T. 25. V. 1 – 3. Jesus: “The state of sinlessness is something you can experience, for it is merely this:
The whole desire to attack is gone, and so there is no reason to perceive the Son of God as other than he is. The need for guilt is gone because it has no purpose without sin, and guilt is meaningless without the goal of sin.
Attack and sin are bound together as one illusion, each the cause and aim and justifier of the other! Each is meaningless alone, but seems to draw a meaning from the other. Each depends upon the other for whatever ‘sense’ it seems to have. And no one could believe in one unless the other were the truth to him, for each attests the other must be true.
Attack in any form, to even the slightest degree, makes the Christ your enemy, and God along with Him. Must you not be afraid, then, having made ‘enemies’ like these? And must you not be fearful of yourself? For you have hurt yourself by making your Self your ‘enemy.’ And now you must believe you are ‘not you,’ but something alien to yourself and ‘something else,’ a ‘something’ to be feared instead of loved.
Attack in any form, to even the slightest degree, makes the Christ your enemy, and God along with Him. Must you not be afraid, then, having made ‘enemies’ like these? And must you not be fearful of yourself? For you have hurt yourself by making your Self your ‘enemy.’ And now you must believe you are ‘not you,’ but something alien to yourself and ‘something else,’ a ‘something’ to be feared instead of loved.
Who would attack whatever he perceives as wholly innocent? And who, because he wishes to attack, can fail to think he must be guilty for maintaining the wish, while wanting innocence for himself? For who could see the Son of God as innocent and at the same time, wish him dead?
Each time you look upon your brother, Christ stands before you. He has not gone because your eyes are closed to all except the body. But what is there to gain by searching for your Savior while seeing Him through the sightless eyes of specialness?
It is not Christ you see by looking thus. It is ‘the enemy,’ the form confused with Christ, that you must be looking upon. And it must be only this you hate and would attack, because in truth, there is no sin for you to see within your brother! Nor do you hear his plaintive call, unchanged in content in whatever form the call is made, a call that you unite with him, and join with him in innocence and peace.
And yet, beneath the ego’s senseless shrieks, such is the call that God has given to your brother, that you might hear in him the Father’s Call to you, and answer by returning unto God what is His Own.”