THE  GREAT  AWAKENING

 PART I

CHAPTER 4

Fantasies change reality.  They cannot do so in Reality, but they can do so in the mind that would have reality be different.   It is, then, only your wish to change reality that is fearful, because by your wish, you think that you have accomplished what you wished.  The Son of God perceived what he would see because perception is a wish fulfilled.  Thoughts begin in the mind of the thinker, from which they reach outward.  This is as true of God's Thinking as it is of yours.  "You will rejoice at what you see, because you see it to rejoice".  And while you think that suffering and sin will bring you joy, so long will it be there for you to see.  Yet each one knows the cost of sin is death.  And so it is.  For sin is a request for death, a wish to make this world's foundation as dependable as Heaven, and as strong as God Himself.

The Son of God would sacrifice his own Identity with everything to find a little treasure of his own.  And this he cannot do without a sense of isolation, loss and loneliness.  As long as you perceive the body as your reality, so long will you perceive yourself as lonely and deprived.  And so long will you also perceive yourself as a victim of sacrifice, justified in sacrificing others.  For who could thrust Heaven and its Creator aside without a sense of sacrifice and loss?  And who could suffer sacrifice and loss without attempting to restore himself?  Yet how could you accomplish this yourself when the basis of your attempt is the belief in the reality of the deprivation?  Deprivation breeds attack, being the belief that attack is justified.  And as long as you would retain the deprivation, attack becomes salvation and sacrifice becomes love.  This is the treasure he has sought to find, and he could only be afraid of it.

Is fear a treasure?  Can uncertainty be what you want?  No one who lives in fear is really alive.  And what you see is hell, for fear is hell.  The world you see is the result of your unwillingness to accept Reality as it is.  It is the opposite of Heaven, being made to be its opposite, and everything in the world takes a direction exactly opposite to what is True.  Your goal was darkness, in which no ray of Light could enter.  And you sought a blackness so complete that you could hide from Truth forever, in complete insanity.  What you forgot was simply that God cannot destroy Himself.  The Light is in you.  Darkness can cover it, but cannot put it out.

You have taught yourself that God's Son is guilty, and the outcome of this lesson is the world of terror and despair.  Nor is there any hope of happiness in it.  It is not will for Life, but wish for death, that is the motivation for this world.   You were willing to accept even death to deny your Father.  Yet He would not have it so, and so it is not so.