THE  GREAT  AWAKENING

 PART I

CHAPTER 5

The making of time to take the place of Timelessness lay in the decision to be not as you are.  The Truth was made past, and the present dedicated to illusion.  Whatever you accept into your mind has reality for you.  It is your acceptance of it that makes it real.  And so when you made visible what is not true, what is True became invisible to you.

The world you see is based on the "sacrifice" of Oneness.  It is a picture of complete disunity, and total lack of joining.  Specialness is a lack of trust in anyone except yourself.  Faith is invested in yourself alone.  Everything else becomes your enemy, feared and attacked, deadly and dangerous, hated and worthy only of destruction. For what can specialness delight in but to kill?  What does it seek for but the sight of death?  Where does it lead but to destruction?  You see yourself as easily destroyed and at the mercy of countless attackers more powerful than you.  No one is strong who has an enemy, and no one can attack unless he thinks he has.  Only the "special" could have enemies, for they are different, and not the same.

What witness to the Wholeness of God's Son is seen within a world of separate bodies?  He is invisible in such a world.  Not one illusion but rests on the belief that you are separate from God and from your brother.  Conflict is the root of all evil for, being blind, it does not see whom it attacks.  Yet it always attacks the Son of God, and the Son of God is YOU.  There must be doubt before there can be conflict, and every doubt must be about yourself.  What you have given specialness has left you bankrupt, and your treasure house barren and empty, with an open door inviting everything that would disturb your peace to enter and destroy.  Who can perceive part of himself as loathsome, and live within himself in peace?

You who would make a sacrifice of Life, and make your eyes and ears bear witness to the death of God and of His Holy Son, think not that you have power to make of them what God willed not they be.  By believing that you have successfully attacked Truth, you are believing that attack has power.  Yet all power is of God.  What is not of Him has no power to do anything.  You cannot do what God did not intend because what God did not intend does not happen.  You can lose sight of Oneness, but you cannot make a sacrifice of its Reality.