T. 27. I. 1 – 3. Jesus: “The wish to be unfairly treated is a compromise attempt that would combine the two ideas of attack and innocence in your relationship. Who can combine the wholly incompatible, and make a unity of what can never join?
Walk you now the gentle way, and you will fear no evil and no shadows in the night! But place no terror symbols on your path, or you will weave a crown of thorns from which your brother and yourself will not escape. You cannot crucify yourself alone. And if you are ‘unfairly treated,’ he must suffer the same unfairness that you see.
You cannot sacrifice yourself alone, for sacrifice is total! If it could occur at all it would entail the whole of God’s Creation, and the Father with the sacrifice of His beloved Son. In your release from the idea of sacrifice is the Son’s release made manifest, and shown to be his own.
But with every pain you suffer, do you see the ‘proof’ that he is guilty of attack! Thus would you make yourself into the sign that he has lost his innocence, and need but look on you to realize that he has been condemned. And what to you has been unfair will fall on him in simple ‘righteousness.’ The ‘unjust vengeance’ that you suffer now is his, and when you see the guilt rest on him, you think you are set free!
Wish not to make yourself a living symbol of your brother’s guilt, for you will not escape the death you made for him. But in seeing his innocence you find your own innocence!
Whenever you consent to suffer pain, to be deprived, unfairly treated or ‘in need’ of anything, you but accuse your brother of attack upon God’s Son. You hold a picture of your crucifixion up before his eyes, that he may see his sins are writ in Heaven in your blood and death, and go before him on his way, closing off the gate and damning him to hell. But it is hell where this is writ and not in Heaven, where you are beyond attack and what you are but proves your brother’s innocence. The picture of yourself you offer to your brother is what you show yourself, by your own choice, and give it all your faith!
The Holy Spirit offers you, to give to your brother, a picture of yourself in which there is no pain and no reproach at all. And what appeared to be martyred to his guilt becomes the perfect witness to his innocence!”