II. The Voice for God

T-5.II.1. Healing is not creating; it is reparation. ² The Holy Spirit promotes healing by looking beyond it to what the children of God were before healing was needed, and will be when they have been healed. ³ This alteration of the time sequence should be quite familiar, because it is very similar to the shift in the perception of time that the miracle introduces. ⁴ The Holy Spirit is the motivation for miracle-mindedness; the decision to heal the separation by letting it go. ⁵ Your will is still in you because God placed it in your mind, and although you can keep it asleep you cannot obliterate it. ⁶ God Himself keeps your will alive by transmitting it from His Mind to yours as long as there is time. ⁷ The miracle itself is a reflection of this union of Will between Father and Son.

T-5.II.2. The Holy Spirit is the spirit of joy. ² He is the Call to return with which God blessed the minds of His separated Sons. ³ This is the vocation of the mind. ⁴ The mind had no calling until the separation, because before that it had only being, and would not have understood the Call to right thinking. ⁵ The Holy Spirit is God's Answer to the separation; the means by which the Atonement heals until the whole mind returns to creating.

T-5.II.3. The principle of Atonement and the separation began at the same time. ² When the ego was made, God placed in the mind the Call to joy. ³ This Call is so strong that the ego always dissolves at Its sound. ⁴ That is why you must choose to hear one of two voices within you. ⁵ One you made yourself, and that one is not of God. ⁶ But the other is given you by God, Who asks you only to listen to it. ⁷ The Holy Spirit is in you in a very literal sense. ⁸ His is the Voice that calls you back to where you were before and will be again. ⁹ It is possible even in this world to hear only that Voice and no other. ¹⁰ It takes effort and great willingness to learn. ¹¹ It is the final lesson that I learned, and God's Sons are as equal as learners as they are as sons.

T-5.II.4. You are the Kingdom of Heaven, but you have let the belief in darkness enter your mind and so you need a new light. ² The Holy Spirit is the radiance that you must let banish the idea of darkness. ³ His is the glory before which dissociation falls away, and the Kingdom of Heaven breaks through into its own. ⁴ Before the separation you did not need guidance. ⁵ You knew as you will know again, but as you do not know now.

T-5.II.5. God does not guide, because He can share only perfect knowledge. ² Guidance is evaluative, because it implies there is a right way and also a wrong way, one to be chosen and the other to be avoided. ³ By choosing one you give up the other. ⁴ The choice for the Holy Spirit is the choice for God. ⁵ God is not in you in a literal sense; you are part of Him. ⁶ When you chose to leave Him He gave you a Voice to speak for Him because He could no longer share His knowledge with you without hindrance. ⁷ Direct communication was broken because you had made another voice.

T-5.II.6. The Holy Spirit calls you both to remember and to forget. ² You have chosen to be in a state of opposition in which opposites are possible. ³ As a result, there are choices you must make. ⁴ In the holy state the will is free, so that its creative power is unlimited and choice is meaningless. ⁵ Freedom to choose is the same power as freedom to create, but its application is different. ⁶ Choosing depends on a split mind. ⁷ The Holy Spirit is one way of choosing. ⁸ God did not leave His children comfortless, even though they chose to leave Him. ⁹ The voice they put in their minds was not the Voice for His Will, for which the Holy Spirit speaks.

T-5.II.7. The Voice of the Holy Spirit does not command, because It is incapable of arrogance. ² It does not demand, because It does not seek control. ³ It does not overcome, because It does not attack. ⁴ It merely reminds. ⁵ It is compelling only because of what It reminds you of. ⁶ It brings to your mind the other way, remaining quiet even in the midst of the turmoil you may make. ⁷ The Voice for God is always quiet, because It speaks of peace. ⁸ Peace is stronger than war because it heals. ⁹ War is division, not increase. ¹⁰ No one gains from strife. ¹¹ What profiteth it a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? ¹² If you listen to the wrong voice you have lost sight of your soul. ¹³ You cannot lose it, but you can not know it. ¹⁴ It is therefore "lost" to you until you choose right.

T-5.II.8. The Holy Spirit is your Guide in choosing. ² He is in the part of your mind that always speaks for the right choice, because He speaks for God. ³ He is your remaining communication with God, which you can interrupt but cannot destroy. ⁴ The Holy Spirit is the way in which God's Will is done on earth as it is in Heaven. ⁵ Both Heaven and earth are in you, because the call of both is in your mind. ⁶ The Voice for God comes from your own altars to Him. ⁷ These altars are not things; they are devotions. ⁸ Yet you have other devotions now. ⁹ Your divided devotion has given you the two voices, and you must choose at which altar you want to serve. ¹⁰ The call you answer now is an evaluation because it is a decision. ¹¹ The decision is very simple. ¹² It is made on the basis of which call is worth more to you.

T-5.II.9. My mind will always be like yours, because we were created as equals. ² It was only my decision that gave me all power in Heaven and earth. ³ My only gift to you is to help you make the same decision. ⁴ This decision is the choice to share it, because the decision itself is the decision to share. ⁵ It is made by giving, and is therefore the one choice that resembles true creation. ⁶ I am your model for decision. ⁷ By deciding for God I showed you that this decision can be made, and that you can make it.

T-5.II.10. I have assured you that the Mind that decided for me is also in you, and that you can let it change you just as it changed me. ² This Mind is unequivocal, because it hears only one Voice and answers in only one way. ³ You are the light of the world with me. ⁴ Rest does not come from sleeping but from waking. ⁵ The Holy Spirit is the Call to awaken and be glad. ⁶ The world is very tired, because it is the idea of weariness. ⁷ Our task is the joyous one of waking it to the Call for God. ⁸ Everyone will answer the Call of the Holy Spirit, or the Sonship cannot be as One. ⁹ What better vocation could there be for any part of the Kingdom than to restore it to the perfect integration that can make it whole? ¹⁰ Hear only this through the Holy Spirit within you, and teach your brothers to listen as I am teaching you.

T-5.II.11. When you are tempted by the wrong voice, call on me to remind you how to heal by sharing my decision and making it stronger. ² As we share this goal, we increase its power to attract the whole Sonship, and to bring it back into the oneness in which it was created. ³ Remember that "yoke" means "join together," and "burden" means "message." ⁴ Let us restate "My yoke is easy and my burden light" in this way; "Let us join together, for my message is light."

T-5.II.12. I have enjoined you to behave as I behaved, but we must respond to the same Mind to do this. ² This Mind is the Holy Spirit, Whose Will is for God always. ³ He teaches you how to keep me as the model for your thought, and to behave like me as a result. ⁴ The power of our joint motivation is beyond belief, but not beyond accomplishment. ⁵ What we can accomplish together has no limits, because the Call for God is the Call to the unlimited. ⁶ Child of God, my message is for you, to hear and give away as you answer the Holy Spirit within you.