T. 27. III. 1 – 4. Jesus: “Real power cannot oppose. For opposition would weaken it, and ‘weakened power’ is a contradiction in ideas. ‘Weak strength’ is meaningless, and ‘power’ used to weaken anyone is used to limit. And therefore, it must be limited and weak, because weakening is its purpose!
To be itself, true power is unopposed. No weakness can intrude on it without changing it into something it is not! To weaken is to limit, and to impose an opposite would contradict the concept that it would change. And by this does it join a ‘something it is not’ to the idea, and that makes it unintelligible. Who can understand an inherently contradictory concept, such as ‘weakened power’ or ‘hateful love’?
You have decided that, as a body, your brother is a symbol for a ‘hateful love,’ a weakened power,’ and above all, a ‘living death.’ And so he really has no meaning to you, for the symbol you have made of him stands for what is meaningless. To you he represents a double thought, where half is cancelled out by the remaining half. Yet even this is quickly contradicted by the half it cancelled out, and so they both are gone. So now, to you, your brother stands for nothing. Symbols which but represent ideas that cannot be, must stand for naught but empty space and nothingness. Yet nothingness and empty space can not be interference. What can interfere with the awareness of reality is the belief that there is something there!
When you look upon the body, the picture of your brother that you see means nothing! There is nothing to attack or to deny; to love or hate, or to endow with power or to see as weak. The picture has been wholly cancelled out, because it symbolized a contradiction that cancelled out the thought it represents. And thus the picture has no cause at all. Who can perceive effect without a cause?
What can the causeless be but nothingness? This picture of your brother that you see, is of one who is wholly absent and has never been! Let, then, the empty space it occupies be recognized as vacant, and the time devoted to its seeing be perceived as idly spent, a time indeed unoccupied.
Yet an empty space that is not seen as filled, an unused interval of time not seen as spent and fully occupied, become a silent invitation to the truth to enter and to make itself at home. No preparation can be made that would enhance the invitation’s real appeal. For what you leave as vacant God will fill, and where He is, there must the truth abide.
Yet an empty space that is not seen as filled, an unused interval of time not seen as spent and fully occupied, become a silent invitation to the truth to enter and to make itself at home. No preparation can be made that would enhance the invitation’s real appeal. For what you leave as vacant God will fill, and where He is, there must the truth abide.
Un-weakened power, with no opposite, is what creation is! For this, there are no symbols! Nothing points beyond the truth, for what can stand for more than everything? Yet the undoing of power’s seeming weakening must be kind. And so the first replacement for your ‘picture’ is another picture of another kind.”