V. The Healing Example

T-27.V.1. The only way to heal is to be healed. ² The miracle extends without your help, but you are needed that it can begin. ³ Accept the miracle of healing, and it will go forth because of what it is. ⁴ It is its nature to extend itself the instant it is born. ⁵ And it is born the instant it is offered and received. ⁶ No one can ask another to be healed. ⁷ But he can let himself be healed, and thus offer the other what he has received. ⁸ Who can bestow upon another what he does not have? ⁹ And who can share what he denies himself? ¹⁰ The Holy Spirit speaks to you. ¹¹ He does not speak to someone else. ¹² Yet by your listening His Voice extends, because you have accepted what He says.

T-27.V.2. Health is the witness unto health. ² As long as it is unattested, it remains without conviction. ³ Only when it has been demonstrated is it proved, and must provide a witness that compels belief. ⁴ No one is healed through double messages. ⁵ If you wish only to be healed, you heal. ⁶ Your single purpose makes this possible. ⁷ But if you are afraid of healing, then it cannot come through you. ⁸ The only thing that is required for a healing is a lack of fear. ⁹ The fearful are not healed, and cannot heal. ¹⁰ This does not mean the conflict must be gone forever from your mind to heal. ¹¹ For if it were, there were no need for healing then. ¹² But it does mean, if only for an instant, you love without attack. ¹³ An instant is sufficient. ¹⁴ Miracles wait not on time.

T-27.V.3. The holy instant is the miracle's abiding place. ² From there, each one is born into this world as witness to a state of mind that has transcended conflict, and has reached to peace. ³ It carries comfort from the place of peace into the battleground, and demonstrates that war has no effects. ⁴ For all the hurt that war has sought to bring, the broken bodies and the shattered limbs, the screaming dying and the silent dead, are gently lifted up and comforted.

T-27.V.4. There is no sadness where a miracle has come to heal. ² And nothing more than just one instant of your love without attack is necessary that all this occur. ³ In that one instant you are healed, and in that single instant is all healing done. ⁴ What stands apart from you, when you accept the blessing that the holy instant brings? ⁵ Be not afraid of blessing, for the One Who blesses you loves all the world, and leaves nothing within the world that could be feared. ⁶ But if you shrink from blessing, will the world indeed seem fearful, for you have withheld its peace and comfort, leaving it to die.

T-27.V.5. Would not a world so bitterly bereft be looked on as a condemnation by the one who could have saved it, but stepped back because he was afraid of being healed? ² The eyes of all the dying bring reproach, and suffering whispers, "What is there to fear?" ³ Consider well its question. ⁴ It is asked of you on your behalf. ⁵ A dying world asks only that you rest an instant from attack upon yourself, that it be healed.

T-27.V.6. Come to the holy instant and be healed, for nothing that is there received is left behind on your returning to the world. ² And being blessed you will bring blessing. ³ Life is given you to give the dying world. ⁴ And suffering eyes no longer will accuse, but shine in thanks to you who blessing gave. ⁵ The holy instant's radiance will light your eyes, and give them sight to see beyond all suffering and see Christ's face instead. ⁶ Healing replaces suffering. ⁷ Who looks on one cannot perceive the other, for they cannot both be there. ⁸ And what you see the world will witness, and will witness to.

T-27.V.7. Thus is your healing everything the world requires, that it may be healed. ² It needs one lesson that has perfectly been learned. ³ And then, when you forget it, will the world remind you gently of what you have taught. ⁴ No reinforcement will its thanks withhold from you who let yourself be healed that it might live. ⁵ It will call forth its witnesses to show the face of Christ to you who brought the sight to them, by which they witnessed it. ⁶ The world of accusation is replaced by one in which all eyes look lovingly upon the Friend who brought them their release. ⁷ And happily your brother will perceive the many friends he thought were enemies.

T-27.V.8. Problems are not specific but they take specific forms, and these specific shapes make up the world. ² And no one understands the nature of his problem. ³ If he did, it would be there no more for him to see. ⁴ Its very nature is that it is not. ⁵ And thus, while he perceives it he can not perceive it as it is. ⁶ But healing is apparent in specific instances, and generalizes to include them all. ⁷ This is because they really are the same, despite their different forms. ⁸ All learning aims at transfer, which becomes complete within two situations that are seen as one, for only common elements are there. ⁹ Yet this can only be attained by One Who does not see the differences you see. ¹⁰ The total transfer of your learning is not made by you. ¹¹ But that it has been made in spite of all the differences you see, convinces you that they could not be real.

T-27.V.9. Your healing will extend, and will be brought to problems that you thought were not your own. ² And it will also be apparent that your many different problems will be solved as any one of them has been escaped. ³ It cannot be their differences which made this possible, for learning does not jump from situations to their opposites and bring the same results. ⁴ All healing must proceed in lawful manner, in accord with laws that have been properly perceived but never violated. ⁵ Fear you not the way that you perceive them. ⁶ You are wrong, but there is One within you Who is right.

T-27.V.10. Leave, then, the transfer of your learning to the One Who really understands its laws, and Who will guarantee that they remain unviolated and unlimited. ² Your part is merely to apply what He has taught you to yourself, and He will do the rest. ³ And it is thus the power of your learning will be proved to you by all the many different witnesses it finds. ⁴ Your brother first among them will be seen, but thousands stand behind him, and beyond each one of them there are a thousand more. ⁵ Each one may seem to have a problem that is different from the rest. ⁶ Yet they are solved together. ⁷ And their common answer shows the questions could not have been separate.

T-27.V.11. Peace be to you to whom is healing offered. ² And you will learn that peace is given you when you accept the healing for yourself. ³ Its total value need not be appraised by you to let you understand that you have benefited from it. ⁴ What occurred within the instant that love entered in without attack will stay with you forever. ⁵ Your healing will be one of its effects, as will your brother's. ⁶ Everywhere you go, will you behold its multiplied effects. ⁷ Yet all the witnesses that you behold will be far less than all there really are. ⁸ Infinity cannot be understood by merely counting up its separate parts. ⁹ God thanks you for your healing, for He knows it is a gift of love unto His Son, and therefore is it given unto Him.