T. 30. VII. 1 – 3. Jesus: “Would God have left the meaning of the world to your interpretation? If He had, it has no meaning! For it cannot be that meaning changes constantly, and yet is true.
What is anything in the world for? The Holy Spirit, never apart from you, looks upon the world as with one purpose, changelessly established. No temporary situation you perceive can affect the Holy Spirit’s aim, but instead, must be in accord with it.
Only if the aim could change with every situation through the day, could each situation be open to question, and to an interpretation which is different every time you think of it. When you add another element into the special script you write for every minute of your day, all that happens next means something else to you. And if you take away an element, every meaning also shifts accordingly.
What do your scripts reflect except your plans for what the day should be to you? And thus you judge disaster and success, advance, retreat, and gain and loss. These judgments all are made according to the roles your script assigns to the players in your dream. The fact your judgments have no meaning in themselves is demonstrated by the ease with which these labels for success and failure change as you make other judgments, made on different aspects of your experience. And then, in looking back on ‘the past,’ you think you see yet another meaning in what went before!
What have you really done, except to show there was no meaning there in what you thought you saw? But by your judgment you assigned a meaning in the light of ever-changing goals, with every meaning shifting as they change.
Only one constant purpose can endow events with a stable, consistent meaning. But that purpose must accord one meaning to them all! If events are given different meanings, it must be that they reflect but different purposes you have at different times. And ‘different purposes’ is all the meaning the events can have.
But how can this be meaning? Can confusion be what ‘meaning’ means? Perception cannot be in constant flux, and make allowance for stability and consistency of meaning anywhere.
Fear is a judgment never justified. Its presence has no meaning but to show you wrote a fearful script, and are now afraid accordingly. But this is not because the thing you think you fear has fearful meaning in itself.”