T. 31. II. 5 – 8. Jesus: “There are always two calls that you can make to your brother, as he to you. Yet if you see your brother as either the leader or the follower to you, it matters not, for either way, you have made him separate and thus have chosen death.
But if you hear in him this choice; the call for death or call for life, for hate or for forgiveness and for help, which call you choose to hear is not the same in outcome! Between these two is a real choice, because from each of them there is, indeed, a different outcome.
Hear the call for hate and death and you separate from him, so you are lost! But hear the call for help and love’s forgiveness, and you join with him, thus in your answer is salvation found.
The voice you hear in your brother is but your own! What does he ask you for? Listen well! For he is asking what will come to you, because what you see in him is but an image of yourself, so what you hear your voice requesting is what you want!
Before you answer, pause to think of this: The answer that I give my brother is what I am asking for. And what I learn of him is what I learn about myself.
Then let us wait an instant and be still, forgetting everything we thought we heard; remembering how much we do not know. This brother neither leads nor follows us, but walks beside us on the selfsame road. He is like us, as near or far away from what we want as we will let him be. We make no gains he does not make with us, and we fall back if he does not advance.
Take not your brother’s hand in anger but in love, for in his progress do you count your own! And unless you keep him safely by your side, you and I go separately along the way! Because he is your equal in God’s Love, you will be saved from all appearances, and thereby answer to the Christ Who calls to you.
Be still and listen! Think not ancient thoughts! Forget the dismal lessons that you learned before about this Son of God who calls to you. Christ calls to all with equal tenderness, seeing no leaders and no followers, and hearing but one answer to them all. Because He hears one Voice, he cannot hear a different answer from the one He gave when God appointed Him His only Son.
Be very still an instant! Come without all thought of what you ever learned before, and put aside all images you made. The old will fall away before the new without your opposition or intent. There will be no attack upon the things you thought were precious and in need of care. There will be no assault upon your idle wish to hear a call that never has been made.
Nothing will hurt you in this holy place, to which you come to listen silently and learn the truth of what you really want. No more than this will you be asked to learn. But as you hear it, you will understand you need but come away without the ancient thoughts, which you do not want, and that were never true.”