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Chapter 26: Divine Justice
4. The Sun You Bring
Minds that are joined and recognize this can feel no guilt. For they cannot attack, and they rejoice that this is so, seeing their Safety in this happy fact. Their Joy is in the Innocence they behold. And thus they seek for It, because it is their Purpose to find It and see It and rejoice.
Everyone seeks for what will bring them joy as they define it. It is not the aim, as such, that varies. Yet it is the way in which the aim is conceived that makes the choice of means inevitable, and beyond the hope of change unless conception of the aim is changed. And then the means are chosen once again, as what will bring rejoicing is defined another way, and sought for differently.
Perception’s basic law could thus be stated:
You will rejoice at what you perceive, because you perceive it in order to rejoice.
And while you think that the belief in separation and sin, the attraction of guilt, and the choice of suffering will bring you joy, so long will they be there for you to perceive and experience.
Nothing is harmful or beneficent apart from what you wish. It is your wish that makes anything what it is in its effects on you, because you choose it as a means to gain these same effects, believing them to be the bringers of joy and rejoicing to you. In Heaven does this Law apply in Its pure Expression. The Children of the Divine create in order to bring themselves Joy, sharing their Creator’s Purpose in their own creations that their Joy might be limitless, and the Divine’s along with theirs.
You makers of a world that cannot be real and does not exist, take rest and comfort in another world where Peace abides. This new world you will bring with you to all the weary eyes and tired hearts that look on separation and beat its sad refrain. From you can come their rest. From you can rise a world they will rejoice to behold, and where their hearts are glad. In you there is a Vision that extends to all of them, and covers them in Gentleness and Light. And in this widening world of Light that is the Real World the darkness they thought was there is dispelled, until it is at first only a distant shadow, far away, not long to be remembered as the Sun of Truth shines it to nothingness.
And all the “evil” thoughts and unholy hopes, the dreams of guilt and merciless revenge, and every wish to attack and hurt and die, will disappear before the Sun you bring. Would you not do this, for the Love of the Divine and for yourself? For think what it will do for you. The “evil” thoughts that haunt you now will seem increasingly remote, and far away from you. And they are further and further away because the Sun in you has risen that they may be dispelled before its Light. They linger for a while, a little while, in twisted forms too far away for recognition, and then are gone forever.
And in the Sunlight you will stand in quiet, in innocence, and wholly unafraid. And from you will the Peace and Rest you have found extend, so that your Peace can never fall away and leave you without a home. Those who offer Peace to everyone have found their Sanctuary in the Real World that the world of illusions can never touch. For this Sanctuary is large enough to hold the world within Its Peace. In you is all of Heaven. Every leaf that falls is given life in you. Each bird that ever sang will sing again in you. And every flower that ever bloomed has saved its perfume and its loveliness for you.
What aim can supersede the Will of the Divine and of Its Children, that Heaven be restored to them for whom It was created as their only Home? Nothing before and nothing after It. No other place, no other state or time. Nothing beyond or nearer. Nothing else, in any form. This can you bring to all the world, and to all the thoughts that entered it and were mistaken for a little while. How better could your own mistakes be brought to Truth than by your willingness to bring the Light of Heaven with you, as you walk beyond the world of darkness into Light?
