61 Miracles demonstrate that learning has occurred under the right guidance, for learning is invisible, and what has been learned can be recognized only by its
results. Its generalization is demonstrated as you use it in more and more situations. You will recognize that you have learned there is no order of difficulty in miracles when you have applied them to
all situations. There
is no situation to which miracles do not apply, and by applying them to all situations, you will gain the real world. For in this holy perception, you will be made whole, and the Atonement will radiate from
your acceptance of it for
yourself to everyone the Holy Spirit sends you for your blessing. In every Child of God His blessing lies, and in
your blessing of the Children of God is His blessing to
you.
62 Everyone in the world must play his part in the redemption of the world to recognize that the world
has been redeemed. You cannot see the invisible. Yet if you see its effects, you
know it must be there. By perceiving what it
does, you recognize its being. And by
what it does, you learn what it
is. You cannot
see your abilities, but you gain confidence in their existence as they enable you to
act. And the
results of your actions you
can see.
63 The Holy Spirit is invisible, but you can see the
results of His Presence, and through them you will learn that He is there. What He enables you to do is clearly
not of this world, for miracles violate every law of reality as this world judges it. Every law of time and space, of magnitude and mass, of prediction and control is transcended, for what the Holy Spirit enables you to do is clearly beyond
all of them. Perceiving His results, you will understand
where He must be and finally
know what He is.
64 You cannot see the Holy Spirit, but you can see His manifestations. And unless you do, you will not realize He is there. Miracles are His witnesses and speak for His Presence. What you cannot see becomes real to you only through the witnesses who speak for it. For you can be
aware of what you cannot see, and it can become compellingly real to you as its presence becomes manifest
through you. Do the Holy Spirit's work, for you
share in His function. As your function in Heaven is creation, so your function on earth is healing. God shares His function with you in Heaven, and the Holy Spirit shares His with you on earth.
65 As long as you believe you have two functions, so long will you need correction. For this belief is the
destruction of peace, a goal in direct opposition to the Holy Spirit's purpose. You see what you
expect, and you expect what you
invite. Your perception is the result of your invitation, coming to you as you sent for it. Whose manifestations would you see? Of whose presence would you be convinced? For you will believe in what you
manifest, and as you look out, so will you see in. Two ways of looking at the world are in your mind, and your perception will reflect the guidance you chose.
66 I am the manifestation of the Holy Spirit, and when you see me, it will be because you have invited Him. For He
will send you His witnesses if you will but look upon them. Remember always that you see what you seek, for what you seek you
will find. The ego finds what
it seeks and
only that. It does not find love, for that is
not what it is seeking. Yet seeking and finding are the same, and if you seek for two goals you will find them, but you will
recognize neither. For you will think they are the same because you
want them both. The mind always strives for integration, and if it is split and wants to
keep the split, it will believe it has one goal by
making it one.
67 We said before that
what you project is up to you, but it is
not up to you
whether to project, for projection is a law of mind. Perception
is projection, and you look in
before you look out. As you look in you choose the guide for seeing, and
then you look out and behold his witnesses. This is
why you find what you seek. What you want in
yourself, you will make manifest by projection, and you will accept it
from the world because you put it there
by wanting it.
68 When you think you are projecting what you do
not want, it is still because you
do want it. This leads directly to dissociation, for it represents the acceptance of two goals, each perceived in a
different place, separated from each other
because you made them different. The mind then sees a divided world
outside itself but not
within. This gives it an illusion of integrity and enables it to believe that it is pursuing one goal. As long as you perceive the world as split,
you are not healed. For to be healed is to pursue one goal because you have
accepted only one and
want but one.
69 When you want
only love you will see nothing else. The contradictory nature of the witnesses you perceive is merely the reflection of your conflicting invitations. You have looked upon your minds and accepted opposition there, having
sought it there. But do not then believe that the witnesses for opposition are true, for they attest only to
your decision about reality, returning to you the message you
gave them. Love is recognized by its messengers. If you make love manifest, its messengers will come to you because you
invited them.
70 The power of decision is your one remaining freedom as a prisoner of this world.
You can decide to see it right. What
you made of it is
not its reality, for its reality is only what you
gave it. You cannot really give anything but love to anyone or anything, nor can you really
receive anything else from them. If you think you have received anything else, it is because you have looked within and thought you saw the power to give something else
within yourself. It was only this decision that determined what you found, for it was the decision of what you
sought.
71 You are afraid of me because you looked within and are afraid of what you saw. Yet you could not have seen reality, for the reality of your mind is the loveliest of God's creations. Coming only from God, its power and grandeur could only bring you peace
if you really looked upon it. If you are afraid, it is because you saw something
that is not there. Yet in that same place, you could have looked upon me and all your brothers in the perfect safety of the Mind which created us. For we are there in the peace of the Father, Who wills to project His peace through
you.
72 When you have accepted your mission to
project peace, you will
find it, for by
making it manifest, you will
see it. Its holy witnesses will surround you because you
called upon them and they will come to you. I have heard your call and I have answered it, but you will not look upon me nor
hear the answer which you sought. That is because you do not yet want
only that. Yet as I become more real to you, you will learn that you
do want only that. And you will see me as you look within, and we will look upon the world as God created it together. Through the eyes of Christ,
only the real world exists and can
be seen. As you decide, so will you see. And all that you see but witnesses to your decision.
73 When you look within and see me, it will be because you have decided to manifest truth. And as you manifest it, you will see it both without
and within, for you will see it without
because you saw it first within. Everything you behold without is a judgment of what you beheld within. If it is
your judgment, it will be wrong, for judgment is not your function. If it is the judgment of the Holy Spirit, it will be right, for judgment
is His function. You share His function only by judging as
He does, reserving no judgment at all unto yourselves. For you will judge
against yourselves, but
He will judge
for you.
74 Remember, then, that whenever you look without and react unfavorably to what you see, you have judged yourself unworthy and have condemned yourself to death. The death penalty is the ego's ultimate goal, for it fully believes that you are a criminal, as deserving of death as God knows you are deserving of life. The death penalty never leaves the ego's mind, for that is what it always reserves for you in the end. Wanting to kill you as the final expression of its feeling for you, it lets you live but to await death. It will torment you while you live, but its hatred is not satisfied until you die. For your destruction is the one end toward which it works, and the only end with which it will be satisfied.
75 The ego is not a traitor to God to Whom treachery is impossible, but it
is a traitor to you who believe
you have been treacherous to your Father. That is why the
undoing of guilt is an essential part of the Holy Spirit's teaching. For as long as you feel guilty, you are listening to the voice of the ego, which tells you that you
have been treacherous to God and therefore
deserve death. You will think that death comes from God and
not from the ego because, by confusing yourself
with the ego, you believe that
you want death. And from what you want, God does
not save you.
76 When you are tempted to yield to the desire for death,
remember that I did not die. You will realize that this is true when you look within and
see me. Would I have overcome death for myself alone? And would eternal life have been given me of the Father
unless He had also given it to you? When you learn to make
me manifest,
you will never see death. For you will have looked upon the deathless in
yourself, and you will see only the eternal as you look out upon a world that
cannot die.
