Minds that are joined, and RECOGNIZE they are, 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 see. And
thus they seek for it, because it is their purpose to behold it and
rejoice. Everyone seeks for what will bring him joy, as he defines it.
It is not the aim, as such, that varies. Yet it is the way in which the
aim is SEEN that makes the choice of means inevitable, and beyond the
hope of change unless 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 said, “You will rejoice at what you
see because you SEE it to rejoice.” And while you think that suffering
and sin will bring you joy, so long will they be there for you to see.
Nothing is harmful or beneficent apart from what you wish. It is your
wish that makes it what it is in its effects on you. Because you CHOSE
it as a means to gain these same effects, believing them to be the
bringers of rejoicing and of joy. Even in Heaven does this law obtain.
The Son of God creates to bring him joy, sharing his Father’s purpose in
his own creation, that his joy might be increased, and God’s along with
his.

You makers of a world that is not so, take rest and comfort in another
world where peace abides. This world you bring with you to all the weary
eyes and tired hearts that look on sin and beat its sad
refrain. From you can come their rest. From you can rise a world they
will rejoice to look upon, and where their hearts are glad. In you there
is a vision which extends to all of them, and covers them in gentleness
and light. And in this widening world of light the darkness that they
thought was there is pushed away, until it is but distant shadows, far
away, not long to be remembered as the sun shines them to nothingness.
And all their “evil” thoughts and “sinful” hopes, their dreams of guilt
and merciless revenge, and every wish to hurt and kill and die, will
disappear before the sun you bring.

Would you not do this for the love of God? And for YOURSELF? For think
what it would do for you. Your “evil” thoughts that haunt you now will
seem increasingly remote and far away from you. And they go farther and
farther off, because the sun in you has risen that they may be pushed
away before the light. They linger for a while, a LITTLE while, in
twisted forms too far away for recognition, and are gone forever. And in
the sunlight you will stand in quiet, in innocence, and wholly unafraid.
And from you will the rest you found extend, so that your peace can
never fall away and leave you homeless. Those who offer peace to everyone
have found a home in Heaven the world cannot destroy. For it 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 God and of His Son, that Heaven be restored to
him for whom it was created as his only home? Nothing before and nothing
after it. No other place, no other state nor time. Nothing beyond nor
nearer. Nothing else. In any form. This can you bring to all the world,
and 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?