T. 23. I. 6 – 8. Jesus: “Truth is true; illusions are not! The ‘war against yourself’ is but the battle of two illusions, struggling to make them different from each other, in the belief the one that wins will prove itself to be true. There is no conflict between these illusions and the truth. Nor are they really different from each other. Both are simply not true! And so it matters not what form or forms they may appear to take.
The mad idea that made the two illusions is insane, and they remain part of what made them. Madness holds out no menace to reality, and has no influence upon it. Illusions cannot triumph over truth, nor can they threaten it in any way. And the reality the illusions would deny is certainly not part of them!
What you remember by way of your forgiveness is a part of you. For you must be as God created you!
Truth does not fight against illusions, nor do illusions fight against the truth! Illusions battle only among themselves. Being fragmented, they fragment. But truth is whole and indivisible, far beyond their little reach. You will remember what you know when you have learned you cannot be in conflict!
One illusion about yourself can battle with another, yet the war of two illusions is a state where nothing really happens. There is no victor and there is no victory! And truth stands radiant, apart from conflict, untouched and quiet in the peace of God.
To be real, a conflict would have to be between actual forces. It cannot exist between power and nothingness! In truth, there is nothing you could choose to attack that is not part of you! And by attacking it you make two illusions of yourself, attacker and victim, in conflict with each other. And this occurs whenever you look on anything that God created with what is not love.
Conflict is fearful, for it is the birth of fear. Yet what is born of nothing cannot win reality through battle! Why would you fill your world with conflicts with yourself? Let all this madness be undone for you, and turn in peace to the remembrance of God, still shining in your quiet mind.”