T. 21. III. 1 – 4. Jesus: “All special relationships have sin as their goal! For they are ‘bargains with reality,’ toward which the seeming ‘union’ is continually adjusted.
Forget not this; to bargain is to try to ‘get’ and set a limit on what you would give. Thus any brother with whom you have such a limited relationship, you must actually hold separate. This is not love but hate! You may attempt to keep the bargain in the name of some self-imposed ‘fairness,’ sometimes demanding payment of yourself, yet perhaps more often of the other.
Thus in that ‘fairness,’ you attempt to ease the added guilt that comes from the ‘getting’ purpose you have established for the relationship. And that is why the Holy Spirit must change its purpose to make it useful to Him and harmless to you!
If you accept this change, you have accepted the idea of making room for truth. The source of sin, your belief in separation, is simply gone. You may imagine that you still experience its effects, but it is no longer your purpose and you no longer want it. No one allows a purpose to be replaced while he still desires it, for nothing is so cherished and protected as is a goal the mind accepts as its own. This goal it will follow, grimly or happily, but always with faith and with the persistence that faith inevitably brings. Yet if faith is placed in sin, the real power of faith will never be recognized. But it is always recognized if it is placed in love!
Why is it so strange to you that faith can move mountains? This is indeed a very little feat for such a power. For faith can keep the Son of God in chains as long as he believes he is in chains. And when he is released from them it will be simply because he no longer believes in them, withdrawing faith that they can hold him, and placing faith in his freedom instead. It is impossible to place equal faith in opposite directions. What faith you give to sin you take away from holiness. And what you offer holiness has been removed from sin.
Faith and belief and vision are the means by which the goal of holiness is realized. Through them the Holy Spirit leads you to the real world, and away from all illusions where your faith was laid.”