The Light of Communication

14. 7. – The Light of Communication
 
The journey that we undertake together is the exchange of dark for light, of
ignorance for understanding. Nothing you understand is fearful. It is only in
darkness and in ignorance that you perceive the frightening, and shrink
away from it to further darkness. And yet it is only the hidden that can
terrify, not for what it is, but for its hiddenness. The obscure is frightening
because you do not understand its meaning. If you did, it would be clear and
you would be no longer in the dark. Nothing has hidden value, for what is
hidden cannot be shared, and so its value is unknown. The hidden is kept
apart, but value always lies in joint appreciation. What is concealed cannot
be loved, and so it must be feared.
 
The quiet light in which the Holy Spirit dwells within you is merely perfect
openness, in which nothing is hidden and therefore nothing is fearful.
 
Attack will always yield to love if it is brought to love, not hidden from it.
 
There is no darkness that the light of love will not dispel, unless it is
concealed from love’s beneficence. What is kept apart from love cannot
share its healing power, because it has been separated off and kept in
darkness. The sentinels of darkness watch over it carefully, and you who
made these guardians of illusion out of nothing are now afraid of them.
 
Would you continue to give imagined power to these strange ideas of
safety? They are neither safe nor unsafe. They do not protect; neither do
they attack. They do nothing at all, being nothing at all. As guardians of
darkness and of ignorance look to them only for fear, for what they keep
obscure is fearful. But let them go, and what was fearful will be so no
longer. Without protection of obscurity only the light of love remains, for
only this has meaning and can live in light. Everything else must disappear.
 
Death yields to life simply because destruction is not true. The light of
guiltlessness shines guilt away because, when they are brought together, the
truth of one must make the falsity of its opposite perfectly clear. Keep not
guilt and guiltlessness apart, for your belief that you can have them both is
meaningless. All you have done by keeping them apart is lose their meaning
by confusing them with each other. And so you do not realize that only one
means anything. The other is wholly without sense of any kind.
 
You have regarded the separation as a means for breaking your
communication with your Father. The Holy Spirit reinterprets it as a means
of re-establishing what was not broken, but has been made obscure. All
things you made have use to him, for his most holy purpose. He knows you
are not separate from God, but he perceives much in your mind that lets you
think you are. All this and nothing else would he separate from you. The
power of decision, which you made in place of the power of creation, he
would teach you how to use on your behalf. You who made it to crucify
yourself must learn of him how to apply it to the holy cause of restoration.
 
You who speak in dark and devious symbols do not understand the
language you have made. It has no meaning, for its purpose is not
communication, but rather the disruption of communication. If the purpose
of language is communication, how can this tongue mean anything? Yet
even this strange and twisted effort to communicate through not
communicating holds enough of love to make it meaningful if its Interpreter
is not its maker. You who made it are but expressing conflict, from which
the Holy Spirit would release you. Leave what you would communicate to
him. He will interpret it to you with perfect clarity, for he knows with
Whom you are in perfect communication.
 
You know not what you say, and so you know not what is said to you. Yet
your Interpreter perceives the meaning in your alien language. He will not
attempt to communicate the meaningless. But he will separate out all that
has meaning, dropping off the rest and offering your true communication to
those who would communicate as truly with you. You speak two languages
at once, and this must lead to unintelligibility. Yet if one means nothing and
the other everything, only that one is possible for purposes of
communication. The other but interferes with it.
 
The Holy Spirit’s function is entirely communication. He therefore must
remove whatever interferes with communication in order to restore it.
 
Therefore, keep no source of interference from his sight, for he will not
attack your sentinels. But bring them to him and let his gentleness teach you
that, in the light, they are not fearful, and cannot serve to guard the dark
doors behind which nothing at all is carefully concealed. We must open all
doors and let the light come streaming through. There are no hidden
chambers in God’s temple. Its gates are open wide to greet his Son. No one
can fail to come where God has called him, if he close not the door himself
upon his Father’s welcome.