Sin is insanity. It is the means by which the mind is driven mad, and seeks to
let illusions take the place of truth. And being mad, it sees illusions where
truth should be, and where it really is. Sin gave the body eyes, for what is
there the sinless would behold? What need have they of sights or sounds or
touch? What would they hear or reach to grasp? What would they sense at all? To
sense is not to know. And truth can be but filled with knowledge, and with
nothing else.
The body is the instrument the mind made in its striving to deceive itself. Its
purpose is to strive. Yet can the goal of striving change. And now the body
serves a different aim for striving. What it seeks for now is chosen by the aim
the mind has taken as replacement for the goal of self-deception. Truth can be
its aim as well as lies. The senses then will seek instead for witnesses to what
is true.
Sin is the home of all illusions, which but stand for things imagined, issuing
from thoughts which are untrue. They are the "proof " that what has no
reality is real. Sin "proves" God's Son is evil; timelessness must have an
end; Eternal life must die. And God Himself has lost the Son He loves, with but
corruption to complete Himself, His Will forever overcome by death, love slain
by hate, and peace to be no more.
A madman's dreams are frightening, and sin appears indeed to terrify. And yet
what sin perceives is but a childish game. The Son of God may play he has become
a body, prey to evil and to guilt, with but a little life that ends in death.
But all the while his Father shines on him, and loves him with an everlasting
Love which his pretenses cannot change at all.
How long, oh Son of God, will you maintain the game of sin? Shall we not pull
away these sharp-edged children's toys? How soon will you be ready to come
home? Perhaps today? There is no sin. Creation is unchanged. Would you still
hold return to Heaven back? How long, oh holy Son of God, how long?
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