T. 19. IV. A. 10 – 14. Jesus: “It is the nature of love to look only upon the truth in you. For there love sees itself, with which it would unite in holy union and completion.
But the attraction of guilt produces fear of love, for love can never look on guilt at all! As love always looks past fear, so fear must see love not! For the awareness of love is the end of guilt, as surely as fear, arising from guilt, depends upon it!
Love is attracted only to love! Overlooking guilt completely, it then sees no fear! Being wholly without attack, that which is aware of love could not be afraid. Fear is attracted to what love sees not, and each believes that what the other looks upon does not exist.
Fear looks on guilt with the same devotion that love looks upon itself. And each of them, fear and love, has messengers which it sends forth, and which return messages to it in the language in which their going forth was asked. Love’s messengers are gently sent, and return with messages of love and gentleness. The messengers of fear are harshly ordered to seek out guilt, and cherish every scrap of evil and of sin that they can find, missing not one scrap on penalty of death, laying them respectfully before their lord and master.
Perception cannot obey two masters, each asking for messages of different things in different languages! What fear would feed upon, love overlooks. What fear demands, love cannot even see. The fierce attraction that guilt holds for fear is wholly absent from love’s gentle perception. What love would look upon is meaningless to fear, and quite invisible to it.
The Holy Spirit gives you love’s messengers to send instead of those you trained through fear. They are as eager as are the others to return to you what they hold dear. If you send them forth, they will see only the blameless and the beautiful, the gentle and the kind.”