T. 28. II. 7 – 10. Jesus: “The miracle establishes you but dream a dream, and that its content is not true. This is a crucial step in dealing with illusions. No one is afraid of them when he perceives he made them up. The fear was held in place because he did not see that he was author of the dream, and not a figure in the dream of ’someone else.’
In the dream, he gives himself the consequences that he dreams he dealt his brother. And it is but this the dream has put together and has offered him, to show him that his wishes have been done. Thus what he fears is his own attack, but sees it happening to him at another’s hands! As victim now, he is suffering from its effects, but without the miracle, he does not see their cause is in his mind.
To believe that he is innocent of what he caused, he must think he authored not the attack he suffers from. The miracle does nothing but to show him the attack was not real and he has really done nothing. What he fears is cause without the stable consequences that would make it cause. And so, in truth, it never really was!
The separation started with the dream that the Father was deprived of His Effects, and was powerless to keep them, since He was no longer their Creator. In the dream, the dreamer ‘made himself.’ But the dream he made has turned against him, taking on the role of another ‘creator,’ just as he the dreamer had. And as he demonstrated ‘hatred’ of his Creator, so the figures in the dream have hated him. His body is now their ‘slave,’ which they abuse because the motives he has given it have they adopted as their own. They hate it for the ‘vengeance’ it would offer them! It is their vengeance on the body which appears to prove that he the dreamer could not be the maker of his dream.
Effect and cause have first been split apart, and then reversed, so that effect now seems a cause; the cause, effect! This final step in the separation is but the effect of what has gone before, but is now appearing as a cause. This is the separation’s final step, and where salvation from it, which proceeds to go the other way, must now begin.
The miracle is the first step in giving back to cause the function of causation, not effect. For this confusion has produced the dream, and while it lasts will wakening be feared. Nor will even the call to waken be heard, because it seems to be just another call to fear!
Like every lesson that the Holy Spirit requests you learn, the miracle is clear. It demonstrates what He would have you learn, and shows you its effects are what you want. In the forgiving dreams He guides, are the effects of yours undone, and hated enemies perceived as friends, now with merciful intent.”