VI. The Treasure of God

T-8.VI.1. We are the joint will of the Sonship, whose Wholeness is for all. ² We begin the journey back by setting out together, and gather in our brothers as we continue together. ³ Every gain in our strength is offered for all, so they too can lay aside their weakness and add their strength to us. ⁴ God's welcome waits for us all, and He will welcome us as I am welcoming you. ⁵ Forget not the Kingdom of God for anything the world has to offer.

T-8.VI.2. The world can add nothing to the power and the glory of God and His holy Sons, but it can blind the Sons to the Father if they behold it. ² You cannot behold the world and know God. ³ Only one is true. ⁴ I am come to tell you that the choice of which is true is not yours to make. ⁵ If it were, you would have destroyed yourself. ⁶ Yet God did not will the destruction of His creations, having created them for eternity. ⁷ His Will has saved you, not from yourself but from your illusion of yourself. ⁸ He has saved you for yourself.

T-8.VI.3. Let us glorify Him Whom the world denies, for over His Kingdom the world has no power. ² No one created by God can find joy in anything except the eternal; not because he is deprived of anything else, but because nothing else is worthy of him. ³ What God and His Sons create is eternal, and in this and this only is their joy.

T-8.VI.4. Listen to the story of the prodigal son, and learn what God's treasure is and yours: This son of a loving father left his home and thought he had squandered everything for nothing of any value, although he had not understood its worthlessness at the time. ² He was ashamed to return to his father, because he thought he had hurt him. ³ Yet when he came home the father welcomed him with joy, because the son himself was his father's treasure. ⁴ He wanted nothing else.

T-8.VI.5. God wants only His Son because His Son is His only treasure. ² You want your creations as He wants His. ³ Your creations are your gift to the Holy Trinity, created in gratitude for your creation. ⁴ They do not leave you any more than you left your Creator, but they extend your creation as God extended Himself to you. ⁵ Can the creations of God Himself take joy in what is not real? ⁶ And what is real except the creations of God and those that are created like His? ⁷ Your creations love you as you love your Father for the gift of creation. ⁸ There is no other gift that is eternal, and therefore there is no other gift that is true. ⁹ How, then, can you accept anything else or give anything else, and expect joy in return? ¹⁰ And what else but joy would you want? ¹¹ You made neither yourself nor your function. ¹² You made only the decision to be unworthy of both. ¹³ Yet you cannot make yourself unworthy because you are the treasure of God, and what He values is valuable. ¹⁴ There can be no question of its worth, because its value lies in God's sharing Himself with it and establishing its value forever.

T-8.VI.6. Your function is to add to God's treasure by creating yours. ² His Will to you is His Will for you. ³ He would not withhold creation from you because His joy is in it. ⁴ You cannot find joy except as God does. ⁵ His joy lay in creating you, and He extends His Fatherhood to you so that you can extend yourself as He did. ⁶ You do not understand this because you do not understand Him. ⁷ No one who does not accept his function can understand what it is, and no one can accept his function unless he knows what he is. ⁸ Creation is the Will of God. ⁹ His Will created you to create. ¹⁰ Your will was not created separate from His, and so you must will as He wills.

T-8.VI.7. An "unwilling will" does not mean anything, being a contradiction in terms that actually means nothing. ² When you think you are unwilling to will with God, you are not thinking. ³ God's Will is Thought. ⁴ It cannot be contradicted by thought. ⁵ God does not contradict Himself, and His Sons, who are like Him, cannot contradict themselves or Him. ⁶ Yet their thought is so powerful that they can even imprison the mind of God's Son, if they so choose. ⁷ This choice does make the Son's function unknown to him, but never to his Creator. ⁸ And because it is not unknown to his Creator, it is forever knowable to him.

T-8.VI.8. There is no question but one you should ever ask of yourself;—"Do I want to know my Father's Will for me?" ² He will not hide it. ³ He has revealed it to me because I asked it of Him, and learned of what He had already given. ⁴ Our function is to work together, because apart from each other we cannot function at all. ⁵ The whole power of God's Son lies in all of us, but not in any of us alone. ⁶ God would not have us be alone because He does not will to be alone. ⁷ That is why He created His Son, and gave him the power to create with Him. ⁸ Our creations are as holy as we are, and we are the Sons of God Himself, as holy as He is. ⁹ Through our creations we extend our love, and thus increase the joy of the Holy Trinity. ¹⁰ You do not understand this, because you who are God's Own treasure do not regard yourself as valuable. ¹¹ Given this belief, you cannot understand anything.

T-8.VI.9. I share with God the knowledge of the value He puts upon you. ² My devotion to you is of Him, being born of my knowledge of myself and Him. ³ We cannot be separated. ⁴ Whom God has joined cannot be separated, and God has joined all His Sons with Himself. ⁵ Can you be separated from your life and your being? ⁶ The journey to God is merely the reawakening of the knowledge of where you are always, and what you are forever. ⁷ It is a journey without distance to a goal that has never changed. ⁸ Truth can only be experienced. ⁹ It cannot be described and it cannot be explained. ¹⁰ I can make you aware of the conditions of truth, but the experience is of God. ¹¹ Together we can meet its conditions, but truth will dawn upon you of itself.

T-8.VI.10. What God has willed for you is yours. ² He has given His Will to His treasure, whose treasure it is. ³ Your heart lies where your treasure is, as His does. ⁴ You who are beloved of God are wholly blessed. ⁵ Learn this of me, and free the holy will of all those who are as blessed as you are.