IA´s Journal

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I Need Do Nothing

You still have too much faith in the body as a source of strength. What plans do you make that do not involve its comfort or protectionor enjoyment in some way? This makes the body an end and not a means in your interpretation, and this always means you still find sin attractive. No one accepts Atonement for himself who still accepts sin as his goal. You have thus not met your one responsibility. Atonement is not welcomed by those who prefer pain and destruction. There is one thing that you have never done; you have not utterly forgotten the body. It has perhaps faded at times from your sight, but it has not yet completely disappeared. You are not asked to let this happen for more than an instant, yet it is in this instant that the miracle of Atonement happens. Afterwards you will see the body again, but never quite the same. And every instant that you spend without awareness of it gives you a different view of it when you return. At no single instant does the body exist at all. It is always remembered or anticipated, but never experienced just now. Only its pastand future make it seem real. Time controls it entirely, for sin is neverwholly in the present. In any single instant the attraction is imaginary, andtherefore must be thought of in the past or in the future. It is impossible toaccept the holy instant without reservation unless, just for an instant, you arewilling to see no past or future. You cannot prepare for it without placing itin the future. Release is given you the instant you desire it. Many have spenta lifetime in preparation, and have indeed achieved their instants of success.This course does not attempt to teach more than they learned in time, but itdoes aim at saving time. You may be attempting to follow a very long road tothe goal you have accepted. It is extremly difficult to reach Atonement byfighting against sin. Nor is a lifetime of contemplation and long periods ofmeditation aimed at detachment from the body necessary. All such attempts willultimately succeed because of their purpose. Yet the means are tedious and verytime comsuming, for all of them look to the future for release from a state ofpresent unworthiness and inadequasy. Your way will be different, not in purposebut in means. A holy relationship is a means of saving time. One instant spenttogether restores the universe to both of you. You are prepared. Now you needbut to remember you need do nothing. It would be far more profitable now merelyto concentrate on this than to consider what you should do. When peace comes atlast to those who wrestle with temptation and fight against the giving in tosin; when the light comes at last into the mind given to comtemplation; or whenthe goal is finally achieved by anyone, it always comes with just one happyrealization; ”I need do nothing.” Here is the ultimate release which everyonewill one day find in his own way, at his own time. You do not need this time.Time has been saved for you because you and your brother are together. This isthe special means this course is using to save you time. You are not making useof the course if you insist on using means which have served others well,neglecting what was made for you. Save time for me by only this onepreparation, and practice doing nothing else. ”I need do nothing” is astatement of allegiance, a trully undivided loyalty. Beleive it for just oneinstant, and you will accomplish more than is given to a century ofcomtemplation, or of struggle against temptation. To do anything involves thebody. And if you recognize you need do nothing, you have withdrawn the body´svalue from your mind. Here is the quick and open door through which you slippast centuries of effort, and escape from time. This is the way in which sinloses all attraction right now. For here is time denied, and past and futuregone. Who needs do nothing has no need for time. To do nothing is to rest, andmake a place within you where the activity of the body ceases to demandattention. Into this place the Holy Spirit comes, and there abides. He willremain when you forget, and the body´s activities return to occupy yourconsious mind. Yet there will always be this place of rest to which you canreturn. And you will be more aware of this quiet center of the storm than allits ragin activity. This quiet center, in which you do nothing, will remainwith you, giving you rest in the midst of every busy doing on which you aresent. For from this center will you be directed how to use the body sinlessly.It is this center will you be directed how to use the body sinlessly. It isthis center, from which the body is absent, that will keep it so in yourawareness of it.

