IV. Healing as the Recognition of Truth

T-7.IV.1. Truth can only be recognized and need only be recognized. ² Inspiration is of the Holy Spirit, and certainty is of God according to His laws. ³ Both, therefore, come from the same Source, since inspiration comes from the Voice for God and certainty comes from the laws of God. ⁴ Healing does not come directly from God, Who knows His creations as perfectly whole. ⁵ Yet healing is still of God, because it proceeds from His Voice and from His laws. ⁶ It is their result, in a state of mind that does not know Him. ⁷ The state is unknown to Him and therefore does not exist, but those who sleep are unaware. ⁸ Because they are unaware, they do not know.

T-7.IV.2. The Holy Spirit must work through you to teach you He is in you. ² This is an intermediary step toward the knowledge that you are in God because you are part of Him. ³ The miracles the Holy Spirit inspires can have no order of difficulty, because every part of creation is of one order. ⁴ This is God's Will and yours. ⁵ The laws of God establish this, and the Holy Spirit reminds you of it. ⁶ When you heal, you are remembering the laws of God and forgetting the laws of the ego. ⁷ I said before that forgetting is merely a way of remembering better. ⁸ It is therefore not the opposite of remembering when it is properly perceived. ⁹ Perceived improperly, it induces a perception of conflict with something else, as all incorrect perception does. ¹⁰ Properly perceived, it can be used as a way out of conflict, as all proper perception can.

T-7.IV.3. The ego does not want to teach everyone all it has learned, because that would defeat its purpose. ² Therefore it does not really learn at all. ³ The Holy Spirit teaches you to use what the ego has made, to teach the opposite of what the ego has "learned." ⁴ The kind of learning is as irrelevant as is the particular ability that was applied to the learning. ⁵ All you need do is make the effort to learn, for the Holy Spirit has a unified goal for the effort. ⁶ If different abilities are applied long enough to one goal, the abilities themselves become unified. ⁷ This is because they are channelized in one direction, or in one way. ⁸ Ultimately, then, they all contribute to one result, and by so doing, their similarity rather than their differences is emphasized.

T-7.IV.4. All abilities should therefore be given over to the Holy Spirit, Who understands how to use them properly. ² He uses them only for healing, because He knows you only as whole. ³ By healing you learn of wholeness, and by learning of wholeness you learn to remember God. ⁴ You have forgotten Him, but the Holy Spirit understands that your forgetting must be translated into a way of remembering.

T-7.IV.5. The ego's goal is as unified as the Holy Spirit's, and it is because of this that their goals can never be reconciled in any way or to any extent. ² The ego always seeks to divide and separate. ³ The Holy Spirit always seeks to unify and heal. ⁴ As you heal you are healed, because the Holy Spirit sees no order of difficulty in healing. ⁵ Healing is the way to undo the belief in differences, being the only way of perceiving the Sonship as one. ⁶ This perception is therefore in accord with the laws of God, even in a state of mind that is out of accord with His. ⁷ The strength of right perception is so great that it brings the mind into accord with His, because it serves His Voice, which is in all of you.

T-7.IV.6. To think you can oppose the Will of God is a real delusion. ² The ego believes that it can, and that it can offer you its own "will" as a gift. ³ You do not want it. ⁴ It is not a gift. ⁵ It is nothing at all. ⁶ God has given you a gift that you both have and are. ⁷ When you do not use it, you forget that you have it. ⁸ By not remembering it, you do not know what you are. ⁹ Healing, then, is a way of approaching knowledge by thinking in accordance with the laws of God, and recognizing their universality. ¹⁰ Without this recognition, you have made the laws meaningless to you. ¹¹ Yet the laws are not meaningless, since all meaning is contained by them and in them.

T-7.IV.7. Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven, because that is where the laws of God operate truly, and they can operate only truly because they are the laws of truth. ² But seek this only, because you can find nothing else. ³ There is nothing else. ⁴ God is All in all in a very literal sense. ⁵ All being is in Him Who is all Being. ⁶ You are therefore in Him since your being is His. ⁷ Healing is a way of forgetting the sense of danger the ego has induced in you, by not recognizing its existence in your brother. ⁸ This strengthens the Holy Spirit in both of you, because it is a refusal to acknowledge fear. ⁹ Love needs only this invitation. ¹⁰ It comes freely to all the Sonship, being what the Sonship is. ¹¹ By your awakening to it, you are merely forgetting what you are not. ¹² This enables you to remember what you are.