T. 24. VII. 6 – 8. Jesus: “The test of everything on earth is simply this; ‘What is it for?’ The answer makes it what it is for you. It has no meaning of itself, yet you can give reality to it, according to the purpose that you serve. Here you are the means, along with it.
God is a Means as well as End. In Heaven, means and end are one, and one with Him. This is the state of true creation, not to be found within the bounds of time, but in eternity. To no one here in the world of form is this even describable. Nor is there any way here to learn what this condition truly means. Not till you go past learning to the Given; not till you make again a holy home for your creations is it understood.
A co-creator with the Father must have a Son. Yet must this Son have been created like the Father Himself. A perfect being, all-encompassing and all-encompassed, nothing to add and nothing taken from; not born of size nor place nor time, nor held to limits or uncertainties of any kind. Here do the means and end unite as one, nor does this one have any end at all. All this is true, and yet it has no meaning to anyone who still retains one unlearned lesson in his memory, one thought with purpose still uncertain, or one wish with a divided aim.
A co-creator with the Father must have a Son. Yet must this Son have been created like the Father Himself. A perfect being, all-encompassing and all-encompassed, nothing to add and nothing taken from; not born of size nor place nor time, nor held to limits or uncertainties of any kind. Here do the means and end unite as one, nor does this one have any end at all. All this is true, and yet it has no meaning to anyone who still retains one unlearned lesson in his memory, one thought with purpose still uncertain, or one wish with a divided aim.
This course makes no attempt to teach what cannot easily be learned. Its scope does not exceed your own, except to say that what is yours will come to you when you are ready. Here in the world are the means and the purpose separate, only so because they were so made and so perceived. And therefore do we deal with them as if they really were separate.
It is essential it be kept in mind that all perception still is upside down and inside out until its purpose has been understood. Perception does not seem to be a means, and yet it is. And it is this that makes it hard to grasp the whole extent to which it must depend on what you choose to see it for.
Perception seems to teach you what you see. Yet it but witnesses to what you taught to it! It is but the outward picture of an inner wish; a projected image of what you wanted to be true!”