T. 23. III. 6 & IV. 1 – 4. Jesus: “Here stands your little self, perceiving itself as a body, torn between the natural desire to communicate and the unnatural intent to murder and to die. Think you there is a form the murder takes that can offer safety? Can guilt be absent from a battlefield?
Do not remain in conflict. There is no war without attack! The fear of God is fear of Life, and not of death. Yet He remains the only place of safety. In Him is no attack, and no illusion in any form stalks Heaven. Heaven is wholly true. No difference enters, and what is all the same cannot conflict.
You are not asked to fight against your wish to murder. But you are asked to realize that no matter the form it takes, the attack conceals the same intent. And it is this intent you fear, and not the form of its expression. What is not love is murder!
What is not loving can only be an attack! Every illusion is an assault on truth, and every one does violence to the very idea of love, because they all seem to be of equal truth. What can be equal to the truth, yet different? Murder and love are incompatible. Yet if they both are true, then must they be the same, and indistinguishable from one another. So will they be to those who see God’s Son as a body. For it is not the body that is like the Son’s Creator. And what is lifeless cannot be the Son of Life.
How can a body be extended to hold the universe? Can it create, and be what it creates? And can it offer its creations all that it is and never suffer loss? God does not share His function with a body, but with you! He gave the function to create unto His Son because it is His Own.
Although it is not sinful to believe the function of the Son is murder, it is insanity! What is the same can have no different function. Creation is the means for God’s extension, and what is His must be His Son’s as well. Either the Father and the Son are murderers, or neither is! Life makes not death, instead creating like itself.
The lovely light of your relationship is like the Love of God. It cannot yet assume the holy function God gave His Son, for your forgiveness of your brother is not complete as yet, and so it cannot be extended to all creation. Each form of murder and attack that still attracts you and that you do not recognize for what it is, limits the healing and the miracles you have the power to extend to all.
Yet does the Holy Spirit understand how to increase your little gifts and make them mighty. Also He understands how your relationship is raised above the battleground, in it no more. This is your part; to realize that murder in any form is not your will. The overlooking of the battleground is now your purpose!”