T. 20. V. 5 – 8. Jesus: “Your brother’s body is as little use to you as it is to him. When it is used only as the Holy Spirit teaches, of itself, it has no function. For minds need not the body to communicate!
The kind of ‘sight’ that sees the body has no use which serves the purpose of a holy relationship. And while you look upon your brother as a body, the means of seeing and the relationship’s end have not been brought in line. Why should it take so many holy instants to let this be accomplished, when one would do? There is, in truth, but one! The little breath of eternity that runs through time like golden light is all the same; nothing before it, nothing afterwards.
You still look upon each holy instant as a different point in time. Yet within it, it never changes! All that it ever held or will ever hold is here right now. The past takes nothing from it, and the future will add no more. Here, then, is everything. Here is the loveliness of your relationship, with means and end in perfect harmony already.
Here is the perfect faith that you will one day offer to your brother, already offered you. And here the limitless forgiveness you will give him is already given, the face of Christ you yet will look upon already seen! Can you evaluate the giver of a gift like this? Would you exchange this gift for any other? This gift returns the laws of God to your remembrance! And merely by remembering them, the laws that held you prisoner to pain and death must be forgotten. This is not a gift your brother’s body can offer you!
The ‘veil of form’ that hides the gift hides his reality as well. He is the gift, and yet he knows it not. No more do you! And yet, have faith that the One Who sees the gift in you and your brother will offer and receive it for you both. And through the Holy Spirit’s vision will you see it, and through His understanding, you will recognize it and love it as your own!
Be comforted now, and feel the Holy Spirit watching over you, with love and perfect confidence in what He sees! He knows the Son of God, and shares his Father’s certainty that the universe rests in the Son’s gentle hands in safety and in peace. Let us consider now what the Son must learn, to share his Father’s confidence in him.
What is he, that the Creator of the universe should offer it to him and know it rests in safety? The Son has strangely come to look upon himself not as his Father knows him. And yet it is impossible the confidence of God should be misplaced!”