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truth, which blocks joy because it blocks creation, and thus blocks
self-fulfilment. The unfulfilled MUST be depressed because their
self-fullness is unknown to them.Your creations are protected FOR
you because the Holy Spirit, Who is in your mind, knows of them
and can bring them INTOyour awareness whenever you will let
Him. They are there as part of your own being because your
fulfilment INCLUDESthem. The creations of every Son of God are
yours since every creation belongs to everyone, being created for the
Sonship as a whole.
You have NOTfailed to add to the inheritance of the Sons of
God, and thus have not failed to secure it for yourselves. If it was the
Will of God to give it to you, He gave it forever. If it was His Will
that you have it forever, He gave you the means for keeping it,AND
YOU HAVE DONE SO.Disobeying God’s Will is meaningful only to
the insane. In truth it is impossible.Your self-fullness is as boundless as
God’s. Like His, it extends forever and in perfect peace. Its radiance is
so intense that it creates in perfect joy, and only the whole can be
born of its wholeness.
Be confident that you have never lost your identity and the
extensions which maintain it in wholeness and peace. Miracles are an
EXPRESSIONof this confidence. They are reflections both of your
own proper identification with your brothers, and of your own
awareness that your identification ISmaintained by extension. The
miracle is a LESSON IN TOTAL PERCEPTION.By including ANY
part of totality in the lesson, you HAVEincluded the whole.You have
said that, when you write of the Kingdom and your creations which
belong in it, you are describing WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW.That
is true in a sense, but no more true than your failure to acknowledge
the whole result of the ego’s premises.The Kingdom is the result of
premises, just as this world is.
You HAVEcarried the ego’s reasoning to its logical conclusion,
which is TOTAL CONFUSION ABOUT EVERYTHING.Yet you do
not really BELIEVEthis, or you could not possibly maintain it. If you
really saw this result, you could not WANTit. The only reason why
you could possibly want ANYpart of it is because you do NOTsee
the whole of it. You are willing to look at the ego’s premises, but
NOTat their logical outcome. Is it not possible that you have done


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