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12.1 The Judgment of the Holy Spirit (view source)

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[[Miracles]] are merely the [[translation]] of denial into [[truth]]. If to [[love]] oneself is to [[heal]] oneself, those who are sick do not love themselves. Therefore, they are asking for the love that would heal them, but which they are denying to themselves. If they knew the truth about themselves they could not be sick. The task of the miracle worker thus [[becomes]] to deny the denial of truth. The sick must heal themselves, for the truth is in them. Yet having [[obscured]] it, the [[light]] in another [[mind]] must [[shine]] into theirs because that light is theirs.
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You have been told not to make [[error]] real, and the way to do this is very
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[[simple]]. If you want to [[believe]] in error, you would have to make it real
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because it is not true. But [[truth]] is real in its own right, and to believe in truth
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you do not have to do anything.
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[[Understand]] that you do not respond to
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anything directly, but to your [[interpretation]] of it. Your interpretation thus
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becomes the [[justification]] for the response. That is why [[analyzing]] the
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[[motives]] of others is hazardous to you. If you decide that someone is really
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trying to [[attack]] you or desert you or enslave you, you will respond as if he
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had actually done so, having made his error real to you. To interpret error is
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to give it [[power]], and having done this you will overlook truth.
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The light in them shines as brightly regardless of the [[density]] of the [[fog]] that [[obscures]] it. If you give no [[power]] to the fog to obscure the light, it has none. For it has power only if the Son of God gives power to it. he must himself withdraw that power, remembering that [[all power]] is of [[God]]. You can [[remember]] this for all [[the Sonship]]. Do not allow your brother not to remember, for his forgetfulness is yours. But your remembering is his, for God cannot be remembered [[alone]]. This is what you have forgotten. To [[perceive]] the healing of your brother as the healing of yourself is thus the way to remember God. For you forgot your brothers with him, and God's [[Answer]] to your forgetting is but the way to remember.
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The [[analysis]] of [[ego]] [[motivation]] is very complicated, very obscuring, and
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never without your own ego involvement. The whole [[process]] represents a
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clear-cut attempt to [[demonstrate]] your own [[ability]] to understand what you
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[[perceive]]. This is shown by the fact that you [[react]] to your interpretations as
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if they were correct. You may then [[control]] your reactions behaviorally, but
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not [[emotionally]]. This would obviously be a split or an attack on the
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[[integrity]] of [[your mind]], pitting one level within it against another.
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[[Perceive]] in [[sickness]] but another call for [[love]], and offer your brother what he [[believes]] he cannot offer himself. Whatever the sickness, there is but one remedy. You will be made whole as you make whole, for to perceive in sickness the [[appeal]] for [[health]] is to recognize in [[hatred]] the call for love. And to give a brother what he really wants is to offer it unto yourself, for [[your Father]] wills you to know your brother as yourself. Answer his call for love, and yours is answered. [[Healing]] is the love of [[Christ]] for his Father and for himself.
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There is but one interpretation of motivation that makes any sense. And
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because it is the [[Holy Spirit]]'s [[judgment]] it requires no [[effort]] at all on your
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part. Every [[loving]] [[thought]] is true. Everything else is an [[appeal]] for [[healing]]
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and help, regardless of the form it takes. Can anyone be justified in
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responding with [[anger]] to a brother's plea for help? No response can be
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appropriate except the willingness to give it to him, for this and only this is
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what he is asking for. Offer him anything else, and you are assuming the
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right to attack his [[reality]] by interpreting it as you see fit. Perhaps the [[danger]]
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of this to your own [[mind]] is not yet fully apparent. If you believe that an
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appeal for help is something else you will react to something else. Your
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response will therefore be inappropriate to reality as it is, but not to your
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perception of it.
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[[Remember]] what was said about the [[frightening]] [[perceptions]] of little [[children]], which terrify them because they do not [[understand]] them. If they ask for [[enlightenment]] and [[accept]] it, their fears vanish. But if they hide their [[nightmares]] they will keep them. it is easy to help an [[uncertain]] child, for he recognizes that he does not understand what his perceptions mean. Yet you believe that you do understand yours. Little child, you are hiding your head under the cover of the heavy blankets you have laid upon yourself. You are hiding your nightmares in the [[darkness]] of your own [[false]] [[certainty]], and refusing to open your eyes and look at them.
