THE  GREAT  AWAKENING

PART II

CHAPTER 11

To think like God is to share His Certainty of what you are, and to create like Him is to share the perfect Love He shares with you.  Love is not learned.  Its meaning lies within Itself.  And learning ends when you have recognised all that it is not.  That is the interference; that is what needs to be undone.  Love is not learned because there never was a time in which you knew it not.  Love rests in Certainty.  Only uncertainty can be defensive.  And all uncertainty is doubt about yourself.

Take not the judgment of the world as answer to the question "What am I?"  What you see in dreams you think is real while you are asleep.  Yet the instant you awaken, you realise that everything that seemed to happen in the dream did not happen at all.  Nothing at all happened, but that you have put yourself to sleep, and dreamed a dream in which you were an alien to yourself.

The betrayal of the Son of God lies only in illusions, and all his "sins" are but his own imagining.  His Reality is forever sinless.  He need not be forgiven, but awakened.  In his dreams he has betrayed himself, his brothers, and his God.  Yet what is done in dreams has not really been done.  It is impossible to convince the dreamer that this is so, for dreams are what they are because of their illusion of reality.  You recognise from your own experience that what you see in dreams you think is real while you are asleep.  Only in waking is the full release from them, for only then does it become perfectly apparent that they had no effect on reality at all, and did not change it.

Listen to the story of the prodigal son, and learn what God's treasure is and yours.  This son of a loving father left his home, and thought he had squandered everything for nothing of any value, although he had not understood its worthlessness at the time.  He was ashamed to return to his father, because he thought he had hurt him.  Yet when he came home, the father welcomed him with joy, because the son himself was his father's treasure.  He wanted nothing else.