T-30.VI.1. Anger is never justified.
2 Attack has no foundation. 3 It is here escape from fear
begins, and will be made complete. 4 Here is the real world given in exchange
for dreams of terror. 5 For it is on this forgiveness rests, and is but
natural. 6 You are not asked to offer pardon where attack is due, and would be
justified. 7 For that would mean that you forgive a sin by overlooking what is
really there. 8 This is not pardon. 9 For it would assume that, by responding
in a way which is not justified, your pardon will become the answer to attack
that has been made. 10 And thus is pardon inappropriate, by being granted where
it is not due.
T-30.VI.2. Pardon is always justified.
2 It has a sure foundation. 3 You do not forgive the unforgivable, nor overlook
a real attack that calls for punishment. 4 Salvation does not lie in being
asked to make unnatural responses which are inappropriate to what is real. 5
Instead, it merely asks that you respond appropriately to what is not real by
not perceiving what has not occurred. 6 If pardon were unjustified, you would
be asked to sacrifice your rights when you return forgiveness for attack. 7 But
you are merely asked to see forgiveness as the natural reaction to distress
that rests on error, and thus calls for help. 8 Forgiveness is the only sane
response. 9 It keeps your rights from being sacrificed.
T-30.VI.3. This understanding is the
only change that lets the real world rise to take the place of dreams of
terror. 2 Fear cannot arise unless attack is justified, and if it had a real
foundation pardon would have none. 3 The real world is achieved when you
perceive the basis of forgiveness is quite real and fully justified. 4 While
you regard it as a gift unwarranted, it must uphold the guilt you would
"forgive." 5 Unjustified forgiveness is attack. 6 And this is all the
world can ever give. 7 It pardons "sinners" sometimes, but remains
aware that they have sinned. 8 And so they do not merit the forgiveness that it
gives.
T-30.VI.4. This is the false
forgiveness which the world employs to keep the sense of sin alive. 2 And
recognizing God is just, it seems impossible His pardon could be real. 3 Thus
is the fear of God the sure result of seeing pardon as unmerited. 4 No one who
sees himself as guilty can avoid the fear of God. 5 But he is saved from this
dilemma if he can forgive. 6 The mind must think of its Creator as it looks
upon itself. 7 If you can see your brother merits pardon, you have learned
forgiveness is your right as much as his. 8 Nor will you think that God intends
for you a fearful judgment that your brother does not merit. 9 For it is the
truth that you can merit neither more nor less than he.
T-30.VI.5. Forgiveness recognized as
merited will heal. 2 It gives the miracle its strength to overlook illusions. 3
This is how you learn that you must be forgiven too. 4 There can be no
appearance that can not be overlooked. 5 For if there were, it would be
necessary first there be some sin that stands beyond forgiveness. 6 There would
be an error that is more than a mistake; a special form of error that remains unchangeable,
eternal, and beyond correction or escape. 7 There would be one mistake that had
the power to undo creation, and to make a world that could replace it and
destroy the Will of God. 8 Only if this were possible could there be some
appearances that could withstand the miracle, and not be healed by it.
T-30.VI.6. There is no surer proof
idolatry is what you wish than a belief there are some forms of sickness and of
joylessness forgiveness cannot heal. 2 This means that you prefer to keep some
idols, and are not prepared, as yet, to let all idols go. 3 And thus you think
that some appearances are real and not appearances at all. 4 Be not deceived
about the meaning of a fixed belief that some appearances are harder to look
past than others are. 5 It always means you think forgiveness must be limited.
6 And you have set a goal of partial pardon and a limited escape from guilt for
you. 7 What can this be except a false forgiveness of yourself, and everyone
who seems apart from you?
T-30.VI.7. It must be true the miracle
can heal all forms of sickness, or it cannot heal. 2 Its purpose cannot be to
judge which forms are real, and which appearances are true. 3 If one appearance
must remain apart from healing, one illusion must be part of truth. 4 And you
could not escape all guilt, but only some of it. 5 You must forgive God's Son
entirely. 6 Or you will keep an image of yourself that is not whole, and will
remain afraid to look within and find escape from every idol there. 7 Salvation
rests on faith there cannot be some forms of guilt that you cannot forgive. 8
And so there cannot be appearances that have replaced the truth about God's
Son.
T-30.VI.8. Look on your brother with
the willingness to see him as he is. 2 And do not keep a part of him outside
your willingness that he be healed. 3 To heal is to make whole. 4 And what is
whole can have no missing parts that have been kept outside. 5 Forgiveness
rests on recognizing this, and being glad there cannot be some forms of
sickness which the miracle must lack the power to heal.
T-30.VI.9. God's Son is perfect, or he
cannot be God's Son. 2 Nor will you know him, if you think he does not merit
the escape from guilt in all its consequences and its forms. 3 There is no way
to think of him but this, if you would know the truth about yourself.
4 I thank You, Father, for Your perfect
Son, and in his glory will I see my own.
5 Here is the joyful statement that
there are no forms of evil that can overcome the Will of God; the glad
acknowledgment that guilt has not succeeded by your wish to make illusions
real. 6 And what is this except a simple statement of the truth?
T-30.VI.10. Look on your brother with
this hope in you, and you will understand he could not make an error that could
change the truth in him. 2 It is not difficult to overlook mistakes that have
been given no effects. 3 But what you see as having power to make an idol of
the Son of God you will not pardon. 4 For he has become to you a graven image
and a sign of death. 5 Is this your savior? 6 Is his Father wrong about His
Son? 7 Or have you been deceived in him who has been given you to heal, for
your salvation and deliverance?
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