V. The Two Emotions

T-13.V.1. I have said you have but two emotions, love and fear. ² One is changeless but continually exchanged, being offered by the eternal to the eternal. ³ In this exchange it is extended, for it increases as it is given. ⁴ The other has many forms, for the content of individual illusions differs greatly. ⁵ Yet they have one thing in common; they are all insane. ⁶ They are made of sights that are not seen, and sounds that are not heard. ⁷ They make up a private world that cannot be shared. ⁸ For they are meaningful only to their maker, and so they have no meaning at all. ⁹ In this world their maker moves alone, for only he perceives them.

T-13.V.2. Each one peoples his world with figures from his individual past, and it is because of this that private worlds do differ. ² Yet the figures that he sees were never real, for they are made up only of his reactions to his brothers, and do not include their reactions to him. ³ Therefore, he does not see he made them, and that they are not whole. ⁴ For these figures have no witnesses, being perceived in one separate mind only.

T-13.V.3. It is through these strange and shadowy figures that the insane relate to their insane world. ² For they see only those who remind them of these images, and it is to them that they relate. ³ Thus do they communicate with those who are not there, and it is they who answer them. ⁴ And no one hears their answer save him who called upon them, and he alone believes they answered him. ⁵ Projection makes perception, and you cannot see beyond it. ⁶ Again and again have you attacked your brother, because you saw in him a shadow figure in your private world. ⁷ And thus it is you must attack yourself first, for what you attack is not in others. ⁸ Its only reality is in your own mind, and by attacking others you are literally attacking what is not there.

T-13.V.4. The delusional can be very destructive, for they do not recognize they have condemned themselves. ² They do not wish to die, yet they will not let condemnation go. ³ And so they separate into their private worlds, where everything is disordered, and where what is within appears to be without. ⁴ Yet what is within they do not see, for the reality of their brothers they cannot recognize.

T-13.V.5. You have but two emotions, yet in your private world you react to each of them as though it were the other. ² For love cannot abide in a world apart, where when it comes it is not recognized. ³ If you see your own hatred as your brother, you are not seeing him. ⁴ Everyone draws nigh unto what he loves, and recoils from what he fears. ⁵ And you react with fear to love, and draw away from it. ⁶ Yet fear attracts you, and believing it is love, you call it to yourself. ⁷ Your private world is filled with figures of fear you have invited into it, and all the love your brothers offer you, you do not see.

T-13.V.6. As you look with open eyes upon your world, it must occur to you that you have withdrawn into insanity. ² You see what is not there, and you hear what makes no sound. ³ Your manifestations of emotions are the opposite of what the emotions are. ⁴ You communicate with no one, and you are as isolated from reality as if you were alone in all the universe. ⁵ In your madness you overlook reality completely, and you see only your own split mind everywhere you look. ⁶ God calls you and you do not hear, for you are preoccupied with your own voice. ⁷ And the vision of Christ is not in your sight, for you look upon yourself alone.

T-13.V.7. Little child, would you offer this to your Father? ² For if you offer it to yourself, you are offering it to Him. ³ And He will not return it, for it is unworthy of you because it is unworthy of Him. ⁴ Yet He would release you from it and set you free. ⁵ His sane Answer tells you what you have offered yourself is not true, but His offering to you has never changed. ⁶ You who know not what you do can learn what insanity is, and look beyond it. ⁷ It is given you to learn how to deny insanity, and come forth from your private world in peace. ⁸ You will see all that you denied in your brothers because you denied it in yourself. ⁹ For you will love them, and by drawing nigh unto them you will draw them to yourself, perceiving them as witnesses to the reality you share with God. ¹⁰ I am with them as I am with you, and we will draw them from their private worlds, for as we are united so would we unite with them. ¹¹ The Father welcomes all of us in gladness, and gladness is what we should offer Him. ¹² For every Son of God is given you to whom God gave Himself. ¹³ And it is God Whom you must offer them, to recognize His gift to you.

T-13.V.8. Vision depends on light. ² You cannot see in darkness. ³ Yet in darkness, in the private world of sleep, you see in dreams although your eyes are closed. ⁴ And it is here that what you see you made. ⁵ But let the darkness go and all you made you will no longer see, for sight of it depends upon denying vision. ⁶ Yet from denying vision it does not follow you cannot see. ⁷ But this is what denial does, for by it you accept insanity, believing you can make a private world and rule your own perception. ⁸ Yet for this, light must be excluded. ⁹ Dreams disappear when light has come and you can see.

T-13.V.9. Do not seek vision through your eyes, for you made your way of seeing that you might see in darkness, and in this you are deceived. ² Beyond this darkness, and yet still within you, is the vision of Christ, Who looks on all in light. ³ Your "vision" comes from fear, as His from love. ⁴ And He sees for you, as your witness to the real world. ⁵ He is the Holy Spirit's manifestation, looking always on the real world, and calling forth its witnesses and drawing them to you. ⁶ He loves what He sees within you, and He would extend it. ⁷ And He will not return unto the Father until He has extended your perception even unto Him. ⁸ And there perception is no more, for He has returned you to the Father with Him.

T-13.V.10. You have but two emotions, and one you made and one was given you. ² Each is a way of seeing, and different worlds arise from their different sights. ³ See through the vision that is given you, for through Christ's vision He beholds Himself. ⁴ And seeing what He is, He knows His Father. ⁵ Beyond your darkest dreams He sees God's guiltless Son within you, shining in perfect radiance that is undimmed by your dreams. ⁶ And this you will see as you look with Him, for His vision is His gift of love to you, given Him of the Father for you.

T-13.V.11. The Holy Spirit is the light in which Christ stands revealed. ² And all who would behold Him can see Him, for they have asked for light. ³ Nor will they see Him alone, for He is no more alone than they are. ⁴ Because they saw the Son, they have risen in Him to the Father. ⁵ And all this will they understand, because they looked within and saw beyond the darkness the Christ in them, and recognized Him. ⁶ In the sanity of His vision they looked upon themselves with love, seeing themselves as the Holy Spirit sees them. ⁷ And with this vision of the truth in them came all the beauty of the world to shine upon them.