Love

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The Little Garden

It is only the awareness of the body that makes love seem limited. For the body is a limit on love. The belief in limited love was its origin, and it was made to limit the unlimited. Think not that this is merely allegorical, for it was made to limit you. Can you who see yourself within a body know yourself as an ideal? Everything you recognize you identify with externals, something outside itself. You cannot event hink of God without a body, or in some form you think you recognize. The body cannot know. And while you limit your awareness to its tiny senses, you will not see the grandeur that surrounds you. God cannot come into a body, nor can you join Him there. Limits on love will always seem to shut Him out, and keep you apart from Him. The body is a tiny fence around a little part of a glorious and complete idea. It Draws a circle, infinitely small, around a very little segment of Heaven, splintered from the whole, proclaiming that within it is your kingdom , where God can enter not. Within this kingdom the ego rules, and cruelly. And to defend thislittle speck of dust it bids you fight against the universe. This fragment ofyour mind is such a tiny part of it that, could you but appreciate the whole,you would see instantly that it is like the smallest sunbeam to the sun, orlike the faintest ripple on the surface of the ocean. In its amazing arrogance,this tiny sunbeam has decided it is the sun; this almost imperceptible ripplehails itself as the ocean. Think how alone and frightened is this littlethought, this infinitesimal illusion, holding itself apart against theuniverse. The sun becomes the sunbeam´s ”enemy” that would devour it, and theocean terrifies the little ripple and wants to swollow it. Yet neither sun norocean is even aware of all this stranger and meaningless activity. They merelycontinue, unaware that they are feared and hated by a tiny sigment ofthemselves. Even that segment is not lost to them, for it could not surviveapart from them. And what it thinks it is in no way changes its total dependenceon them for its being. Its whole existence still remains in them. Without thesun the sunbeam would be gone; the ripple without the ocean is inconceivable.Such is the stange position in which those in a world inhabited disconnectedthought, living alone and in no way joined to the Thought by which it wascreated. Each tiny fragment seems to be self-contained, needing another forsome things, but by no means totally dependent on its one Creator foreverything; needing the whole to give it any meaning, for by itself it doesmean nothing. Nor has it any life apart and by itself. Like to the sun andocean your Self continues, unmindful that this tiny part regards itself as you.It iss not missing ; it could not exist if it were separate, nor would thewhole be whole without it. It is not a separate kingdom, ruled by an idea ofseparation from the rest. Nor does a fence surround it, preventing it fromjoining with the rest, and keeping it apart from its Creator. This little aspectis no different from the whole, being continuous with it and at one with it. Itleads no separate life, because its life is the oneness in which its being wascreated. Do not accept this little, fenced-off aspect as yourself. The sun andocean are as nothing beside what you are. The sunbeam sparkles only in thesunlight, and the ripple dances as it rests upon the ocean. Yet in neither sun norocean is the power tht rests in you. Would you remain within your tiny kingdom,a sorry king, a bitter ruler of all that he surveys, who looks on nothing yetwho would still die to defend it? This little self is not your kingdom. Archedhigh above it and surrounding it with love is the glorious whole, which offersall its happiness and deep content to every part. The little aspect that youthink you set apart is no exception. Love knows no bodies, and reaches toeverything created like itself. Its total lack of limit is its meaning. It iscompletely impartial in its giving, encompassing only to preserve and keep completewhat it would give. In your tiny kingdom you have so little ! Should it not,then, be there that you would call on love to enter? Look at the desert – dryand unproductive, scorced and joyless – that makes up your little kingdom. Andrealize the life and joy that love would bring to it from where it comes, andwhere it would return with you. The Thought of God surrounds your littlekingdom, waiting at the barrier you built to come inside and shine upon thebarren ground. See how life springs up everhywhere! The desert becomes agarden, green and deep and quiet, offering ret to those who lost their way andwander in the dust. Givet hem a place of refuge, prepared by love for themwhere once a desert was. And everytone you welcome will bring love with himfrom Heaven for you. They enter one by by into this holy place, but they willnot depart as they had come, alone. The love they brought with them will staywith them, as it will stay with you. And under its beneficence your littlegarden will expand, and reach out to everyone who thirsts for living water, buthas grown too weary to go on alone. Go out and find them, for they bring yourSelf with them. And lead them gently to your quiet garden, and receive theblessing there. So will it grow and strecth across the desert, leaving nolonely little kingddoms locked away from love, and see your little gardengently transformed into the Kingdom of Heaven, with all the love of its Creatorshining upon it. The holy instant is your invitation to love to enter into yourbleak and joyless kingdom, and to transform it into a garden of peace andwelcome. Love´s answer is inevitable. It will come because you came without thebody, and interposed no barriers to interfere with its glad coming. In the holyinstant, you ask of love only what it offers everyone, neither less nor more.Asking for everything, you will recieve it. And your shining Self will lift thetiny aspect that you tried to hide from Heaven straight to Heaven. Nor part oflove calls on the whole in vain. No Son of God remains outside His Fatherhood.Be sure of this; love has entered your special relationship, and entered fullyat your weak request. You do not recognize that love has come, because you havenot yet let go of all the barriers you hold against your brother. And you willnot be able to give love welcome separately. You could no more know God alonethan He knows you without your brother. But together you could no more beunaware of love than love could know you not, or fail to recognize itself inyou. You have reached the end of an ancient journey, not realizing yet that itis over. You are still worn and tired, and the desert´s dust still seems tocloud your eyes and keeep slightless. Yet He Would you welcomed has come toyou, and would welcome you. He has waited long to give you this. Recieve it nowof Him, for He would have you know Him. Only a little wall of dust still standsbetween you. Blow on it lightly and with happy laughter, and it will fall away.And walk into the garden love has prepared for both of you.

Love

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The Two Worlds

