T. 21. VI. 1 – 4. Jesus: “Reason cannot see sin but can see errors, and leads to their correction. It does not value the errors, but their correction! Reason will also tell you that when you think you sin, you need to call for help. Yet if you do not accept the help you call for, you will not believe that it is yours to give. And so you will not give it, thus maintaining the faulty belief in sin.
For uncorrected error of any kind deceives you, denying the power within you that will make correction if you let it. If it can correct, and you do not allow it to do so, you deny it to yourself and to your brother. And if he shares this same false belief in sin, you both will think that you are damned! This you could spare him and yourself! For reason, once applied, would not make way for correction in just you alone.
Correction cannot be accepted or refused by you without affecting your brother! Sin would maintain it can! Yet reason tells you that you cannot see your brother or yourself as sinful, and still perceive the other innocent. Who looks upon himself as guilty and sees a sinless world? And who can see a sinful world and look upon himself apart from it?
The very idea of sin would maintain that you and your brother must be separate. But reason tells you that this must be wrong! If you and your brother are joined as mind, how could it be that you have private thoughts? And how could thoughts that enter into what but seems like his alone, have no effect at all on what is yours? If minds are joined, this is impossible!
No one can think just for himself alone, as God thinks not without His Son! Only if both were actually separate bodies could this be. Nor could one mind think only for itself unless the mind were limited to the body. For only bodies can be separate, and that can only mean they are unreal!
The home of madness cannot be the home of reason. Yet it is quite easy to leave the home of madness once you acknowledge reason! You do not leave insanity by going ‘somewhere else.’ You leave it simply by accepting reason where madness was. Madness and reason see the same things, but it is certain that they look upon them differently.”