 Today we continue with chapter 6, the relinquishment of attack. As we have already emphasized, every idea begins in the mind of the thinker. Therefore, what extends from the mind is still in it, and from what it extends, it knows itself. The word knows is correct here, because the Holy Spirit still holds knowledge safe in your mind through His impartial perception. By attacking nothing, He presents no barrier to the communication of God. Therefore, being is never threatened. Your God-like mind can never be defiled. The ego never was and never will be part of it. But through the ego, you can hear and teach and learn what is not true. You have taught yourself to believe that you are not what you are. You cannot teach what you have not learned, and what you teach you strengthen in yourself, because you are sharing it. Every lesson you teach, you are learning. That is why you must teach only one lesson. If you are to be conflict-free yourself, you must learn only from the Holy Spirit and teach only by Him. You are only love, but when you deny this, you make what you are something you must learn to remember. I said before that the message of the crucifixion was, teach only love, for that is what you are. This is the one lesson that is perfectly unified, because it is the only lesson that is one. Only by teaching it can you learn it. As you teach, so will you learn. If that is true, and it is true indeed, do not forget that what you teach is teaching you. And what you project or extend, you believe. The only safety lies in extending the Holy Spirit, because as you see His gentleness in others, your own mind perceives itself as totally harmless. Once it can accept this fully, it sees no need to protect itself. The protection of God then dawns upon it, assuring it that it is perfectly safe forever. The perfectly safe are holy benign. They bless because they know that they are blessed. Without anxiety, the mind is wholly kind, and because it extends, beneficence, it is beneficent. Safety is the complete relinquishment of attack. No compromise is possible in this. Teach attack in any form, and you have learned it, and it will hurt you. Yet this learning is not immortal, and you can unlearn it by not teaching it. Since you cannot not teach, your salvation lies in teaching the exact opposite of everything the ego believes. This is how you will learn the truth that will set you free, and keep you free as others learn it of you. The only way to have peace is to teach peace. By teaching peace, you must learn it yourself, because you cannot teach what you still dissociate. Only thus can you win back the knowledge that you threw away, an idea that you share you must have. It awakens in your mind through the conviction of teaching it, everything you teach you are learning. Teach only love, and learn that love is yours, and you are love. And from the workbook, Lesson 39. My holiness is my salvation. If guilt is hell, what is its opposite? Like the text for which this workbook was written, the ideas used for the exercises are very simple, very clear, and totally unambiguous. We are not concerned with intellectual feats or logical toys. We are dealing only in the very obvious, which has been overlooked in the clouds of complexity, in which you think you think. If guilt is hell, what is its opposite? This is not difficult, surely. The hesitation you may feel in answering is not due to the ambiguity of the question, but do you believe that guilt is hell? If you did, you would see at once how direct and simple the text is, and you would not need a workbook at all. No one needs practice to gain what is already his. We have already said that your holiness is the salvation of the world. What about your own salvation? You cannot give what you do not have. A Savior must be saved. How else can he teach salvation? Today's exercises will apply to you, recognizing that your salvation is crucial to the salvation of the world. As you apply the exercises to your world, the whole world stands to benefit. Your holiness is the answer to every question that was ever asked, is being asked now, or will be asked in the future. Your holiness means the end of guilt, and therefore the end of hell. Your holiness is the salvation of the world and your own. How could you, to whom your holiness belongs, be excluded from it? God does not know unholiness. Can it be he does not know his son? A full five minutes are urged for the four longer practice periods for today, and longer and more frequent practice sessions are encouraged. If you want to exceed the minimum requirements, more rather than longer sessions are recommended, although both are suggested. Begin the practice periods as usual by repeating today's idea to yourself. Then with eyes closed, search out your unloving thoughts in whatever form they appear. Uneasiness, depression, anger, fear, worry, attack, insecurity, and so on. Whatever form they take, they are unloving and therefore fearful. And so it is from them that you need to be saved. Specific situations, events, or personalities you associate with unloving thoughts of any kind are suitable subjects for today's exercises. It is imperative for your salvation that you see them differently, and it is your blessing on them that will save you and give you vision. Slowly, without conscious selection and without undue emphasis on any one in particular, search your mind for every thought that stands between you and your salvation. Apply the idea for today to each of them in this way. My unloving thoughts about blank are keeping me in hell. My holiness is my salvation. You may find these practice periods easier if you interspersed them with several short periods during which you merely repeat today's idea to yourself slowly a few times. You may also find it helpful to include a few short intervals in which you just relax and do not seem to be thinking of anything. Sustained concentration is very difficult at first. It will become much easier as your mind becomes more disciplined and less distractible. Meanwhile, you should feel free to introduce variety into the exercise periods in whatever form appeals to you. Do not, however, change the idea itself as you vary the method of applying it. However, you elect to use it. The idea should be stated so that its meaning is the fact that your holiness is your salvation. End each practice period by repeating the idea in its original form once more and adding. If guilt is hell, what is its opposite? In the shorter applications, which should be made some three or four times an hour and more if possible, you may ask yourself this question, repeat today's idea and preferably both. If temptations arise, a particularly helpful form of the idea is, my holiness is my salvation from this. My holiness is my salvation. So as we reinforce this idea that the state of mind, which is pure holiness, is salvation, is the answer to every question that has ever been asked, is asked, or will be asked, and this leads us far beyond any experience of guilt. In this beautiful lesson, Jesus is playing with the idea of guilt. He playfully asks if guilt is hell, what is its opposite? And then comes in to say that the hesitation you may feel in answering is not due to the ambiguity of the question. But do you believe that guilt is hell? The assumption is not that guilt is hell because Jesus says, if you did, meaning if you did believe that guilt is hell, you would see at once how direct and simple the text is and you would not need a workbook at all. No one needs practice to gain what is already his. All that just from one realization that guilt is hell, because hell is not attractive and guilt is not attractive. But if there is an attraction to guilt, then there is an attraction to hell. This lesson, my holiness is my salvation, provides the answer to everything, because holiness can have no opposite. God has no opposite, divine love has no opposite. The purity of the innocence of holiness stands in violet, untarnished, eternal, and thus it is salvation. Holiness is healing. Healing does not involve the body. Holiness, healing is a state of mind. And also holiness knows not of attack. Holiness knows not of judgment. This is the healing of the Holy Spirit. As we just read in the text, the Holy Spirit still holds knowledge safe in your mind through his impartial perception by attacking nothing. He presents no barrier to the communication of God, therefore being is never threatened. Your childlike, godlike mind can never be defiled. The Christ, the living Son of God, the living child of God can never be defiled. This is holiness. This is salvation. So, as we just read recently in the message of the crucifixion, teach only love for that is what you are. We are teaching holiness for that is what we are. And he said, this is the one lesson that is perfectly unified because it is the only lesson that is one. Only by teaching it can you learn it. So, today we will teach, we will extend holiness. We will experience holiness. Our holiness encompasses everything that we perceive. Our personality, our specific situations, events, they are all associated with unloving thoughts. And deep within, beyond these thoughts is our holiness. We extend our holiness as a blessing and accept it today as our salvation.