You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of yourself, the little thought that seems split off and separate, the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God´s keeping, and needs no guide. Yet this wild and delusional thought needs help because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obediance and slavery. This is the little part you think you stole form Heaven. Give it back to Heaven. Heaven has not lost it, but you have lost sight of Heaven. Let the Holy Spirit remove if from the withered kingdom in which you set it off, surrounded by darkness, guarded by attack and reinforced by hate.Within its barricades is still a tiny segment of the Son of God, complete the holy, serene and unaware of what you think surrounds it. Be you not separate,for the One Who does surround it has brought union to you, returnig your littleoffering of darkness to the eternal light. How is this done? It is extremlysimple, being based on what this little kingdom really is. The barren sands,the darkness and the lifelessness, are seen only through the body´s eyes. Itsbleak sight is distroted, and the message it transmits to you who made it tolimit your awareness are little and limited, and so fragmented they aremeaningless. From the world of bodies, made by insanity, insane messages seemto be returned to the mind that made it. And these messages bear witness tothis world, pronouncing it as true. For you sent forth these messengers tobring this back to you. Everything these messages realay to you is quiteexternal. There are no messages that speak of what lies underneath, for it isnot the body that could speak of this. Its eyes perceive it not; its sensesremain quite speak for this. Its eyes perceive it not; its senses remain quiteunaware of it; its tongue cannot relay its messages. Yet God can bring youthere, if you are willing to follow the Holy Spirit through seeming terror,trusting Him not to abandon you and leave you there. For it is not His purposeto frighten you, but only yours. You are severly tempted to abandon Him at theouside ring of fear, but He would lead you safely through and far beyond. The circle of fear lies just below the levelthe body sees, and seems to be the whole foundation on which the world isbased. Here are all the illusions, all the twisted thoughts, all the insaneattacks, the fury, the vengeance and betrayal that were made to keep the guiltin place, so that the world could rise from it and keep it hidden. Its shadowrises to the surface, enough to hold its most external manifestations indarkness, and to bring despair and loneliness to it and keep it joyless. Yetits instensity is veiled by its heavy coverings, and kept apart from what wasmade to keep it hidden. The body cannot see this, for the body arose from this forits protection, which depends on keeping it not seen. The body´s eyes willnever look on it. Yet they will see what it dictates. The body will remainguilt´s messenger, and will act as it directs as long as you believe that guiltis real. For the reality of guilt is the illuison that seems to make it heavyand opaque, impenetrable, and a real foundation for the ego´s thought system.Its thinness and transparency are not apparent until you see the light behindit. And then you see it as a fragile veil before the light. This heavy-seemingbarrier, this artificial floor that looks like rock, is lika a bank of low darkclouds that seem to be a solid wall before the sun. Its impenetrable appearanceis wholly an illusion. It gives way softly to the mountain tops that rise aboveit, and has no power at all to hold back anyone willing to climb above it andsee the sun. It is not strong enough to stop a button´s fall, nor hold afeather. Try but to touch it and it disappears; attempt to grasp it and yourhands hold nothing. Yet in this cloud bank it is easy to see a whole worldrising. A solid mountain range, a lake, a city, all rise in your imagination,and from the clouds the messengers of your perception return to you, assuringyou that it is there. Figuress tand out and move about, actions seem real, andforms appear and shift from loveliness to the grotesque.. And back and forththey go, as long as you would play the game of children´s make-believe. Yethowever long you play it, and regardless of how much imagination you bring toit, you do not confuse it with the world below, nor seek to make it real. Soshould it be with the dark clouds of guilt, no more impenetrable and no moresubstantial. You will not bruise yourself against them in traveling though. Letyour Guide teach you their unsubstantial nature as He leads you past them, forbeneath them is a world of light whereon they cast no shadows. Their shadowslie upon the world beyond them, still further from the light. Yet from them tothe light their shadows cannot fall. This world of light, this circle ofbrightness is the real world, where guilt meets with forgiveness. Here theworld outside is seen anew, without the shadow of guilt upon it. Here is thenew perception, where everything is bright and shining with innocence, washedin the waters of forgiveness, and cleansed of every evil thought you laid uponit. Here there is no attack uponthe Son of God, and you are welcome. Here isyour innocence, waiting to clothe you and protect you, and make you ready for thefinal step in the journey inward. Here are the dark and heavy garments of guiltlaid by, and gently replaced by purity and love. Yet even forgiveness isnot theend. Forgiveness does make lovely, but it does not create. It is the source ofhealing, but it is the messenger of love and not its Source. Here you are led,that God Himself can take the final step unhindered, for here does nothinginterfere with love, letting it be itself. A step beyond this holy place, astep still further inward but the one you cannot take, transports you tosomething completely different. Here is the Source of light; nothing perceived,forgiven nor transformed. But merely known. This course will lead to knowledge,but knowledge itself is still beyhhond the scope of our curriculum. Nor isthere any need for us to try to speak of what must forever lie beyond words. Weneed remember only that whoever attains the real world, beyond which learningcannot go, will go beyond it, but in a different way. Where learning ends thereGod begins, for learning end before Him Who is complete where He begins, andwhere there is no end. It is not for us to dwell on what cannot be attained.There is too much to learn. The readiness for knowledge still must be attained.Love is not learned. Its meaning lies within itself. And learning ends when youhave recongnized all it is not. That is the interference; that is what needs tobe undone. Love is not learned, because there never was a time in which youknew it not. Learning is useless in the Presence of our Creator, Whoseacknowledgment of you and yours of Him so far transcend all learning thateverything you learned is meaningless, replaced forever by the knowledge oflove and its one meaning. Your relationship with your brother has been uprootedfrom the world of shadows, and its unholy purpose has been safely broughtthrough the barriers of guilt, washed with forgiveness, and set shining andfirmly rooted in the world of light. From there it calls to you to follow thecourse it took, lifted high above the darkness and gently placed before thegates of Heaven. The holy instant in which you were united is but the messengerof love, sent from beyond forgiveness that it will be rememberd. And when thememory of God has come to you in the holy place of forgiveness you will remembernothing else, and memory will be as useless as learning, for your only purposewill be creating. Yet this you cannot know until every perception has beencleansed and purified, and finally removed forever. Forgiveness removes onlythe untrue, lifting the shadow from the world and carrying it, safe and surewithin its gentleness, to the bright world of new and clean perception. Thereis your purpose now. And it is there that peace awaits you.

