T-7.7-The Totality of the Kingdom
1. Whenever I deny a blessing to a brother, I will feel deprived, because denial is as total as love. It is as impossible to deny part of the Sonship as it is to love part of the Sonship. Nor is it possible to love the Sonship totally, at times. I cannot be totally committed sometimes. Denial has no power in itself, but I can give it the power of my mind, whose power is without limit. If I use my mind to deny reality, reality is gone for me. Reality cannot be partly appreciated. That is why denying any part of reality means I have lost the awareness of all of it. Yet, denial is a defense, and so it is as capable of being used positively as well as negatively. Used negatively denial will be destructive, because it will be used for attack. But in the service of the Holy Spirit, denial can help me to recognize part of reality, and thus appreciate all of reality. Mind is too powerful to be subject to exclusion. I will never be able to exclude myself from my thoughts.
2. When a brother acts insanely, he is offering me an opportunity to bless him. His need is mine. I need the blessing I can offer him. There is no way for me to have the blessing except by giving the blessing. This is the law of God, and this law has no exceptions. What I deny, I lack. Not because it is lacking, but, because I have denied it in another, I am therefore not aware of it in myself. Every response I make is determined by what I think I am. What I want to be is what I think I am. What I want to be, then, must determine every response I make.
3. I do not need God's blessing because that I have forever, but I do need my blessing. The ego's picture of me is deprived, unloving and vulnerable. I cannot love this. Yet, I can very easily escape from this image by leaving this image behind. I am not there, and this image is not me. I will not see this picture in anyone, or I have accepted this picture as me. All illusions about the Sonship are dispelled together, as they were made together. I will teach no one that he is what I would not want to be. My brother is the mirror in which I see the image of myself as long as perception lasts. And perception will last until the Sonship knows itself as whole. I made perception, and perception must last as long as I want it to last.
4. Illusions are investments. Illusions will last as long as I value them. Values are relative, but they are powerful, because they are mental judgments. The only way to dispel illusions is to withdraw all investment from them. They will have no life for me, because I will have put them out of my mind. While I include them in my mind, I am giving life to Illusions. Except, there is nothing there to receive my gift of life.
5. The gift of life is mine to give, because life was given me. I am unaware of my gift because I do not give it. I cannot make nothing live, since nothing cannot be enlivened. I am not extending the gift I both have and am, so therefore I do not know my being. All confusion comes from not extending life, because that is not the Will of my Creator. I can do nothing apart from Him, and I do do nothing apart from Him. I will keep His way to remember myself, and teach His way lest I forget myself. I will give only honor to the Sons of the living God, and I will count myself among them gladly.
6. Only honor is a fitting gift for those whom God Himself created worthy of honor, and whom He honors. I will give them the appreciation God accords them always, because they are His beloved Sons in whom He is well pleased. I cannot be apart from them because I am not apart from God. I rest in His Love, and protect my rest by loving. But I love everything God created, of which I am a part, or I cannot learn of His peace and accept His gift for myself and as myself. I cannot know my own perfection until I have honored all those who were created like me.
7. One child of God is the only teacher sufficiently worthy to teach another. One Teacher is in all minds and He teaches the same lesson to all. He always teaches me the inestimable worth of every Son of God, teaching his worth with infinite patience born of the infinite Love for which He speaks. Every attack is a call for His patience, since His patience can translate attack into blessing. Those who attack do not know they are blessed. They attack because they believe they are deprived. Therefore, I will give of my abundance, and teach my bothers of their abundance. I will not share my brother's illusions of scarcity, or I will perceive myself as lacking.
8. Attack could never promote attack, unless I perceived attack as a means of depriving me of something I want. Yet, I cannot lose anything, unless I do not value it, and therefore do not want it. This makes me feel deprived of it, and by projecting my own rejection, I then believe that others are taking it from me. I must be fearful, if I believe that my brother is attacking me to tear the Kingdom of Heaven from me. This is the ultimate basis for all the ego's projection.
9. Being the part of my mind that does not believe it is responsible for itself, and being without allegiance to God, the ego is incapable of trust. Projecting the ego's insane belief that I have been treacherous to my Creator, the ego believes that my brothers, who are as incapable of treachery as I am, are out to take God from me. Whenever a brother attacks another, that is what he believes. Projection always sees my wishes in others. If I choose to separate myself from God, that is what I will think others are doing to me.
10. I am the Will of God. I will not accept anything else as my will, or I am denying what I am. Deny that I am the Will of God, and I will attack, believing I have been attacked. But, if I see the Love of God in me, I will see the Love of God everywhere, because the Love of God is everywhere. I see His abundance in everyone, and I will know that I am in Him with them. My brothers are part of me, as I am part of God. I am as lonely without understanding this, as God Himself is lonely when His Sons do not know Him. The peace of God is understanding this. There is only one way out of the world's thinking, just as there was only one way into the world's thinking. Understand totally by understanding totality.
11. If I perceive any part of the ego's thought system as wholly insane, wholly delusional, and wholly undesirable, I have correctly evaluated all of the ego's thought system. This correction enables me to perceive any part of creation as wholly real, wholly perfect and wholly desirable. Wanting only this perception, I will have only this perception, and giving only this, I will be only this. The gifts I offer to the ego are always experienced as sacrifices, but the gifts I offer to the Kingdom are gifts to myself. These gifts will always be treasured by God, because they belong to His beloved Sons, who belong to Him. All power and glory are mine because the Kingdom is God's.
