What has been given you? The knowledge that you are a mind, in Mind and purely
mind, sinless forever, wholly unafraid because you were created out of Love. Nor
have you left your Source, remaining as you were created. This was given you as
knowledge which you cannot lose. It was given as well to every living thing, for
by that knowledge only does it live.
You have received all this. No-one who walks the world but has received it. It
is not this knowledge which you give, for that is what creation gave. All this
cannot be learned. What, then, are you to learn to give today? Our lesson
yesterday evoked a theme found early in the text. Experience cannot be shared
directly in the way that vision can. The revelation that the Father and the Son
are One will come in time to every mind. Yet is that time determined by the mind
itself, not taught.
The time is set already. It appears to be quite arbitrary. Yet there is no step
along the road that anyone but takes by chance. It has already been taken by
him, although he has not yet embarked on it. For time but seems to go in one
direction. We but undertake a journey that is over. Yet it seems to have a
future still unknown to us.
Time is a trick; a sleight of hand, a vast illusion in which figures come and go
as if by magic. Yet there is a plan behind appearances which does not change.
The script is written. When experience will come to end your doubting has been
set. For we but see the journey from the point at which it ended, looking back
on it, imagining we make it once again; reviewing mentally what has gone by.
The teacher does not give experience, because he did not learn. It revealed
itself to him at its appointed time. But vision is his gift. This he can give
directly, for Christ's knowledge is not lost because He has a vision He can
give to anyone who asks. The Father's Will and His are joined in knowledge.
Yet there is a vision which the Holy Spirit sees because the mind of Christ
beholds it too.
Here is the joining of the world of doubt and shadows made with the intangible.
Here is a quiet place within the world made holy by forgiveness and by love.
Here are all contradictions reconciled, for here the journey ends. Experience,
unlearned, untaught, unseen, is merely there. This is beyond our goal, for it
transcends what needs to be accomplished. Our concern is with Christ's vision.
This we can attain.
Christ's vision has one law. It does not look upon a body and mistake it for
the Son whom God created. It beholds a light beyond the body; an idea beyond
what can be touched, a purity undimmed by errors, pitiful mistakes, and fearful
thoughts of guilt from dreams of sin. It sees no separation. And it looks on
everyone, on every circumstance, all happenings and all events, without the
slightest fading of the light it sees.
This can be taught, and must be taught by all who would achieve it. It requires
but the recognition that the world can not give anything that faintly can
compare with this in value; nor set up a goal which does not merely disappear
when this has been perceived. And this you give today; see no-one as a body.
Greet him as the Son of God he is, acknowledging that he is one with you in
holiness.
Thus are his sins forgiven him, for Christ has vision which has power to
overlook them all. In His forgiveness they are gone. Unseen by One, they merely
disappear because a vision of the holiness which lies beyond them comes to take
their place. It matters not what form they took, nor how enormous they appeared
to be, nor who seemed to be hurt by them. They are no more, and all effects they
seemed to have are gone with them, undone and never to be done.
Thus do you learn to give as you receive. And thus Christ's vision looks on
you as well. This lesson is not difficult to learn if you remember in your
brother you but see yourself. If he be lost in sin so must you be; if you see
light in him your sins have been forgiven by yourself. Each brother whom you
meet today provides another chance to let Christ's vision shine on you, and
offer you the peace of God.
It matters not when revelation comes, for that is not of time. Yet time has
still one gift to give in which true knowledge is reflected in a way so accurate
its image shares its unseen holiness; its likeness shines with its immortal
Love. We practice seeing with the eyes of Christ today. And by the holy gifts we
give, Christ's vision looks upon ourselves as well.
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