T. 21. III. 9 – 12. Jesus: “Those who believe in sin will inevitably think the Holy Spirit asks for sacrifice, for this is how they think their purpose is accomplished. Brother, the Holy Spirit knows that sacrifice brings nothing!
The Holy Spirit does not bargain with you! And if you seek to limit Him by your bargaining, it will show that you hate Him because you are afraid. Yet the gift that He has given you is more than anything that stands this side of Heaven. The instant for its recognition is at hand!
Simply let your awareness join with what has already been joined in the Holy Spirit! The faith you now give your brother can accomplish this. For He Who loves the world you see is seeing it for you, without one spot of sin upon it, and in the innocence that makes the sight of it as beautiful as Heaven!
Your faith in sacrifice has given it great power in your perception. But because of that faith, you cannot truly see, although you do not realize your handicap! For sacrifice can only be exacted of a body, and by another body. The mind could neither ask it nor receive it of itself. And no more could the body!
The desire and the intention is in the mind, which tries to use the body to carry out the means for sin in which the mind believes. Thus is the imagined ‘joining’ of mind and body an inescapable belief of those who value sin. And so this ‘sacrifice’ is invariably a means for limitation, and thus for hate. Think you the Holy Spirit would engage in any of this? He certainly gives not what it is His purpose to lead you from!
Perhaps you think He would deprive you for your own good. But ‘good’ and ‘deprivation’ are opposites, and cannot meaningfully join in any way. It is like saying that the moon and sun are one because they come with night and day, and so they must be joined. Yet sight of one is but the sign the other has disappeared from sight. Nor is it possible that what gives light be one with what depends on darkness to be seen. Neither demands the sacrifice of the other. Yet on the absence of the other does each depend.
The body was made by mind to be a sacrifice to sin, the cost of making your imagined separation ‘real.’ And in the darkness of the the mind’s identification with the body, so it still is seen. Yet in the light of the Holy Spirit’s vision, the body is looked upon quite differently!
You can have real faith in the body only when you let it serve the Holy Spirit’s goal, and thereby give it power to serve as means to help the blind to see. But in their seeing they look past the body, as do you.
The faith and the belief you gave the body belongs beyond it! In error, you gave perception and belief and faith from mind to body. Let them now be given back to the mind that produced them, and can use them still to save itself from what it made.”