V. The Circle of Atonement

T-14.V.1. The only part of your mind that has reality is the part that links you still with God. ² Would you have all of it transformed into a radiant message of God's Love, to share with all the lonely ones who have denied Him? ³ God makes this possible. ⁴ Would you deny His yearning to be known? ⁵ You yearn for Him, as He for you. ⁶ This is forever changeless. ⁷ Accept, then, the immutable. ⁸ Leave the world of death behind, and return quietly to Heaven. ⁹ There is nothing of value here, and everything of value there. ¹⁰ Listen to the Holy Spirit, and to God through Him. ¹¹ He speaks of you to you. ¹² There is no guilt in you, for God is blessed in His Son as the Son is blessed in Him.

T-14.V.2. Everyone has a special part to play in the Atonement, but the message given to each one is always the same; God's Son is guiltless. ² Each one teaches the message differently, and learns it differently. ³ Yet until he teaches it and learns it, he will suffer the pain of dim awareness that his true function remains unfulfilled in him. ⁴ The burden of guilt is heavy, but God would not have you bound by it. ⁵ His plan for your awaking is as perfect as yours is fallible. ⁶ You know not what you do, but He Who knows is with you. ⁷ His gentleness is yours, and all the love you share with God He holds in trust for you. ⁸ He would teach you nothing except how to be happy.

T-14.V.3. Blessed Son of a wholly blessing Father, joy was created for you. ² Who can condemn whom God has blessed? ³ There is nothing in the Mind of God that does not share His shining innocence. ⁴ Creation is the natural extension of perfect purity. ⁵ Your only calling here is to devote yourself, with active willingness, to the denial of guilt in all its forms. ⁶ To accuse is not to understand. ⁷ The happy learners of the Atonement become the teachers of the innocence that is the right of all that God created. ⁸ Deny them not what is their due, for you will not withhold it from them alone.

T-14.V.4. The inheritance of the Kingdom is the right of God's Son, given him in his creation. ² Do not try to steal it from him, or you will ask for guilt and will experience it. ³ Protect his purity from every thought that would steal it away and keep it from his sight. ⁴ Bring innocence to light, in answer to the call of the Atonement. ⁵ Never allow purity to remain hidden, but shine away the heavy veils of guilt within which the Son of God has hidden himself from his own sight.

T-14.V.5. We are all joined in the Atonement here, and nothing else can unite us in this world. ² So will the world of separation slip away, and full communication be restored between the Father and the Son. ³ The miracle acknowledges the guiltlessness that must have been denied to produce the need of healing. ⁴ Do not withhold this glad acknowledgment, for hope of happiness and release from suffering of every kind lie in it. ⁵ Who is there but wishes to be free of pain? ⁶ He may not yet have learned how to exchange guilt for innocence, nor realize that only in this exchange can freedom from pain be his. ⁷ Yet those who have failed to learn need teaching, not attack. ⁸ To attack those who have need of teaching is to fail to learn from them.

T-14.V.6. Teachers of innocence, each in his own way, have joined together, taking their part in the unified curriculum of the Atonement. ² There is no unity of learning goals apart from this. ³ There is no conflict in this curriculum, which has one aim however it is taught. ⁴ Each effort made on its behalf is offered for the single purpose of release from guilt, to the eternal glory of God and His creation. ⁵ And every teaching that points to this points straight to Heaven, and the peace of God. ⁶ There is no pain, no trial, no fear that teaching this can fail to overcome. ⁷ The power of God Himself supports this teaching, and guarantees its limitless results.

T-14.V.7. Join your own efforts to the power that cannot fail and must result in peace. ² No one can be untouched by teaching such as this. ³ You will not see yourself beyond the power of God if you teach only this. ⁴ You will not be exempt from the effects of this most holy lesson, which seeks but to restore what is the right of God's creation. ⁵ From everyone whom you accord release from guilt you will inevitably learn your innocence. ⁶ The circle of Atonement has no end. ⁷ And you will find ever-increasing confidence in your safe inclusion in the circle with everyone you bring within its safety and its perfect peace.

T-14.V.8. Peace, then, be unto everyone who becomes a teacher of peace. ² For peace is the acknowledgment of perfect purity, from which no one is excluded. ³ Within its holy circle is everyone whom God created as His Son. ⁴ Joy is its unifying attribute, with no one left outside to suffer guilt alone. ⁵ The power of God draws everyone to its safe embrace of love and union. ⁶ Stand quietly within this circle, and attract all tortured minds to join with you in the safety of its peace and holiness. ⁷ Abide with me within it, as a teacher of Atonement, not of guilt.

T-14.V.9. Blessed are you who teach with me. ² Our power comes not of us, but of our Father. ³ In guiltlessness we know Him, as He knows us guiltless. ⁴ I stand within the circle, calling you to peace. ⁵ Teach peace with me, and stand with me on holy ground. ⁶ Remember for everyone your Father's power that He has given him. ⁷ Believe not that you cannot teach His perfect peace. ⁸ Stand not outside, but join with me within. ⁹ Fail not the only purpose to which my teaching calls you. ¹⁰ Restore to God His Son as He created him, by teaching him his innocence.

T-14.V.10. The crucifixion had no part in the Atonement. ² Only the resurrection became my part in it. ³ That is the symbol of the release from guilt by guiltlessness. ⁴ Whom you perceive as guilty you would crucify. ⁵ Yet you restore guiltlessness to whomever you see as guiltless. ⁶ Crucifixion is always the ego's aim. ⁷ It sees everyone as guilty, and by its condemnation it would kill. ⁸ The Holy Spirit sees only guiltlessness, and in His gentleness He would release from fear and re-establish the reign of love. ⁹ The power of love is in His gentleness, which is of God and therefore cannot crucify nor suffer crucifixion. ¹⁰ The temple you restore becomes your altar, for it was rebuilt through you. ¹¹ And everything you give to God is yours. ¹² Thus He creates, and thus must you restore.

T-14.V.11. Each one you see you place within the holy circle of Atonement or leave outside, judging him fit for crucifixion or for redemption. ² If you bring him into the circle of purity, you will rest there with him. ³ If you leave him without, you join him there. ⁴ Judge not except in quietness which is not of you. ⁵ Refuse to accept anyone as without the blessing of Atonement, and bring him into it by blessing him. ⁶ Holiness must be shared, for therein lies everything that makes it holy. ⁷ Come gladly to the holy circle, and look out in peace on all who think they are outside. ⁸ Cast no one out, for here is what he seeks along with you. ⁹ Come, let us join him in the holy place of peace which is for all of us, united as one within the Cause of peace.