T. 24. IV. 4 & 5. & V. 1. Jesus: “Earlier I said, ‘Consider not the means by which salvation is attained, nor how to reach it. But do consider, and consider well, whether it is your wish that you might see your brother sinless.’
From the point of view of your specialness the answer must be ‘no!’ A sinless brother is its enemy, while sin, if it were actually possible, would be its friend. Your brother’s sin would justify your specialness, and give it meaning that the truth denies.
All that is real proclaims your brother’s sinlessness. All that is false proclaims his sins as real. But honestly, if he is sinful, then your ‘reality’ is not real! It is just a dream of specialness that lasts an instant and then crumbles into dust. Do not defend this senseless dream, in which God is bereft of what He loves, and you remain beyond salvation!
Only this is certain in this shifting world that has no meaning in reality: When peace is not with you entirely, and when you suffer pain of any kind, you have beheld some sin within your brother, and have rejoiced at what you thought was there. Your specialness was reinforced and deemed safe because of it. And thus you saved what you appointed to be your savior while you crucified the one whom God has given you. So are you bound with him ‘in sin,’ for you and he are one. And so is specialness his ‘enemy,’ and yours as well!
The Christ in you is very still. He looks on what He loves, and knows it as Himself. And thus does He rejoice at what He sees, because He knows that it is one with Him and with His Father.
Specialness, too, takes pleasure in what it sees, although it is not true. What you seek for is a source of joy, yet only ‘as you conceive it.’ What you wish for is then ‘true’ for you. Nor is it possible that you can wish for something and lack faith that it is so.
Wishing ‘makes real,’ as surely as does will create. The power of a wish upholds illusions as strongly as does love extend itself. Except that one deludes; the other heals!”