T. 27. II. 10 – 12. Jesus: “Correction is not your function. It belongs to One Who knows only of fairness, not of guilt. If you assume correction’s role is yours, you lose the function of forgiveness.
No one can forgive until he learns real correction is but to forgive, and never to accuse. Alone and seemingly separate, you cannot see they are the same, and therefore is correction not of you. Identity and function are the same, and by your function do you know yourself. And thus, if you confuse your function with the function of Another, the Holy Spirit, you must be confused about yourself and who you are.
What is the separation but a wish to take God’s function from Him and deny that it is His? Yet if it is not His, it is not yours, for you must lose what you would take away from Him.
In a split mind, identity must seem to be divided. Nor can anyone perceive a function unified which has conflicting purposes and different ends. Correction, to a mind so split, must be a way to punish your ‘sins,’ yet only after projecting them outward and seeing them in someone else. And thus does he become your victim, not your brother, different from you in that he is ‘more guilty.’ Thus he seems to be in need of your correction, with you as the one ‘more innocent.’ This splits his function off from yours, and gives you both a different role. And so you and your brother cannot be perceived as one, and with a single function that would mean a shared identity, with but one end.
‘Correction’ you would do, of your little self, must separate, because that is the function given it by you. When you perceive correction is the same as total pardon, then you also know the Holy Spirit’s Mind and yours are One. And then your own true Identity is found.“
‘Correction’ you would do, of your little self, must separate, because that is the function given it by you. When you perceive correction is the same as total pardon, then you also know the Holy Spirit’s Mind and yours are One. And then your own true Identity is found.“