The miracle compares the creations of man with the higher level of creation, accepting what is in Accord as true, and rejecting the Discordant as false.

The miracle compares the creations of man with the higher level of creation, accepting what is in accord as true, and rejecting the discordant as false. This is why it is so closely associated with validity. Real validity is both true and useful, or better, it is useful because it is true.

All aspects of fear are untrue because they do not exist at the higher creative levels and therefore do no exist at all. To whatever extent a man is willing to submit his beliefs to the real test of validity, to that extend are his perceptions healed, or corrected.

In sorting out the false from the true, the miracle proceeds much along the lines suggested very correctly this way:

Man must contribute to his readiness here as elsewhere. The readiness for faith, as for everything else that is true, entails the two steps necessary for the release from fear.

Denial of fear, in human terms is a strong defense because it entails two levels of error:

1. That truth can be denied and
2. That absence of truth can be effective.

Experiencing fear involves only the second error. However, these differences do not affect the power of the miracle at all, since only truth and error are its concern. The conditions needed for consistent miracle-mindedness, the state in which fear has been abolished, can be particularly well worked out. In fact, it was already well worked out before.