T. 27. II. 12 – 15. Jesus: “In your relationship, the ‘correction’ you alone would make must surely separate, because affirming separation is the function given it by you!
When you perceive correction is the same as total pardon, then you also know the Holy Spirit’s Mind and yours are One. So your healing is complete and your own true Identity is found!
In this ego interpretation of ‘correction,’ your own mistakes you will not even see! The focus of your correction has been placed outside yourself, on one who cannot be accepted as a part of you while this perception lasts. What is condemned can never be returned to its accuser, who had hated it, and hates it still as symbol of his fear!
Yet must the Holy Spirit work with what is given Him, and you still allow Him only half your mind. And thus He must represent the ‘other half,’ which seems to have a different purpose from the one you cherish, and that you think is yours. Thus does your function seem divided, with a half in opposition to another half. And these two halves appear to represent a split within a self-perceived as two! Consider how this distorted self-perception must extend, and do not overlook the fact that every thought does extend, because that is its purpose, an extension being what it really is.
From the idea of ‘self as two,’ there inevitably comes a view of function split between the two. And what you would ‘correct’ by your own means, is only half the error, which you mistakenly think is all of it. Your brother’s ‘sins’ become the central target for your efforts at correction, lest your errors and his own be seen as one. Yours are then seen as merely mistakes, but his are sins to you, and not the same as yours at all. From your self-limiting point of view, his deserve punishment, while yours, in fairness, should simply be overlooked!
In this ego interpretation of ‘correction,’ your own mistakes you will not even see! The focus of your correction has been placed outside yourself, on one who cannot be accepted as a part of you while this perception lasts. What is condemned can never be returned to its accuser, who had hated it, and hates it still as symbol of his fear!
This is your brother, then, focus of your hate, unworthy to be part of you and thus kept outside yourself; the other half of your mind, which is now denied. And only what is left without his presence is perceived by you as ‘all of you.’ To this remaining half, the separate self you think you are, the Holy Spirit must represent the other half until you recognize it is the other half of you. And this He does by giving both of you a function that is one, not different.
Correction is the function given both, but neither one alone. And when it is fulfilled as shared, it must correct mistakes in you and him. It cannot leave mistakes in one unhealed and still set the other free!“