T. 20. III. 1 – 5. Jesus: “The belief in sin, that you or anyone can violate the laws of your creation, is but an ‘adjustment’ to reality! And an adjustment to anything is a change; a shift in awareness, or a belief that what was so before has somehow been made different. Every adjustment is therefore a distortion, and calls for defenses to uphold it against reality!
Knowledge is truth and requires no adjustments. In fact, it is lost if any shift or change is undertaken. For this would reduce it at once to mere perception; a chosen way of looking in which certainty is lost and doubt has entered. To this impaired condition are adjustments necessary, because it is not true! Who need adjust to truth, which calls on only what he is, to understand?
‘Adjustments’ of any kind are of the ego. For it is the ego’s fixed belief that all relationships depend upon adjustments, to make of them what it would have them be. Direct relationships, without judgment, in which there are no interferences, are always seen as dangerous to the fearful, guilty ego. The ego thus makes itself the self-appointed mediator of all relationships, making whatever adjustments it deems necessary and interposing them between those who would meet, to keep them separate and prevent their union from being realized. It is this studied interference that makes it difficult for you to recognize your holy relationship for what it is.
Those who have accepted the Holy Spirit’s purpose do not interfere with truth. They are not afraid of it, for it is within the truth they recognize their holiness, and rejoice at what they see. They look on it directly, without attempting to adjust themselves to it, or it to them. And so they see that it was within them, not deciding first where they would have it be. Their ‘looking’ merely asks a question now, and it is what they see that answers them.
You make the world you see and then adjust to it, and then adjust it to you! There really isn’t any difference between yourself and it, for your perception has made them both. A simple question yet remains, and needs an answer. Do you like what you have made? Do you relish a world of murder and attack, through which you thread your timid way among constant dangers, alone and frightened, hoping at most that death will wait a little longer before it overtakes you and you disappear?
You’ve made this up! It is but a picture of what you think you are; of how you see yourself! A murderer is very frightened, and those who would kill must inevitably fear death. All these are but the fearful thoughts of those who would adjust themselves to a world made fearful by their own adjustments. Then they look out in sorrow from what is sad within, and see the sadness reflected there.
Have you not wondered what the world is really like; how it would look through peaceful, happy eyes? The world you see is but a judgment on yourself. It is not really there at all!”