giving peace its home in Heaven. Send forth to all the world the
joyous message of the end of guilt, and all the world will answer.
Think of your happiness as everyone offers you witness of the end of
sin, and shows you that its power is gone forever.Where can guilt be,
when the belief in sin is gone? And where is death, when its great
advocate is heard no more?
Forgive me your illusions, and release me from punishment for
what I have not done. So will you learn the freedom that I taught by
teaching freedom to each other, and so releasing me. I am within
your holy relationship, yet you would imprison me behind the
obstacles you raise to freedom, and bar my way to you.Yet it is not
possible to keep away One Who is there already. And in Him it IS
possible that our communion, where we are joined already, will be
the focus of the new perception that will bring light to all the world,
contained in YOU.
PLEASURE AND PAIN
Your little part is but to give the Holy Spirit the whole IDEAof
sacrifice. And to accept the peace He gave instead, without the limits
which would hold its extension back, and so would limit YOUR
awareness of it. For what He gives must be extended, if you would
have its limitless power, and use it for the Son of God’s release. It is
not this you would be rid of, and having it you CANNOTlimit it. If
peace is homeless, so are you and so am I. And He Who is our home
is homeless WITHus. Is this your will? Would you forever be a
wanderer in search of peace? Would you invest your hope of peace
and happiness in what MUSTfail?
Faith in the eternal is always justified, for the eternal is forever
kind, infinite in its patience, and wholly loving. It will accept you
wholly, and give you peace. Yet it can unite only with what
ALREADYis at peace in you, immortal as itself.The body can bring
you neither peace nor turmoil; neither pain nor joy. It is a means, and
not an end. It has NOpurpose of itself, but only what is given to it.
The body will seem to be whatever is the means for reaching the
goal that you assign to it. Peace and guilt are both conditions of the
mind, to be attained. And these conditions are the home of the
emotion which called them forth, and therefore is compatible with
19 BEYOND THE BODY