The End of Sickness

Chapter 10.5 – The End of Sickness
 
The End of Sickness
 
All magic is an attempt at reconciling the irreconcilable. All religion is the
recognition that the irreconcilable cannot be reconciled. Sickness and
perfection are irreconcilable. If God created you perfect, you are perfect. If
you believe you can be sick, you have placed other gods before him. God is
not at war with the god of sickness you made, but you are. He is the symbol
of deciding against God, and you are afraid of him because he cannot be
reconciled with God’s Will. If you attack him, you will make him real to
you. But if you refuse to worship him in whatever form he may appear to
you, and wherever you think you see him, he will disappear into the
nothingness out of which he was made.
 
Reality can dawn only on an unclouded mind. It is always there to be
accepted, but its acceptance depends on your willingness to have it. To
know reality must involve the willingness to judge unreality for what it is.
 
To overlook nothingness is merely to judge it correctly, and because of your
ability to evaluate it truly, to let it go. Knowledge cannot dawn on a mind
full of illusions, because truth and illusions are irreconcilable. Truth is
whole, and cannot be known by part of a mind.
 
The Sonship cannot be perceived as partly sick, because to perceive it that
way is not to perceive it at all. If the Sonship is One, it is One in all
respects. Oneness cannot be divided. If you perceive other gods your mind
is split, and you will not be able to limit the split, because it is the sign that
you have removed part of your mind from God’s Will. This means it is out
of control. To be out of control is to be out of reason, and then the mind
does become unreasonable. By defining the mind wrongly, you perceive it
as functioning wrongly.
 
God’s laws will keep your mind at peace because peace is his will, and his
laws are established to uphold it. his are the laws of freedom, but yours are
the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their
laws cannot be understood together. The laws of God work only for your
good, and there are no other laws beside his. Everything else is merely
lawless and therefore chaotic. Yet God himself has protected everything he
created by his laws. Everything that is not under them does not exist. “Laws
of chaos” is a meaningless term. Creation is perfectly lawful, and the
chaotic is without meaning because it is without God. You have “given”
your peace to the gods you made, but they are not there to take it from you,
and you cannot give it to them.
 
You are not free to give up freedom, but only to deny it. You cannot do
what God did not intend, because what he did not intend does not happen.
 
Your gods do not bring chaos; you are endowing them with chaos, and
accepting it of them. All this has never been. Nothing but the laws of God
has ever been, and nothing but his will will ever be. You were created
through his laws and by his will, and the manner of your creation
established you a creator. What you have made is so unworthy of you that
you could hardly want it, if you were willing to see it as it is. You will see
nothing at all. And your vision will automatically look beyond it, to what is
in you and all around you. Reality cannot break through the obstructions
you interpose, but it will envelop you completely when you let them go.
 
When you have experienced the protection of God, the making of idols
becomes inconceivable. There are no strange images in the Mind of God,
and what is not in his mind cannot be in yours, because you are of one mind
and that mind belongs to him. It is yours because it belongs to him, for to
him ownership is sharing. And if it is so for him, it is so for you. His
definitions are his laws, for by them he established the universe as what it
is. No false gods you attempt to interpose between yourself and your reality
affect truth at all. Peace is yours because God created you, and he created
nothing else.
 
The miracle is the act of a Son of God who has laid aside all false gods, and
calls on his brothers to do likewise. It is an act of faith, because it is the
recognition that his brother can do it. It is a call to the Holy Spirit in his
mind, a call that is strengthened by joining. Because the miracle worker has
heard God’s voice, he strengthens It in a sick brother by weakening his
belief in sickness, which he does not share. The power of one mind can
shine into another, because all the lamps of God were lit by the same spark.
 
It is everywhere and it is eternal.
 
In many only the spark remains, for the Great Rays are obscured. Yet God
has kept the spark alive so that the Rays can never be completely forgotten.
 
If you but see the little spark you will learn of the greater light, for the Rays
are there unseen. Perceiving the spark will heal, but knowing the light will
create. Yet in the returning the little light must be acknowledged first, for
the separation was a descent from magnitude to littleness. But the spark is
still as pure as the Great Light, because it is the remaining call of creation.
 
Put all your faith in it, and God himself will answer you.