T. 24. II. 6 – 9. Jesus: “This is the only ‘cost’ of truth: You will no longer see what never was, nor hear what makes no sound. Is it a sacrifice to give up ‘nothing,’ and to receive the Love of God forever?
You who have chained your savior brother to your specialness, and given specialness his place within you, remember this: He has not lost the power to forgive you all the sins you seem to have placed between him and the function of salvation given him for you.
Nor will you change his real function to you, any more than you can change the truth in him and in yourself. But be you certain that the truth is the same in both. It gives no different messages, and has just one meaning. And it is one you and your brother both can understand, and one that brings release to both.
Before you stands your brother with the key to Heaven in his hand, held out to you. Let not your dream of specialness remain between you! What is one is ever joined in truth. Think of the loveliness that you will see within yourself when you have looked on him only as friend.
In truth, your brother is the enemy of specialness, but only as the friend to what is real in you. Not one attack you thought you made on him has destroyed the gift that God would have him give to you. His need to give it is as great as yours to have it. Let him forgive you all your specialness, and make you whole in mind and one with him.
Your brother waits for your forgiveness that he may return it unto you. It is not God Who has condemned His Son, but you, to save your specialness and thus to kill your Self!
You have come far along the way of truth; too far to falter now. Just one step more, and every vestige of the fear of God will melt away in love. Your brother’s specialness and yours are enemies, and bound in hate to kill each other and deny they are the same. Yet it is not illusions that have reached this final obstacle which seems to make God and His Heaven so remote that They cannot be reached.
Here in this holy place does truth stand waiting to receive you and your brother in silent blessing, and in peace so real and so encompassing that nothing stands outside. Leave all illusions of yourself outside this place, to which you come in hope and honesty.”