THE  GREAT  AWAKENING

PART II

CHAPTER 16

This is the miracle of Creation: That it is One Forever. What is One cannot be perceived as separate, and the denial of the separation is the reinstatement of Knowledge.  The veil of ignorance is drawn across the evil and the good, and must be passed, that both may disappear, so that perception finds no hiding place.  The reinterpretation of the world is the transfer of all perception to Knowledge.  Only the Oneness of Knowledge is free of conflict.

The end of the world is not its destruction, but its translation into Heaven.  Take your place in The Great Awakening, and honour the Truth that has been given you.  Where everything is clear, it is all Holy, and Truth stands radiant, apart from conflict, untouched and quiet in the Peace of God.  The quietness of its simplicity is so compelling that you will realise it is impossible to deny the simple Truth.  For there is nothing else.  It is this reconciliation with Truth, and only Truth, in which the Peace of Heaven lies.

Where stood a cross now stands the Risen Christ, and ancient scars are healed within His sight.  An ancient miracle has come to replace an ancient enmity that came to kill.  The bloodied earth is cleansed, and the insane have shed their garments of insanity.  What hatred claimed is given up to Love, and Freedom lights up every living thing and lifts it into Heaven, where the Lights grow ever brighter as each one comes Home.

The trumpets of Eternity resound throughout the stillness, yet disturb it not.  And what is now remembered is not fear, but rather the Cause that fear was made to render unremembered and undone.  Now is the Son of God at last aware of present Cause and Its benign Effects.  Now does he understand what he has made is causeless, having no effects at all.  He has done nothing.  And in seeing this, he understands he never had a need for doing anything, and never did.

How instantly the memory of God arises in the mind that has no fear to keep the memory away!  Its own remembering has gone.  There is no past to keep its fearful image in the way of glad awakening to present Peace.  What is a hundred or a thousand years, or tens of thousands?  What never was passes to nothingness and time's purpose is fulfilled.  The incomplete is made complete again and Heaven's Joy has been increased because what is Its own has been restored to It.  What has been locked is opened; what was held apart from Light is given up, that Light may shine on it and leave no space nor distance lingering between the Light of Heaven and the world.

Now is the temple of the Living God rebuilt as host again to Him by Whom it was created.  Where He dwells His Son dwells with Him, never separate.  In gentle gratitude do God the Father and the Son return to what is Theirs, and will forever be.  And They give thanks that they are welcome made at last.

And now we say "Amen."  For Christ has come to dwell in the abode You set for Him before time was, in calm Eternity.  The journey closes, ending at the place where it began.  No trace of it remains.  Not one illusion is accorded faith, and not one spot of darkness still remains to hide the face of Christ from anyone.  Thy Will is done, complete and perfectly, and all Creation recognises You, and knows You as the only Source it has.  Clear in Your likeness does the Light shine forth from Everything that lives and moves in You.  For we have reached where all of us are One, and we are Home, where You would have us be.