In the following part of Jesus' Course in Miracles our Master and Saviour says for those
who have ears to hear:
'YOUR insane laws were made to guarantee that you would make mistakes, and give them
power over you by accepting their results as your just due. What could this be but madness?'
Entering the Ark
Nothing can hurt you unless you give it the power to do so.
For you give power as the laws of this world interpret giving; as you give you LOSE.
It is not up to you to give power at all. Power is of God, given by Him, and re-awakened by the
Holy Spirit, Who knows that as you give you GAIN. He gives no power to sin, and therefore it
HAS none; nor to its results as this world sees them, – sickness and death and misery and pain.
These things have not occurred because the Holy Spirit sees them not, and gives no power to
their seeming source. Thus would He keep you free of them. Being without illusion of what you are,
the Holy Spirit merely gives everything to God, Who has already given and received all that is true.
The untrue He has neither received NOR given.
Sin has no place in Heaven, where its results are alien, and can no more enter than can their source.
And therein lies your need to see your brother sinless. In him is Heaven. See sin in him instead,
and Heaven is lost to you. But see him as he is, and what is yours shines from him to you.
Your Saviour gives you only love, but what you would RECEIVE of him is up to you.
It lies in him to overlook all your mistakes, and therein lies his OWN salvation. And so it is
with yours. It is the re-awakening of the laws of God in minds that have established other laws,
and given them power to enforce what God created not.
YOUR insane laws were made to guarantee that you would make mistakes, and give them
power over you by accepting their results as your just due. What could this be but madness?
And is it this that you would see within your Saviour from insanity? He is as free from this
as you are, and in the freedom that you see in him, you see your own. For this you SHARE.
What God has given follows His laws, and His alone. Nor is it possible for those who follow
them to suffer the results of any other source.
Those who choose freedom will experience only its results. Their power is of God, and they
will give it only to what God has given, to share with them. Nothing but this can touch them,
for they see only this, sharing their power according to the Will of God. And thus their
freedom is established and maintained. It is upheld through all temptation to imprison and
to be imprisoned. It is of them who learned of freedom that you should ask what freedom is.
Ask not the sparrow how the eagle soars, for those with little wings have not accepted for
themselves the power to share with you.
The sinless give as they received. See, then, the power of sinlessness within your brother,
and share with him the power of the release from sin you offered him. To each who walks
this earth in seeming solitude is a Saviour given, whose special function here is to release him,
and so to free himself. In the world of separation each is appointed separately, though they
are all the same. Yet those who KNOW that they are all the same need not salvation. And
each one finds his Saviour when he is ready to look upon the face of Christ, and see Him
sinless.
The plan is not of you, nor need you be concerned with anything except the part that has
been given you to learn. For He Who knows the rest will see to it without your help.
But think not that He does not need your part to help Him with the rest. For in your part lies
ALL of it, without which is no part complete, nor is the whole completed without your part.
The ark of peace is entered two by two, yet the beginning of another world goes with them.
Each holy relationship must enter here, to learn its special function in the Holy Spirit's plan,
now that it shares His purpose. And as this purpose is fulfilled, a new world rises in which sin
can enter not, and where the Son of God can enter without fear, and where he rests a while,
to forget imprisonment and to remember freedom. How can he enter, to rest and to remember,
without YOU? Except you be there, he is not complete. And it is his completion that he
remembers there.
This is the purpose given you. Think not that your forgiveness of each other serves but you
two alone. For the whole new world rests in the hands of every two who enter here to rest.
And as they rest, the face of Christ shines on them, and they remember the laws of God,
forgetting all the rest, and yearning only to have His laws perfectly fulfilled in them and all
their brothers. Think you when this has been achieved that you will rest WITHOUT them?
You could no more leave one of them outside than I could leave you and forget part of myself.
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