T. 26. VI. 1 – 3. Jesus: “Anything in this world that you believe is good and valuable and worth striving for can hurt you, and will do so! This is not because it has within it the power to hurt, but just because you have denied that it is only an illusion, and have made it real. And so the idol is made real to you.
But it is not nothing to you! And through its perceived ‘reality’ has entered all the world of sick illusions. All belief in sin, in the power of attack, in hurt and harm, in sacrifice and death, has come to you with it.
No one can make even one illusion real, and still escape the rest. For who can choose to keep the ones that he prefers, and still find the safety that the truth alone can give? Who can believe illusions are nothing, and still maintain that ‘one is best?’
Who dwells with shadows is alone indeed, and loneliness is not the Will of God. Would you allow one shadow to usurp the throne that God appointed for your Friend, if you but realized its emptiness has left yours empty and unoccupied?