No one can judge on partial evidence.
   That is not judgment. It is merely an
   opinion based on ignorance and doubt.
   Its seeming certainty is but a cloak
   for the uncertainty it would conceal.
   It needs irrational defense because
   it is irrational. And the defense
   seems strong, convincing, and without a doubt
   because of all the doubting underneath.

   You do not seem to doubt the world you see.

   You do not really question what is shown

   you through the body's eyes. Nor do you ask

   why you believe it, even though you learned

   a long while since your senses do deceive.

   That you believe them to the last detail

   which they report is even stranger when

   you pause to recollect how frequently

   they have been faulty witnesses indeed!

   Why would you trust them so implicitly?

   Why but because of underlying doubt

   which you would hide with show of certainty?

   How can you judge? Your judgment rests upon

   the witness that your senses offer you.

   Yet witness never falser was than this.

   But how else do you judge the world you see?

   You place pathetic faith in what your eyes

   and ears report. You think your fingers touch

   reality and close upon the truth.

   This is awareness which you understand,

   and think more real than what is witnessed to

   by the Eternal Voice of God Himself.

   Can this be judgment? You have often been
   urged to refrain from judging, not because
   it is a right to be withheld from you.
   You cannot judge. You merely can believe
   the ego's judgments, all of which are false.
   It guides your senses carefully, to prove
   how weak you are; how helpless and afraid,
   how apprehensive of just punishment,
   how black with sin, how wretched in your guilt.

   This thing it speaks of, and would yet defend,

   it tells you is yourself. And you believe

   that this is so with stubborn certainty.

   Yet underneath remains the hidden doubt

   that what it shows you as reality

   with such conviction it does not believe.

   It is itself alone that it condemns,

   it is within itself it sees the guilt,

   it is its own despair it sees in you.|

   Hear not its voice. The witnesses it sends
   to prove to you its evil is your own
   are false, and speak with certainty of what
   they do not know. Your faith in them is blind
   because you would not share the doubts their lord
   can not completely vanquish. You believe
   to doubt his vassals is to doubt yourself.|
   Yet you must learn to doubt their evidence
   will clear the way to recognize yourself,
   and let the Voice for God alone be Judge
   of what is worthy of your own belief.

   He will not tell you that your brother should
   be judged by what your eyes behold in him,
   or what his body's mouth says to your ears,
   or what your fingers' touch report of him.
   He passes by such idle witnesses,
   which merely bear false witness to God's Son.
   He recognizes only what God loves,
   and in the holy light of what He sees
   do all the ego's dreams of what you are
   vanish before the splendor He beholds.|

   Let Him be Judge of what you are, for He

   has certainty in which there is no doubt

   because it rests on Certainty so great

   that doubt is meaningless before Its Face.

   Christ cannot doubt Himself. The Voice of God

   can only honor Him, rejoicing in

   His perfect, everlasting sinlessness.

   Whom He has judged can only laugh at guilt,

   unwilling now to play with toys of sin,

   unheeding of the body's witnesses

   before the rapture of His holy Face.|

   And thus He judges you. Accept His word

   of what you are, for He bears witness to

   your beautiful creation and the Mind

   Whose Thought created your reality.

   What can the body mean to Him Who knows

   the glory of the Father and the Son?

   What whispers of the ego can He hear?

   What could convince Him that your sins are real?

   Let Him be Judge as well of everything

   that seems to happen to you in this world.

   His lessons will enable you to bridge

   the gap between illusions and the truth.|

   He will remove all faith that you have placed

   in pain, disaster, suffering and loss.

   He gives you vision which can look beyond

   these grim appearances, and can behold

   the gentle Face of Christ in all of them.

   You will no longer doubt that only good

   can come to you who are beloved of God,

   for He will judge all happenings, and teach

   the single lesson which they all contain.|

   He will select the elements in them

   which represent the truth, and disregard

   those aspects which reflect but idle dreams.

   And He will reinterpret all you see,

   and all occurrences, each circumstance,

   and every happening which seems to touch

   on you in any way from His one frame

   of reference, wholly unified and sure.

   And you will see the love beyond the hate,

   the constancy in change, the pure in sin,

   and only Heaven's blessing on the world.|

   Such is your resurrection, for your life
   is not a part of anything you see.
   It stands beyond the body and the world,
   past every witness for unholiness,
   within the Holy, holy as Itself.
   In everyone and everything His Voice
   will speak to you of nothing but your Self
   and your Creator, Who is One with Him.
   So will you see the holy Face of Christ
   in everything, and hear in everything
   no sound except the echo of God's Voice.

   We practice wordlessly today, except

   at the beginning of the time we spend

   with God. We introduce these times with but

   a single, slow repeating of the thought

   with which the day begins. And then we watch

   our thoughts, appealing silently to Him

   Who sees the elements of truth in them.

   Let Him evaluate each thought that comes

   to mind, remove the elements of dreams,

   and give them back to you as clean ideas

   which do not contradict the Will of God.

   Give Him your thoughts, and He will give them back
   as miracles which joyously proclaim
   the wholeness and the happiness God wills
   His Son as proof of His Eternal Love.
   And as each thought is thus transformed, it takes
   on healing power from the Mind Which saw
   the truth in it, and failed to be deceived
   by what was falsely added. All the threads
   of fantasy are gone, and what remains
   is unified into a perfect Thought
   that offers its perfection everywhere.

   Spend fifteen minutes thus when you awake,
   and gladly give another fifteen more
   before you go to sleep. Your ministry
   begins as all your thoughts are purified.
   So are you taught to teach the Son of God
   the holy lesson of his sanctity.
   No one can fail to listen when you hear
   the Voice of God give honor to God's Son.
   And everyone will share the thoughts with you
   which He has retranslated in your mind.

   Such is your Eastertide. And so you lay

   the gift of snow-white lilies on the world,

   replacing witnesses to sin and death.

   Through your transfiguration is the world

   redeemed and joyfully released from guilt.

   Now do we lift our resurrected minds

   in gladness and in gratitude to Him

   Who has restored our sanity to us.

   And we will hourly remember Him
   Who is salvation and deliverance.
   As we give thanks, the world unites with us,
   and happily accepts our holy thoughts
   which Heaven has corrected and made pure.
   Now has our ministry begun at last,
   to carry round the world the joyous news
   that truth has no illusions, and the peace
   of God, through us, belongs to everyone.