Introduction

T-11.in.1. Either God or the ego is insane. ² If you will examine the evidence on both sides fairly, you will realize this must be true. ³ Neither God nor the ego proposes a partial thought system. ⁴ Each is internally consistent, but they are diametrically opposed in all respects so that partial allegiance is impossible. ⁵ Remember, too, that their results are as different as their foundations, and their fundamentally irreconcilable natures cannot be reconciled by vacillations between them. ⁶ Nothing alive is fatherless, for life is creation. ⁷ Therefore, your decision is always an answer to the question, "Who is my father?" ⁸ And you will be faithful to the father you choose.

T-11.in.2. Yet what would you say to someone who believed this question really involves conflict? ² If you made the ego, how can the ego have made you? ³ The authority problem is still the only source of conflict, because the ego was made out of the wish of God's Son to father Him. ⁴ The ego, then, is nothing more than a delusional system in which you made your own father. ⁵ Make no mistake about this. ⁶ It sounds insane when it is stated with perfect honesty, but the ego never looks on what it does with perfect honesty. ⁷ Yet that is its insane premise, which is carefully hidden in the dark cornerstone of its thought system. ⁸ And either the ego, which you made, is your father, or its whole thought system will not stand.

T-11.in.3. You make by projection, but God creates by extension. ² The cornerstone of God's creation is you, for His thought system is light. ³ Remember the Rays that are there unseen. ⁴ The more you approach the center of His thought system, the clearer the light becomes. ⁵ The closer you come to the foundation of the ego's thought system, the darker and more obscure becomes the way. ⁶ Yet even the little spark in your mind is enough to lighten it. ⁷ Bring this light fearlessly with you, and bravely hold it up to the foundation of the ego's thought system. ⁸ Be willing to judge it with perfect honesty. ⁹ Open the dark cornerstone of terror on which it rests, and bring it out into the light. ¹⁰ There you will see that it rested on meaninglessness, and that everything of which you have been afraid was based on nothing.

T-11.in.4. My brother, you are part of God and part of me. ² When you have at last looked at the ego's foundation without shrinking you will also have looked upon ours. ³ I come to you from our Father to offer you everything again. ⁴ Do not refuse it in order to keep a dark cornerstone hidden, for its protection will not save you. ⁵ I give you the lamp and I will go with you. ⁶ You will not take this journey alone. ⁷ I will lead you to your true Father, Who hath need of you, as I have. ⁸ Will you not answer the call of love with joy?