T. 31. VII. 10 – 12. Jesus: “What is temptation but the wish to stay in hell and misery? And what could this give rise to but an image of yourself that can be miserable, and thus remain in hell and torment? Anyone whose learning has brought him far enough to see his brother not as this, has saved himself, and thus is he a savior to the rest.
To everyone has God entrusted all his brothers, because a ‘partial savior’ would be one who is but partly saved! The holy ones whom God has given you to save are all of those you meet or look upon, knowing who they are or not, including all you’ve met an instant and forgot, as well as those you’ve known a long while since, and those you will yet meet; even the unremembered and the not yet born. For God has given you His entire Son, to save from every ‘concept’ that he ever held!
Yet while you wish to stay in hell, how could you be the savior of the Son of God? How would you know his holiness as long as you set him apart from yours? For holiness is seen through holy eyes, those that look upon the innocence within, and thus expect to see it everywhere. Thus do they call it forth in everyone they look upon, that he may be to them what they expect of him.
This is but the savior’s vision; that he see his innocence in all he looks upon, and thereby see his own salvation everywhere. He holds no ‘concept of himself’ between his calm and open eyes and what he sees. He therefore brings the light to what he looks upon, that he may see it as it really is!
Whatever form temptation seems to take, it always but reflects a wish to be a ‘self’ that you are not! Then from that wish a concept of yourself arises, teaching you that you are the thing you’ve wished. It will remain your self-concept until the wish that fathered it no longer is held dear. But while you cherish it, you will behold your brother in the likeness of the self whose image has the wish begot of you.
Your current seeing can but represent a wish, because it has no power to create. Yet it can look with love or look with hate, depending only on the simple choice: ‘Would you be joined with what you see, or keep yourself apart and separate?'”