T. 20. VIII. 7 – 11. Jesus: “What if you recognized that this world of separate bodies is an hallucination? What if you really understood you made it up? What if you realized that all those figures who seem to walk about in it, to sin and die, attack and murder and destroy themselves, are wholly unreal?
If you accepted this, could you have faith in what you think you see? And would you even see it? Hallucinations simply disappear when they are recognized for what they are! This is the ultimate healing and the final remedy. Believe them not and they are gone. And all you need to do is recognize that you have done this! Once you accept this simple fact, and take back unto yourself the power you gave to them, you are released from them.
One thing is sure; hallucinations serve a purpose, and when that purpose is no longer held, they disappear. Therefore, the question never is whether you really want the hallucinations or not. But you must always ask if the purpose that they serve, really serves you! This world seems to hold out many purposes, each different and with different values. Yet worldly purposes are all the same; they all serve separation! Again there is no order; only a seeming hierarchy of values!
Only two purposes are possible; one is sin, the other holiness. Nothing is in between, and which you choose determines what you see. For what you see is merely how you have elected to meet your goal. Hallucinations of separateness serve only to meet the goal of madness! They are the means by which the outside world, projected from within, adjusts to the belief in sin and seems to witness to its reality.
It still is true that nothing is really ‘without,’ or outside of what you truly are! Yet upon this ‘nothing’ are all projections made. For it is the projection that gives the ‘nothing’ all the meaning that it seems to hold. What has no meaning to you cannot be perceived, however. And meaning always looks within to find itself, and then looks outward to ’see itself.’ All meaning that you give the world outside must thus reflect the sight that first you saw within; or better said, if you really ‘saw’ at all, even there, or merely ‘judged against’ and made it seem apart from you.
Vision is the means by which the Holy Spirit translates your nightmares into happy dreams; your wild hallucinations that show you all the fearful outcomes of imagined sin, transformed into the calm and reassuring sights with which He would replace them. These gentle sights and sounds are looked on happily, and heard with joy. They are His substitutes for all the terrifying sights and screaming sounds the ego’s purpose brought to your horrified awareness. They step away from sin, reminding you that it is not your reality which frightens you, and that the errors which you made are easily corrected.
When you have looked on what seemed terrifying, and seen it changed for you to sights of loveliness and peace; when you have looked on scenes of violence and death, and watched them change to quiet views of gardens under open skies, with clear, life-giving water running happily beside them in dancing brooks that never waste away; who need persuade you to accept the gift of vision?
And beyond vision, who is there who could refuse what must come next? Think but an instant just on this; you can behold the holiness God gave His Son! And never again need you think that there is something else for you to see!”