T. 19. II. 6 – 8. Jesus: “It can indeed be said that the ego based the world it made on the very idea of sin. Only in such a world could everything be upside down! This is the strange illusion that makes the clouds of guilt seem heavy and impenetrable.
The rock-solidness this world’s foundation seems to have is found in this. For sin has changed creation from an idea of God to an ‘ideal’ the ego wants; a world it rules, made up of bodies, mindless and capable of complete corruption and decay. Yet if this is but a mistake, it can be easily undone by bringing it to the light of truth!
If it be brought to truth for judgment, any mistake can be corrected. But if the mistake is given the status of truth, to what can it be brought? The ’sanctity of sin’ is kept in place by just this strange device. As ‘truth,’ sin must be seen inviolate, and everything then brought to it for judgment!
As a mere mistake, something seen initially as sin need but be brought into the light of truth and it is gone! It is impossible to have faith in sin, for sin is faithlessness. Yet it is possible, indeed, to have faith that a mistake can be corrected.
In the foundation of the ego’s embattled citadel, no stone is more heavily defended than the idea that sin is real; that it is the ‘natural expression’ of what the Son of God has made himself to be, and what he thus must be! To the ego, this idea is no mere mistake, for this is the ego’s reality; this is the ‘truth’ from which escape will always be impossible. This is the Son’s past, his present and his future. For in the ego’s view, the Son has somehow managed to ‘corrupt his Father,’ and change the Father’s Mind completely. ‘Mourn then, the death of God, Whom sin has killed,’ the ego says! And this, indeed, would be the ego’s wish, which in its madness it believes it has accomplished.
Would you not rather that all this be nothing more than a mistake, entirely correctable, and so easily escaped, that its whole correction is no more than walking through a mist into the sunlight? For that is all it is!
Perhaps you would be tempted to agree with the ego that it is far better to be sinful than just mistaken. Yet think you carefully before you allow yourself to make this choice. Approach it not lightly, for it is the choice of hell or Heaven in your experience!”