OrEd-T-21.6-Reason and Perception.2
54. God's plan is simple, never circular and never self defeating. He has no Thoughts except the Self-extending, and in this my will must be included. Thus, there must be a part of me that knows His Will and shares it. It is not meaningful to ask if what must be is so. But it is meaningful to ask, "Why am I unaware of what is so (true)?". This must have an answer for God's plan of salvation to be complete. God's plan is complete, because the Source does not know of incompletion. The answer is in the Source, the same place where I am. My Identity is as much a true effect of this Source as is the answer, and must be with and the same as, the answer.
55. I know this, and more than this. However, any part of knowledge threatens dissociation as much as all of knowledge. And all of knowledge will come with any part. Here is the part I can accept. The witnesses on behalf of reason are clear. Only the totally insane can disregard them, and I have gone past this. Reason, in its own right, is a means which serves the Holy Spirit's purpose. It is not reinterpreted and redirected from the goal of sin, as the other means are. For reason is beyond the ego's range of means.
56. Reason has no place in madness, and cannot be adjusted to fit the goal of madness. Faith, belief and perception can be misplaced, and can serve the great deceiver's needs, as well as serving truth. Faith and belief are strong in madness, guiding perception toward ego values accepted by the mind. Reason does not enter into this at all. If reason were applied, the perception would immediately disappear. There is no reason in insanity, for insanity depends on the absence of reason. The ego never uses reason, because it does not realize that reason exists. The partially insane have access to reason, and only they need it. Knowledge does not depend on reason, and madness keeps it out.
57. The part of mind where reason lies, was dedicated to the undoing of insanity by my will in union with my Father's. Here, the Holy Spirit's purpose was accepted and accomplished both at once. Reason is alien to insanity, and those who use reason have gained a means which cannot be applied to sin. Reason can be used to open doors that lead to knowledge, but knowledge is far beyond attainment of any kind.
58. I have come very close to this. Faith and belief have shifted, and I have asked the question which the ego will never ask. My reason tells me now the question must have come from something that I do not know, but must belong to me. Faith and belief, upheld by reason, cannot fail to lead to changed perception. And with this change, space is made for vision. Vision extends far beyond itself, as does the purpose which vision serves, and all the means for the accomplishment of the Holy Spirit's purpose.
