T. 20. VIII. 4 – 8. Jesus: “The Holy Spirit guarantees that what God willed and gave you shall be yours. This is your purpose now, and the vision that makes it yours is ready to be given you. This is the vision that enables you to see the body not, while you see your brother truly.
As you look upon your brother with this vision, you will see an altar to your Father, holy as Heaven, glowing with radiant purity and sparkling with the shining lilies you laid upon it. What can you value more than this? Why do you think the body is a better home, a safer shelter for God’s Son? Why would you rather look upon the body than on the truth?
How can your brother’s body, this ‘engine of destruction,’ be preferred for you to see, and chosen to replace the holy home the Holy Spirit offers, the home where He will dwell with you? The body is the very symbol of weakness, vulnerability, and loss of power! Can such a ‘savior’ really help you? Why would you, in your distress and need for help, turn to the helpless? How can that which is so ‘pitifully little’ be the perfect choice to call upon for strength?
It is but your ego’s judgment that will seem to make your savior weak by perceiving him as a separate body. Yet it is you who need his strength! There is no problem, no event or situation, no perplexity that the Holy Spirit’s vision will not solve. All is redeemed when looked upon with vision. For this is not your sight, since vision brings with it the laws of creation, beloved of Him Whose sight it is!
Everything looked upon with vision falls gently into place according to the laws brought to it by His calm and certain sight. The end for everything He looks upon is always sure. For when seen in unadjusted form, without the ego’s ’seeing,’ it will meet the Holy Spirit’s purpose and be suited perfectly to meet it. Even apparent destructiveness becomes benign with vision, while sin is turned to blessing beneath His gentle gaze. What can the body’s eyes perceive with any power to make such correction?
Your ego’s judgment has adjusted the body’s eyes to seeing ‘sin,’ unable to overlook it in any form, and seeing it everywhere, in everything. Look through its eyes, and everything will stand condemned before you. With the body’s eyes, you will never see all that could save you! Your holy relationship, the cornerstone of your salvation, will be deprived of meaning, and its most holy purpose bereft of means for its accomplishment.
Judgment is but a toy, a whim, the senseless means to play the idle game of death in your imagination. But the Holy Spirit’s vision sets all things right, bringing them gently within the kindly sway of Heaven’s laws.”