⁸Yet they are not deceived by what they see. ⁹They recognize that to behold a dream figure as sick and separate is no more real than to regard it as healthy and beautiful. ¹⁰Unity alone is not a thing of dreams. ¹¹And it is this God’s teachers acknowledge as behind the dream, beyond all seeming and yet surely theirs.