T. 19. IV. B. 4 – 6. Jesus: “Peace is extended from you, yet only to the eternal in your brother, reaching out from the eternal in you. It flows across all else!
The second obstacle to peace, clinging to bodily identity for what it seems to offer, is no more solid than the first. For, in truth, your will is neither to get rid of peace nor limit it!
What, then, are these obstacles you still would interpose between peace and its going forth, but barriers you have placed between your real will and its accomplishment?
Unless you are insane, you do want communion, and not the feast of fear! You want salvation, not the pain of separation nor of guilt. And you really do want your Father, not a little ‘mound of clay,’ to be your home. In your holy relationship is your Father’s Son. The Son, in truth, has not lost communion with the Father, nor with himself. When you chose to join your brother, you acknowledged this as so. This has no cost to you, but it offers the release from the cost your obstacles have imposed on you!
You have paid very dearly for your illusions! And none of what you have paid for has brought you inner peace. Are you not glad to learn that Heaven cannot be sacrificed, and that no real sacrifice is even asked of you?
There is no obstacle that you can place before our union, for in your holy relationship, I am there already! We will surmount all obstacles together, for we stand within the gates, and not outside. How easily the gates are opened from within, to let peace through to bless the tired world! Can it be difficult for us to walk past barriers together, when you have joined the limitless?
The end of guilt is in your hands to give! Would you stop now to look for one last shred of guilt in your brother? Let me be to you the symbol of the end of guilt, and now look upon your brother as you would look on me.
Forgive me all the sins you think the Son of God committed! And in the light of your forgiveness your brother will remember who he is, and forget what never was. I ask for your forgiveness, for if you are guilty, so must I be! But if I surmounted guilt and overcame the world, you were with me then as you are now.
Would you see in me the symbol of guilt or the end of guilt, remembering that what I signify to you, you see within yourself and in your brother too?”
Note: These excerpts from the text, though not verbatim, are the result of reading the respective paragraphs word by word while asking for clarity and listening to my inner guidance as to what wording and punctuation works best for me. That guidance also tells me to share them. My source for the Text is http://www.circleofa.org/a-course-in-miracles/ I have archived excerpts from the entire Text at this point and can furnish any of them on request by e-mail. Just cite the passages by Chapter, Section and Paragraph numbers. I have obtained verbal permission from both FIP and FACIM for this undertaking, which was suggested to me by Ken Wapnick about ten years ago.