Psych. 2. VI. 4 – 7. Jesus: “The testimonies which the senses bring have but one purpose; to justify attack and thus keep unforgiveness unrecognized for what it is. Seen undisguised it is intolerable. Without protection it could not endure.
Here is all sickness cherished, but without the recognition that this is so. For when an unforgiveness is not recognized, the form it takes seems to be something else. And now it is the ‘something else’ that seems to terrify. But it is not the ‘something else’ that can be healed. It is not sick, and needs no remedy. To concentrate your healing efforts here is but futility. Who can cure what cannot be sick and make it well?
Sickness takes many forms, and so does unforgiveness. The forms of one but reproduce the forms of the other, for they are basically the same illusion. So closely is one translated into the other, that a careful study of the form a sickness takes will point quite clearly to the form of unforgiveness that it represents.
Yet just seeing this will not effect a cure. That is achieved by only one recognition; that only forgiveness heals an unforgiveness, and only an unforgiveness can possibly give rise to sickness of any kind. This realization, in fact, must be the final goal of psychotherapy. So how is it reached?
The therapist sees in the patient all that he has not forgiven in himself, and is thus given another chance to look at it, open it to re-evaluation and then forgive it, releasing it from his mind. When this occurs, he sees his ‘sins’ as gone into a past that is no longer here!
Until he does this, he must still think of evil as besetting him here and now. The patient is his screen for the projection of his sins, enabling him to look upon them safely and to let them go. Let him retain one spot of condemnation in what he looks upon, and his release is partial and will not be sure.
No one is healed alone! This is the joyous song salvation sings to all who hear its Voice. This statement cannot be too often remembered by all who see themselves as therapists. Their patients can but be seen as the bringers of forgiveness, for it is they who come to demonstrate their sinlessness to eyes that still believe that sin is really there to look upon.
Yet will the proof of sinlessness, seen in the patient and accepted in the therapist, offer the mind of both a covenant in which they meet and join and recognize they are as one.”