T. 24. VII. 4 – 6. Jesus: “In the matter of protection, ask yourself this: Can you protect the mind? The body, yes, perhaps a little; not from time, but temporarily. And much you think you save, you hurt!
What would you save it for? For in that choice lie both its health and harm! Save it for show, as bait to catch ‘another fish,’ to house your specialness in better style, or weave a frame of loveliness around your hate, and you condemn the body to decay and death.
And if you see this purpose in your brother’s body, such is your condemnation of your own! Weave, rather, then, a frame of holiness around your brother, that the truth may shine on him, and thus give you safety from decay! The Father keeps safe what He created, the mind. You cannot harm it with the false ideas you’ve made, because it was not created by you. Let not your foolish fancies frighten you! What is immortal cannot be attacked; and what is but temporal has no effect on truth.
Only the purpose that you see in the body has meaning. And if that purpose be discovering the truth, its safety rests secure. If not, it has no purpose, and is means for nothing. Whatever is perceived as means for truth shares in truth’s holiness, and rests in the light as safely as truth itself. Nor will that light go out when the body is gone. Its holy purpose gave it immortality, setting another light in Heaven, where your creations recognize a gift from you, a sign that you have not forgotten them.
The test of everything for you 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 but 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, found not within time, but in eternity. To no one here in the world is this even describable. Nor is there any way, in worldly terms, to learn what this condition means. Not till you go past learning to the Given; not till you accept again a holy home for your creations is it understood.”