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[[Truth]] can only ''be'' [[recognized]] and ''need'' only be recognized. [[Inspiration]] is of the [[Holy Spirit]], and [[certainty]] is of [[God]] according to his [[laws]]. Both, therefore, come from the [[First Source|same Source]], since inspiration comes from [[Ta|the Voice for God]] and certainty comes from [[the laws of God]]. [[Healing]] does not come directly from God, Who knows his [[creations]] as perfectly whole. Yet healing is still of God, because it proceeds from his voice and from his laws. It is their result, in a state of [[mind]] that does not know him. The state is [[unknown]] to him and therefore does not exist, but those who [[sleep]] are unaware. Because they are unaware, they do not know.

The [[Holy Spirit]] must work ''through'' you to teach you he is ''in'' you. This is an [[intermediary]] [[step]] toward the [[knowledge]] that you are in God because you are part of him. The [[miracles]] the Holy Spirit [[inspires]] can have no order of difficulty, because every part of creation is of one order. This is God's Will and yours. The laws of God establish this, and the Holy Spirit reminds you of it. When you heal, you are [[remembering]] the laws of God and [[forgetting]] the laws of the [[ego]]. I said before that forgetting is merely a way of remembering better. It is therefore not the opposite of remembering when it is properly [[perceived]]. Perceived improperly, it induces a perception of [[conflict]] with something else, as all incorrect perception does. Properly perceived, it can be used as a way out of conflict, as all proper perception can.

The [[ego]] does not want to [[teach]] everyone all it has learned, because that would [[defeat]] its [[purpose]]. Therefore it does not really learn at all. The [[Holy Spirit]] teaches you to use what the ego has made, to teach the opposite of what the ego has "learned". The kind of [[learning]] is as irrelevant as is the particular [[ability]] that was applied to the learning. All you need do is make the [[effort]] to learn, for the Holy Spirit has a unified [[goal]] for the effort. If different abilities are applied long enough to one goal, the abilities themselves become [[unified]]. This is because they are [[channelized]] in one direction, or in one way. Ultimately, then, they all contribute to one result, and by so doing, their [[similarity]] rather than their [[differences]] is emphasized.

All [[abilities]] should therefore be given over to the [[Holy Spirit]], Who [[understands]] how to use them properly. He uses them only for [[healing]], because he knows you only as whole. By healing you learn of wholeness, and by learning of wholeness you learn to [[remember]] [[God]]. You have forgotten him, but the Holy Spirit understands that your forgetting must be [[translated]] into a way of remembering.

The [[ego]]'s [[goal]] is as unified as the [[Holy Spirit]]'s, and it is because of this that their goals can never be [[reconciled]] in any way or to any extent. The ego always seeks to divide and separate. The Holy Spirit always seeks to [[unify]] and [[heal]]. As you heal you are healed, because the Holy Spirit sees no order of [[difficulty]] in healing. Healing is the way to undo the [[belief]] in [[differences]], being the only way of perceiving [[the Sonship]] as one. This [[perception]] is therefore in accord with [[the laws of God]], even in a state of [[mind]] that is out of accord with his. The [[strength]] of right perception is so great that it brings the mind into accord with his, because it serves [[Ta|his Voice]], which is in all of you.

To [[think]] you can oppose the Will of [[God]] is a real [[delusion]]. The ego believes that it can, and that it can offer you its own "will" as a gift. ''You do not want it''. It is not a [[gift]]. It is nothing at all. God has given you a gift that you both ''have'' and ''are''. When you do not use it, you [[forget]] that you have it. By not remembering it, you do not know what you are. [[Healing]], then, is a way of approaching [[knowledge]] by [[thinking]] in accordance with [[the laws of God]], and [[recognizing]] their [[universality]]. Without this recognition, you have made the laws meaningless to you. Yet the laws are not meaningless, since all [[meaning]] is contained by them and in them.

Seek ye first the [[Kingdom of Heaven]], because that is where [[the laws of God]] operate truly, and they can operate only truly because they are the laws of [[truth]]. But seek this only, because you can find nothing else. There is nothing else. God is All in all in a very [[literal]] sense. All [[being]] is in him Who is all Being. You are therefore in him since your being is his. [[Healing]] is a way of forgetting the sense of [[danger]] the [[ego]] has induced in you, by not recognizing its [[existence]] in your brother. This [[strengthens]] the [[Holy Spirit]] in both of you, because it is a refusal to acknowledge [[fear]]. [[Love]] needs only this [[invitation]]. It comes freely to all [[the Sonship]], being what the Sonship is. By your [[awakening]] to it, you are merely forgetting what you are not. This enables you to remember what you are. 




[[Category: Chapter 7 - The Gifts of the Kingdom]]
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