V. The Lessons of the Holy Spirit

T-6.V.1. Like any good teacher, the Holy Spirit knows more than you do now, but He teaches only to make you equal with Him. ² You had already taught yourself wrongly, having believed what was not true. ³ You did not believe in your own perfection. ⁴ Would God teach you that you had made a split mind, when He knows your mind only as whole? ⁵ What God does know is that His communication channels are not open to Him, so that He cannot impart His joy and know that His children are wholly joyous. ⁶ Giving His joy is an ongoing process, not in time but in eternity. ⁷ God's extending outward, though not His completeness, is blocked when the Sonship does not communicate with Him as one. ⁸ So He thought, "My children sleep and must be awakened."

T-6.V.2. How can you wake children in a more kindly way than by a gentle Voice that will not frighten them, but will merely remind them that the night is over and the light has come? ² You do not inform them that the nightmares that frightened them so badly are not real, because children believe in magic. ³ You merely reassure them that they are safe now. ⁴ Then you train them to recognize the difference between sleeping and waking, so they will understand they need not be afraid of dreams. ⁵ And so when bad dreams come, they will themselves call on the light to dispel them.

T-6.V.3. A wise teacher teaches through approach, not avoidance. ² He does not emphasize what you must avoid to escape from harm, but what you need to learn to have joy. ³ Consider the fear and confusion a child would experience if he were told, "Do not do this because it will hurt you and make you unsafe; but if you do that instead, you will escape from harm and be safe, and then you will not be afraid." ⁴ It is surely better to use only three words: "Do only that!" ⁵ This simple statement is perfectly clear, easily understood and very easily remembered.

T-6.V.4. The Holy Spirit never itemizes errors because He does not frighten children, and those who lack wisdom are children. ² Yet He always answers their call, and His dependability makes them more certain. ³ Children do confuse fantasy and reality, and they are frightened because they do not recognize the difference. ⁴ The Holy Spirit makes no distinction among dreams. ⁵ He merely shines them away. ⁶ His light is always the Call to awaken, whatever you have been dreaming. ⁷ Nothing lasting lies in dreams, and the Holy Spirit, shining with the light from God Himself, speaks only for what lasts forever.