I. Principles of Miracles

T-1.I.1. There is no order of difficulty in miracles. ² One is not "harder" or "bigger" than another. ³ They are all the same. ⁴ All expressions of love are maximal.

T-1.I.2. Miracles as such do not matter. ² The only thing that matters is their Source, which is far beyond evaluation.

T-1.I.3. Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. ² The real miracle is the love that inspires them. ³ In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.

T-1.I.4. All miracles mean life, and God is the Giver of life. ² His Voice will direct you very specifically. ³ You will be told all you need to know.

T-1.I.5. Miracles are habits, and should be involuntary. ² They should not be under conscious control. ³ Consciously selected miracles can be misguided.

T-1.I.6. Miracles are natural. ² When they do not occur something has gone wrong.

T-1.I.7. Miracles are everyone's right, but purification is necessary first.

T-1.I.8. Miracles are healing because they supply a lack; they are performed by those who temporarily have more for those who temporarily have less.

T-1.I.9. Miracles are a kind of exchange. ² Like all expressions of love, which are always miraculous in the true sense, the exchange reverses the physical laws. ³ They bring more love both to the giver and the receiver.

T-1.I.10. The use of miracles as spectacles to induce belief is a misunderstanding of their purpose.

T-1.I.11. Prayer is the medium of miracles. ² It is a means of communication of the created with the Creator. ³ Through prayer love is received, and through miracles love is expressed.

T-1.I.12. Miracles are thoughts. ² Thoughts can represent the lower or bodily level of experience, or the higher or spiritual level of experience. ³ One makes the physical, and the other creates the spiritual.

T-1.I.13. Miracles are both beginnings and endings, and so they alter the temporal order. ² They are always affirmations of rebirth, which seem to go back but really go forward. ³ They undo the past in the present, and thus release the future.

T-1.I.14. Miracles bear witness to truth. ² They are convincing because they arise from conviction. ³ Without conviction they deteriorate into magic, which is mindless and therefore destructive; or rather, the uncreative use of mind.

T-1.I.15. Each day should be devoted to miracles. ² The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively. ³ It is thus a teaching device and a means to an end. ⁴ Time will cease when it is no longer useful in facilitating learning.

T-1.I.16. Miracles are teaching devices for demonstrating it is as blessed to give as to receive. ² They simultaneously increase the strength of the giver and supply strength to the receiver.

T-1.I.17. Miracles transcend the body. ² They are sudden shifts into invisibility, away from the bodily level. ³ That is why they heal.

T-1.I.18. A miracle is a service. ² It is the maximal service you can render to another. ³ It is a way of loving your neighbor as yourself. ⁴ You recognize your own and your neighbor's worth simultaneously.

T-1.I.19. Miracles make minds one in God. ² They depend on cooperation because the Sonship is the sum of all that God created. ³ Miracles therefore reflect the laws of eternity, not of time.

T-1.I.20. Miracles reawaken the awareness that the spirit, not the body, is the altar of truth. ² This is the recognition that leads to the healing power of the miracle.

T-1.I.21. Miracles are natural signs of forgiveness. ² Through miracles you accept God's forgiveness by extending it to others.

T-1.I.22. Miracles are associated with fear only because of the belief that darkness can hide. ² You believe that what your physical eyes cannot see does not exist. ³ This leads to a denial of spiritual sight.

T-1.I.23. Miracles rearrange perception and place all levels in true perspective. ² This is healing because sickness comes from confusing the levels.

T-1.I.24. Miracles enable you to heal the sick and raise the dead because you made sickness and death yourself, and can therefore abolish both. ² You are a miracle, capable of creating in the likeness of your Creator. ³ Everything else is your own nightmare, and does not exist. ⁴ Only the creations of light are real.

T-1.I.25. Miracles are part of an interlocking chain of forgiveness which, when completed, is the Atonement. ² Atonement works all the time and in all the dimensions of time.