Love

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THE ATTAINMENT OF PEACE
Healing and Faith

We said before that when a situation has been dedicated wholly to truth, peace is inevitable. Its attainment is the criterion by by which the wholeness of the dedication can be safely assumed. Yet we also saidthat peace without faith will never be attined, for what is dedicated to trut has its only goal is brought to truth by faith. This faith encompassed everyone involved, for only thus the situation is perceived as meaninful and as a whole. And everyone must be involved in it, or else your faith is limited and your dedication incomplete. Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity to heal the Son of God. And he is healed because you offered faith to him, giving him to the Holy Spirit and releasing him from every demand your ego would make of him. Thus do you him free, and in this vision does the Holy Spirit share. And since He shares it He has given it, and so He heals throughyou. It is this joining Him in a united purpose that makes this pupose real,because you make it whole. And this is healing. The body is healed because youcame without it, and joined the Mind in which all healig rests. The body cannotheal, because it cannot make itself sick. It needs no healing. Its health orsickness depends entirely on how the mind perceives it, and the purpose thatthe mind would use it for. It is obvious that a segment of the mind can seeitself as spearated from the Universal Purpose. When this occurs the bodybecomes its weapon, used against this Pupose, to demonstrate the ”fact” thatseparation has occured. The body thus becomes the instrument of illusion,acting accordingly; seeing what is not there, hearing what truth has never saidand behaving insanely, being imrisoned by insanity. Do not overlook our earlierstatement that faithlessness leads straight to illusions. For fatihlessness isthe perception of a brother as a body, and the body cannot be used for purposesof union. If, then, you see your brother as a body, you have established acondition in which uniting with him becomes impossible. Your faithlessness tohim has separated you from him, and kept you both apart from being healed. Yourfaithlessness has thus opposed the Holy Spirit´s purpose, and broughtillusions, centered on the boyd, to stand between you. And the body will seemto be sick, for you have made of it and ”enemy” of healing and the opposite oftruth. It cannot be difficult to realize that faith must be the opposite offaithlessness. Yet the difference in how they operate is less apparent, thoughit follows directly from the fundamental difference in what they are.Faithlessness would always limit and attack; faith would remove all illusionsbetween the Son of God and his Creator; faith would remove all obstacles thatseem to rise between them. Faithlessness is wholly dedicated to illusions;faith wholly to truth. Partial dedication is impossible. Truth is the absenceof illusion; illusion the absence of truth. Both cannot be together, norperceived in the same place. To dedicate yourself to both is to set up a goalforever impossible to attain, for part of the it is sought through the body,thought of as a means for seeking out reality through attack. The other partwould heal, and therefore calls upon the mind and not the body. The inevitablecompromise is the belief that the body must be healed, and not the mind. Forthis divided goal has given both an equal reality, which could be possible onlyif the mind is limited to the body and divided into little parts of seemingwholeness, but without connection. This will not harm the body, but it willkeep the delusional thought system in the mind. Here, then, is healing needed.And it is here that healing is. For God gave healing not apart froom sickness,nor established remedy where sickness cannot be. They are together, and whenthey are seen together, all attempts to keep both truth an illusion in themind, where both must be, are recognized as dedication to illusion; and givenup when brought to truth, and seen as totally unreconcilable with truth, in anyrespect or in any way. Truth and illusion have no connection. This will remainforever true, however much you seek to connect them. But illusions are alwaysconnected, as is truth. Each is united, a complete thought system, but totallydisconnected to each other. And to perceive this is to recongnize whereseparation is, and where it must be healed. The result of an idea is neverseparate from its source. The idea of separation produced the body and remainsconnected to it, making it sick because of the mind´s identificatin with it.You think you are protecting the body by hiding this connection, for thisconcealment seems to keep your identification safe from the ”attack” if truth.If you but understood how much this strange concealment has hurt your mind, andhow confused your own identification has become because of it! You do not seehow great the devastation wrought by your faithlessness, for faithlessness isan attack that seems to be justified by its results. For by withholding faithyou see what is unworthy of it, and cannot look beyond the barrier to what isjoined with you. To have faith is to heal. It is the sign that you haveaccepted the Atonement for yourself, and would therefore share it. By faith,you offer the gift of freedom from the past, which you perceived. You do notuse anything your brother has done before to condemn him now. You freely chooseto overlook his errors, looking past all barriers between yourself and him, andseeing them as one. And in that one you see your faith is fully justified.There is no justification for faithlessness, but faith is always justified.Faith is the opposite of fear, as much a part of love as fear is of attack.Faith is the acknowledgment of union. It is the gracious acknowledgment ofeveryone as a Son of your most loving Father, loved by Him like you, andtherefore loved by you as yourself. It is His Love that joins you, and for HisLove you would keep no one separate from yours. Each one appears just as he isperceived in the holy instant, united in your purpose the be released fromguilt. You see the Christ in him, and he is healed because you look on whatmakes faith forever justified in everyone. Faith is the gift of God, throughHim Whom God has given you. Faithlessness looks upon the Son of God, and judgeshim unworthy of forgiveness. But through the eyes of faith, the Son of God isseen already forgiven, free of all the guilt he laid upon himself. Faith seeshim only now because it looks not to the past to judge him, but would see inhim only what it would see in you. It sees not through the body´s eyes, norlooks to bodies for its justification. It is the messenger of the newperception, sent forth to gather witnesses unto its coming, and to return theirmessages to you. Faith is as easily exchanged for knowledge as is the realworld. For faith arises from the Holy Spirit´s perception, and is the sign youshare it with Him. Faith is a gift you offer to the Son of God through Him, andwholly acceptable to his Father as to Him. And therefore offered you. Your holyrelationship, with its new purpose, offers you faith to give unto your brother.Your faithlessness has driven you apart, and so you do not recognize salvationin each other. Yet faith unites you in the holiness you see, not through thebody´s eyes, but in the sight of Him Who joined you, and in Whom you areunited. Grace is not given to a body, but to a mind. And the mind that receivesit looks instantly, beyond the body, and sees the holy place where it washealed. There is the altar where the grace was given, in which it stands. Doyou, then, offer grace and blessing to your brother, for you stand at the samealtar where grace was laid for both of you. And be you healed by grace togethe,that you may heal through faith. In the holy instant, you stand before thealtar. God has raised unto Himself and both of you. Lay faithlessness aside,and come to it together. There will you see the miracle of your relationship asit was made again through faith. And there it is that you will realize thatthere is nothing faith cannot forgive. No error interferes with its calm sight,which brings the miracle with equal ease to all of them. For what themessangers of love are sent to do they do returning the glad tidings that itwas done to you who stand together before the altar from which they were sentforth. As faithlessness will keep your little kingdom barren and separate, sowill faith help the Holy Spirit prepare the ground for the most holy gardenthat He would make of it. For faith brings peace, and so it calls on truth toenter and make lovely what has already been prepared for loveliness. Truthfollows faith and peace, completing the process of making lovely that they begin. For faith is still a learning goal, no longer needed what the lessonhas been learned. Yet truth will stay forever. Let, then, your dedication be to the eternal, and learn how not to interfere with it and make it slave to time. For what you think you do to the eternal you do to you. Whom God created as His Son is slave to nothing, being lord of all, along with his Creator. You can enslave a body, but an idea is free, incapable of being kept in prison or limited in any way except by the mind that thought it. For it remains joined to its source, which is its jailer or its liberator, according to which it choose sas its purpose for itself.

Love

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Sin versus Error

It is essential that error be not confused with sin, and itis this distinction that makes salvation possible. For error can be corrected,and the wrong made right. But sin, were it possible, would be irreversible. Thebelief in sin is necessarily based on the firm conviction that minds, notbodies, can attack. And thus the mind is guilty, and will forever so remainunless a mind not part of it can give it absolution. Sin calls for punishmentas error for correction, and the belief that punishment is correction isclearly insane. Sin is not an error, for sin entails an arrogance which theidea of error lack. To sin would be to violate reality, and to succeed. Sin isthe proclamation that attack is real and guilt is justified. It assumes the Sonof God is guilty, and has thus succeeded in losing his innocence and makinghimself what God created not. Thus is cretin seen as not eternal, and the Willof God open to opposition and defeat. Sin is the grand illusion underlying allthe ego´s grandiosity. For by it God Himself is changed, and renderedincomplete. The Son of God can be mistaken, he can deceive himself; he can eventurn the power of his mind against himself. Bu the cannot sin. There is nothinghe can do that would really change his reality in any way, nor make him reallyguilty. That is what sin would do, for such is its purpose. Yet for all thewild insanity inherent in the whole idea of sin, it is impossible. For thewages of sin is death, and how can the immortal die? A major tenet in the ego´sinsane religion is that sin is not error but truth, and it is innocence thatwould deceive. Purity is seen as arrogance, and the acceptance of the self asisnful is preceived as holiness. And it is this doctrine that replaces thereality of the Son of God as his Father created him, and willed that he beforever. Is this humility? Or is it, rather, an attempt to wrest creation awayfrom truth, and keep it separate? Any attempt to reinterpret sin as error isalways indefensible to the ego. The idea of sin is wholly sacrosanct to tisthought system, and quite unapproachable except with revenrence and awe. It isthe most ”holy” concept in the ego´s system; lovely and powerful, wholly true,and necessarily protected with every defense at its disposal. For here lies its”best” defense, which all the others serve. Here is its armor, its protection,and the fundamental purpose of the special relationship in its interpretation.It can indeed be said the ego made its world on sin. Only in such a world couldeverything be upside down. This is the strange illusion that makes the cloudsof guilt seem heavy and impenetrable. The solidness this world´s foundationseems to have is found in this. For sin has changed creation form an Idea ofGod to an idea the ego wants; a world it rules, made up of bodies, mindless andcapable of complete corruption and decay. If this is a mistake, it can beundone easily by truth. Any mistakes is given the status of truth, to what canit be brought? The ”holiness” of sin is kept in place by just this strangedevice. As truth it is inviolate, and everything is brought to it for judgment.As a mistake, it must be brought to truth. It is impossible to have faith insin, for sin is faithlessness. Yet it is possible to havve faith that a mistakecan be corrected. There is not stone in all the ego´s embattled citadel moreheavily defended than the idea that sin is real; the natural expression of whatthe Son of God has made himself to be, and what he is. To the ego, this is nomistake. For this is its reality; this is the ”truth” from which escape willalways be impossible. This is his past, his present and his future. For he hassomehow manged to corrupt his Father, and change His Mind completely. Mourn,then, the death of God, Whom sin has killed! And this would be the ego´s wish,which in its madness it believes it has accomplished. Would you not rather thatall this be nothing more than a mistake, entirely correctable, and so easilyescaped from that its whole correction is like walking through a mist into thesun? For that it is all it is. Perhaps you would be tempted to agree with theego that it is far better to be sinful than mistaken. Yet think you carefullybefore you allow yourself to make this choice. Approach it not lightly, for itis the choice of hell or Heaven.

