T. 31. III. 4 – 7. Jesus: “The body thinks no thoughts. It has no power to learn, to pardon, nor enslave! It gives no orders that the mind need serve, nor sets conditions that you must obey. It holds in prison but the willing mind that would abide in it. The body sickens at the bidding of the mind that would become its prisoner. And it grows old and dies, because that mind is sick within itself!
The only thing that causes this to change is learning. And so the body, where no learning can occur, can never change unless the mind would have it change to serve a different purpose chosen by the mind. For mind can learn, and only in its learning is all change made!
The mind that thinks itself a sin has but one purpose for the body; that the body be perceived as the source of its sin and as its ‘creator!’ The mind is kept in the prison house it chose and guards, and uses to hold its reality at bay. It thus makes itself a ‘sleeping prisoner’ to the snarling dogs of hate and evil, sickness and attack; the victim of pain and age, of grief and suffering! Here are the thoughts of ‘sacrifice for sin’ preserved, for here guilt rules, ordering that all the world you see be like itself; a place where nothing can find mercy, nor survive the ravages of fear, except in murder and in death!
Only in this, the ego’s dream, are you made sin, for sin cannot abide the joyous and the free, and they are enemies which sin must kill! In death is sin preserved, and those who think that they are sin, must die for what they think they are!
Rejoice with me! Let us be glad that all you see is merely your belief, and the ability has been given you to change what you believe. The body will but follow in your service. It can never lead you where you would not want to be. It does not guard your dreaming sleep, nor interfere with your awakening.
Release your body from its imprisonment, and you will see no one as prisoner to what you have escaped! You will no longer want to hold in guilt your chosen enemies, nor keep in chains, to the illusion of a changing love, the ones you call your friends.
The innocent can but release in gratitude for their release. And what now they see upholds their freedom from imprisonment and death. Open your mind to change, and there will be no ancient penalty exacted from your brother or yourself. For God Himself has proclaimed, ‘There is no sacrifice that can be asked; there is no sacrifice that can be made.”