T. 28. I. 1 – 4. Jesus: The miracle does nothing. All it ‘does’ is to undo! And thus it cancels out the interference to remembering what has been given you. It does not add, but merely takes away. And what it takes away is long since gone, but being kept in memory, appears to have current effects.
This world was over long ago! The thoughts that made it are no longer in the mind that thought of them and loved them for a little while. The miracle but shows the past is gone, and what has truly gone has no effects. Remembering a cause can but produce illusions of its presence, not actual effects.
The effects of guilt are with you here no more. For guilt is over. In its passing went its consequences, left without a cause. Why would you cling to it in memory if you did not desire its effects?
Remembering is as selective as perception, being its past tense. It is perception of the past as if it were occurring now, and still were here to see. Memory, like perception, is a skill made up by you to take the place of what God gave in your creation. And like all the things you made, it can be used to serve another purpose, and to be the means for something else.
Memory can be used to heal and not to hurt, if you so wish it be. Nothing employed for healing represents an effort to ‘do’ anything at all! It is but a recognition that you have no needs which would mean that ‘something must be done.’ It is an un-selective memory, which un-does all interference with the truth. The Holy Spirit can employ all things for healing that have been given Him, irrespective of the content and the purposes for which they have been made. They are but skills without an application. They await their use. They have no inherent dedication and no real aim!
The Holy Spirit can indeed make use of your memory, for God Himself is thereby found. Yet this is not a memory of past events, but of a present state that you forgot! You are so long accustomed to believing that memory holds only what is past, that it is hard for you to realize it is a skill that can remember now.
The limitations on remembering the world imposes on it are as vast as those you let the world impose on you. There is no link of memory to the past, for the past is not! If you would have it there, then there it is, because you make it there. But only your desire has made the link, and only you have held it to a part of time where guilt appears to linger still.”