On the complete nothingness of the body.
Pieter
in the third that it is completely obedient to the one who owns it;
the forth speaks of the secret vow to identify with it;
the last of the effect of letting go the secret wish to be apart.
"Who punishes the body is insane.
For here the little gap is seen, and yet
it is not here. It has not judged itself,
nor made itself to be what it is not.
It does not seek to make of pain a joy,
and look for lasting pleasure in the dust.
It does not tell you what its purpose is,
and cannot understand what it is for.
It does not victimize, because it has
no will, no preferences, and no doubts.
It does not wonder what it is. And so
it has no need to be competitive.
It CAN be victimized, but CANNOT feel
itself as victim. It accepts no role,
but does what it is told, without attack.
It is indeed a senseless point of view
to hold responsible for sight a thing
that cannot see, and blame it for the sounds
you do not like, although it cannot hear.
It suffers not the punishment you give,
because it has no feeling. It behaves
in ways you want, but never makes the choice.
It is not born and does not die. It can
but follow aimlessly the path on which
it has been set. And if that path is changed,
it walks as easily another way.
It takes no sides, and judges not the road
it travels. It perceives no gap, because
it does not hate. It can be USED for hate,
but it cannot be hateful made thereby.
The thing you hate and fear and loathe and WANT,
the body does not know.You send it forth
to seek for separation and to be separate.
And THEN you hate it, not for what it is,
but for the uses you have made of it.
You shrink from what it sees and what it hears,
and hate its frailty and its littleness.
And you despise its acts, but not your own.
It sees and acts for YOU. It hears YOUR voice.
And it is frail and little by YOUR wish.
It seems to punish you, and thus deserve
your hatred for the limitations which
it brings to you.Yet you have made of it
a symbol for the limitations which
you want your MIND to have and see and KEEP.
The body REPRESENTS the gap between
the little bit of mind you call your own,
and all the rest of what is REALLY yours.
You hate it, yet you think it IS your self,
and that, without it, would your self be lost.
This is the secret vow which you have made
with every brother who would walk apart.
This is the secret oath you take again,
whenever you perceive yourself attacked.
No-one can suffer if he does not see
himself attacked, and LOSING by attack.
Unstated and unheard in consciousness
is every pledge to sickness. Yet it is
a promise to another to be hurt
by him, and to attack him in return.
Sickness is anger taken out upon
the body, so that IT will suffer pain.
It is the obvious effect of what
was made in secret, in agreement with
another's secret wish to be apart
from you, as you would be apart from him.
Unless you BOTH agree that is your wish,
it can have no effects.Whoever says,
"There IS no gap between my mind and yours"
has kept God's promise, not his tiny oath
to be forever faithful unto death.
And by his healing is his brother healed." (T-28.VI.1-5)
Carrie
The body's purpose is to let God's Voice be heard by human ears.
That's not really "nothingness".
Pieter
"Carrie" <starch...@charter.net> schreef in bericht
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> The body's purpose is to let God's Voice be heard by human ears.
> That's not really "nothingness".
That is to let God's Voice be heard by persons
(me for example) who cannot hear It always yet.
It is a temporary means:
"The body is the means by which God's Son returns to sanity.
Though it was made to fence him into hell without escape, yet
has the goal of Heaven been exchanged for the pursuit of hell.
The Son of God extends his hand to reach his brother, and to
help him walk along the road with him.Now is the body holy.
Now it serves to heal the mind that it was made to kill."
(WpII.5.4)
"Salvation is of your brother.The Holy Spirit extends from your
mind to his, and answers YOU. You cannot hear the Voice for
God in yourself alone because you are NOT alone. And His
answer is only for what you ARE. You will not know the trust
I have in you unless you EXTEND it. You will not trust the
guidance of the Holy Spirit, or believe that it is for you unless
you hear it in others. It MUST be for your brother BECAUSE
it is for you. Would God have created a Voice for you alone?
Could you hear His answer EXCEPT as He answers ALL of
God's Sons?" (T-9.II.6:3-11)
"The Prince of Peace was born to re-establish the condition of
love by teaching that communication remains unbroken even if
the body is destroyed, provided that you see not the body as
the NECESSARY means of communication. And if you
understand this lesson, you will realize that to sacrifice the body
is to sacrifice NOTHING, and communication, which MUST
be of the mind, cannot BE sacrificed.Where, then, IS sacrifice?"
T-15.XI.7:2-4)