T. 27. VII. 9 – 12. Jesus: “Be glad indeed the dreamer of your dream is you! For thus are you the one decider of your destiny in time, and you have the choice between dreams of evil and a sleeping death, or a happy wakening and the joy of life eternal. What choice do you make except between states of life or death, waking or sleeping, eternal peace or constant war?
What will it be; your dreams of death or your reality in God? There is a risk of thinking ‘death is peace,’ because the world and your little self have confused the body with the Self which God created. Yet a thing can never be its opposite! And death is opposite to peace, because it is the opposite of life. And life is peace!
Forget all thoughts that point to death! Awaken, and you will find you have the peace of God! Yet if the choice is really given you, and it is, then you must see the causes of the things you choose between, seeing them exactly as they are, and where they are. What choices can be made between two states, when only one of them is clearly recognized?
Who could be free to choose between effects, when no cause is seen as being up to him? An honest alternative could never be perceived as one in which the choice is split between ‘a tiny you’ and an enormous world outside, with different dreams about the truth in you. The gap between reality and dreams lies not between the world’s dreaming and what you dream in secret of yourself as a body. They are one!
The ‘world’s dreaming’ is but a part of your own dream, the part attributed to the world by your projection, and then seen as if that part were all of it, the start and ending, both. Yet was it started by your own dreaming, subsequently made secret by your denial. So now you do not remember, although it caused the part you see outside of you and do not doubt is real. How could you doubt it while you lie asleep, dreaming in secret that its cause outside yourself is real?
A brother separated from yourself, an ancient enemy, a murderer who stalks you in the night and plots your death, yet plans that it be lingering and slow; my brother, all of this you dream!
Yet underneath this dream is still another, in which you dream you are ‘the guilty murderer,’ the secret enemy, the scavenger and the destroyer of your brother and the world alike. Here is the cause of all your suffering, the space between your little dreams and your reality!
This little gap you do not even see, the birthplace of illusions and of fear, the time of terror and of ancient hate, the instant of disaster, all are here! Here is the cause of un-reality. And it is here that the entire dream of separation will be undone!”