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There is nothing to prevent you from recognizing all calls for help as
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exactly what they are except your own [[imagined]] need to [[attack]]. It is only
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this that makes you willing to engage in endless "[[battles]]" with [[reality]], in
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which you deny the reality of the need for [[healing]] by making it unreal. You
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would not do this except for your unwillingness to accept reality as it is, and
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which you therefore withhold from yourself.
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Let us not save [[nightmares]], for they are not fitting offerings for [[Christ]], and so they are not fit gifts for you. Take off the covers and look at what you are [[afraid]] of. Only the [[anticipation]] will frighten you, for the [[reality]] of nothingness cannot be frightening. Let us not [[delay]] this, for your [[dream]] of hatred will not leave you without help, and help is here. [[Learn]] to be [[quiet]] in the midst of turmoil, for quietness is the end of strife and this is the [[journey]] to peace. Look straight at every [[image]] that rises to delay you, for the [[goal]] is [[inevitable]] because it is [[eternal]]. The goal of [[love]] is but your right, and it belongs to you despite your [[dreams]].
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It is surely good advice to tell you not to [[judge]] what you do not [[understand]].
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No one with a [[personal]] investment is a reliable [[witness]], for [[truth]] to him has
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become what he wants it to be. If you are unwilling to [[perceive]] an appeal
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for help as what it is, it is because you are unwilling to give help and to
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[[receive]] it. To fail to recognize a call for help is to refuse help. Would you
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maintain that you do not need it? Yet this is what you are maintaining when
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you refuse to recognize a brother's appeal, for only by answering his appeal
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can
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you be helped. Deny him your help and you will not [[recognize]] [[God]]'s
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[[Answer]] to you. The [[Holy Spirit]] does not need your help in interpreting
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[[motivation]], but you do need his.
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You still want what [[Will of God|God wills]], and no [[nightmare]] can [[defeat]] a [[child of God]] in his [[purpose]]. For your purpose was given you by God, and you must accomplish it because it is his will. [[Awake]] and remember your [[purpose]], for it is your will to do so. What has been accomplished for you must be yours. Do not let your [[hatred]] stand in the way of [[love]], for nothing can withstand the love of Christ for [[the Father|his Father]], or his Father's love for him.
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Only [[appreciation]] is an appropriate response to your brother. [[Gratitude]] is
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due him for both his loving [[thoughts]] and his [[appeals]] for help, for both are
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capable of bringing [[love]] into your awareness if you perceive them truly.
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And all your sense of strain comes from your attempts not to do just this.
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How simple, then, is God's plan for [[salvation]]. There is but one response to
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[[reality]], for reality evokes no [[conflict]] at all. There is but one Teacher of
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reality, Who [[understands]] what it is. He does not change [[his Mind]] about
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reality because reality does not [[change]]. Although your interpretations of
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reality are meaningless in your divided state, his remain consistently true.  
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A little while and you will see me, for I am not hidden because you are hiding. I will [[awaken]] you as surely as I awakened myself, for I awoke for you. In my [[resurrection]] is your release. Our [[mission]] is to escape from [[crucifixion]], not from [[redemption]]. [[Trust]] in my help, for I did not walk [[alone]], and I will walk with you as [[our Father]] walked with me. Do you not know that I walked with him in [[peace]]? And does not that mean that peace goes with us on the [[journey]]?
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He gives them to you because they are for you. Do not attempt to "help" a brother in your way, for you cannot help yourself. But hear his call for the [[help]] of God, and you will [[recognize]] your own need for [[the Father]].
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There is no [[fear]] in [[perfect]] [[love]]. We will but be making perfect to you what is already perfect in you. You do not fear the [[unknown]] but the known. You will not fail in your mission because I did not fail in mine. Give me but a little [[trust]] in the name of the complete trust I have in you, and we will easily accomplish the [[goal]] of [[perfection]] [[together]]. For perfection is, and cannot be denied. To deny the denial of perfection is not so [[difficult]] as to deny [[truth]], and what we can accomplish together will be believed when you see it as accomplished.
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Your [[interpretations]] of your brother's needs are your interpretation of yours.
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By giving help you are asking for it, and if you [[perceive]] but one need in
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yourself you will be [[healed]]. For you will recognize God's answer as you
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want it to be, and if you want it in [[truth]], it will be truly yours. Every [[appeal]]
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you answer in the Name of [[Christ]] brings the remembrance of [[your Father]]
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closer to your [[awareness]]. For the sake of your need, then, hear every call for
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help as what it is, so God can answer you.
