Carrie
2011-06-26 15:09:32 UTC
T-21.II.2. This is the only thing that you need do for vision,
happiness, release from pain and the complete escape from sin, all to be
given you. 2 Say only this, but mean it with no reservations, for here the
power of salvation lies:
3 I am responsible for what I see.
4 I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide upon the goal I would
achieve.
5 And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for, and receive as I have
asked.
6 Deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless in the face of what is
done to you. 7 Acknowledge but that you have been mistaken, and all effects
of your mistakes will disappear.
T-21.II.3. It is impossible the Son of God be merely driven by
events outside of him. 2 It is impossible that happenings that come to him
were not his choice. 3 His power of decision is the determiner of every
situation in which he seems to find himself by chance or accident. 4 No
accident nor chance is possible within the universe as God created it,
outside of which is nothing. 5 Suffer, and you decided sin was your goal. 6
Be happy, and you gave the power of decision to Him Who must decide for God
for you. 7 This is the little gift you offer to the Holy Spirit, and even
this He gives to you to give yourself. 8 For by this gift is given you the
power to release your savior, that he may give salvation unto you.
T-21.II.4. Begrudge not then this little offering. 2 Withhold it,
and you keep the world as now you see it. 3 Give it away, and everything you
see goes with it. 4 Never was so much given for so little. 5 In the holy
instant is this exchange effected and maintained. 6 Here is the world you do
not want brought to the one you do. p448 7 And here the one you do is given
you because you want it. 8 Yet for this, the power of your wanting must
first be recognized. 9 You must accept its strength, and not its weakness.
10 You must perceive that what is strong enough to make a world can let it
go, and can accept correction if it is willing to see that it was wrong.
T-21.II.5. The world you see is but the idle witness that you were
right. 2 This witness is insane. 3 You trained it in its testimony, and as
it gave it back to you, you listened and convinced yourself that what it saw
was true. 4 You did this to yourself. 5 See only this, and you will also see
how circular the reasoning on which your "seeing" rests. 6 This was not
given you. 7 This was your gift to you and to your brother. 8 Be willing,
then, to have it taken from him and be replaced with truth. 9 And as you
look upon the change in him, it will be given you to see it in yourself.
T-21.II.6. Perhaps you do not see the need for you to give this
little offering. 2 Look closer, then, at what it is. 3 And, very simply, see
in it the whole exchange of separation for salvation. 4 All that the ego is,
is an idea that it is possible that things could happen to the Son of God
without his will; and thus without the Will of his Creator, Whose Will
cannot be separate from his own. 5 This is the Son of God's replacement for
his will, a mad revolt against what must forever be. 6 This is the statement
that he has the power to make God powerless and so to take it for himself,
and leave himself without what God has willed for him. 7 This is the mad
idea you have enshrined upon your altars, and which you worship. 8 And
anything that threatens this seems to attack your faith, for here is it
invested. 9 Think not that you are faithless, for your belief and trust in
this is strong indeed.
happiness, release from pain and the complete escape from sin, all to be
given you. 2 Say only this, but mean it with no reservations, for here the
power of salvation lies:
3 I am responsible for what I see.
4 I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide upon the goal I would
achieve.
5 And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for, and receive as I have
asked.
6 Deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless in the face of what is
done to you. 7 Acknowledge but that you have been mistaken, and all effects
of your mistakes will disappear.
T-21.II.3. It is impossible the Son of God be merely driven by
events outside of him. 2 It is impossible that happenings that come to him
were not his choice. 3 His power of decision is the determiner of every
situation in which he seems to find himself by chance or accident. 4 No
accident nor chance is possible within the universe as God created it,
outside of which is nothing. 5 Suffer, and you decided sin was your goal. 6
Be happy, and you gave the power of decision to Him Who must decide for God
for you. 7 This is the little gift you offer to the Holy Spirit, and even
this He gives to you to give yourself. 8 For by this gift is given you the
power to release your savior, that he may give salvation unto you.
T-21.II.4. Begrudge not then this little offering. 2 Withhold it,
and you keep the world as now you see it. 3 Give it away, and everything you
see goes with it. 4 Never was so much given for so little. 5 In the holy
instant is this exchange effected and maintained. 6 Here is the world you do
not want brought to the one you do. p448 7 And here the one you do is given
you because you want it. 8 Yet for this, the power of your wanting must
first be recognized. 9 You must accept its strength, and not its weakness.
10 You must perceive that what is strong enough to make a world can let it
go, and can accept correction if it is willing to see that it was wrong.
T-21.II.5. The world you see is but the idle witness that you were
right. 2 This witness is insane. 3 You trained it in its testimony, and as
it gave it back to you, you listened and convinced yourself that what it saw
was true. 4 You did this to yourself. 5 See only this, and you will also see
how circular the reasoning on which your "seeing" rests. 6 This was not
given you. 7 This was your gift to you and to your brother. 8 Be willing,
then, to have it taken from him and be replaced with truth. 9 And as you
look upon the change in him, it will be given you to see it in yourself.
T-21.II.6. Perhaps you do not see the need for you to give this
little offering. 2 Look closer, then, at what it is. 3 And, very simply, see
in it the whole exchange of separation for salvation. 4 All that the ego is,
is an idea that it is possible that things could happen to the Son of God
without his will; and thus without the Will of his Creator, Whose Will
cannot be separate from his own. 5 This is the Son of God's replacement for
his will, a mad revolt against what must forever be. 6 This is the statement
that he has the power to make God powerless and so to take it for himself,
and leave himself without what God has willed for him. 7 This is the mad
idea you have enshrined upon your altars, and which you worship. 8 And
anything that threatens this seems to attack your faith, for here is it
invested. 9 Think not that you are faithless, for your belief and trust in
this is strong indeed.