THE  GREAT  AWAKENING

 PART I

CHAPTER 10

A dream of judgment came into the mind that God created perfect as Himself.  And in that dream was Heaven changed to hell, and God made enemy unto His Son.  How can God's Son awaken from the dream?  It is a dream of judgment.  So must he judge not, and he will waken.  For the dream will seem to last while he is part of it.  You are at home in God, dreaming of exile, but perfectly capable of awakening to Reality.  Is it your decision to do so?

Judgment is but a toy, a whim, the senseless means to play the idle game of death in your imagination.  Be still an instant, and forget all things you ever learned, all thoughts you ever had and every preconception that you hold of what things mean and what their purpose is.  Remember not your own ideas of what the world is for.  You do not know.  Let every image held of everyone be loosened from your mind and swept away.  Be innocent of judgment, unaware of any thoughts of evil or of good that ever crossed your mind of anyone.  Now do you know him not.  But you are free to learn of him, and learn of him anew.  Now is he born again to you, and you are born again to him, without the past that sentenced him to die, and you with him.  Now is he free to live as you are free, because an ancient learning passed away, and left a place for Truth to be reborn.

Escape from judgment simply lies in this; all things have but one purpose, which you share with all the world.  And nothing in the world can be opposed to it, for it belongs to everything, as it belongs to you.  There is no living thing that does not share the universal Will that it be whole, and that you do not leave its call unheard.  Nothing but calls to you in soft appeal to be your friend, and let it join with you.  And never does a call remain unheard, misunderstood, nor left unanswered in the self-same tongue in which the call was made.  And you will understand it was this call that everyone and everything within the world has always made, but you had not perceived it as it was.  And now you see you were mistaken.  You had been deceived by forms the call was hidden in.  And so you did not hear it, and had lost a friend who always wanted to be part of you.  The soft eternal calling of each part of God's creation to the whole is heard throughout the guiltless world.

There is a place in you where this whole world has been forgotten; where no memory of sin and of illusion linger still.  There is a place in you which time has left, and echoes of eternity are heard.  There is a resting place so still no sound except a hymn to Heaven rises up to gladden God the Father and the Son.  And where They are is Heaven and is Peace.  Think not that you can change Their dwelling place.  For your Identity abides in Them, and where They are, forever must you be.  The changelessness of Heaven is in you, so deep within that nothing in the world but passes by, unnoticed and unseen.  The still infinity of endless Peace surrounds you gently in its soft embrace, so strong and quiet, tranquil in the might of its Creator, nothing can intrude upon the sacred Son of God within.