THE  GREAT  AWAKENING

PART II

CHAPTER 2

Truth can only be recognised and need only be recognised.  Truth IS.  It is there, wherever you are, being within you.  Yet it can be recognised or unrecognised, real or false to you.  Truth is restored to you through your desire, as it was lost to you through your desire for something else.  A simple question yet remains and needs an answer.  Do you like what you have made?  A world of murder and attack, through which you tread your timid way through constant dangers, alone and frightened, hoping at most that death will wait a little longer before it overtakes you and you disappear. You made this up.  It is a picture of what you think you are, of how you see yourself.  A murderer is frightened, and those who kill fear death.  Realise that the attack on Truth has merely brought fear, and it becomes difficult to maintain that fear is happiness.

The world you see depicts exactly what you thought you did.  It is the outside picture of an inward condition.  A mind within a body, and a world of other bodies, are your "creations", you the "other" mind, creating with effects unlike yourself.  And as their "creator", you must be like them.  As a man thinketh, so does he perceive.  Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.  Acknowledge but that you have been mistaken, and all effects of your mistakes will disappear.  Truth overcomes all error, and those who live in error and emptiness can never find lasting solace.

You must perceive that what is strong enough to make a world can let it go, and can accept correction if it is willing to see that it was wrong.  This world will bind your feet, and tie your hands, and kill your body, only if you think that it was made to crucify God's Son.  For even though it was a dream of death, you need not let it stand for this to you.  Let this be changed, and nothing in the world but must be changed as well.

It is up to you to join with Truth or with illusion.  But remember that to choose one, is to let the other go.  What is there to choose between but Life or death, waking or sleeping, peace or war, your reality or your dreams?  If God's Son chooses to believe one thought opposed to Truth, he has decided that he is not His Father's Son.  This faith can keep the Son of God in chains as long as he believes he is in chains.  And when he is released from them, it will be simply because he no longer believes in them, withdrawing faith that they can hold him and placing it in his freedom instead.