T. 19. IV. D. 5 – 8. Jesus: “The desire to get rid of peace and drive the Holy Spirit from you fades in the presence of the quiet recognition that you do love Him! The exaltation of the body for what it seems to offer is given up in favor of the spirit, which you love as you could never love the body. And the appeal of death is lost forever as Love’s attraction stirs and calls to you.
From beyond each of the obstacles to love, Love Itself has called! And each obstacle has been surmounted by the power of the attraction of what lies beyond. Your prior choice for fear seemed to be holding the obstacles in place. Yet when you heard the Voice of Love beyond them, you answered and they disappeared. And now you stand in terror before what you swore never to look upon, your fear of God!
Your eyes look down, remembering your promise to your ‘old friends.’ The attractiveness of sin, the delicate appeal of guilt, the holy waxen image of death, and the fear of the ego’s vengeance; all of which you swore in blood not to desert, now rise and bid you not to raise your eyes! For you realize that if you look honestly on this last obstacle, the fear of God, and let the veil be lifted, they will all be gone forever. All of your ‘friends,’ your ‘protectors’ and your familiar ‘home’ in form will vanish. Nothing that you remember now will you remember!
Perhaps it seems to you the world will utterly abandon you if you but raise your eyes. Yet all that will occur is you will leave the ego’s world of separation forever. This is but the re-establishment of your true will!
Look open-eyed upon the fear of God you have kept hidden, and you will nevermore believe that you are at the mercy of things beyond you, forces you cannot control, and thoughts that come to you against your will. It is your will to look on this without denial! No mad desire, no trivial impulse to forget again, no stab of fear nor even the cold sweat of seeming death can stand against your will. For what attracts you from beyond the veil is also deep within you, unseparated from it and completely one.
Forget not that you and your brother have come this far together! And remember it was surely not the ego that led you here. No obstacle to peace can be surmounted through any help the ego may offer. It is not the ego that opens up its secrets, bids you look on them honestly, and releases them that you may go beyond them. The ego would not have you see its weakness and thereby learn it has no power to keep you from the truth!
The Guide Who brought you to this point remains with you, and when you raise your eyes, you will be ready to look upon your fear of God with no fear at all. But first, lift up your eyes and look on your brother in innocence born of complete forgiveness of his illusions, and through the eyes of faith that sees them not!”