T. 28. I. 7 – 9. Jesus: “Remember nothing that you have taught yourself, for you were badly taught! And who would keep a senseless lesson in his mind, when he can learn and now preserve a better one that leads him to a better state?
Whenever ancient memories of hate appear, remember that their cause is gone. And so you need not even understand what they are for. Let not the cause that you would give them be the same that made them what they were, or better, what they seemed to be.
Be glad that what is held in your ‘past’ memory is gone, for this is what you would be pardoned from, by simply ‘choosing once again.’ And see, instead, the new effects of your real Cause, accepted now, with consequences for you here! They will surprise you with their loveliness. The ancient ‘new ideas’ that they bring will be the happy consequences of a Cause so ancient, that it far exceeds the span of memory reached by your perception.
This is the Cause the Holy Spirit has remembered for you, even when you would forget. He proves It is not past because He let It not be unremembered. This Cause has never changed, because there never was a time in which the Holy Spirit did not keep It safely in your mind. Its consequences will indeed seem new, because you thought that you remembered not their Cause.
Yet was your real Cause never absent from your mind, for it was not your Father’s Will that He be unremembered by His Son. What you have been choosing to remember never was! It came from causelessness which you confused with Cause. It can deserve but laughter now, when you learn you have merely remembered consequences that were causeless, and could never be effects.
The miracle reminds you of a Cause forever present, perfectly untouched by time and interference, never changed from what It is. And you are Its Effect, as changeless and as perfect as Itself. The memory of it does not lie in the imagined past, nor does it wait upon the future.
The memory of God Himself is not revealed to you in miracles, though miracles, as consequences, do remind you that your Cause has never left you. When you forgive It fully for your imagined sins, the memory of God will no longer be denied by you.”