1. Justice is the divine correction for injustice. ²Injustice is the basis for all the judgments of the world. ³Justice corrects the interpretations to which injustice gives rise, and cancels them out. ⁴Neither justice nor injustice exists in Heaven, for error is impossible and correction meaningless. ⁵In this world, however, forgiveness depends on justice, since all attack can only be unjust. ⁶Justice is the Holy Spirit’s verdict upon the world. ⁷Except in His judgment justice is impossible, for no one in the world is capable of making only just interpretations and laying all injustices aside. ⁸If God’s Son were fairly judged, there would be no need for salvation. ⁹The thought of separation would have been forever inconceivable.

2. Justice, like its opposite, is an interpretation. ²It is, however, the one interpretation that leads to truth. ³This becomes possible because, while it is not true in itself, justice includes nothing that opposes truth. ⁴There is no inherent conflict between justice and truth; one is but the first small step in the direction of the other. ⁵The path becomes quite different as one goes along. ⁶Nor could all the magnificence, the grandeur of the scene and the enormous opening vistas that rise to meet one as the journey continues, be foretold from the outset. ⁷Yet even these, whose splendor reaches indescribable heights as one proceeds, fall short indeed of all that wait when the pathway ceases and time ends with it. ⁸But somewhere one must start. ⁹Justice is the beginning.

3. All concepts of your brothers and yourself; all fears of future states and all concerns about the past, stem from injustice. ²Here is the lens which, held before the body’s eyes, distorts perception and brings witness of the distorted world back to the mind that made the lens and holds it very dear. ³Selectively and arbitrarily is every concept of the world built up in just this way. ⁴“Sins” are perceived and justified by careful selectivity in which all thought of wholeness must be lost. ⁵Forgiveness has no place in such a scheme, for not one “sin” but seems forever true.

4. Salvation is God’s justice. ²It restores to your awareness the wholeness of the fragments you perceive as broken off and separate. ³And it is this that overcomes the fear of death. ⁴For separate fragments must decay and die, but wholeness is immortal. ⁵It remains forever and forever like its Creator, being one with Him. ⁶God’s Judgment is His justice. ⁷Onto this,—a Judgment wholly lacking in condemnation; an evaluation based entirely on love,—you have projected your injustice, giving God the lens of warped perception through which you look. ⁸Now it belongs to Him and not to you. ⁹You are afraid of Him, and do not see you hate and fear your Self as enemy.

5. Pray for God’s justice, and do not confuse His mercy with your own insanity. ²Perception can make whatever picture the mind desires to see. ³Remember this. ⁴In this lies either Heaven or hell, as you elect. ⁵God’s justice points to Heaven just because it is entirely impartial. ⁶It accepts all evidence that is brought before it, omitting nothing and assessing nothing as separate and apart from all the rest. ⁷From this one standpoint does it judge, and this alone. ⁸Here all attack and condemnation becomes meaningless and indefensible. ⁹Perception rests, the mind is still, and light returns again. ¹⁰Vision is now restored. ¹¹What had been lost has now been found. ¹²The peace of God descends on all the world, and we can see. ¹³And we can see!