T. 27. I. 4 – 6. Jesus: “The power of a witness is beyond belief because it brings conviction in its wake. The witness is believed because he points beyond himself to what he represents.
A ‘sick and suffering’ you is a picture that represents your brother’s guilt to him; the witness that you send to him lest he forget the ‘injuries’ he gave, the guilt from which you swear he never will escape. This sick and sorry picture of yourself is one which you accept, for only it can serve to punish him and shift the guilt from you!
The sick are merciless to everyone, and in contagion do they seek to ‘kill.’ Death seems an easy price, if they can say, ‘Behold me, brother, at your hand I die!’ For in your sickness is the witness to his guilt, and death would prove his errors must be sins. Sickness is but a ‘little death,’ vengeance in a form still not quite total. Yet it speaks with certainty for what it represents!
The bleak and bitter picture you have sent your brother, you must first have looked upon in grief. And everything that it has shown to him have you believed, because it witnessed to the guilt in him which you perceived and loved.
In your hands, now made gentle by the His touch, the Holy Spirit lays a picture of a different you for you to share. It is a picture of a body still, a symbol of yourself, for what you really are cannot be seen nor pictured. Yet this symbol, unlike the ego’s, has not been offered for the purpose of attack, and has therefore never suffered pain at all. It witnesses to the eternal truth that you cannot be hurt, and points beyond itself to both your innocence and your brother’s.
Show this unto your brother, who will see that every scar is healed, and every tear is wiped away in laughter and in love! And he will look on his forgiveness there, and with healed eyes, will look beyond it to his innocence, that he now beholds in you.
Here is the proof that he has never sinned; that nothing which his madness bid him do was ever done, or ever had effects of any kind. Now your brother sees that no reproach he laid upon his heart was ever justified, and no attack can ever touch him with the poisoned and relentless sting of fear.
Attest your brother’s innocence and not his guilt! Your healing is his comfort and his health, because it proves illusions are not true.”