T-5.II The Voice for God

1. Healing is not creating; it is reparation. ²The Holy Spirit promotes healing by looking beyond it to what the children of God were before healing was needed, and will be when they have been healed. ³This alteration of the time sequence should be quite familiar, because it is very similar to the shift in the perception of time that the miracle introduces. ⁴The Holy Spirit is the motivation for miracle-mindedness; the decision to heal the separation by letting it go. ⁵Your will is still in you because God placed it in your mind, and although you can keep it asleep you cannot obliterate it. ⁶God Himself keeps your will alive by transmitting it from His Mind to yours as long as there is time. ⁷The miracle itself is a reflection of this union of Will between Father and Son.

2. The Holy Spirit is the spirit of joy. ²He is the Call to return with which God blessed the minds of His separated Sons. ³This is the vocation of the mind. ⁴The mind had no calling until the separation, because before that it had only being, and would not have understood the Call to right thinking. ⁵The Holy Spirit is God’s Answer to the separation; the means by which the Atonement heals until the whole mind returns to creating.

3. The principle of Atonement and the separation began at the same time. ²When the ego was made, God placed in the mind the Call to joy. ³This Call is so strong that the ego always dissolves at Its sound. ⁴That is why you must choose to hear one of two voices within you. ⁵One you made yourself, and that one is not of God. ⁶But the other is given you by God, Who asks you only to listen to it. ⁷The Holy Spirit is in you in a very literal sense. ⁸His is the Voice that calls you back to where you were before and will be again. ⁹It is possible even in this world to hear only that Voice and no other. ¹⁰It takes effort and great willingness to learn. ¹¹It is the final lesson that I learned, and God’s Sons are as equal as learners as they are as sons.

4. You are the Kingdom of Heaven, but you have let the belief in darkness enter your mind and so you need a new light. ²The Holy Spirit is the radiance that you must let banish the idea of darkness. ³His is the glory before which dissociation falls away, and the Kingdom of Heaven breaks through into its own. ⁴Before the separation you did not need guidance. ⁵You knew as you will know again, but as you do not know now.

5. God does not guide, because He can share only perfect knowledge. ²Guidance is evaluative, because it implies there is a right way and also a wrong way, one to be chosen and the other to be avoided. ³By choosing one you give up the other. ⁴The choice for the Holy Spirit is the choice for God. ⁵God is not in you in a literal sense: you are part of Him. ⁶When you chose to leave Him He gave you a Voice to speak for Him because He could no longer share His knowledge with you without hindrance. ⁷Direct communication was broken because you had made another voice.

6. The Holy Spirit calls you both to remember and to forget. ²You have chosen to be in a state of opposition in which opposites are possible. ³As a result, there are choices you must make. ⁴In the holy state the will is free, so that its creative power is unlimited and choice is meaningless. ⁵Freedom to choose is the same power as freedom to create, but its application is different. ⁶Choosing depends on a split mind. ⁷The Holy Spirit is one way of choosing. ⁸God did not leave His children comfortless, even though they chose to leave Him. ⁹The voice they put in their minds was not the Voice for His Will, for which the Holy Spirit speaks.

7. The Voice of the Holy Spirit does not command, because It is incapable of arrogance. ²It does not demand, because It does not seek control. ³It does not overcome, because It does not attack. ⁴It merely reminds. ⁵It is compelling only because of what It reminds you of. ⁶It brings to your mind the other way, remaining quiet even in the midst of the turmoil you may make. ⁷The Voice for God is always quiet, because It speaks of peace. ⁸Peace is stronger than war because it heals. ⁹War is division, not increase. ¹⁰No one gains from strife. ¹¹What profits it a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? ¹²If you listen to the wrong voice you have lost sight of your soul. ¹³You cannot lose it, but you can not know it. ¹⁴It is therefore “lost” to you until you choose right.

8. The Holy Spirit is your Guide in choosing. ²He is in the part of your mind that always speaks for the right choice, because He speaks for God. ³He is your remaining communication with God, which you can interrupt but cannot destroy. ⁴The Holy Spirit is the way in which God’s Will is done on earth as it is in Heaven. ⁵Both Heaven and earth are in you, because the call of both is in your mind. ⁶The Voice for God comes from your own altars to Him. ⁷These altars are not things; they are devotions. ⁸Yet you have other devotions now. ⁹Your divided devotion has given you the two voices, and you must choose at which altar you want to serve. ¹⁰The call you answer now is an evaluation because it is a decision. ¹¹The decision is very simple. ¹²It is made on the basis of which call is worth more to you.

9. My mind will always be like yours, because we were created as equals. ²It was only my decision that gave me all power in Heaven and earth. ³My only gift to you is to help you make the same decision. ⁴This decision is the choice to share it, because the decision itself is the decision to share. ⁵It is made by giving, and is therefore the one choice that resembles true creation. ⁶I am your model for decision. ⁷By deciding for God I showed you that this decision can be made, and that you can make it.

10. I have assured you that the Mind that decided for me is also in you, and that you can let it change you just as it changed me. ²This Mind is unequivocal, because it hears only one Voice and answers in only one way. ³You are the light of the world with me. ⁴Rest does not come from sleeping but from waking. ⁵The Holy Spirit is the Call to awaken and be glad. ⁶The world is very tired, because it is the idea of weariness. ⁷Our task is the joyous one of waking it to the Call for God. ⁸Everyone will answer the Call of the Holy Spirit, or the Sonship cannot be as One. ⁹What better vocation could there be for any part of the Kingdom than to restore it to the perfect integration that can make it whole? ¹⁰Hear only this through the Holy Spirit within you, and teach your brothers to listen as I am teaching you.

11. When you are tempted by the wrong voice, call on me to remind you how to heal by sharing my decision and making it stronger. ²As we share this goal, we increase its power to attract the whole Sonship, and to bring it back into the oneness in which it was created. ³Remember that “yoke” means “join together”, and “burden” means “message”. ⁴Let us restate “My yoke is easy and my burden light” in this way: “Let us join together, for my message is light”.

12. I have enjoined you to behave as I behaved, but we must respond to the same Mind to do this. ²This Mind is the Holy Spirit, Whose Will is for God always. ³He teaches you how to keep me as the model for your thought, and to behave like me as a result. ⁴The power of our joint motivation is beyond belief, but not beyond accomplishment. ⁵What we can accomplish together has no limits, because the Call for God is the Call to the unlimited. ⁶Child of God, my message is for you, to hear and give away as you answer the Holy Spirit within you.