T. 24. II. 11 – 14. Jesus: “God’s Love gave you to your brother and him to you because He gave Himself. What is the same as God is one with Him. And only your concern for specialness could make the truth that God and you are one seem anything but Heaven now, with the hope of peace at last in sight.
Specialness is the seal of treachery laid over and upon the gift of love. Whatever serves specialness’ purpose must be given to kill. No gift that bears its seal but offers treachery to giver and receiver. Not one glance from eyes it veils but looks upon the sight of death. Not one believer in its potency but seeks for bargains and for compromise that would establish sin as love’s substitute, and serve it faithfully. And no relationship that holds its purpose dear but clings to murder as safety’s weapon, and the great defender of all illusions from the ‘threat’ of love.
Only the hope of specialness makes it seem possible that God made the body as the prison house that keeps His Son from Him. For it demands a special place God cannot enter, and a hiding place where none is welcome but your tiny self. Nothing is sacred here but unto you, and you alone, apart and separate from all your brothers; safe from all intrusions of sanity upon illusions; safe from God and safe for conflict everlasting! Here are the gates of hell you closed upon yourself, to rule in madness and in loneliness your special kingdom, apart from God, away from truth and from salvation.
Yet the key you threw away God gave your brother, whose holy hands would offer it to you when you were ready to accept His plan for your salvation in the place of yours. How could this readiness be reached save through the sight of all your misery, and the awareness that your plan has failed, and will forever fail to bring you peace and joy of any kind? Through this despair you travel now, yet it is but illusion of despair.
The death of specialness is not your death, but your awakening into life eternal. You but emerge from an illusion of what you are, to the acceptance of yourself as God created you.”