T. 19. IV. D. 1 – 5. Jesus: “What would you see without the fear of death? What would you feel and think if death held no attraction for you? Very simply, you would remember your Father! The Creator of life, the Source of everything that lives, the Father of the universe and of the universe of universes, and of everything that lies even beyond them, you would remember.
Yet as this memory arises in your mind, peace must still surmount a final obstacle – the fear of God. Then is your salvation is completed, and the Son of God entirely restored to sanity. And here does your world of separation end.
This fourth and final obstacle to be surmounted hangs like a heavy veil before the face of Christ. Yet as the veil begins to clear, His face is seen beyond it, shining with joy because He is in His Father’s Love. Peace then lightly brushes the veil aside and you run to meet Him, and to join with Him at last. For this dark veil, which has seemed to make the face of Christ Himself hidden like a leper’s, and the bright Rays of His Father’s Love that light His face in glory to appear as streams of blood, fades in the blazing light beyond it when the fear of death is gone. This veil is the darkest of all, upheld by the belief in death and protected by its unrelenting attraction.
The dedication to death and to its sovereignty is but the solemn vow, the promise made in secret to the ego, to never lift this veil, not to approach it, nor even to suspect that it is there! This is the secret bargain made with the ego to keep what lies beyond the veil forever blotted out and unremembered. Here is your promise never to allow oneness to call you out of separation; the great amnesia in which the memory of God seems impossible; the cleavage of your Self from you – the fear of God, in its release the final undoing of your dissociation. See how the belief in death would seem to ‘save’ you from this? For if this were gone, what could you fear but Life?
It is the thought of death that poisons your mind and makes life seem ugly, cruel and tyrannical. Yet you are still no more afraid of death than of the ego. In your present state, these are your chosen friends! For in your secret alliance with them, you have agreed never to let the fear of God be lifted, so you could look upon the face of Christ and join Him in the Father.
Every obstacle that peace must flow across is surmounted in just the same way; the fear that raised it to block your way yields to the love beyond, so that the fear is gone. And so it is with this! The desire to get rid of peace and drive the Holy Spirit from you fades in the presence of the quiet recognition that you do love Him. The exaltation of the body is given up in favor of the spirit, which you love as you could never love the body. And the appeal of death is lost forever as love’s attraction stirs and calls to you.
From beyond each of the obstacles to love, Love Itself has called. And each has been surmounted by the power of the attraction of what lies beyond. Your choice for fear, not love, seemed to be holding them in place. Yet when you heard the Voice of Love beyond them, you answered, chose once again, and they just disappeared.”