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The [[body]] is nothing more than a framework for developing [[abilities]], which is quite apart from what they are used for. ''That'' is a [[decision]]. The [[effects]] of the [[ego]]'s decision in this matter are so apparent that they need no [[elaboration]], but the [[Holy Spirit]]'s decision to use the body only for [[communication]] has such a direct [[connection]] with [[healing]] that it does need [[clarification]]. The unhealed healer obviously does not [[understand]] his own [[vocation]].

Only [[minds]] [[communicate]]. Since the [[ego]] cannot obliterate the [[impulse]] to communicate because it is also the impulse to [[create]], it can only teach you that the body can both communicate and create, and therefore does not need [[the mind]]. The ego thus tries to teach you that the body can [[act]] like the mind, and is therefore [[self-sufficient]]. Yet we have learned that [[behavior]] is not the level for either [[teaching]] or [[learning]], since you can [[act]] in accordance with what you do not [[believe]]. To do this, however, will weaken you as a teacher and a learner because, as has been repeatedly emphasized, you teach what you ''do'' [[believe]]. An inconsistent lesson will be poorly taught and poorly learned. If you teach both [[sickness]] ''and'' [[healing]], you are both a poor teacher and a poor learner.

[[Healing]] is the one [[ability]] everyone can develop and must develop if he is to be healed. Healing is the [[Holy Spirit]]'s form of [[communication]] in [[this world]], and the only one he [[accepts]]. He recognizes no other, because he does not accept the ego's [[confusion]] of [[mind]] and [[body]]. Minds can communicate, but they cannot hurt. The body in the [[service]] of the [[ego]] can hurt other bodies, but this cannot occur unless the body has already been confused with [[the mind]]. This situation, too, can be used either for healing or for [[magic]], but you must remember that magic always involves the belief that healing is harmful. This [[belief]] is its totally insane premise, and so it proceeds accordingly.

[[Healing]] only [[strengthens]]. [[Magic]] always tries to [[weaken]]. Healing [[perceives]] nothing in the healer that everyone else does not [[share]] with him. [[Magic]] always sees something "special" in the healer, which he believes he can offer as a [[gift]] to someone who does not have it. He may believe that the gift comes from [[God]] to him, but it is quite evident that he does not [[understand]] God if he thinks he has something that others lack.

The [[Holy Spirit]] does not work by [[chance]], and [[healing]] that is of him always works. Unless the healer always heals by him the results will vary. Yet healing itself is [[consistent]], since only consistency is [[conflict]]-free, and only the conflict-free are whole. By accepting [[exceptions]] and acknowledging that he can sometimes heal and sometimes not, the healer is obviously accepting inconsistency. He is therefore in [[conflict]], and is teaching conflict. Can anything of God not be for all and for always? [[Love]] is incapable of any [[exceptions]]. Only if there is [[fear]] does the [[idea]] of exceptions seem to be meaningful. Exceptions are fearful because they are made by fear. The "fearful healer" is a [[contradiction]] in terms, and is therefore a concept that only a conflicted mind could possibly perceive as meaningful.

[[Fear]] does not gladden. [[Healing]] does. Fear always makes exceptions. Healing never does. Fear produces [[dissociation]], because it induces [[separation]]. Healing always produces [[harmony]], because it proceeds from [[integration]]. It is [[predictable]] because it can be counted on. [[Everything]] that is of God can be counted on, because everything of [[God]] is wholly real. Healing can be counted on because it is [[inspired]] by [[Ta|his voice]], and is in accord with his laws. Yet if healing is [[consistent]] it cannot be inconsistently understood. Understanding means consistency because God means consistency. Since that is his [[meaning]], it is also yours. Your meaning cannot be out of accord with his, because your whole meaning and your only meaning comes from his and is like his. [[God]] cannot be out of accord with himself, and you cannot be out of accord with him. You cannot separate [[your Self]] from your [[Creator]], Who created you by sharing his [[Being]] with you.

The unhealed healer wants [[gratitude]] from his brothers, but he is not grateful to them. That is because he thinks he is giving something to them, and is not [[receiving]] something equally desirable in return. His teaching is [[limited]] because he is learning so little. His [[healing]] lesson is limited by his own ingratitude, which is a lesson in sickness. True [[learning]] is [[constant]], and so [[vital]] in its [[power]] for [[change]] that a Son of God can recognize his power in one instant and [[change]] the world in the next. That is because, by changing his [[mind]], he has changed the most powerful device that was ever given him for change. This in no way [[contradicts]] the changelessness of mind as God created it, but you think that you have changed it as long as you learn through the [[ego]]. This places you in a position of needing to learn a lesson that seems [[contradictory]];--you must learn to change your mind about your mind. Only by this can you learn that it ''is'' changeless.

When you [[heal]], that is exactly what you ''are'' learning. You are [[recognizing]] the changeless [[mind]] in your brother by [[realizing]] that he could not have changed his mind. That is how you perceive the [[Holy Spirit]] in him. It is only the Holy Spirit in him that never [[changes]] his Mind. He himself may think he can, or he would not [[perceive]] himself as sick. He therefore does not know what his [[Self]] is. If you see only the changeless in him you have not really changed him. By changing your mind about his ''for'' him, you help him undo the change his [[ego]] thinks it has made in him.

As you can hear [[two]] [[voices]], so you can see in two ways. One way shows you an image, or an [[idol]] that you may [[worship]] out of [[fear]], but will never [[love]]. The other shows you only [[truth]], which you will love because you will [[understand]] it. Understanding is [[appreciation]], because what you understand you can identify with, and by making it part of you, you have [[accepted]] it with [[love]]. That is how God himself created you; in understanding, in appreciation and in love. The ego is totally unable to understand this, because it does not understand what it makes, does not appreciate it and does not love it. It incorporates to take away. It [[literally]] believes that every time it deprives someone of something, it has increased. I have spoken often of the increase of [[Tk|the Kingdom]] by your creations, which can only be created as you were. The whole [[glory]] and perfect [[joy]] that is the Kingdom lies in you to give. Do you not want to give it?

You cannot [[forget]] [[the Father]] because I am with you, and I cannot forget him. To forget me is to forget yourself and him who created you. Our brothers are forgetful. That is why they need your [[remembrance]] of me and of him Who created me. Through this remembrance, you can [[change]] their [[minds]] about themselves, as I can change yours. Your mind is so [[powerful]] a [[light]] that you can look into theirs and [[enlighten]] them, as I can enlighten yours. I do want to [[share]] my mind with you because we are of one Mind, and that Mind is ours. See only this Mind everywhere, because only this is everywhere and in [[everything]]. It is everything because it [[encompasses]] all things within itself. [[Blessed]] are you who perceive only this, because you [[perceive]] only what is true.

Come therefore unto me, and learn of the [[truth]] in you. [[The mind]] we share is [[shared]] by all our brothers, and as we see them truly they will be [[healed]]. Let your mind shine with mine upon their minds, and by our [[gratitude]] to them make them [[aware]] of the light in them. This light will shine back upon you and on [[Paper 30|the whole Sonship]], because this is your proper [[gift]] to God. He will [[accept]] it and give it to [[the Sonship]], because it is acceptable to him and therefore to his sons. This is true [[communion]] with the [[Holy Spirit]], Who sees the [[altar]] of God in everyone, and by bringing it to your [[appreciation]], he calls upon you to love God and his creation. You can appreciate the Sonship only as one. This is part of the [[law]] of [[creation]], and therefore [[governs]] all thought. 




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