II. Miracles as True Perception

T-3.II.1. I have stated that the basic concepts referred to in this course are not matters of degree. ² Certain fundamental concepts cannot be understood in terms of opposites. ³ It is impossible to conceive of light and darkness or everything and nothing as joint possibilities. ⁴ They are all true or all false. ⁵ It is essential that you realize your thinking will be erratic until a firm commitment to one or the other is made. ⁶ A firm commitment to darkness or nothingness, however, is impossible. ⁷ No one has ever lived who has not experienced some light and some thing. ⁸ No one, therefore, is able to deny truth totally, even if he thinks he can.

T-3.II.2. Innocence is not a partial attribute. ² It is not real until it is total. ³ The partly innocent are apt to be quite foolish at times. ⁴ It is not until their innocence becomes a viewpoint with universal application that it becomes wisdom. ⁵ Innocent or true perception means that you never misperceive and always see truly. ⁶ More simply, it means that you never see what does not exist, and always see what does.

T-3.II.3. When you lack confidence in what someone will do, you are attesting to your belief that he is not in his right mind. ² This is hardly a miracle-based frame of reference. ³ It also has the disastrous effect of denying the power of the miracle. ⁴ The miracle perceives everything as it is. ⁵ If nothing but the truth exists, right-minded seeing cannot see anything but perfection. ⁶ I have said that only what God creates or what you create with the same Will has any real existence. ⁷ This, then, is all the innocent can see. ⁸ They do not suffer from distorted perception.

T-3.II.4. You are afraid of God's Will because you have used your own mind, which He created in the likeness of His Own, to miscreate. ² The mind can miscreate only when it believes it is not free. ³ An "imprisoned" mind is not free because it is possessed, or held back, by itself. ⁴ It is therefore limited, and the will is not free to assert itself. ⁵ To be one is to be of one mind or will. ⁶ When the Will of the Sonship and the Father are One, their perfect accord is Heaven.

T-3.II.5. Nothing can prevail against a Son of God who commends his spirit into the Hands of his Father. ² By doing this the mind awakens from its sleep and remembers its Creator. ³ All sense of separation disappears. ⁴ The Son of God is part of the Holy Trinity, but the Trinity Itself is One. ⁵ There is no confusion within Its Levels, because They are of one Mind and one Will. ⁶ This single purpose creates perfect integration and establishes the peace of God. ⁷ Yet this vision can be perceived only by the truly innocent. ⁸ Because their hearts are pure, the innocent defend true perception instead of defending themselves against it. ⁹ Understanding the lesson of the Atonement they are without the wish to attack, and therefore they see truly. ¹⁰ This is what the Bible means when it says, "When he shall appear (or be perceived) we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is."

T-3.II.6. The way to correct distortions is to withdraw your faith in them and invest it only in what is true. ² You cannot make untruth true. ³ If you are willing to accept what is true in everything you perceive, you let it be true for you. ⁴ Truth overcomes all error, and those who live in error and emptiness can never find lasting solace. ⁵ If you perceive truly you are cancelling out misperceptions in yourself and in others simultaneously. ⁶ Because you see them as they are, you offer them your acceptance of their truth so they can accept it for themselves. ⁷ This is the healing that the miracle induces.