T. 21. V. 4 – 7. Jesus: “You do not realize the whole extent to which the idea of separation has interfered with reason. Reason lies in the other self, that which you have cut off from your awareness by attempting to be separate. And nothing you have allowed to stay in your awareness is truly capable of reason!
How can the segment of the mind devoid of reason even understand what reason is, or grasp the information it would give? All sorts of questions may arise in it, but if the basic question stems from reason, it will not ask it. Like all that stems from reason, the basic question of what you are is obvious, simple and yet remains unasked. But think not reason could not answer it!
God’s plan for your salvation could not have been established without your will and your consent. It must have been accepted by the Son of God, for what God wills for him, he must receive. For God wills not apart from him, nor does the Will of God wait on time to be accomplished. Therefore, the part of you joined in the Will of God must be in you now, being eternal!
You must have set aside a place in which the Holy Spirit can abide, and where He is. He must have been there since the need for Him arose, and was fulfilled in the same instant. Such would your reason tell you, if you listened! Yet such is clearly not the ego’s ‘reasoning.’ Your reason’s ‘alien nature’ to the ego is proof you will not find the answer there. Yet if it must be so, it must exist. And if it exists for you, and has your freedom as the purpose given it, you must be free to find it.
God’s plan is simple; never circular and never self-defeating. He has no Thoughts except the Self-extending, and in this, your will must be included. Thus, there must be a part of you that knows His Will and shares it! It is not meaningful to ask if what must be, is so! But it is meaningful to ask why you are unaware of what is so, for this must have an answer if the plan of God for your salvation is complete. And it must be complete, because its Source knows not of incompletion!
Where would the answer be but in the Source? And where are you but there, where this same answer is? Your Identity, as much a true Effect of this same Source as is the answer, must therefore be together and the same! O yes, you really do know this, and more than this alone! Yet any part of knowledge threatens the ego’s dissociation as much as all of knowledge does. And all of it will come with any part! Here is the part you can accept. What reason points to, you can see, because miracles, the witnesses on its behalf, are clear.
Only the totally insane can disregard them, and you have gone past this. Reason is a means that serves the Holy Spirit’s purpose in its own right. It is not reinterpreted and redirected from the goal of sin, as are the other means, belief and faith. For reason is beyond the ego’s range of means!”