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You who have tried to [[banish]] [[love]] have not succeeded, but you who [[choose]] to banish [[fear]] must succeed. The Lord is with you, but you know it not. Yet your Redeemer liveth, and abideth in you in the [[peace]] out of which he was created. Would you not exchange this [[awareness]] for the awareness of fear? When we have overcome fear--not by hiding it, not by minimizing it, and not by denying its full import in any way--this is what you will really see. You cannot lay aside the [[obstacles]] to real [[vision]] without looking upon them, for to lay aside means to [[judge]] against. If you will look, the [[Holy Spirit]] will judge truly. Yet he cannot shine away what you keep hidden, for you have not offered it to him and he cannot take it from you.
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By applying the [[Holy Spirit]]'s [[interpretation]] of the [[reactions]] of others more
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and more consistently, you will gain an increasing [[awareness]] that his
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criteria are equally applicable to you. For to recognize [[fear]] is not enough to
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[[escape]] from it, although the recognition is [[necessary]] to [[demonstrate]] the
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need for escape. The Holy Spirit must still [[translate]] the fear into truth. If
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you were left with the fear, once you had recognized it, you would have
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taken a [[step]] away from [[reality]], not towards it. Yet we have repeatedly
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emphasized the need to recognize fear and face it without [[disguise]] as a
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crucial step in the undoing of the [[ego]]. Consider how well the [[Holy Spirit]]'s
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interpretation of the [[motives]] of others will serve you then. Having taught
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you to accept only loving [[thoughts]] in others and to regard [[everything]] else as
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an appeal for help, he has taught you that fear itself is an appeal for help.
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This is what recognizing fear really means. If you do not [[protect]] it, he will
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reinterpret it. That is the ultimate [[value]] in learning to perceive [[attack]] as a
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call for love. We have already learned that fear and attack are [[inevitably]]
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associated. If only attack produces fear, and if you see attack as the call for
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help that it is, the unreality of fear must dawn on you. For fear
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is a call for love, in [[unconscious]] recognition of what has been denied.
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Fear is a [[symptom]] of your own deep sense of loss. If when you [[perceive]] it
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in others you learn to supply the loss, the basic [[cause]] of fear is removed.
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Thereby you teach yourself that fear does not exist in you. The means for
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removing it is in yourself, and you have [[demonstrated]] this by giving it. Fear
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and [[love]] are the only [[emotions]] of which you are capable. One is [[false]], for it
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was made out of denial; and denial depends on the [[belief]] in what is denied
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for its own [[existence]]. By interpreting fear correctly as a positive affirmation
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of the underlying [[belief]] it [[masks]], you are undermining its perceived
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usefulness by rendering it useless. [[Defenses]] that do not work at all are
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automatically discarded. If you raise what fear conceals to clear-cut
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unequivocal predominance, fear becomes meaningless. You have denied its
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[[power]] to conceal love, which was its only [[purpose]]. The veil that you have
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drawn across the [[face]] of love has disappeared.
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If you would look upon [[love]], which is the world's [[reality]], how could you do
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better than to recognize, in every [[defense]] against it, the underlying [[appeal]] for
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it? And how could you better learn of its reality than by answering the appeal for it by giving it? The [[Holy Spirit]]'s [[interpretation]] of fear does dispel it, for the awareness of truth cannot be denied. Thus does the Holy Spirit replace fear with love and [[translate]] error into truth. And thus will you learn of him how to replace your [[dream]] of [[separation]] with the [[fact]] of [[unity]]. For the separation is only the denial of [[union]], and correctly interpreted, attests to your [[eternal]] [[knowledge]] that union is true.  
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We are therefore embarking on an [[organized]], well-[[structured]] and carefully planned [[program]] aimed at [[learning]] how to offer to the [[Holy Spirit]] everything you do not want. he knows what to do with it. You do not [[understand]] how to use what he knows. Whatever is given him that is not of [[God]] is gone. Yet you must look at it yourself in [[perfect]] willingness, for otherwise his [[knowledge]] remains useless to you. Surely he will not fail to help you, since help is his only [[purpose]]. Do you not have greater reason for fearing the world as you [[perceive]] it, than for looking at the [[cause]] of fear and letting it go forever?
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