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ONLYfor healing because He knows you ONLYas whole.BY
healing you learn of wholeness, and by learning of wholeness you
learn to remember God. You HAVEforgotten Him, but the Holy
Spirit still knows that your forgetting must be translated into a way of
REMEMBERING,and NOTperceived as a separate ability which
opposes an opposite. That is the way in which the ego tries to use
ALLabilities, since its goal is always to make you believe that YOU
are in opposition.
The ego’s goal is as unified as the Holy Spirit’s, and it is because
of this that their goals can NEVERbe reconciled in ANYway or to
ANYextent. The ego ALWAYSseeks to divide and separate. The
Holy Spirit ALWAYSseeks to unify and heal. As you heal you ARE
healed because the Holy Spirit sees no order of healing. Healing is
the way to UNDOthe belief in differences, being the ONLYway of
perceiving the Sonship without this belief. This perception is
therefore INaccord with the laws of God even in a state of mind
which is OUTof accord with His.The strength of right perception is
so great that it brings the mind INTOaccord with His because it
yields to His pull, which is in all of you.
To OPPOSEthe pull or the Will of God is not an ability but a
real DELUSION.The ego believes that it HASthis ability, and can
offer it to you as a gift.YOU DO NOT WANT IT.It is NOTa gift. It
is NOTHING AT ALL.God has given you a gift which you both have
and are.When you do not use it, you do not know you HAVEit. By
NOT knowing this, you do not know what you are. Healing,
then, is a way of APPROACHING knowledge by thinking IN
ACCORDANCE with the laws of God, and recognizing their
UNIVERSALITY.Without this recognition, you have made the laws
themselves meaningless to you. Yet the LAWSare not meaningless
since all meaning is contained BYthem and INthem.
Seek ye FIRSTthe Kingdom of Heaven because that is where
the laws of God operate truly, and they can operate ONLYtruly,
since they are the laws of Truth. But seek this ONLYbecause you can
FINDnothing else. There ISnothing else. God is all in all in a very
literal sense.All being is in Him Who ISall Being.YOUare therefore
in Him since YOURbeing ISHis. Healing is a way of forgetting the
sense of danger the ego has induced in YOUby NOTrecognizing its


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