T. 26. I. 3 – 5. Jesus: “In truth, giving and receiving are the same. And to accept the limits of a body is to impose these limits on each brother whom you see. For you must see him as you see yourself!
The body is itself a loss, and can easily be made to sacrifice. And while you see your brother as a body, apart from you and separate in his ‘little cell,’ you are demanding sacrifice of him and you. What greater sacrifice could be demanded than having God’s Son perceive himself without his Father? And his Father then without His Son? Yet every sacrifice demands that they be separate and without the other.
The memory of God must be denied if any sacrifice is asked of anyone. What witness to the Wholeness of God’s Son is seen within a world of separate bodies, however much he witnesses to truth? He is invisible in such a world. Nor can his song of union and of love be heard at all. Yet is it given him to make the world recede before his song, and sight of him replace the body’s eyes.
Those who would see the witnesses to truth instead of to illusion merely ask that they might see a purpose in the world that gives it sense and makes it meaningful. Without your special function has this world no meaning for you. Yet it can become a treasure house as rich and limitless as Heaven itself.
Those who would see the witnesses to truth instead of to illusion merely ask that they might see a purpose in the world that gives it sense and makes it meaningful. Without your special function has this world no meaning for you. Yet it can become a treasure house as rich and limitless as Heaven itself.
No instant passes here in which your brother’s holiness cannot be seen, to add a limitless supply to every meager scrap and tiny crumb of happiness that you allot yourself. You can lose sight of oneness, but can not make sacrifice of its reality. Nor can you actually lose what you would sacrifice, nor keep the Holy Spirit from His task of showing you that it has not been lost.
Hear, then, the song your brother sings to you, and let the world recede, and take the rest his witness offers on behalf of peace. But judge him not, for if you do, you will hear no song of liberation for yourself, nor see what it is given him to witness to, that you may see it and rejoice with him.“