T-6.V-A To Have, Give All to All
1. When your body and your ego and your dreams are gone, you will know that you will last forever. ²Perhaps you think this is accomplished through death, but nothing is accomplished through death, because death is nothing. ³Everything is accomplished through life, and life is of the mind and in the mind. ⁴The body neither lives nor dies, because it cannot contain you who are life. ⁵If we share the same mind, you can overcome death because I did. ⁶Death is an attempt to resolve conflict by not deciding at all. ⁷Like any other impossible solution the ego attempts, it will not work.
2. God did not make the body, because it is destructible, and therefore not of the Kingdom. ²The body is the symbol of what you think you are. ³It is clearly a separation device, and therefore does not exist. ⁴The Holy Spirit, as always, takes what you have made and translates it into a learning device. ⁵Again as always, He reinterprets what the ego uses as an argument for separation into a demonstration against it. ⁶If the mind can heal the body, but the body cannot heal the mind, then the mind must be stronger than the body. ⁷Every miracle demonstrates this.
3. I have said that the Holy Spirit is the motivation for miracles. ²He always tells you that only the mind is real, because only the mind can be shared. ³The body is separate, and therefore cannot be part of you. ⁴To be of one mind is meaningful, but to be one body is meaningless. ⁵By the laws of mind, then, the body is meaningless.
4. To the Holy Spirit, there is no order of difficulty in miracles. ²This is familiar enough to you by now, but it has not yet become believable. ³Therefore, you do not understand it and cannot use it. ⁴We have too much to accomplish on behalf of the Kingdom to let this crucial concept slip away. ⁵It is a real foundation stone of the thought system I teach and want you to teach. ⁶You cannot perform miracles without believing it, because it is a belief in perfect equality. ⁷Only one equal gift can be offered to the equal Sons of God, and that is full appreciation. ⁸Nothing more and nothing less. ⁹Without a range, order of difficulty is meaningless, and there must be no range in what you offer to your brother.
5. The Holy Spirit, Who leads to God, translates communication into being, just as He ultimately translates perception into knowledge. ²You do not lose what you communicate. ³The ego uses the body for attack, for pleasure and for pride. ⁴The insanity of this perception makes it a fearful one indeed. ⁵The Holy Spirit sees the body only as a means of communication, and because communicating is sharing it becomes communion. ⁶Perhaps you think that fear as well as love can be communicated; and therefore can be shared. ⁷Yet this is not so real as it may appear. ⁸Those who communicate fear are promoting attack, and attack always breaks communication, making it impossible. ⁹Egos do join together in temporary allegiance, but always for what each one can get separately. ¹⁰The Holy Spirit communicates only what each one can give to all. ¹¹He never takes anything back, because He wants you to keep it. ¹²Therefore, His teaching begins with the lesson:
¹³To have, give all to all.
6. This is a very preliminary step, and the only one you must take for yourself. ²It is not even necessary that you complete the step yourself, but it is necessary that you turn in that direction. ³Having chosen to go that way, you place yourself in charge of the journey, where you and only you must remain. ⁴This step may appear to exacerbate conflict rather than resolve it, because it is the beginning step in reversing your perception and turning it right-side up. ⁵This conflicts with the upside-down perception you have not yet abandoned, or the change in direction would not have been necessary. ⁶Some remain at this step for a long time, experiencing very acute conflict. ⁷At this point they may try to accept the conflict, rather than take the next step towards its resolution. ⁸Having taken the first step, however, they will be helped. ⁹Once they have chosen what they cannot complete alone, they are no longer alone.