Love

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The Unreality of Sin

The attraction of guilt is found in sin, not error. Sin willbe repeated because of this attraction. Fear can become so acute that the sin isdenied the acting out. But while the guilt remains attractive the mind willsuffer, and not let go of the idea of sin. For guilt still calls to it, and themind hears it and yearns for it, making itself a willing captive to its sickapeal. Sin is an idea of evil that cannot be correcte, and yet will be foreverdesirable. As anessential part of what the ego thinks you are, you will alwayswant it. And only an avenger, with a mind unlike your own, could stamp it outthrough fear. The ego does not think it possible that love, not fear, is reallycalled upon by sin, and always answers. For the ego brings sin to fear,demanding punsihment. Yet punishment is but another from of guilt´s protection,for what is deserving punishment must have been really done. Punishment isalways the great preserver of sin, treating it with respect and honoring itsenormity. For what you think is real you want, and will not let it go. Anerror, on the other hand, is not attractive. What you see clearly as a mistakeyou want corrected. Sometimes a sin can be repeated over and over, withobviously destressing results, but without the loss of its appeal. Andsuddenly, you change its status from a sin to a mistake. Now you will notrepeat it, you will merely stop and let it go, unless the guilt remains. Forthen you will but change the form of sin, granting that it was an error, butkeeping it uncorrectable. This is not really a change in your percetion, for itis sin that calls for punishment, not error. The Holy Spirit cannot punish sin.Mistakes He recongnizes, and would correct them all as God entrusted Him to do.But sin He knows not, nor can He recognize mistakes that cannot be corrected.For a mistake that cannot be corrected is meaninless to Him. Mistakes are forcorrection, and they call for nothing else. What calls for punishment must callfor nothing. Every mistake must be a call for love. What, then, is sin? Whatcould it be but a mistake you would keep hidden; a call for help that you wouldkeep unheard and thus unanswered? In time, the Holy Spirit clearly sees the Sonof God can make mistakes. On this you share His vision. Yet you do not shareHis recongnition of the difference between time and eternity. And whencorrection is completed, time is eternity. The Holy Spirit can teach you how tolook on time differently and see beyond it, but not while you believe in sin.In error, yes, for this can be corrected by the mind. But sin is the beliefthat your perception is unchangeable, and that the mind must accept as truewhat it is told through it. If it does not obey, the mind is judged insane. Theonly power that could change perception is thus kept impotent, held to the bodyby the fear of changed perception which its Teacher, Who is one with it, wouldbring. When you are tempted to believe that sin is real, remember this: If sinis real, both God and you are not. If creation is extension, the Creator musthave extended Himself, and it is impossible that what is part of Him is totallyunlike the rest. If sin is real, God must be at war with Himself. He must besplit, and torn between good and evil; partly sane and partially insane. For Hemust have created what wills to destroy Him, and has the power to do so. It isnot easier to believe that you have been mistaken than to believe in this?While you believe that your reality or your reality of your brother´s isbounded by a body, you will believe in sin. While you believe that bodies canunite, you will find guilt attractive and believe that sin is precious. For thebelief that bodies limit mind leads to perception of the world in which theproof of separation seems to be everywhere. And God and His creation seem to besplit apart and overthrown. For sin would prove what God created holy could notrevail against it, nor remain itself before the power of sin. Sin is perceivedas mightier than God, before which God Himself must bow, and offer His creationto its conqueror. Is this humility or madness? If sin is real, it must foreverbe beyone the hope of healing. For there would be a power beyond God´s, capableof making another will that could attack His Will and overcome it; and give HisSon a will apart from His, and stronger. And each part of God´s fragmentedcreation would have a different will, opposed to His, and in eternal oppositionto Him and to each other. Your holy relationship has, as its purpose now, thegoal of proving this impossible. Heaven has smiled upon it, and the belief insin has been uprooted in its smile of love. You see it still, because you donot realize that its foundation has gone. Its source has been removed, and soit can be cherished but a little while before it vanishes. Only the habit oflooking for it still reamins. And yet you look with Heaven´s smile upon yourlips, and Heaven´s blessing on your sight. You will not see sin long. For inthe new perception the mind corrects it when it seems to be seen, and it becomesinvisible. Error are quickly recongized and quickly given to correction, to behealed, not hidden. You will be healed of sin and all its ravages the instantthat you give it no power over your brother. And you will help each otherovercome mistakes by joyously releasing one another from the belief in sin. Inthe holy instant, you will see the smile of Heaven shining on both of you. Andyou will shine upon each other, in glad acknowledgment of the grace that hasbeen given you. For sin will not prevail against a union Heaven has smiledupon. Your perception was healed in the holy instant Heaven gave you. Forgetwhat you have seen, and raise your eyes in faith to what you now can see. The barriersto Heaven will disappear before your holy sight, for you who were sightlesshave been given vision, and you can see. Look not for what has been removed,but for the glory that has been restord for you to see. Look upon yourRedeemer, and behold what He would show you in your brother, and let not sinarise against to blind your eyes. For sin would keep you separate, but yourRedeemer would have you look upon your brother as yourself. Your relationshipis now a temple of healing; a place where all the weary ones can come and rest.Here is the rest that waits for all, after the journey. And it is broughtnearer to all by your relationship.

