T. 26. IV. 1 – 3. Jesus: “In this world, forgiveness is the equivalent of Heaven’s justice. It translates the world of sin into a simple world, where justice can be reflected from beyond the gate, behind which total lack of limits lies.
Nothing in a state of boundless love could need forgiveness! And what is charity within the world, gives way to simple justice, past the gate that opens into Heaven. No one forgives unless he has once believed in ‘sin,’ and still believes that he has much to be forgiven. Forgiveness thus becomes the means by which he learns he has done nothing to forgive.
Forgiveness always rests upon the one who offers it, until he sees himself as needing it no more. And thus is he returned to his real function of creating, which his forgiveness offers him again.
Forgiveness turns the world of sin into a world of glory, wonderful to see. Each flower shines in light, and every bird sings of the joy of Heaven. There is no sadness and there is no parting here, for everything is totally forgiven. And what has been forgiven must join, for nothing stands between to keep them separate and apart.
The sinless must perceive that they are one, for nothing stands between to push the other away. And in the space that sin left vacant, now do they join as one, recognizing in gladness that what is part of them has not been kept apart and separate.
The holy place on which you stand is but the space that sin has left. And here you see the face of Christ arising in its place. Who could behold the face of Christ and not recall His Father as He really is? Who could still fear love, and stand upon the ground where sin has left a place for Heaven’s altar, to rise and tower far above the world and reach beyond the universe to touch the Heart of all creation?
What is Heaven but a song of gratitude and love and praise by everything created, to the Source of its creation? The holiest of altars is set where once sin was believed to be. And here does every light of Heaven come, to be rekindled and increased in joy. For here is what was lost restored to them, and all their radiance made whole again.”