T. 28. III. 1 – 3. Jesus: “What waits in perfect certainty beyond salvation is not our present concern. For you have barely started to allow your first uncertain steps to be directed up the ladder your belief in separation led you down. The miracle alone is your concern at present. Here is where we must begin. And having started, will the way be made serene and simple in the rising up to waking and the ending of the dream in its entirety.
When you accept a miracle, you do not add your dream of fear to another dream that is already being dreamed. Without support, that dream will fade away without effects. For it is but your active support that strengthens the other’s dream. No one can experience sickness until another mind agrees that they are separate. And thus it is their joint decision to be sick!
Accepting the part you play in ‘making sickness real,’ if you withhold agreement, the other mind cannot project its guilt onto the body, for that mind has not your aid in letting it perceive itself as separate and apart from you. Thus is the body no longer perceived as sick by both your minds from separate points of view.
Uniting with a brother’s mind in the miracle undoes the cause of sickness and its perceived effects. Healing is the effect of minds that join, as sickness comes from minds that separate. The miracle ‘does nothing,’ in the sense that all minds are joined, and cannot really separate.
Yet in the dreaming of the world, this has been reversed, with ‘separate minds’ now seen as bodies, which are separated from each other in the illusion, and which cannot join. Do not allow your brother to be sick! For if you see him sick and think it real, you have abandoned him to his own dream by sharing in it with him. He has not seen the cause of sickness where it is, in the mind. And you have overlooked the illusory gap between you, where the sickness has been bred.
Thus are you joined in ‘making’ the sickness real, to preserve ‘the little gap’ unhealed, where the appearance of sickness is kept carefully protected, cherished, and upheld by firm belief, lest God should come to bridge the little gap that leads to Him.
Fight not His coming with such illusions, for it is His coming that you really want, above all things that seem to glisten in the dream of separation!”