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The Obstacles of Peace

As peace extends from deep inside yourself to embrace allthe Sonship and give it rest, it will encounter many obstacles. Some of themyou will try to impose. Others will seem to arise from elsewhere; from yourbrothers, and from various aspects of the world outside. Yet peace will gentlycover them, extending past completely unencumbered. The extention of the HolySpirit´s purpose from your relationship to others, to bring them gently in,will quietly extend to every aspect of your lives, surrounding both of you withglowing happiness and the calm awareness of complete protection. And you willcarry its message of love and safety and freedom to everyone who draws nighunto your temple, where healing waits for him. You will not wait to give himthis, for you will call to him and he will answer you, recognizing in your callthe Call for God. And you will draw him in and give him rest, as it was givenyou. All this will you do. Yet the peace that already lies deeply within mustfirst expand, and flow across the obstacles you place before it. This will youdo, for nothing undertaken with the Holy Spirit remains unfinished. You canindeed be sure of nothing you see outside you, but of this you can be sure: TheHoly Spirit asks that you offer Him a resting place where you will rest in Him.He answered you, and entered your relationship. Would you not now return Hisgraciousness, and enter into a relationship with Him? For it is He Who offeredyour relationship the gift of holiness, without which it would have beenforever impossible to appreciate your brother. The gratitude you owe to Him Heasks but that you receive for Him. And when you look with gentle graciousnessupon your brother, you are beholding Him. For you are looking where He is, andnot apart from Him. You cannot see the Holy Spirit, but you can see yourbrothers truly. And the light in them will show you all that you need to see.When the peace in you has been extended to encompass everyone´, the Holy Spiritwill gather all the thanks and gratitude that you have offered Him, and laythem gently before His Creator in the name of His most holy Son. And the Fatherwill accept them in His Name. What need is there of seeing, in the presence ofHis gratitude?

1 The First Obstacle: The Desire of Get Rid of it

The first obstacle that peace must flow across is yourdesire to get rid of it. For it cannot extend unless you keep it. You are thecenter from which it radiate outward, to call the others in. You are its home;its tranquil dwelling place from which it gently reaches out, but never leavingyou. If you would make it homeless, how can it abide within the Son of God? Ifit would spread across the whole creation, it must begin with you, and from youreach to everyone who calls, and bring him rest by joining you. Why would youwant peace homeless? What do you think that it must dispossess to dwell withyou? What seems to be the cost you are so unwilling to pay? The little barrierof sand still stands between you and your brother. Would you reinforce it now?You are not asked to let it go for yourself alone. Christ asks it of you forHimself. He would bring peace to everyone, and how can Hed o this exceptthrough you? Would you let a little bank of sand, a wall of dust, a tinyseeming barrier, stand between your brothers and salvation? And yet, thislittle remnant of attack your cherish still against each other is the firstobstacle the peace in you encouters in its going forth. This little wall ofhatred would still oppose the Will of God, and keep it limited. The HolySpirit´s purposes rests in peace within you. Yet you are still unwilling to letit join you wholly. You still oppose the Will of God, just by a little. And thelittle is a limit you would place upon the whole. God´s Wilol is one, not many.It has no opposition, for there is none beside it. What you would still containbehind your little barrier and keep separate from your brother seems mightier thanthe universe, for it would hold back the universe and its Creator. This littlewall would hide the purpose of Heaven, and keep it from Heaven. Would you trustsalvation away from the giver of salvation? For such have you become. Peacecould no more depart from you than from God. Fear not this little obstacle. Itcannot contain the Will of God. Peace will flow across it, and join you withouthindrance. Salvation cannot be withheld from you. It is your purpose. Youcannot choose apart from this. You have no purpose apart from your brother, norapart from the one you asked the Holy Spirit to share with you.The little wallwill fall away so quietly beneath the wings of peace. For peace will send itsmessengers from you to all the world, and barriers will fall away before thiscoming as easily as those that you interpose will be surmounted. To overcomethe world is no more difficult than to surmount your little wall. For in themiracle of your holy relationship, without this barrier, is every miraclecontained. There is no order of difficulty in miracles, for they are all thesame. Each is a gentle winning over from the appeal of guilt to the appeal oflove. How can this fail to be accomplished, wherever it is undertaken? Guiltcan raise no real barriers against it. And all that seems to stand between youmjujst fall away because of the appeal you answered. From you who answered, HeWho answered you would call. His home is in your holy realtionship. Do notattempt to stand between Him and His holy purpose, for it is yours. But let Himquietly extend the miracle of your relationship to everyone contained in it asit was given. There is a hush in Heaven, a happy expectancy, a little pause ofglandness in acknowledgment of the journey´s end. For Heaven knows you well, asyou know Heaven. No illusions stand between you now. Look not upon the littlewall of shadows. The sun has risen over it. How can a shadow keep you from thesun? No more can you be kept by shadows from the light in which illusions end.Every miracle is but the end of an illusion. Such was the journey; such itsending. And in the goal of truth which you accepted must all illusions end. Thelittle insane wish to get rid of Him Whom you invited in and push Him out mustproduce conflict. As you look upon the world, this little wish, uprooted andfloating aimlessly, can land and settle briefly upon anything, for it has nopurpose now. Before the Holy Spirit entered to abide with you it seemed to havea mighty purpose; the fixed and unchangeable dedication to sin and its results.Now it is aimless, wandering pointlessly, causing no more than tinyinterruptions in love´s appeal. The feather of a wish, this tiny illusion, thismicroscopic remnant of the belief in sin, is all that remains of what onceseemed to be the world. It is no longer an unrelating barrier to peace. Itspointless wandering makes its results appear to be more erratic andunprdictable than before. Yet what could be more unstable than a tightlyorganized delusional system? Its seeming stability is its pervasive weakness,which extends to everything. The variability the little remnant induces merelyindicates its limited results. How mighty can a little feather be before thegreat wings of truth? Can it oppsose an eagle´s flight, or hinder the advanceof summer? Can it interfere with the effects of summer´s sun upon a gardencovered by snow? See but how easily this little wisp is lifted up and carriedaway, never to return, and apart with it in gladness, not regret. For it isnothing in itself, and stood for nothing when you had greater faith in itsprotectin. Would you not rather greet the summer sun than fix your gaze upon adisappearing snowflake, and shiver in remembrance of the winter´s cold?

