T. 31. I. 10 – 13. Jesus: “The fear of God results as surely from the lesson that His Son is guilty as God’s Love must surely be remembered when he learns his innocence. For hate must father fear, and look upon its father as itself!
How wrong are you who fail to hear the call that echoes from beyond each seeming call to death, the call that sings to you from behind each murderous attack that you would make, and pleads with you that love be chosen to restore the dying world!
You do not yet understand Who calls to you from just beyond each form of hate; and from beneath each call to war. Yet you will recognize Him as you give Him answer in the same language that He speaks to you. He will appear to you when you have answered Him, and you will know in Him that God is Love!
What is temptation, then, but an idle wish to make the wrong decision on the lesson you would learn, and thereby have an outcome that you cannot sanely want? Yet, it is the recognition that the outcome is a state of mind unwanted, that becomes the means whereby the choice is reassessed; with another outcome seen to be preferred. You surely are deceived if you believe you want disaster and disunity and pain.
Hear not the call that brings to you this devastation! But listen, rather, to the deeper call beyond it that appeals for peace and joy. And all the world will offer you but joy and peace! For as you hear, you answer. And behold! Your answer is the proof of what you learned. Its outcome is the world you look upon!
Let us be still an instant; forget all things we ever learned before, all thoughts we had, and every preconception that we hold of what things mean and what their purpose is. Let us remember not our own ideas of what the world is for. We do not know. Let every image held of everyone be loosened from our minds and swept away.
Be innocent of judgment now, unaware of any thoughts of evil or of good that ever crossed your mind of anyone! Now do you know him not! But you are free to learn of him, and learn of him anew. Now is he born again to you, and you are born again to him, without the past that sentenced him to die, and you with him.
Now is your brother free to live as you are free, because an ancient learning has passed away, and left a place for truth to be reborn to you.”