T. 24. IV. 1 – 3. Jesus: “Specialness is a lack of trust in anyone except yourself. Faith is invested in yourself alone.
In this state, everything else becomes your enemy; feared and attacked, deadly and dangerous, hated and worthy only of destruction. Whatever ‘gentleness’ it offers you is but deception, while its hate of you is real. In danger of destruction it must seek to kill, and you are drawn to it to kill it first. And such is guilt’s attraction. Here is death enthroned as savior; crucifixion is now redemption, and salvation can only mean destruction of the world, except yourself of course.
What could the purpose of the body be but specialness? And it is this that makes it frail and helpless in its own defense. It was conceived to make you frail and helpless! The goal of separation is its curse.
Yet bodies have no goal! Purpose is of the mind. And minds can change as they desire. What they are, and all their attributes, they cannot change. But what minds hold as purpose can be changed, and body states must shift accordingly. Of itself the body can do nothing. See it as means to hurt, and it is hurt. See it as means to heal, and it is healed!
You can but hurt yourself! This has been oft-repeated, but is difficult as yet to grasp. To minds intent on specialness it is still impossible. Yet to those who wish to heal and not attack, it is quite obvious. As purpose, attack is in the mind, and its effects are felt but where it is. Nor is the mind limited; so must it be that your harmful purpose hurts all mind as one.
Nothing could make less sense to specialness. Nothing could make more sense to miracles! For miracles are merely change of purpose from hurt to healing. This shift in purpose does seemingly ‘endanger’ specialness, but only in the same sense that all illusions are ‘threatened’ by the truth.
Illusions cannot stand before the truth. Yet what comfort has ever been in them, that you would keep the gift of trust your Father asks of you from Him, and give it there instead? Given to Him, the universe is yours. Offered to illusions, no gifts can be returned.”