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OrEd-T-24.7-Salvation from Fear.1

49. The world is still before my brother's holiness. Peace and blessings descend gently on the world, so complete not one trace of conflict remains to haunt me in the night. My brother is my savior from the dreams of fear. He heals my sense of sacrifice and fear, that what I have will disappear. In him is my assurance God is here, and with me now. While my brother is what he is, I can be sure that God is knowable and will be known to me. For God could never leave His own creation. And the sign that this is so lies in my brother, offered to me that all my doubts about myself may disappear before his holiness. I see God's creation in him. For in my brother, his Father waits for my acknowledgment, that He created me as part of Him.

50. Without me there would be a lack in God, a Heaven incomplete, a Son without a Father. There could be no universe and no reality. For what God wills is whole and part of Him, because His Will is One. Everything alive is part of Him, and everything that is, is alive in Him. My brother's holiness shows me that God is one with him and me--that what he has is mine. I am not separate from him nor from his Father.

51. Everything is given to me in all the universe. Everything that God created, He has laid before me lovingly as mine forever. And every thought within His Mind is present in my own mind. It is His Will that I share His love for me, and look upon myself as lovingly as He conceived of me before the world began, and as He knows me still. God does not change His mind about His Son with passing circumstances. They have no meaning in eternity where He abides and I with Him. My brother is as God created him, and this saves me from a world that God did not create.

52. If I use the world for what is not its purpose, I will not escape its laws of violence and death. Yet, it is given me to be beyond the world's laws in all respects, in every way, and every circumstance--in all temptation to perceive what is not there, and all belief that God's Son can suffer, because he does not see himself as he is. I will remember that the healing of God's Son is all the world is for. That is the only purpose the Holy Spirit sees in it, and truly the only one it has. I will know the Father, and myself, when all I wish to be accomplished by the world, by time, and all appearances, is the healing of the Son.

53. I will not let my brother's specialness obscure the truth in him. I will not escape one law of death I bind to him, and every sin I see in him keeps us both in hell. I will look on my brother, and behold in him the whole reversal of the laws that seem to rule this world. I will see my freedom in his freedom, for such it is. My brother's perfect sinlessness will release us both, for holiness is quite impartial. One judgment is made for everything that lives and shares His Being, and this judgment is made by the Voice that speaks for God.

54. It is God's sinlessness that seeing eyes can see. It is God's loveliness that they see in everything. And it is He they look for everywhere, and they find no place, nor time where He is not. My brother's holiness is the perfect frame for my salvation and the world's. In it is set the shining memory of Him in Whom my brother lives, and I along with him. I will not let my eyes be blinded by the veil of specialness that hides the face of Christ from me and my brother. And I will not let the fear of God block the vision I was meant to see. My brother's body does not reveal the Christ to me, for Christ is seen within his holiness.