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The Attraction of Guilt

The attraction of guilt produces fear of love, for love would never look on guilt at all. It is the nature of love to look upon only the truth, for there it sees itself, which it would unite in holy union and completion. As love must look past fear, so must fear see love not. For love contains the end of guilt, as surely as fear depends on it. Overlooking guilt completely, it sees no fear. Being wholly without attack, it could not be afraid. Fear is attracted to what love sees not, and each believes that what the other looks upon does not exist. Fear looks on guilt with just the same devotion that love looks on itself. And each has messengers which they send forth, and which return to them with messages written in the language in which their going forth was asked. Love´s messengers are gently sent, and return with messages of love and gentleness. The messengers of fear are harsly ordered to seek out guilt, and cherish every scrap of evil and of sin that they can find,losing none of them on pain of death, and laying them respectfully before theirlord and master. Perception cannot obey two masters, each asking for messagesof different things in different languages. What fear would feed upon, loveoverlooks. What fear demands, love cannot even see. The fierce attraction thatguilt holds for fear is wholly absent from love´s gentle perception. What lovewould look upon is meaningless to fear, and guite invisible. Relationships inthis world are the result of how the world is seen. And this depends on whichemotion was called on to send its messengers to look upon it, and return withword of what they saw. Fear´s messengers are trained through terror, and theytremble when their master calls on them to serve him. For fear in mercilesseven to its friends. Its messengers steal guiltily away in hungry serch ofguilt, for they are kept cold and starving and made very vicious by theirmaster, who allows them to feast only upon what they return to him. No littleshred of guilt escapes their hungry eyes. And in their savage serch for sinthey pounce on any living thing they see, and carry it screaming to theirmaster, to be devoured. Send not there savage messengers into the world, tofeast uponit and to prey upon reality. For they will bring you word of bonesans skin and flesh. They have been taught to seek for the corruptible, and toreturn with gorges filled with things decayed and rotted. To them such thingsare beautiful, because they seem to allay their savage pangs of hunger. Forthey are frantic with pain of fear, and would avert the punishment of him whosends them forth by offering him what they hold dear. The Holy Spirit has givenyou love´s messengers to send instead of those you trained through fear. Theyare as eager to return to you what they hold dear as are the others. If yousend them forth, they will see only the blamless and the beautiful, the gentleand the kind. They will be as careful to let no little act of charity, no tinyexpression of forgiveness, no little breath of love escape their notice. Andthey will return with all the happy things they found, to share them lovinglywith you. Be not afraid of them. They offer you salvation. Theirs are themessages of safety, for they see the world as kind. If you send forth only themessengers the Holy Spirit gives you, wanting no messages but theirs, you willsee fear no more. The world will be transformed before you sigh, cleansed ofall guilt and softly brushed with beauty. The world contains no fear that youlaid not upon it. And none you cannot ask love´s messengers to removed from it,and see it still. The Holy Spirit has given you His messengers to send to yourbrother and return to you with what love sees. They have been given to replacethe hungry dogs of fear you sent instead. And they go forth to signify the endof fear. Love, too, would set a feast before you, on a table covered with aspotless cloth, set in a quiet garden where no sound but singing and a softlyjoyous wishpering is ever heard. This is a feast that honors your holyrelationship, and at which everyone is welcomed as an honored guest. And in aholy instant grace is said by everyone together, as they join in gentlenessbefore the table of communion. And I will join you there, as long ago Ipromised and promise still. For in your new relationship am I made welcome. Andwhere I am made welcome, there I am. I am made welcome in the state of grace,which means you have at last forgiven me. For I became the symbol of your sin,and so I had to die instead of you. To the ego sin means death, and soatonement is achieved through murder. Salvation is looked upon as a way bywhich the Son of God was killed instead of you. Yet, no one can die for anyone,and death does not atone for sin. But you can live to show it is not real. Thebody does appear to be the symbol of sin while you believe that it can get youwhat you want. While you believe that it can give you pleasure, you will alsobelieve that it can bring you pain. To think you could be satisfied and happywith so little is to hurt yourself, and to limit the happiness that you wouldhave calls upon pain to fill your meager store and make your life complete.This is completion as the ego sees it. For guilt creeps in where happiness hasbeen removed, and substitutes for it. Communion is another kind of completion,which goes beyond guilt, because it goes beyond the body.

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II The Second Obstacle: The Belief the Body is Valuable forWhat It Offers

