T. 21. VI. 9 – 11. Jesus: “You are your brother’s savior; he is yours! Of this, reason speaks happily indeed! This gracious plan was given love, by Love. And what Love plans is like Itself in this respect: Being united, It would have you learn what you must be. And being one with It, it must be given you to give what It has given, and gives still.
Spend but an instant in the glad acceptance of what is given you to give your brother, and learn with him what has been given both of you. To give is no more blessed than to receive. But neither is it less!
The Son of God is always blessed as one! And as his gratitude goes out to you who have blessed him, reason will tell you that it simply cannot be you stand apart from blessing. The gratitude he offers you reminds you of the thanks your Father gives you for completing Him. And here alone does reason tell you that you can understand what you must be. Your Father is as close to you as is your brother. Yet what is there that could be nearer you than is your Self?
The power you have with the Son of God is not a threat to his reality. It but attests to it instead! Where could his freedom lie but in himself, if he be free already? And who could bind him but himself, if he deny his freedom?
God is not mocked; It simply hasn’t happened! No more can His Son be ‘imprisoned,’ except by his own desire. And now, it is by his own desire that he is freed!
Such is his strength, and not his weakness. He is at but his own mercy! And where he chooses to be merciful and give release, there is he free. But where he chooses to condemn instead, there has he made himself a prisoner, waiting in chains but for his pardon on himself to set him free!”