IX. The Extension of the Kingdom

T-7.IX.1. Only you can limit your creative power, but God wills to release it. ² He no more wills you to deprive yourself of your creations than He wills to deprive Himself of His. ³ Do not withhold your gifts to the Sonship, or you withhold yourself from God! ⁴ Selfishness is of the ego, but Self-fullness is of spirit because that is how God created it. ⁵ The Holy Spirit is in the part of the mind that lies between the ego and the spirit, mediating between them always in favor of the spirit. ⁶ To the ego this is partiality, and it responds as if it were being sided against. ⁷ To spirit this is truth, because it knows its fullness and cannot conceive of any part from which it is excluded.

T-7.IX.2. Spirit knows that the awareness of all its brothers is included in its own, as it is included in God. ² The power of the whole Sonship and of its Creator is therefore spirit's own fullness, rendering its creations equally whole and equal in perfection. ³ The ego cannot prevail against a totality that includes God, and any totality must include God. ⁴ Everything He created is given all His power, because it is part of Him and shares His Being with Him. ⁵ Creating is the opposite of loss, as blessing is the opposite of sacrifice. ⁶ Being must be extended. ⁷ That is how it retains the knowledge of itself. ⁸ Spirit yearns to share its being as its Creator did. ⁹ Created by sharing, its will is to create. ¹⁰ It does not wish to contain God, but wills to extend His Being.

T-7.IX.3. The extension of God's Being is spirit's only function. ² Its fullness cannot be contained, any more than can the fullness of its Creator. ³ Fullness is extension. ⁴ The ego's whole thought system blocks extension, and thus blocks your only function. ⁵ It therefore blocks your joy, so that you perceive yourself as unfulfilled. ⁶ Unless you create you are unfulfilled, but God does not know unfulfillment and therefore you must create. ⁷ You may not know your own creations, but this can no more interfere with their reality than your unawareness of your spirit can interfere with its being.

T-7.IX.4. The Kingdom is forever extending because it is in the Mind of God. ² You do not know your joy because you do not know your own Self-fullness. ³ Exclude any part of the Kingdom from yourself and you are not whole. ⁴ A split mind cannot perceive its fullness, and needs the miracle of its wholeness to dawn upon it and heal it. ⁵ This reawakens the wholeness in it, and restores it to the Kingdom because of its acceptance of wholeness. ⁶ The full appreciation of the mind's Self-fullness makes selfishness impossible and extension inevitable. ⁷ That is why there is perfect peace in the Kingdom. ⁸ Spirit is fulfilling its function, and only complete fulfillment is peace.

T-7.IX.5. Your creations are protected for you because the Holy Spirit, Who is in your mind, knows of them and can bring them into your awareness whenever you will let Him. ² They are there as part of your own being, because your fulfillment includes them. ³ The creations of every Son of God are yours, since every creation belongs to everyone, being created for the Sonship as a whole.

T-7.IX.6. You have not failed to increase the inheritance of the Sons of God, and thus have not failed to secure it for yourself. ² Since it was the Will of God to give it to you, He gave it forever. ³ Since it was His Will that you have it forever, He gave you the means for keeping it. ⁴ And you have done so. ⁵ Disobeying God's Will is meaningful only to the insane. ⁶ In truth it is impossible. ⁷ Your Self-fullness is as boundless as God's. ⁸ Like His, It extends forever and in perfect peace. ⁹ Its radiance is so intense that It creates in perfect joy, and only the whole can be born of Its Wholeness.

T-7.IX.7. Be confident that you have never lost your Identity and the extensions which maintain It in wholeness and peace. ² Miracles are an expression of this confidence. ³ They are reflections of both your proper identification with your brothers, and of your awareness that your identification is maintained by extension. ⁴ The miracle is a lesson in total perception. ⁵ By including any part of totality in the lesson, you have included the whole.