T-1.I.26. Miracles represent freedom from fear. ² "Atoning" means "undoing." ³ The undoing of fear is an essential part of the Atonement value of miracles.

T-1.I.27. A miracle is a universal blessing from God through me to all my brothers. ² It is the privilege of the forgiven to forgive.

T-1.I.28. Miracles are a way of earning release from fear. ² Revelation induces a state in which fear has already been abolished. ³ Miracles are thus a means and revelation is an end.

T-1.I.29. Miracles praise God through you. ² They praise Him by honoring His creations, affirming their perfection. ³ They heal because they deny body-identification and affirm spirit-identification.

T-1.I.30. By recognizing spirit, miracles adjust the levels of perception and show them in proper alignment. ² This places spirit at the center, where it can communicate directly.

T-1.I.31. Miracles should inspire gratitude, not awe. ² You should thank God for what you really are. ³ The children of God are holy and the miracle honors their holiness, which can be hidden but never lost.

T-1.I.32. I inspire all miracles, which are really intercessions. ² They intercede for your holiness and make your perceptions holy. ³ By placing you beyond the physical laws they raise you into the sphere of celestial order. ⁴ In this order you are perfect.

T-1.I.33. Miracles honor you because you are lovable. ² They dispel illusions about yourself and perceive the light in you. ³ They thus atone for your errors by freeing you from your nightmares. ⁴ By releasing your mind from the imprisonment of your illusions, they restore your sanity.

T-1.I.34. Miracles restore the mind to its fullness. ² By atoning for lack they establish perfect protection. ³ The spirit's strength leaves no room for intrusions.

T-1.I.35. Miracles are expressions of love, but they may not always have observable effects.

T-1.I.36. Miracles are examples of right thinking, aligning your perceptions with truth as God created it.

T-1.I.37. A miracle is a correction introduced into false thinking by me. ² It acts as a catalyst, breaking up erroneous perception and reorganizing it properly. ³ This places you under the Atonement principle, where perception is healed. ⁴ Until this has occurred, knowledge of the Divine Order is impossible.

T-1.I.38. The Holy Spirit is the mechanism of miracles. ² He recognizes both God's creations and your illusions. ³ He separates the true from the false by His ability to perceive totally rather than selectively.

T-1.I.39. The miracle dissolves error because the Holy Spirit identifies error as false or unreal. ² This is the same as saying that by perceiving light, darkness automatically disappears.

T-1.I.40. The miracle acknowledges everyone as your brother and mine. ² It is a way of perceiving the universal mark of God.

T-1.I.41. Wholeness is the perceptual content of miracles. ² They thus correct, or atone for, the faulty perception of lack.

T-1.I.42. A major contribution of miracles is their strength in releasing you from your false sense of isolation, deprivation and lack.

T-1.I.43. Miracles arise from a miraculous state of mind, or a state of miracle-readiness.

T-1.I.44. The miracle is an expression of an inner awareness of Christ and the acceptance of His Atonement.

T-1.I.45. A miracle is never lost. ² It may touch many people you have not even met, and produce undreamed of changes in situations of which you are not even aware.

T-1.I.46. The Holy Spirit is the highest communication medium. ² Miracles do not involve this type of communication, because they are temporary communication devices. ³ When you return to your original form of communication with God by direct revelation, the need for miracles is over.

T-1.I.47. The miracle is a learning device that lessens the need for time. ² It establishes an out-of-pattern time interval not under the usual laws of time. ³ In this sense it is timeless.

T-1.I.48. The miracle is the only device at your immediate disposal for controlling time. ² Only revelation transcends it, having nothing to do with time at all.

T-1.I.49. The miracle makes no distinction among degrees of misperception. ² It is a device for perception correction, effective quite apart from either the degree or the direction of the error. ³ This is its true indiscriminateness.

T-1.I.50. The miracle compares what you have made with creation, accepting what is in accord with it as true, and rejecting what is out of accord as false.