T. 28. III. 4 – 8. Jesus: “Separation, the purpose of the little gap you see between you and your brother, is all the cause that sickness has. For it was made to keep you separated, in a body which you see as if it were the cause of all your pain.
The fundamental cause of pain is belief in separation, not the body, which is only the belief’s effect. Yet separation is but ’empty space,’ enclosing nothing, doing nothing, and as insubstantial as the empty place between the ripples that a ship has made in passing by. And it is covered over just as fast, as water rushes in to close the gap, and as the waves, in joining, wash it away. Where is the gap between the waves when they have joined, and covered up the space which seemed to keep them separate for a little while?
Where are the grounds for sickness when the minds have joined to close the little gap between them, where the seeds of sickness seemed to grow? God has given you the bridge, but you can use it only in the space left clean and vacant by the miracle. The seeds of sickness, and the shame of guilt, He cannot bridge, for He cannot destroy the alien will that He created not.
Let all the ego’a effects be gone from you, and clutch them not with eager hands to keep them for yourself! The miracle will brush them all aside, and thus make room for Him Who wills to come and bridge His Son’s returning to Himself.
Count, then, the silver miracles and golden dreams of happiness as all the treasures you would keep within the storehouse that holds the world! Let the door of your mind be open, not to thieves, but to your starving brothers, who mistook for gold the shining of a pebble, and who stored a heap of melting snow that shone like silver. They have nothing left behind the open door!
What is the world except a little gap perceived to tear eternity apart, and break it into days and months and years? And what are you who live within the world except a picture of the Son of God in broken pieces, each concealed within a separate and fragile bit of clay?
Be not afraid, my child, but let your world be gently lit by miracles. And where the little gap was seen to stand between your brother and yourself, let you join him there. Thus sickness will now be seen without its root cause. The dream of healing in forgiveness lies, and gently shows you that you never sinned.”