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Chapter 27: The Transition to Holy Ground
4. Where Separation and Flaw Were Once Perceived
Forgiveness is this world’s equivalent of Heaven’s Justice. It translates the world of separation and flaw into a simple world, where Justice can be reflected from beyond the Gate of Heaven where total Limitlessness rests. Nothing in boundless Love could need forgiveness. And what is charity within the world gives way to simple Justice past the Gate that opens into Heaven.
No one forgives unless they have believed in separation and flaw, and still believe that there is something to be forgiven. Forgiveness thus becomes the Means by which they learn that neither they nor their sisters and brothers have done anything to forgive in truth, for how can the content of a dream need forgiving? Forgiveness always rests upon the one who offers it, until they see themself as needing it no longer. And thus are they returned to their Function in Heaven of creation, which the fulfilling of their function of forgiveness here offers them again.
Forgiveness turns the world of separation and flaw into a world of Glory, wonderful to see. Each flower shines in Light, and every bird sings of the Joy of Heaven. There is no parting and no sadness in the Real World, for everything is totally forgiven. And what has been forgiven must join, for nothing stands between to keep separate and apart. The Innocent must perceive that they are One, for nothing stands between them to push the other off, and in the space that separation left vacant do they join as One, in Gladness recognizing that what is part of them has in truth not been kept apart and separate.
The Holy Place on which you stand is simply the space that separation has left. And here you see the Presence of Divine Essence arising in its place. Who could behold the Face of Divine Essence and not recall Its Creator as It really is? Who could fear Love while standing upon the ground where guilt has gone and left a place for Heaven’s Altar to rise and tower far above the world, and reach beyond the temporal universe to touch the Heart of all Creation? What is Heaven but a Song of Gratitude and Love and Praise by Everything created to the Source of Its Creation? The holiest of Altars is set where once fear was believed to be. For here does every Light of Heaven come to be rekindled and increased in Joy. For here is what was believed lost to Them restored, and all Their Radiance made whole again.
Forgiveness brings no “little” miracles to lay before the Gate of Heaven. Here the separated ones as awakened Children of the Divine themselves come to receive each Gift that brings them nearer to their Home. Not one is lost, and none is cherished more than any other. Each reminds them of their Creator’s Love as surely as the rest. And each one teaches them that what they feared – their Creator and Its Love – they love the most. What but a miracle could change their mind so that they understand that Love cannot be feared? What other miracle is there but this? And what else need there be to make the space of separation between you disappear?
Where fear was once perceived rises a world that becomes an Altar to the Truth. And you will join the Lights of Heaven there, and sing Their Song of Gratitude and Praise. For as They come to you to be complete, so will you go with Them. For no one hears the Song of Heaven and remains without a voice that adds its Power to the Song, and makes It sweeter still. And each one joins the singing at the Altar that was raised within the tiny spot that fear once proclaimed to be its own. And what was tiny then has soared into a Magnitude of Song, in which the Universe has joined with just a single Voice.
Any tiny spot of fear that stands between you still holds back the happy Opening of Heaven’s Gate. How little is the hindrance that withholds the Treasure of Heaven from you. And how great will be the Joy in Heaven when you join the mighty Chorus to the Love of the Divine.
