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6 You cannot make the body the Holy Spirit’s temple, and it will never be the seat of love.
7What God would have not be is here kept “safe” from Him. 8But what you do not realize is what you fear within your brother, and would not see in him, is what makes God seem fearful and kept unknown.
8The Holy Spirit’s purpose lies safe in your relationship, and not your bodies.
There is no order in relationships. 2They either are or not.
3An unholy relationship is no relationship. 4It is a state of isolation which seems to be what it is not. 5No more than that. 6The instant that the mad idea of making your relationship with God unholy seemed possible, all relationships were made meaningless. 7In that unholy instant time was born, and bodies made to house the mad idea and give it the illusion of reality. 8And so it seemed to have a home that held together for a little while in time and vanished.
9 Idols must disappear and leave no trace behind their going. 2The unholy instant of their seeming power is frail as is a snowflake, but without its loveliness.
5Then lay aside the body and quietly transcend it, rising to welcome what you really want.
11 The body is the ego’s idol; the belief in sin made flesh and then projected outward.
2This produces what seems to be a wall of flesh around the mind, keeping it prisoner in a tiny spot of space and time, beholden unto death, and given but an instant in which to sigh and grieve and die in honor of its master. 3And this unholy instant seems to be life. 4An instant of despair, a tiny island of dry sand, bereft of water, and set uncertainly upon oblivion. 5Here does the Son of God stop briefly by, to offer his devotion to death’s idols and then pass
12 And here he is more dead than living. 2But it is also here he makes his choice again between idolatry and love. 3Here it is given him to choose to spend this instant paying tribute to the body or
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5And here can he learn relationships are his salvation, not his doom.
5Only the special could have enemies, for they are different and not the same. 6And difference of any kind imposes orders of reality, and a need to judge that cannot be escaped.
2But what is different calls for judgment, and this must come from someone “better,” someone incapable of being like what he condemns, “above” it, sinless by comparison with it.
3And thus does specialness become a means and end at once. 4For specialness not only sets apart, but serves as grounds from which attack on those who seem “beneath” the special one is “natural” and “just.”
4Specialness must
be defended.
6For what your brother must become to keep your specialness is an illusion. 7He who is “worse” than you must be attacked, so that your specialness can live on his defeat.
8 Would it be possible for you to hate your brother if you were like him? 2Could you attack him if you realized you journey with him to a goal that is the same? 3Would you not help him reach it in every way you could if his attainment of it were yours?
4You are his enemy in specialness; his friend in a shared purpose. 5Specialness can never share, for it depends on goals that you alone can reach.
7Can love have meaning where the goal is triumph? 8And what decision can be made for this that will
not hurt you?
Your brother is your friend because his Father created him like you. 2There is no difference. 3You have been given to each other that love might be extended, not cut off from one another.
7Could you attack each other if you chose to see no specialness of any kind between you?
10 The fear of God and of each other comes from each unrecognized belief in specialness.
3Every twinge of malice or stab of hate or wish to separate arises here.
5You would oppose this course because it teaches you you are alike.
6You have no purpose that is not the same, and none your Father does not share with you. 7For your relationship has been made clean of special goals. 8And would you now defeat the goal of holiness that Heaven gave it?
2Those who are special must defend illusions against the truth. 3For what is specialness but an attack upon the will of God? 4You love your brother not while it is this you would defend against him.
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9God thanks you for your healing, for He knows it is a gift of love unto His Son, and therefore is it given unto Him.
Pain demonstrates the body must be real. 2It is a loud, obscuring voice whose shrieks would silence what the Holy Spirit says and keep His words from your awareness. 3Pain compels attention, drawing it away from Him and focusing upon
itself.
4Its purpose is the same as pleasure, for they both are means to...
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7Pleasure and pain are equally unreal, because their purpose cannot be achieved.
Sin shifts from pain to pleasure and again to pain. 2For either witness is the same and carries but one message: “You are here, within this body, and you can be hurt.
9Sin’s witnesses but shift from name to name, as one steps forward and another back. 10Yet which is foremost makes no difference. 11Sin’s witnesses hear but the call of death.
3 This body, purposeless within itself, holds all your memories and all your hopes. 2You use its eyes to see, its ears to hear, and let it tell you what it is it feels. 3It does not know. 4It tells you but the names you gave to it to use when you call forth the witnesses to its reality.
truth is found in him if it is truth he represents.
3He knows it is not real.
6And for each witness to the body’s death, He sends a witness to your life in Him Who knows no death.
7Each miracle He brings is
witness that the body is not real. 8Its pains and pleasures does He heal alike, for all sin’...
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The miracle makes no distinctions in the names by which sin’s witnesses are called.
4It matters not the name by which you called your suffering. 5It is no longer there. 6The One Who brings the miracle perceived them all as one, and called by name of “fear.”
7As fear is witness unto death, so is a miracle the witness unto life. 8It is a witness no one can deny, for it is the effects of life it brings. 9The dying live, the dead arise, and pain has vanished.29 10Yet a miracle speaks not but for itself, but what it represents. 11Love, too, has symbols in a world of sin. 12The miracle forgives because it stands for what is past forgiveness and is true.
3Yet to the One Who sends forth miracles to bless the world,
6The laws which call them different are dissolved, and shown as powerless. 7The purpose of a
5No one believes in idols who has not enslaved himself to littleness and loss,
3 An idol is a false impression or a false belief; some form of anti-Christ which constitutes a gap between the Christ and what you see.
