OrEd-T-20.9-Vision of Sinlessness
67. Truth is restored to me through my desire, as I lost it through my desire for something else. I will open the holy place which I closed off by valuing the 'something else', and what was never lost will quietly return. It has been saved for me. Had judgment not been made, vision would not be necessary. Now, I desire the whole undoing of judgment, and it is done for me. As I see my brother sinless, vision will first come to me in glimpses. That will be enough to show me what is being given me.
68. Vision is freely given to those who ask to see. Would I be willing to be free of misery and learn of joy again? Would I happily exchange my doubts for certainty? Do I want to know my own Identity? All this is offered me by my holy relationship. As the holy relationship was given, so will its effects be given. And as its holy purpose was not made by me, the means by which its happy end is mine, is also not of me. I rejoice in what is mine for the asking, and do not think that I need to make either means or end. All this is given, waiting on my desire to receive it. All this is given me, who would only see my brother sinless.
69. Peace will come to all who ask for it with real desire and sincerity of purpose, shared with the Holy Spirit, and at one with Him on what salvation is. My brother's sinlessness is given me in shining light, to look on with the Holy Spirit's vision, and to rejoice in along with Him. I am willing, then, to see my brother sinless, that Christ may rise before my vision and give me joy. It is my brother's desire to see his sinlessness, also, as it is mine. I place no value on my brother's body, which holds him to illusions of what he is. I do not see in my brother what I have made of him, and I bless the Son of God in our relationship.
70. Why do we think the body is a better home, a safer shelter for God's Son? Why would we rather look on it than on the truth? How can the engine of destruction be preferred, and chosen to replace the holy home the Holy Spirit offers, where He will dwell with us? The Holy Spirit guarantees that what God willed and gave me shall be mine. This is my purpose now, and the vision that makes it mine is ready to be given. I have the vision which enables each one to not see the body. And as we look upon each other, we will see an altar to our Father, holy as Heaven, glowing with radiant purity and sparkling with the shining lilies we laid upon it. What can we value more than this?
71. Would I turn in my distress, and need for help, unto the helpless? Is the pitifully little the choice to call upon for strength? Can such a savior help me? Judgment will seem to make my savior weak. Yet, I need his strength. The body is the sign of weakness, vulnerability, and loss of power. However, all is redeemed when looked upon with the vision of the Holy Spirit. There is no perplexity, problem, event, or situation that vision will not solve. Vision brings with it the laws, beloved of Him, Whose sight it is.
*72. Everything looked upon with vision falls gently into place, according to the laws brought to it by the Holy Spirit's calm and certain sight. The end is always sure for everything He looks upon. The end, seen in unadjusted form, is perfectly suited to meet His purpose. Destructiveness becomes benign, and sin is turned to blessing under His gentle gaze. With the body's eyes, perception has no power to correct. Its eyes adjust, and are unable to overlook sin, seeing it everywhere, and in everything. Everything before me stands condemned. I will never see what could save me. Our holy relationship, the source of our salvation, is deprived of meaning, and is without means for the accomplishment of its most holy purpose.
*73. What if I recognized this world is an hallucination? What if I realized that those who seem to walk about in it, to sin and die, attack, murder and destroy themselves, are wholly unreal? What if I really understood I made it up? Could I have faith in what I see if I accepted this? And would I see it? Judgment is a toy, a whim, the senseless means to play the game of death in my imagination. But vision sets all things right, bringing them gently within the kindly sway of Heaven's laws.
74. Hallucinations disappear when they are recognized for what they are. I need to recognize that I did this. They are gone if I do not believe them. When I accept this simple fact, and take back the power I gave them, I am released. It is sure that hallucinations serve a purpose. When that purpose is no longer held, they disappear. This is the remedy and the healing. Therefore, the question is never 'Do I want hallucinations?', but always, 'Do I want the purpose that they serve?' This world seems to hold out many purposes, each different, with different values. Yet they are all the same, for there is no order of values, only a seeming hierarchy.
75. Only two purposes are possible. One is holiness, and the other sin. Nothing is in between, and which I choose determines what I will see. For how I elect to meet my goal is what I will see. Hallucinations serve to meet the goal of madness. They are the means by which the outside world, projected from within, adjusts to sin and seems to witness its reality. Yet all projections are made of nothing, and it is true that nothing is without. And it is the projection which gives the 'nothing' all the meaning that it has.
76. Meaning always looks within to find itself, and then looks out. All meaning that I give the world outside must reflect what I saw within. Or better, merely judged against, and did not see at all. What has no meaning cannot be perceived. Vision is the means the Holy Spirit uses to translate my nightmares and wild hallucinations, into happy dreams, and calm, reassuring sights He would give instead. These gentle sights and sounds are looked on happily, and heard with joy. They are His substitutes for all the terrifying sights and sounds the ego's purpose brought to my horrified awareness. Vision steps away from sin, reminding me that it is not reality which frightens me, and the errors that I made can be corrected.
77. When I have looked on what seemed terrifying, and seen it change to sights of loveliness and peace---when I have looked on scenes of violence and death, and watched them change to quiet views of gardens, under open skies, with clear, life-giving water running beside them in dancing brooks that never waste away, who needs persuade me to accept the gift of vision? And, who is there who could refuse what must come after vision? Think an instant just on this----I can behold the holiness God gave His Son. I never need think that there is something else for me to see.
