T. 21. V. 7 – 10. Jesus: “Where would the answer to your basic question be but in the Source? And where are you but there, where this same answer is? Your real Identity, as much a true Effect of this same Source as is the answer, must therefore be together and the same!
Oh yes, somewhere in your mind you know this, and more than this alone! Yet your ego would keep it all hidden. Your ego’s dissociation from reality is threatened by any part of knowledge as much as by all of it, because all of it will come back to you with any part! Reason reveals the part you can most readily accept. The part of knowledge reason points to, you can see, because the witnesses on its behalf, the miracles you have experienced, are clear. Only the totally insane can disregard them, and you have come well beyond that sorry state.
Reason is a means that serves the Holy Spirit’s purpose in its own right. It does not have to be reinterpreted and redirected from the goal of sin, as do the others, perception, belief and faith. For reason extends beyond the ego’s range of means!
Faith and perception and belief can be misdirected, and can thereby serve the great deceiver’s needs as well as serving truth if so applied. But reason has no place at all in madness, nor can it be adjusted to fit the ego’s end. Faith and belief are prevalent even in the ego’s madness, actually guiding perception toward whatever the mind has valued. But reason enters not at all in that. For the ego’s ‘perception’ would fall away at once if reason were applied.
There is no reason in insanity, for it depends entirely on reason’s absence. The ego never uses reason, because in its ‘separateness,’ it does not realize that reason even exists. Yet those but partially insane have access to reason, and only they have need of it and can use it. Knowledge does not depend on it, and madness keeps it out entirely!
The part of mind where reason lies was dedicated by your will, in union with your Father’s, to the undoing of insanity. Here was the Holy Spirit’s purpose accepted and accomplished, both at once. Reason is alien to insanity, and those who use reason have gained a means which cannot be applied to sin.
Knowledge is far beyond attainment of any kind. But reason can serve to open doors you closed against it. You have now come very close to this. Faith and belief have shifted, and you have asked the question the ego will never ask! Does not your reason tell you that the question must have come from something that you are not aware of, but must belong to you?
Faith and belief, attained by reason, cannot fail to lead to changed perception. And in this change is room made way for vision. Vision extends beyond perception, as does the purpose that it serves and all the means for its accomplishment as well.”