T. 26. V. 11 – 14. Jesus: “The Son whom God created is as free as God created him. He was reborn the instant that he chose to mis-create, which was a choice to die instead of live. And will you not forgive him now, for an error in the past that God remembers not, and is not here?
At this stage of learning you are shifting back and forth between the past and present. Sometimes the past seems real, as if it were the present. Voices from the past still are heard, though now are doubted. You are like to one who still hallucinates, but lacks conviction in the world that he perceives.
This is the borderland between the worlds, the bridge between the past and present. Here the shadow of the past remains, but by now a present light is dimly recognized. Once it is seen, this light can never be forgotten. It must draw you from the past into the present, where you really are.
The shadow voices do not change the laws of time nor of eternity. They come from what is past and gone, and hinder not the true existence of the here and now. The real world is the second part of the hallucination that time and death are real, and have existence that can be perceived. This terrible illusion was denied in but the time it took for God to give His Answer to illusion, for all time and every circumstance. And then it was no more to be experienced as there.
Each day, and every minute in each day, and every instant that each minute holds, you but relive the single instant when the time of terror took the place of love. And so you die each day to live again, until you cross the gap between the past and present, which is not a gap at all.
The shadow voices do not change the laws of time nor of eternity. They come from what is past and gone, and hinder not the true existence of the here and now. The real world is the second part of the hallucination that time and death are real, and have existence that can be perceived. This terrible illusion was denied in but the time it took for God to give His Answer to illusion, for all time and every circumstance. And then it was no more to be experienced as there.
Each day, and every minute in each day, and every instant that each minute holds, you but relive the single instant when the time of terror took the place of love. And so you die each day to live again, until you cross the gap between the past and present, which is not a gap at all.
Such is each life, as long as ‘lives’ are seen as separate; a seeming interval from birth to death and on to life again, a repetition of an instant gone by long ago that cannot be relived. And all of time is but the mad belief that what is over is still here and now.
Forgive the past and let it go, for it is gone! And you stand no longer on the ground that lies between the worlds. You have gone on, and reached the world that lies at Heaven’s gate. There is no hindrance to the Will of God, nor any need that you repeat again a journey that was over long ago.
Look gently on your brother, and behold the world in which perception of your hate has been transformed into a world of love!”