1. No one can pay for therapy, for healing is of God and He asks for nothing. ²It is, however, part of His plan that everything in this world be used by the Holy Spirit to help in carrying out the plan. ³Even an advanced therapist has some earthly needs while he is here. ⁴Should he need money it will be given him, not in payment, but to help him better serve the plan. ⁵Money is not evil. ⁶It is nothing. ⁷But no one here can live with no illusions, for he must yet strive to have the last illusion be accepted by everyone everywhere. ⁸He has a mighty part in this one purpose, for which he came. ⁹He stays here but for this. ¹⁰And while he stays he will be given what he needs to stay.

2. Only an unhealed healer would try to heal for money, and he will not succeed to the extent to which he values it. ²Nor will he find his healing in the process. ³There will be those of whom the Holy Spirit asks some payment for His purpose. ⁴There will be those from whom He does not ask. ⁵It should not be the therapist who makes these decisions. ⁶There is a difference between payment and cost. ⁷To give money where God’s plan allots it has no cost. ⁸To withhold it from where it rightfully belongs has enormous cost. ⁹The therapist who would do this loses the name of healer, for he could never understand what healing is. ¹⁰He cannot give it, and so he does not have it.

3. The therapists of this world are indeed useless to the world’s salvation. ²They make demands, and so they cannot give. ³Patients can pay only for the exchange of illusions. ⁴This, indeed, must demand payment, and the cost is great. ⁵A “bought” relationship cannot offer the only gift whereby all healing is accomplished. ⁶Forgiveness, the Holy Spirit’s only dream, must have no cost. ⁷For if it does, it merely crucifies God’s Son again. ⁸Can this be how he is forgiven? ⁹Can this be how the dream of sin will end?

4. The right to live is something no one need fight for. ²It is promised him, and guaranteed by God. ³Therefore it is a right the therapist and patient share alike. ⁴If their relationship is to be holy, whatever one needs is given by the other; whatever one lacks the other supplies. ⁵Herein is the relationship made holy, for herein both are healed. ⁶The therapist repays the patient in gratitude, as does the patient repay him. ⁷There is no cost to either. ⁸But thanks are due to both, for the release from long imprisonment and doubt. ⁹Who would not be grateful for such a gift? ¹⁰Yet who could possibly imagine that it could be bought?

5. It has well been said that to him who hath shall be given. ²Because he has, he can give. ³And because he gives, he shall be given. ⁴This is the law of God, and not of the world. ⁵So it is with God’s healers. ⁶They give because they have heard His Word and understood it. ⁷All that they need will thus be given them. ⁸But they will lose this understanding unless they remember that all they have comes only from God. ⁹If they believe they need anything from a brother, they will recognize him as a brother no longer. ¹⁰And if they do this, a light goes out even in Heaven. ¹¹Where God’s Son turns against himself, he can look only upon darkness. ¹²He has himself denied the light, and cannot see.

6. One rule should always be observed: No one should be turned away because he cannot pay. ²No one is sent by accident to anyone. ³Relationships are always purposeful. ⁴Whatever their purpose may have been before the Holy Spirit entered them, they are always His potential temple; the resting place of Christ and home of God Himself. ⁵Whoever comes has been sent. ⁶Perhaps he was sent to give his brother the money he needed. ⁷Both will be blessed thereby. ⁸Perhaps he was sent to teach the therapist how much he needs forgiveness, and how valueless is money in comparison. ⁹Again will both be blessed. ¹⁰Only in terms of cost could one have more. ¹¹In sharing, everyone must gain a blessing without cost.

7. This view of payment may well seem impractical, and in the eyes of the world it would be so. ²Yet not one worldly thought is really practical. ³How much is gained by striving for illusions? ⁴How much is lost by throwing God away? ⁵And is it possible to do so? ⁶Surely it is impractical to strive for nothing, and to attempt to do what is impossible. ⁷Then stop a while, long enough to think of this: You have perhaps been seeking for salvation without recognizing where to look. ⁸Whoever asks your help can show you where. ⁹What greater gift than this could you be given? ¹⁰What greater gift is there that you would give?

8. Physician, healer, therapist, teacher, heal thyself. ²Many will come to you carrying the gift of healing, if you so elect. ³The Holy Spirit never refuses an invitation to enter and abide with you. ⁴He will give you endless opportunities to open the door to your salvation, for such is His function. ⁵He will also tell you exactly what your function is in every circumstance and at all times. ⁶Whoever He sends you will reach you, holding out his hand to his Friend. ⁷Let the Christ in you bid him welcome, for that same Christ is in him as well. ⁸Deny him entrance, and you have denied the Christ in you. ⁹Remember the sorrowful story of the world, and the glad tidings of salvation. ¹⁰Remember the plan of God for the restoration of joy and peace. ¹¹And do not forget how very simple are the ways of God:

¹²You were lost in the darkness of the world until you asked for light. ¹³And then God sent His Son to give it to you.