We said that peace must first surmount the obstacle of your desire to get rid of it. Where the attraction of guilt holds sway, peace is not wanted. The second obstacle that peace must flow across, and closely related to the first, is the belief that the body is valuable for what it offers. For here is the attraction of guilt made manifest in the body, and seen in it. This is the value that you think peace would rob you of. This is what you believe that it would dispossess, and leave you homless. And it is this for which you would deny a home to peace. This ”sacrifice” you feel to be too great to make, too much to ask of you. Is it a sacrifice, or a release? What has the body really given you that justifies your strange belief that in it lies salvation? Do you not see that this is the belief in death? Here is the focus of the perception of atonement as murder. Here is the source of the idea that love is fear. The Holy Spirit´s messengers are sent far behond the body, calling the mind to join in holy communion an be at peace. Such is the message that I gave them for you. Itis only the messengers of fear that see the body, for they look for what cansuffer. It is a sacrifice to be removed from what can suffer? The Holy Spiritdoes not demand you sacrifice the hope of the body´s pleasure; it has no hopeof pleasure. But neither can it bring, you fear of pain. Pain is the only ”sacrifice”the Holy Spirit asks, and this He would remove. Peace is extended from you onlyto the eternal, and its reaches out from the eternal in you. It flows acrossall else. The second obstacle is no more solid that the first. For you wantneither to get rid of peace nor limit it. What are these obstacles that youwould interpose between peace and its going forth but barriers you placebetween your will and its accomplisment? You want communion, not the feast offear. You want salvation, not the pain of guilt. And you want your Father, nota little mount of clay, to be your home. In your holy relationship is yourFather´s Son. He has not lost communion with Him, nor with himself. When youagreed to join your brother, you acknowledged this is so. This has no cost, butit has released from cost. You have paid very dearly for your illusions, andnothing you have paid for brought you peace. Are you not glad that Heavencannot be sacrificed, and sacrifice cannot be asked of you? There is noobstacle that you can place before our union, for in your holy relationship Iam there already. We will surmount all obstacles together, for we stand withinthe gates and not outside. How easily the gates are opened from within, to letpeace through to bless the tired world! Can it be difficult for us to walk pastbarriers together, when you have joined the limitless? The end of guilt is inyour hands to give. Would you stop now to look for guilt in one another? Let mebe to you the symbol of the end of guilt, and look upon your brother as youwould look upon me. Forgive me all the sins you think the Son of God committed.And in the light of your forgiveness he will remember who he is, and forgetwhat never was. I ask for your forgiveness, for if you are guilty, so must Ibe. But if I surmountd guilt guilt and overcame the world, you were with me.Would you see in me the symbol of guilt or the end of guilt, remembering thatwhat I signify to you you see within yourself? From your holy relationshiptruth proclaims the truth, and love looks on itself. Salvation flows from deepwithin the home you offered to my Father and to me. And we are there together,in the quiet communion in which the Father and the Son are joined. O come yefaithful to the holy union of the Father and the Son in you! And keep you notapart from what is offered you, in gratitude for giving peace its home inHeaven. Send forth to all the world the joyous message of the end of guilt, andall the world will answer. Think of your happiness as everyone offers youwitness of the end of sin, and shows you that its power is gone forever. Wherecan guilt be, when the belief in sin is gone? And where is death, when itsgreat advocate is heard no more? Forgive me your illusions, and release me frompunishment for what I have not done. So will you learn the freedom that Itaught by teaching freedom to your brother, and so releasing me. I am withinyour holy relationship, yet you would imprison me behind the obstacles you raiseto freedom, and bar my way to you. Yet it is not possible to keep away One Whois there already. And in Him it is possible that our communion, where we arejoined already, we be the focus of the new perception that will bring light toall the world, contained in you.

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The Attraction of Pain

Your little part is but to give the Holy Spirit the whole idea of sacrifice. And to accept the peace He gives instead, without the limits he would hold its extension back, and so would limit your awareness of it. For what He gives must be extended if you would have its limitless power, and use it for the Son of God´s release. It is not this you would be rid of, and having it you cannot limit it. If peace is homeless, so are you and so am I. And He who is our home is homeless with us. It is this you wish? Would you invest your hope of peace and happiness in what must fail? Faith in the eternal is Always justified, for the eternal is forever kind, infinite in its patience and wholly loving. It will accept you wholly, and give you peace. Yet it can unite only with what already is at peace in you, immortal as itself. The body can bring you neither peace nor turmoil; neither joy nor pain. It is a means, and not an end. It has no purpose of itself, but only what is given to it. The body will seem to be whatever is the means for reaching the goal that you assign to it.Peace and guilt are both conditions of the mind, to be attained. And thereconditions are the home of the emotion that calls them forth, and therefore iscompatible with them. Butt hink you which it is that is compatible with you.Here is your choice, and it is free. But all that lies in it will come with it,and what you think you are can never be apart from it. The body is the greatseeming betrayer of faith. In it lies disillusionment and the seeds offaithlessness, but only if you ask of it what it cannot give. Can your mistakebe reasonable grounds for depression and disillusionment, and for retaliativeattack on what you think has failed you? Use not your error as thejustification for your faithlessness. You have not sinned, but you have beenmistaken in what is faithful. And the correction of your mistake will give yougrounds for faith. It is impossible to seek for pleasure through the body andnot find pain. It is essential that this relationship be understood, for it isone the ego sees as proof of sin. It is not really punitive at all. It is butthe inevitable result of equating yourself with the body, which is theinvitation to pain. For it gives fear to enter and become your purpose. Theattraction of guilt must enter with it, andwhatever fear directs the body to dois therefore painful. It will share the pain of all illusions, and the illusionof pleasure will be the same as pain. Is not this inevitable? Under fear´sorders the body will pusue guilt, serving its master whose attraction to guiltmaintains the whole illusion of its existence. This, then, is the attraction ofpain. Ruled by this perception the body becomes the servant of pain, seeking itdutifully and obeying the idea that pain is pleasure. It is this idea thatunderlies all of the ego´s hevy investment in the body. And it is this insanerelationship that is keeps hidden, and yet feeds upon. To you it teaches thatthe body´s pleasure is happiness. Yet to itself it whispers, ”It is death”. Whyshould the body be anything to you? Certainly what it is made of is notprecious. And just as certainly it has no feeling. It transmits to you thefeelings that you want. Like any communication medium the body receives andsend the messages that it is given. It has no feeling for them. All of thefeeling with which they are invested is given by the sender and the receiver.The ego and the Holy Spirit both recognize this, and both also recognize thathere the sender and receiver is the same. The Holy Spirit tells you this withjoy.The ego hides it, for it would keep you unaware of it. Who would sendmessages of hatred and attack if he but understood he sends them to himself?Who would accuse, make guilty and condemn himself? The ego´s messages arealways sent away from you, in the belief that for your message of attack andguilt will someone other than yourself suffer. And even if you suffer, yetsomeone else will suffer more. The great deceiver recognizes that this is notso, but as the ”enemy” of peace , it urges you to send out all your messages ofhate and free yourself. And to convince you this is possible, it bids the bodyserch for pain in attack upon another, calling it pleasure and offering it toyou as freedom from attack. Hear not its madness, and believe not theimpossible is true. Forget not that the ego has dedicated the body to the goalof sin, and places in it all its faith that this can be accomplished. Its saddisciples chant the body´s praise continually, in solemn celebration of theego´s rule. Not one but must believe that yielding to the attraction of guiltis the escape from pain. Not one but must regard the body as himself, withoutwhich he would die, and yet within which is his death equally inevitable. It isnot given to the ego´s disciples to realize that they have dedicated themselvesto death. Freedom is offered them but they have not accepted it, and what isoffered must also be received, to be truly given. For the Holy Spirit, too is acommunication medium, reciving from the Father and offering His messages untothe Son. Like the ego, the Holy Spirit is both the sender and the receiver. Forwhat is sent through Him returns to Him, seeking itself along the way, andfinding what it seeks. So does the ego find the death it seeks, returning it toyou.

Love