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Chapter 30: The Happy Dreams of the Real World

4. The Changeless Dwelling Place

There is a Place in you where this entire world has been forgotten, where no memory of separation or illusion linger still. There is a Place in you that time has left, and only the Glory of Eternity is beheld. There is a Resting Place so still that in It no sound except the Harmony of Heaven rises up to gladden the Divine and Its Children. Where Both abide are Both remembered, and where They are is Heaven and is Peace. Think not that you can change Their Dwelling Place. For your Identity abides in Them, and where They are forever must you be.

The Changelessness of Heaven is in you, so deep within that everything in this world passes by unnoticed and unseen. The calm Infinity of endless Peace surrounds you gently in Its soft Embrace, so strong and quiet, tranquil in the Might of Its Creator, that nothing can intrude upon the sacred Child of the Divine within. Here is the role the Holy Spirit gives to you—to behold the Children of the Divine so they can awaken and be glad. And here you serve this Purpose. Your sisters and brothers are a part of you and you of them because you are your Creator’s Children, and not for any purpose or function that you may assign to each other. Nothing is asked of you but to accept the Changeless and Eternal that abide in them, for your Identity is there.

The Peace in you can only be found in your sisters and brothers. And every Thought of Love you offer them brings you nearer to your awakening to Peace eternal and to endless Joy. These sacred Children of the Divine are like yourself: the mirror of your Creator’s Love for you; the soft reminder of your Creator’s Love by Which you were created, and Which still abides in them, as It abides in you. Be very still, and hear the Divine’s Voice in them, and let It tell you what their Function is. They were created that you might be Whole, for only the Complete can be a Part of the Divine’s Completion, Which created you.

There is no gift the Creator asks of you but that you see in all Creation only the shining Glory of Its Gift to you. Behold the Divine’s Children, Its perfect Gift, in whom their Creator shines forever, and to whom is all Creation given as their own. Because they have received It is It given you, and where It is in them you will behold your Peace. The Quiet that surrounds you dwells in them, and from this Quiet come the happy dreams in which your hands are joined in Innocence. These are not hands that grasp in dreams of fear and pain. They hold only gentleness, for they have left their hold on every vain illusion of the world. And being empty they receive instead their sisters and brothers’ hands in which Completeness is.

When you know the glorious Goal that is beyond forgiveness, you will not keep hold on any illusion, however light the touch of fear on it may appear to be. For you will understand how great the cost of holding anything the Divine did not give in minds that can direct the hand to bless, and lead the Divine’s Children unto their Creator’s House. Would you not want to be a friend to them who were created by their Creator as Its Host and Home? If the Divine esteems them worthy of Itself, would you judge them unworthy? Who would attempt to oppose Heaven Itself and hope to find Its Peace? Your sisters and brothers think they hold the hand of deception in holding each other’s. Believe them not. But learn, instead, how blessed are you who can release them just by offering them your hand.

A Dream is given you in which they are your awakener and you theirs, not adversaries in judgment. A Dream is given you in which you have forgiven each other for all dark dreams of death. A Dream of Hope is given you that you share with them, instead of dreaming separate frightening dreams of guilt. Why does it seem so hard to share this Dream? Because unless the Holy Spirit gives a dream its function, it was made for fear and separation, and will continue in illusion’s service. Each form it takes in some way calls for punishment and loss. And those who serve the lord of fear have come to “worship” it in a separated world, each with their tiny shield and rusted sword, to keep their ancient promises to die.

Such is the core of fear in every dream that has been kept apart from use by Spirit, Who sees a shared function for each different dream you made. When dreams are shared they lose the function of separation and attack, even though it was for this that every dream was made. Yet nothing in the world of dreams remains without the Hope of change and betterment, for this world is not where Changelessness is found. Let us be glad indeed that this is so, and seek not the Eternal in this world. Forgiving dreams are means to step aside from dreaming of a world outside yourself, and leading finally beyond all dreams unto the Peace of endless Life.