T. 21. II. 5 – 7. Jesus: “The world you see is but the idle witness that you were right about yourself! But this witness is insane! You’ve trained it in its ‘testimony,’ which it has merely given back to you. You have then listened attentively, and convinced yourself that what the world taught you was true. Yet you have but done this to yourself!
Acknowledge this and you will understand how circular is the reasoning on which your current ‘seeing’ rests! This was not given you! This was your ‘gift’ to you and to your brother. Be willing now to have it lifted from your brother by the Holy Spirit and be replaced with truth. And as you look upon the change in him, it will be given you to recognize it in yourself!
Perhaps you do not see the need for you to give this little offering. Look closer, then, at what it is! And, very simply, see in it the whole exchange of separation for salvation. All that the ego is, is but an idea that it is possible that things could happen to the Son of God without his will; and thus without the Will of his Creator, Whose Will cannot, in truth, be separate from his own.
This is the Son of God’s unholy substitute for his own true will, a mad revolt against what must forever be! This is the statement that he has the power to make God powerless, and so to take all power for himself, thus leaving himself without what God has willed for him. This is the mad idea you have enshrined upon your altars, and which you worship! And anything that threatens this seems to attack your faith, for here is it invested. Think not that you are faithless, for your belief and trust in this strange idea is strong indeed!
The Holy Spirit can easily give you faith in holiness, and the vision you need with which to see it. But you have not left open and unoccupied the altar where the gifts belong! Where they should be, you have set up your idols to something else. This other ‘will,’ which seems to tell you what must happen, you have ‘given reality.’ And what would show you otherwise must therefore seem un-real. All that is now asked of you is a little willingness to make room for truth!
You are not asked to make or do what lies beyond your understanding. All you are asked to do is let truth in; only to stop your interference with what will happen of itself; simply to recognize again the presence of what you thought you gave away.”