OrEd-T-25.2-The Appointed Task
4. The task that Christ appointed to me is not hard to do, for He is the one Who does it. And in doing it I will learn the body only seems to be the means to do it. For the Mind is Christ's, and mine, as His holiness directs the body through the mind at one with Him. And I am manifest to my holy brother, as he is to me. This is the meeting of the holy Christ with Himself. No differences are perceived to stand between the aspects of His holiness, which meet and join, and raise Him to His Father, whole and pure and worthy of His everlasting Love.
5. The way I can manifest the Christ in myself is to look on holiness and see Christ there. Perception tells me that I am manifest in what I see--look on the body, and I will believe that I am there. And every body that I look on reminds me of myself--my sinfulness, my evil, and above all, my death. And I would despise the one who tells me this and seek his death instead. The message and the messenger are one. And framed in his body, I must see my brother as myself, sinful and condemned. Yet in my brother's holiness, the Christ proclaims himself as myself.
6. Perception is the choice of what I want to be, the world I will live in, and the mental condition that will make me content and satisfied. At my decision, perception chooses where I think my safety lies. It shows myself to me as I want to be. It is always faithful to my purpose. Perception never gives the slightest witness to anything that does not follow the purpose in my mind. Perceiving perception itself is part of my purpose, for means and end are not separate. This is how I learn that what seems to have a separate life, has no life.
7. I am the means for God--not separate, nor with a life apart from His. His Life is manifest in myself who is His Son. Each aspect of Himself is framed in holiness and perfect purity, in love celestial and so complete it wishes only that it may release all that it looks upon unto itself. Its radiance shines through each body that it looks upon and brushes all darkness into light merely by looking past it to the light. The veil is lifted through its gentleness, and nothing hides the face of Christ from those who see. My brother and I stand there before Him now, to let Him draw aside the veil that seems to keep us separate and apart.
8. Since we believe that we are separate, Heaven seems separate too. Not that it is in truth, but so the link that is given to join the truth may reach us through what we already understand. Father, Son, Holy Spirit are as One, as all our brothers join as one in truth. Christ and His Father never have been separate, and Christ abides within our understanding in the part of us that shares the Father's Will. The Holy Spirit links the other part, the tiny mad desire to be separate, different, and special, to the Christ, to make the oneness clear to what is really one. In this world, this is not understood but can be taught.
9. The Holy Spirit serves Christ's purpose in my mind, so that the aim of specialness can be corrected where the error is. The Holy Spirit knows the Will of God, and what I really will, because His purpose is one with both the Father and the Son. However, this is understood only by mind perceived and experienced as one. It is the Holy Spirit's function to teach me what I must do, and where I should go to do it, so this oneness is experienced.
10. All this speaks of time and place as if they were separate. For while I think a part of myself is separate, the concept of a oneness joined as one is meaningless. It is apparent that a mind so split could never be the teacher of Oneness which unites all things within itself. So That which is within the mind, and does unite all things together, must be its Teacher. And, this Teacher must use language which the mind, in the condition it thinks it is in, can understand.
11. What is the same cannot be different,
And what is one cannot have separate parts.
