T. 21. VII. 10 – 13. Jesus: “Why is it so important to answer the question, ‘Do I want to see, because it is the truth, what I’ve denied before?’ Reason will tell you why! The final question is much the same as are the other three, except in its relationship to time. The others are decisions that can be made, and then unmade and made again in time. But when we say that ‘only truth is true,’ we recognize that truth is constant, and the very word implies a state where vacillations are impossible.
You can desire a world you rule that rules you not, and then can change your mind! You can desire to exchange your helplessness for power, and lose this same desire as a little glint of sin attracts you. And you can want to see a sinless world, yet let an ‘enemy’ tempt you to use the body’s eyes again, and thus to change what you desire.
In basic content, all the questions are the same. For each one asks if you are willing to exchange the world of sin for what the Holy Spirit sees, since it is this ‘the world of sin’ denies! And therefore, those who look on sin are seeing but denial of the real world.
Answering the last question in the affirmative adds the wish for constancy in your desire to see the real world, so the desire becomes the only one you have. By answering the final question ‘yes,’ you add sincerity and consistency to the decisions you have already made on all the rest. For only then have you renounced the option to change your mind again. When it is this option you no longer want, the rest of the questions are wholly answered in the last.
Why do you seem unsure the others have been truly answered? Could it be necessary they be asked so often, if they had? Until the last decision has been made, each answer is both ‘yes’ and ‘no.’ For you have answered ‘yes’ without perceiving that the ‘yes’ must mean not ‘no’ again! No one decides against his happiness on purpose, but he may do so if he does not recognize he does it. And if he sees his happiness as ever changing, now this, now that, and now but an elusive shadow attached to nothing, he does decide against it!
‘Elusive happiness,’ or happiness in some changing form that shifts with time and place, is an illusion that simply has no meaning. Real happiness must be constant, because it is attained by giving up the wish for the in-constant! Joy cannot be perceived except through constant vision. And constant vision can be given only those who wish for constancy!
The power of the Son of God’s desire remains the proof that he who sees himself as helpless is simply wrong. Desire what you want, and you will look on it and think it real! No thought of yours but has the power to release or kill. And none can leave the thinker’s mind, or leave him unaffected.”