T. 29.II.7-10. Jesus: “By change we mean ‘to attain a state unlike the one in which you found yourself before.’ There is no change in immortality, and Heaven knows change not! Yet here on earth, change has a double purpose and a double meaning, for change can be made to teach opposing things. Those things reflect the teacher, ego or Holy Spirit, whichever is teaching them.
The body seems to change continually but that does not change its state. The body you dream but represents the larger dream that change is possible from oneness to a state of separation. The body can appear to change with time, with sickness or with health, and with events that seem to alter it. Yet this but signifies your mind remains unchanged in its belief of what the purpose of the body is.
‘Sickness’ is but a demand that the body be a thing which it is not! The body’s emptiness of meaning, or ‘nothingness,’ is guarantee that, of itself, it can not be sick or make you sick!
The whole principle of sickness lies in your demand that the body be more than nothing to you! For your demand asks that God be separate from you, and thereby less than all He is. What, then, becomes of you in this chosen scenario? It is you, yourself, of whom the sacrifice is asked! God is now told by you that part of Him belongs to Him no longer, and by your projection, it now appears that He has sacrificed your self. Thus in this dream of sacrifice are you made ‘something else,’ while He is lessened by the loss of you!
The special thing now gone from Him becomes your god, ‘protecting you’ from being part of Him! The body that is asked to be a god will be attacked because it is a symbol of this attack, and thereby sick because its nothingness has not been recognized!
The body now seems to you to be a thing with power in itself. As ‘something’ now, it can be perceived and thought to feel and act, and seem to hold you in its grasp as prisoner to itself. And because in truth it still is nothing, it must fail to be what you have demanded that it be! So you will hate it for its littleness, unmindful that the failure does not lie in ‘that it is not more than it should be,’ but only in your failure to perceive that it is nothing in itself!
Yet the body’s nothingness, from which you would be wise to flee, when recognized for what it is, is actually your salvation! As ‘something,’ is the body asked to be God’s enemy, replacing what He is with littleness and limit and despair. It is His loss you celebrate when you behold the body as ‘reality,’ something that you love, or when you look upon it as a thing you hate. For if your Creator be the Sum of everything, then what is not in Him does not exist, and His completion is but your remembrance of its nothingness.
Your savior is not dead, nor does he dwell in what was built as but a temple unto death! He lives in God, and it is this that makes your brother savior unto you, and only this. His body’s nothingness, when recognized, releases yours from sickness and from death. For what is yours in truth cannot be more nor less than what is his!”