Justice is the divine correction for injustice. Injustice is the basis
for all the judgements of the world. Justice corrects the
interpretations to which injustice gives rise, and cancels them out.
Neither justice nor injustice exists in Heaven, for error is impossible
and correction meaningless. In this world, however, forgiveness depends
on justice, since all attack can only be unjust. Justice is the Holy
Spirit’s verdict upon the world. Except in His judgement, justice is
impossible. For no-one in the world is capable of making only just
interpretations and laying all injustices aside. If God’s Son were
fairly judged, there would be no need for salvation. The thought of
separation would have been forever inconceivable.

Justice, like its opposite, is an interpretation. It is, however, the
one interpretation that leads to truth. This becomes possible because,
while it is not true in itself, justice includes nothing that opposes
truth. There is no inherent conflict between justice and truth; one is
but the first small step in the direction of the other. The path becomes
quite different as one goes along. Nor could all the magnificence, the
grandeur of the scene and the enormous opening vistas that rise to meet
one as he travels on, be foretold from the outset. Yet even these, whose
splendor reaches indescribable heights as one proceeds, falls short
indeed of all that waits when the pathway ceases and time ends with it.
But somewhere one must start. Justice is the beginning.

All concepts of your brothers and yourself; all fears of future states
and all concern about the past stem from injustice. Here is the lens
which, held before the body’s eyes distorts perception and brings
witness of the distorted world back to the mind that made the lens and
holds it very dear. Selectively and arbitrarily is every concept of the
world built up just this way. “Sins” are perceived and justified by this
careful selectivity, in which all thought of wholeness must be lost.
Forgiveness has no place in such a scheme, for not one “sin” but seems
forever true.

Salvation is God’s justice. It restores to your awareness the wholeness
of the fragments you perceived as broken off and separate.
And it is this that overcomes the fear of death. For separate fragments
must decay and die, but wholeness is immortal. It remains forever and
forever like its Creator, being one with Him. God’s Judgement is His
justice. Onto this, – a judgement wholly lacking in condemnation; an
evaluation based entirely on love, – you have projected your injustice,
attributing to God the lens of warped perception through which you look.
Now it belongs to Him and not to you. You are afraid of Him, and do not
see you hate and fear your Self as enemy.

Pray for God’s justice, and do not confuse His mercy with your own
insanity. Perception can make whatever picture the mind desires to see.
Remember this. In this lies either Heaven or hell, as you elect. God’s
justice points to Heaven just because it is entirely impartial. It
accepts all evidence that is brought before it, omitting nothing and
assessing nothing as separate and apart from all the rest. From this one
standpoint does it judge, and this alone. Here all attack and
condemnation becomes meaningless and indefensible. Perception rests, the
mind is still, and light returns again. Vision is now restored. What had
been lost has now been found. The peace of God descends on all the world
and we can see. And we can see!