T. 27. VIII. 4 – 7. Jesus: “You seem not to be the dreamer, but a figure in a dream the world is dreaming for you. And so you wander idly in and out of places and events that it contrives ‘for you.’ That this is all the body does is true, for it is but a figure in a dream.
But who reacts to figures in a dream unless he sees them as if they were reality? The instant that he sees them as they are, as dream figures, they can have no more effects on him, because he understands he gave them their effects by causing them himself, although denying that he did, and thereby making them seem real to him!
How willing are you to escape effects of all the dreams the world has ever had? Is it your wish to let no dream appear to be the cause of what it is you do? Then let us merely look upon the dream’s beginning, for the part you see is but the second part, whose root cause lies within the first.
No one asleep and dreaming in the world remembers his original attack upon himself. No one believes there really was a time when he knew nothing of a body, and could never have conceived this world as real. He would have seen at once that these ideas, projected outside himself, are altogether one illusion of separation, too ridiculous for anything but to be laughed away.
Yet how serious they now appear to be! No one can remember when these ideas would have merely met with disbelief and laughter. Yet we can remember this, if we but look directly at their cause. And we will see the grounds for laughter, and not a cause for fear!
Let us now return responsibility for the dream he made unto the dreamer. He is the one who perceives the dream as separate from himself and done to him, because he felt the pain it caused, dissociated from it, and ‘gave away’ the responsibility. Think of the dream this way: ‘Into eternity, where all is one, there crept a tiny, mad idea, at which the Son of God did not remember to laugh. In his forgetting to merely laugh it off, did the thought become a serious idea, and seemingly possible of both accomplishment and real effects.’
Together, we can laugh them both away, and understand that time cannot intrude upon eternity. It is a joke to think that time can come to circumvent eternity, which is another way of saying, that in reality, there is no time! A timelessness in which is time made real; a part of God that can attack itself; a separate brother as an enemy; a mind within a body; all are forms of circularity whose ending starts at its beginning, thus ‘ending at its cause!’
The world you see depicts exactly what you thought you did. Except that now you think that what you did is being done to you!”