Psych. 2. VII. 4 – 9. Jesus: “Guilt is inevitable in those teachers, therapists and helpers who use their own judgment in deciding how to be truly helpful. Guilt is impossible in those who let the Holy Spirit speak through them!
The relinquishment of guilt is the true aim of therapy and the obvious aim of forgiveness. In this their oneness can be clearly seen! Yet who, in the role of guide for his brother, could experience the end of guilt if he feels personally responsible for him? Such a function presupposes a knowledge that no one here can have; a certainty of past, present and future, and of all the effects that may occur in them. Only from this ‘omniscient point of view’ would such a role be possible. Yet no one on this level of perception is omniscient, nor except in madness, is the tiny self of one alone against the universe able to assume he has such wisdom. That many therapists are mad must then be obvious. No unhealed healer can be wholly sane!
Yet it is as insane not to accept a function God has given you as to invent one He has not. The advanced therapist can in no way ever doubt the power that is within him. Nor does he doubt its Source! He understands all power in earth and Heaven belongs to him because of what he really is. And he is this because of his Creator, Whose Love is in him and cannot fail.
Think what this means; he has the gifts of God Himself to give away. His patients are God’s saints, who call upon his sanctity to make it theirs. And as he gives it to them, they behold Christ’s shining face as it looks back at them!
The insane, however, taking on the role of ‘god’ to those who come for help, are not afraid to offer what is but their weakness to God’s Son. But what they see in him because of this they fear indeed! The unhealed healer cannot but be fearful of his patients, then, and suspect them of the ‘treachery’ he sees within himself. He tries to heal, and thus at times he may. But he will not succeed except to but a limited extent and for a little while. He does not see the Christ in the one who calls on him!
What answer can he give to one who seems to be a stranger; alien to the truth and poor in wisdom, seemingly without ‘the god’ he seeks, which must now be given him? Behold your God in your patient, for what you see will be your Answer!
Think what the joining of two brothers really means! And then forget the world and all its little triumphs and its dreams of death. The same are one, and nothing now can be remembered of the world of guilt. The room becomes a temple, and the street a stream of stars that brushes lightly past all sickly dreams. Healing is done, for what is really perfect needs no healing, and what remains to be forgiven where there is no sin?
Be thankful, therapist, that you can see such things as this if you but understand your proper role! But if you fail in this, you have denied that God created you, and so you will not know you are His Son. Who is your brother then? What saint can come to take you home with him? You lost the way. And can you now expect to see in your brother an answer that you have refused to give?
Heal and be healed! There is no other choice of pathways that can ever lead to peace. O brother, let your patient in, for he has come to you from God! Is not his holiness enough to wake your memory of your Father?”