T. 28. II. 1 – 4. Jesus: “Without a cause can there be no effects, and yet without effects there is no cause! The cause a cause is made by its effects; the Father is a Father by His Son. Effects do not create their cause, but they do establish its causation.
Thus, the presence of the Son gives Fatherhood to the Son’s Creator, and he receives the gift that he has given Him! It is because he is God’s Son that he must also be a father, who creates as God created him. The circle of creation has no end. Its starting and its ending are the same. But in itself, it holds the universe of all creation, without beginning and without an end. Fatherhood is creation. Love must be extended!
Purity is not confined! It is the nature of the innocent to be forever uncontained, without any barrier or limitation. Thus can purity not be of the body. Nor can it be found where any limitation is. The body can be healed by purity’s effects, which are as limitless as is itself. Yet must all healing come about because the mind is recognized as not within the body, its innocence quite apart from the body. And that is where all healing is!
Where, then, is healing? Only where purity, its cause, is given its effects! For sickness is a meaningless attempt to give effects to causelessness, and make it be a cause. Always in sickness does the Son of God attempt to make himself his cause, and not allow himself to be his Father’s Son. For this impossible desire, he does not believe that he is Love’s Effect, and must be cause because of what he is.
The cause of healing is but the Cause of everything. It has but one Effect. And in that recognition, causelessness is given no effects and none is seen. A mind, within a body and a world of other bodies, each with separate minds, are your ‘creations,’ you the ‘other mind,’ creating with effects unlike yourself. And as their ‘father,’ you must seem to be just like them.
Nothing at all has happened, but that you have put yourself to sleep and dreamed a dream in which you were an alien to yourself, and but a part of ‘someone else’s dream!
The miracle does not awaken you, but merely shows you who the dreamer is. It teaches you there is a choice of dreams while you are still asleep, depending on the purpose of your dreaming. Do you wish for dreams of healing, or for dreams of death? A dream is like a memory in that it pictures what you wanted shown to you.”