V. Heralds of Eternity

T-20.V.1. In this world, God's Son comes closest to himself in a holy relationship. ² There he begins to find the certainty his Father has in him. ³ And there he finds his function of restoring his Father's laws to what was held outside them, and finding what was lost. ⁴ Only in time can anything be lost, and never lost forever. ⁵ So do the parts of God's Son gradually join in time, and with each joining is the end of time brought nearer. ⁶ Each miracle of joining is a mighty herald of eternity. ⁷ No one who has a single purpose, unified and sure, can be afraid. ⁸ No one who shares his purpose with him can not be one with him.

T-20.V.2. Each herald of eternity sings of the end of sin and fear. ² Each speaks in time of what is far beyond it. ³ Two voices raised together call to the hearts of everyone, to let them beat as one. ⁴ And in that single heartbeat is the unity of love proclaimed and given welcome. ⁵ Peace to your holy relationship, which has the power to hold the unity of the Son of God together. ⁶ You give to your brother for everyone, and in your gift is everyone made glad. ⁷ Forget not Who has given you the gifts you give, and through your not forgetting this, will you remember Who gave the gifts to Him to give to you.

T-20.V.3. It is impossible to overestimate your brother's value. ² Only the ego does this, but all it means is that it wants the other for itself, and therefore values him too little. ³ What is inestimable clearly cannot be evaluated. ⁴ Do you recognize the fear that rises from the meaningless attempt to judge what lies so far beyond your judgment you cannot even see it? ⁵ Judge not what is invisible to you or you will never see it, but wait in patience for its coming. ⁶ It will be given you to see your brother's worth when all you want for him is peace. ⁷ And what you want for him you will receive.

T-20.V.4. How can you estimate the worth of him who offers peace to you? ² What would you want except his offering? ³ His worth has been established by his Father, and you will recognize it as you receive his Father's gift through him. ⁴ What is in him will shine so brightly in your grateful vision that you will merely love him and be glad. ⁵ You will not think to judge him, for who would see the face of Christ and yet insist that judgment still has meaning? ⁶ For this insistence is of those who do not see. ⁷ Vision or judgment is your choice, but never both of these.

T-20.V.5. Your brother's body is as little use to you as it is to him. ² When it is used only as the Holy Spirit teaches, it has no function. ³ For minds need not the body to communicate. ⁴ The sight that sees the body has no use which serves the purpose of a holy relationship. ⁵ And while you look upon your brother thus, the means and end have not been brought in line. ⁶ Why should it take so many holy instants to let this be accomplished, when one would do? ⁷ There is but one. ⁸ The little breath of eternity that runs through time like golden light is all the same; nothing before it, nothing afterwards.

T-20.V.6. You look upon each holy instant as a different point in time. ² It never changes. ³ All that it ever held or will ever hold is here right now. ⁴ The past takes nothing from it, and the future will add no more. ⁵ Here, then, is everything. ⁶ Here is the loveliness of your relationship, with means and end in perfect harmony already. ⁷ Here is the perfect faith that you will one day offer to your brother already offered you; and here the limitless forgiveness you will give him already given, the face of Christ you yet will look upon already seen.

T-20.V.7. Can you evaluate the giver of a gift like this? ² Would you exchange this gift for any other? ³ This gift returns the laws of God to your remembrance. ⁴ And merely by remembering them, the laws that held you prisoner to pain and death must be forgotten. ⁵ This is no gift your brother's body offers you. ⁶ The veil that hides the gift hides him as well. ⁷ He is the gift, and yet he knows it not. ⁸ No more do you. ⁹ And yet, have faith that He Who sees the gift in you and your brother will offer and receive it for you both. ¹⁰ And through His vision will you see it, and through His understanding recognize it and love it as your own.

T-20.V.8. Be comforted, and feel the Holy Spirit watching over you in love and perfect confidence in what He sees. ² He knows the Son of God, and shares his Father's certainty the universe rests in his gentle hands in safety and in peace. ³ Let us consider now what he must learn, to share his Father's confidence in him. ⁴ What is he, that the Creator of the universe should offer it to him and know it rests in safety? ⁵ He looks upon himself not as his Father knows him. ⁶ And yet it is impossible the confidence of God should be misplaced.