THE  GREAT  AWAKENING

PART II

CHAPTER 13

As we are held as One in God, so do we learn as One in Him.  Think not that you understand anything until you have passed the test of perfect Peace, for Peace and Understanding can never be found alone.  Each brings the other with it, for it is the Law of God that they be not separate.  They are cause and effect, each to the other, and so where one is absent, the other cannot be.  This is the test of perfect Peace;  if you are wholly free of fear of any kind, and if all those who meet, or even think of you, share in your perfect Peace, then you can be sure that you have learned THE LESSON.

And so is Heaven's Son prepared to be himself, and to remember that the Son knows everything his Father understands, and understands it perfectly with Him.  Where is doubt when Certainty has come?  The Peace of God passeth your understanding only in the past.  Yet here it IS, and you can understand it NOW.  It is in the Reality of "now", without past or future, that the beginning of the appreciation of Eternity lies.  Eternity is One Time, its only dimension being always.  Fear is not of the present, but only of the past and future, which do not exist.  There is no fear in the present, when each instant stands clear and separated from the past, without its shadow reaching out into the future.

THE LESSON takes no time.  For what is time without a past and future?  It has taken time to misguide you completely, but it takes no time at all to be what you are.  Truth is so far beyond time that all of it happens at once.  For as it was created One, so its Oneness depends not on time at all.  Be not content with future happiness.  It has no meaning and is not your just reward.  For you have cause for freedom NOW.  Forgive the past and let it go, for it is gone.

You are the Son of God, untouched by time, and far beyond the reach of any sacrifice of life or death.  For neither did you make, and only one was given you by One Who knows His gifts can never suffer sacrifice and loss.  Nothing is lost to you in all the universe.  Nothing that God created has He failed to lay before you as yours forever.  It is God's Will you share His Love for you, and look upon yourself as lovingly as He conceived of you before the world began, and as He knows you still.