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True light that makes true vision possible is not the light the body's eyes behold. It is a state of mind that has become so unified that darkness cannot be perceived at all.
And thus what is the same is seen as one, while what is not the same remains unnoticed, for it is not there.
This is the light that shows no opposites, and vision, being healed, has power to heal.
This is the light that brings your peace of mind to other minds, to share it and be glad that they are one with you and with themselves.
This is the light that heals because it brings single perception, based upon one frame of reference, from which one meaning comes.
Here are both giving and receiving seen as different aspects of one Thought whose truth does not depend on which is seen as first, nor which appears to be in second place.
Here it is understood that both occur together, that the Thought remain complete.
And in this understanding is the base on which all opposites are reconciled, because they are perceived from the same frame of reference which unifies this Thought.
One thought, completely unified, will serve to unify all thought.
..... the Father for the perfect sanity of His most holy Son.
Your Father knoweth that you have need of nothing. In Heaven this is so, for what could you need in eternity?
In your world you do need things. It is a world of scarcity in which you find yourself because you are lacking.
Yet can you find yourself in such a world?
Without the Holy Spirit the answer would be no. Yet because of Him the answer is a joyous yes!
As Mediator between the two worlds, He knows what you have need of and what will not hurt you. Ownership is a dangerous concept if it is left to you.
The ego wants to have things for salvation, for possession is its law.
Possession for its own sake is the ego's fundamental creed, a basic cornerstone in the churches it builds to itself.
And at its altar it demands you lay all of the things it bids you get, leaving you no joy in them.
Appearances can but deceive the mind that wants to be deceived.
And you can make a simple choice that will forever place you far beyond deception.
You need not concern yourself with how this will be done, for this you cannot understand.
But you will understand that mighty changes have been quickly brought about, when you decide one very simple thing; you do not want whatever you believe an idol gives.
For thus the Son of God declares that he is free of idols. And thus is he free.
Salvation is a paradox indeed! What could it be except a happy dream?
It asks you but that you forgive all things that no one ever did; to overlook what is not there, and not to look upon the unreal as reality.
You are but asked to let your will be done, and seek no longer for the things you do not want.
And you are asked to let yourself be free of all the dreams of what you never were, and seek no more to substitute the strength of idle wishes for the Will of God.
Your mind can be possessed by illusions, but spirit is eternally free.
If a mind perceives without love, it perceives an empty shell and is unaware of the spirit within.
But the Atonement restores spirit to its proper place.
The mind that serves spirit is invulnerable.
Darkness is lack of light as sin is lack of love.
It has no unique properties of its own.
It is an example of the "scarcity" belief, from which only error can proceed.
Truth is always abundant. Those who perceive and acknowledge that they have everything have no needs of any kind.
The purpose of the Atonement is to restore everything to you; or rather, to restore it to your awareness.
You were given everything when you were created, just as everyone was.
Salvation is rebirth of the idea no one can lose for anyone to gain.
And everyone must gain, if anyone would be a gainer. Here is sanity restored.
And on this single rock of truth can faith in God's eternal saneness rest in perfect confidence and perfect peace.
Reason is satisfied, for all insane beliefs can be corrected here. And sin must be impossible, if this is true.
This is the rock on which salvation rests, the vantage point from which the Holy Spirit gives meaning and direction to the plan in which your special function has a part.
For here your special function is made whole, because it shares the function of the whole.
No one can waken from a dream the world is dreaming for him.
He becomes a part of someone else's dream. He cannot choose to waken from a dream he did not make.
Helpless he stands, a victim to a dream conceived and cherished by a separate mind.
Careless indeed of him this mind must be, as thoughtless of his peace and happiness as is the weather or the time of day.
It loves him not, but casts him as it will in any role that satisfies its dream.
So little is his worth that he is but a dancing shadow, leaping up and down according to a senseless plot conceived within the idle dreaming of the world.
For the dream of your ability to control reality by substituting a world that you prefer is terrifying.
Your attempts to blot out reality are very fearful, but this you are not willing to accept.
And so you substitute the fantasy that reality is fearful, not what you would do to it.
And thus is guilt made real.
Dreams show you that you have the power to make a world as you would have it be, and that because you want it you see it.
And while you see it you do not doubt that it is real. Yet here is a world, clearly within your mind, that seems to be outside.
You do not respond to it as though you made it, nor do you realize that the emotions the dream produces must come from you.
It is the figures in the dream and what they do that seem to make the dream.
You do not realize that you are making them act out for you, for if you did the guilt would not be theirs, and the illusion of satisfaction would be gone.
