it is.
- A Course in Miracles
(acim.org/acim/en/s/13... | T-9.VIII.6:1–11:9)
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so is Its answer. ⁸Listen and do not question what you hear, for God does not deceive. ⁹He would have you replace the ego’s belief in littleness with His Own exalted Answer to what you are, so that you can cease to question it and know it for what
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and it needs no defense. ³Nothing can attack it nor prevail over it. ⁴It does not vary. ⁵It merely _is._ ⁶Ask the Holy Spirit what it is and He will tell you, but do not be afraid of His answer, because it comes from God. ⁷It is an exalted answer because of its Source, but the Source is true and
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cannot be arrogance, because it is the denial of arrogance. ⁹To accept your littleness _is_ arrogant, because it means that you believe your evaluation of yourself is truer than God’s.
11. Yet if truth is indivisible, your evaluation of yourself must _be_ God’s. ²You did not establish your value
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do not know them until you return to them. ⁵You cannot replace the Kingdom, and you cannot replace yourself. ⁶God, Who knows your value, would not have it so, and so it is not so. ⁷Your value is in God’s Mind, and therefore not in yours alone. ⁸To accept yourself as God created you
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10. You are altogether irreplaceable in the Mind of God. ²No one else can fill your part in it, and while you leave your part of it empty your eternal place merely waits for your return. ³God, through His Voice, reminds you of it, and God Himself keeps your extensions safe within it. ⁴Yet you
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use it. ⁵What He cannot transform to the Will of God does not exist at all. ⁶Grandiosity is delusional, because it is used to replace your grandeur. ⁷Yet what God has created cannot be replaced. ⁸God is incomplete without you because His grandeur is total, and you cannot be missing from it.
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is not shared. ⁵God wants you to behold what He created because it is His joy.
9. Can your grandeur be arrogant when God Himself witnesses to it? ²And what can be real that has no witnesses? ³What good can come of it? ⁴And if no good can come of it the Holy Spirit cannot
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will not produce miracles, and will therefore deprive you of the true witnesses to your reality. ³Truth is not obscure nor hidden, but its obviousness to you lies in the joy you bring to its witnesses, who show it to you. ⁴They attest to your grandeur, but they cannot attest to pride because pride
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never deceive you, but your illusions always will. Illusions are deceptions. You cannot triumph, but you _are_ exalted. And in your exalted state you seek others like you and rejoice with them.
8. It is easy to distinguish grandeur from grandiosity, because love is returned and pride is not. Pride
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grandeur is truth. ²Truth does not vacillate; it is always true. ³When grandeur slips away from you, you have replaced it with something you have made. ⁴Perhaps it is the belief in littleness; perhaps it is the belief in grandiosity. Yet it must be insane because it is not true. Your grandeur will
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them to alternate. ⁵Littleness and grandiosity can and must alternate, since both are untrue and are therefore on the same level. ⁶Being the level of shift, it is experienced as shifting and extremes are its essential characteristic.
7. Truth and littleness are denials of each other because
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