OrEd-T-21.7-Reason and Correction.2
65. Reason, like love, would reassure me and does not seek to frighten me. The power to heal the Son of God is given me because he must be one with me. I am responsible for how he sees himself. And reason tells me it is given me to change his whole mind, which is one with me, in just an instant. And any instant serves to bring complete correction of his errors and make him whole. The instant that I choose to let myself be healed, in that same instant is his whole salvation seen as complete with mine. Reason is given me to understand that this is so. For reason is kind, as is the purpose for which it is the means, and leads steadily away from madness toward the goal of truth. And here I will lay down the burden of denying truth. This is the burden that is terrible, and not the truth.
66. Our being joined is our salvation, the gift of Heaven, not the gift of fear. In madness, Heaven seems to be a burden to me. And yet, what madness sees must be dispelled by reason. Reason assures me that Heaven is what I want, and all I want. I listen to Him Who speaks with reason, and brings my reason into line with His. I am willing to let reason be the means by which the Holy Spirit would direct me how to leave insanity behind. I will not hide behind insanity to escape from reason. What madness would conceal, the Holy Spirit holds out for everyone to look upon with gladness.
*67. I am my brother's savior, and he is mine. Reason speaks happily indeed of this. This gracious plan was given love by Love. And what Love plans is like Itself in this: being united, Love would have me learn what I must be. And being one with Love, it is given me to give what Love has given, and still gives. I spend an instant in the glad acceptance of what is given me to give my brother, and learn with him what has been given both of us. To give is no more blessed than to receive. But neither is it less.
68. The Son of God is always blessed as one. And as his gratitude comes to me who blessed him, reason tells me that I am included in the blessing. The gratitude my brother offers me reminds me of the gratitude my Father gives me for completing HIm. It is only here that I can understand what I am. My Father is as close to me as is my brother. Yet what is there that could be nearer to me than my Self?
69. The power that I have over the Son of God is not a threat to his reality. The power only attests to his reality. His freedom lies only in himself, if he is already free. And if he denies his freedom, no one could imprison him, except himself. God is not mocked, and no more can His Son be imprisoned except by his own desire. And it is by his own desire that he is freed. Such is his strength, and not his weakness. He is at his own mercy. And where he chooses to be merciful, there he is free. But where he chooses to condemn instead, there he is held a prisoner, waiting in chains for his pardon on himself, to set himself free.
