XI. The Peace of Heaven

T-13.XI.1. Forgetfulness and sleep and even death become the ego's best advice for dealing with the perceived and harsh intrusion of guilt on peace. ² Yet no one sees himself in conflict and ravaged by a cruel war unless he believes that both opponents in the war are real. ³ Believing this he must escape, for such a war would surely end his peace of mind, and so destroy him. ⁴ Yet if he could but realize the war is between real and unreal powers, he could look upon himself and see his freedom. ⁵ No one finds himself ravaged and torn in endless battles if he himself perceives them as wholly without meaning.

T-13.XI.2. God would not have His Son embattled, and so His Son's imagined "enemy" is totally unreal. ² You are but trying to escape a bitter war from which you have escaped. ³ The war is gone. ⁴ For you have heard the hymn of freedom rising unto Heaven. ⁵ Gladness and joy belong to God for your release, because you made it not. ⁶ Yet as you made not freedom, so you made not a war that could endanger freedom. ⁷ Nothing destructive ever was or will be. ⁸ The war, the guilt, the past are gone as one into the unreality from which they came.

T-13.XI.3. When we are all united in Heaven, you will value nothing that you value here. ² For nothing that you value here do you value wholly, and so you do not value it at all. ³ Value is where God placed it, and the value of what God esteems cannot be judged, for it has been established. ⁴ It is wholly of value. ⁵ It can merely be appreciated or not. ⁶ To value it partially is not to know its value. ⁷ In Heaven is everything God values, and nothing else. ⁸ Heaven is perfectly unambiguous. ⁹ Everything is clear and bright, and calls forth one response. ¹⁰ There is no darkness and there is no contrast. ¹¹ There is no variation. ¹² There is no interruption. ¹³ There is a sense of peace so deep that no dream in this world has ever brought even a dim imagining of what it is.

T-13.XI.4. Nothing in this world can give this peace, for nothing in this world is wholly shared. ² Perfect perception can merely show you what is capable of being wholly shared. ³ It can also show you the results of sharing, while you still remember the results of not sharing. ⁴ The Holy Spirit points quietly to the contrast, knowing that you will finally let Him judge the difference for you, allowing Him to demonstrate which must be true. ⁵ He has perfect faith in your final judgment, because He knows that He will make it for you. ⁶ To doubt this would be to doubt that His mission will be fulfilled. ⁷ How is this possible, when His mission is of God?

T-13.XI.5. You whose mind is darkened by doubt and guilt, remember this: God gave the Holy Spirit to you, and gave Him the mission to remove all doubt and every trace of guilt that His dear Son has laid upon himself. ² It is impossible that this mission fail. ³ Nothing can prevent what God would have accomplished from accomplishment. ⁴ Whatever your reactions to the Holy Spirit's Voice may be, whatever voice you choose to listen to, whatever strange thoughts may occur to you, God's Will is done. ⁵ You will find the peace in which He has established you, because He does not change His Mind. ⁶ He is invariable as the peace in which you dwell, and of which the Holy Spirit reminds you.

T-13.XI.6. You will not remember change and shift in Heaven. ² You have need of contrast only here. ³ Contrast and differences are necessary teaching aids, for by them you learn what to avoid and what to seek. ⁴ When you have learned this, you will find the answer that makes the need for any differences disappear. ⁵ Truth comes of its own will unto its own. ⁶ When you have learned that you belong to truth, it will flow lightly over you without a difference of any kind. ⁷ For you will need no contrast to help you realize that this is what you want, and only this. ⁸ Fear not the Holy Spirit will fail in what your Father has given Him to do. ⁹ The Will of God can fail in nothing.

T-13.XI.7. Have faith in only this one thing, and it will be sufficient: God wills you be in Heaven, and nothing can keep you from it, or it from you. ² Your wildest misperceptions, your weird imaginings, your blackest nightmares all mean nothing. ³ They will not prevail against the peace God wills for you. ⁴ The Holy Spirit will restore your sanity because insanity is not the Will of God. ⁵ If that suffices Him, it is enough for you. ⁶ You will not keep what God would have removed, because it breaks communication with you with whom He would communicate. ⁷ His Voice will be heard.

T-13.XI.8. The Communication Link that God Himself placed within you, joining your mind with His, cannot be broken. ² You may believe you want It broken, and this belief does interfere with the deep peace in which the sweet and constant communication God would share with you is known. ³ Yet His channels of reaching out cannot be wholly closed and separated from Him. ⁴ Peace will be yours because His peace still flows to you from Him Whose Will is peace. ⁵ You have it now. ⁶ The Holy Spirit will teach you how to use it, and by extending it, to learn that it is in you. ⁷ God willed you Heaven, and will always will you nothing else. ⁸ The Holy Spirit knows only of His Will. ⁹ There is no chance that Heaven will not be yours, for God is sure, and what He wills is as sure as He is.

T-13.XI.9. You will learn salvation because you will learn how to save. ² It will not be possible to exempt yourself from what the Holy Spirit wants to teach you. ³ Salvation is as sure as God. ⁴ His certainty suffices. ⁵ Learn that even the darkest nightmare that disturbs the mind of God's sleeping Son holds no power over him. ⁶ He will learn the lesson of awaking. ⁷ God watches over him and light surrounds him.

T-13.XI.10. Can God's Son lose himself in dreams, when God has placed within him the glad Call to waken and be glad? ² He cannot separate himself from what is in him. ³ His sleep will not withstand the Call to wake. ⁴ The mission of redemption will be fulfilled as surely as the creation will remain unchanged throughout eternity. ⁵ You do not have to know that Heaven is yours to make it so. ⁶ It is so. ⁷ Yet to know it, the Will of God must be accepted as your will.

T-13.XI.11. The Holy Spirit will undo for you everything you have learned that teaches that what is not true must be reconciled with truth. ² This is the reconciliation the ego would substitute for your reconciliation to sanity and to peace. ³ The Holy Spirit has a very different kind of reconciliation in His Mind for you, and one He will effect as surely as the ego will not effect what it attempts. ⁴ Failure is of the ego, not of God. ⁵ From Him you cannot wander, and there is no possibility that the plan the Holy Spirit offers to everyone, for the salvation of everyone, will not be perfectly accomplished. ⁶ You will be released, and you will not remember anything you made that was not created for you and by you in return. ⁷ For how can you remember what was never true, or not remember what has always been? ⁸ It is this reconciliation with truth, and only truth, in which the peace of Heaven lies.