T. 24. II. 4 – 7. Jesus: “You are not special, nor are you separate and alone. Yet what answer that the Holy Spirit gives can reach you, when it is only your imagined specialness to which you listen, and which both asks and answers for you?
Yet its meaningless answer, soundless within the greater melody that pours eternally from God to you in loving praise of what you truly are, is still what you listen to! And that vast song of honor and of love for what you are seems silent and unheard before the ‘might’ of your specialness. You strain your ears to hear the meaningless voice of specialness, while the Call of God Himself is soundless to you!
You can defend your specialness, but you will never hear the Voice for God beside it while you do. They speak a different language and they fall on different ears! To every special one a different message, and one with different meaning, appears to be ‘the truth.’ Yet how can truth be different to each one?
The special messages the special hear convince them they are different and apart; each in his ‘special sins’ and ‘safe’ from love, which does not see his specialness at all. Christ’s vision is their ‘enemy,’ for it sees not what they would look upon, and would show them that the specialness they think they see is but illusion.
What would they see instead? The shining radiance of the Son of God, so like his Father that the memory of Him springs instantly to mind.
And with this memory, the Son remembers his own creations, as like to him as he is to his Father. And all the world of separation that he made, and all his specialness, and all the sins he held in its defense against himself, will vanish as his mind accepts the truth about himself, as truth returns to take their place.
This is the only ‘cost’ of truth: You will no longer see what never was, nor hear what makes no real 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 pretense of specialness, and given it his place, remember this: He has not lost the power to forgive you all the sins you think you placed between him and the function of salvation given him for you.”