T. 23. I. 4 – 6. Jesus: “Brother, the war against yourself is almost over. The journey’s end is at the place of peace. Would you not now accept the peace that is offered you here? The imagined ‘enemy’ you fought as an intruder on your peace is here transformed before your sight into the giver of your peace.
Your supposed ‘enemy’ was but God Himself, to Whom all conflict, triumph and attack of any kind are entirely unknown! He loves you perfectly, completely and eternally. ‘The Son of God at war with his Creator’ is a condition as ridiculous as nature roaring at the wind in anger, proclaiming the wind is part of itself no more. Could nature possibly establish such a conflict, and could it make it true? Nor is it up to you to say what shall be part of you and what is kept apart!
This ‘war against yourself’ was undertaken to teach the Son of God that he is ‘not himself,’ nor is he his Father’s Son, but ‘something separate.’ For this, the memory of his Father must be forgotten. In ‘the life of the body’ it is forgotten, and if you believe you are a body, it means you have forgotten it!
Yet truth, in and of itself, is unaffected by your forgetfulness. And in truth, you have not really altered what you are! It is only a strange illusion of yourself, and its wish to triumph over what you really are, that remembers not. The war against yourself is then but the battle of ‘two illusions,’ struggling to make them different from each other, in the belief the one that conquers the other will be ‘true.’
The seeming conflict between the two illusions and the truth is not real. Nor are they different from each other. Both are simply illusions, and therefore untrue! And so it matters not what form they appear to take. What made them is insanity, and they remain part of what made them! Madness holds out no menace to reality, and has no influence upon it.
Illusions cannot triumph over truth, nor can they threaten it in any way. And the reality that they would deny is not a part of them. What you will remember is what you are. For you must be as God created you.”