Idols are quite specific. But your will is universal, being limitless.
And so it has no form, nor is content for its expression in the terms of
form. Idols are limits. They are the belief that there are forms which
will bring happiness, and that, BY limiting, is all attained. It is as
if you said, “I have no need of everything. This little thing I want,
and it will be as everything to me.” And this must fail to satisfy,
because it IS your will that everything be yours. Decide for idols, and
you ASK for loss. Decide for truth, and everything IS yours.

It is not form you seek. What form can be a substitute for God the
Father’s love? What form can take the place of all the love in the
Divinity of God the Son? What idol can make two of what is one? And CAN
the limitless be limited? You do not WANT an idol. It is not your will
to have one. It will not bestow on you the gift you seek. When you
decide upon the form of what you want, you lose the understanding of its
purpose. So you see your will within the idol, thus reducing it to a
specific form. Yet this could never BE your will, because what shares in
all creation cannot be content with small ideas and little things.

Behind the search for every idol lies the yearning for
completion. Wholeness has no form because it is unlimited. To seek a
special person or a thing to add to you to make yourself complete can
only mean that you believe some form is missing. And by finding this,
you will achieve completion in a form you like. This is the PURPOSE of an
idol; that you will not look beyond it, to the source of the belief that
you ARE incomplete. ONLY if you had sinned could this be so. For sin is
the idea you are alone, and separated off from what is whole. And thus
it would be necessary for the search for wholeness to be made BEYOND the
boundaries of limits on yourself.

It never is the IDOL that you want. But what you think it offers you you
want indeed, and have the RIGHT to ask for. Nor could it be possible it
be denied. Your will to be complete is but God’s will, and this is GIVEN
you by being His. God knows not form. He cannot answer you in terms
which have no meaning. And your will could not be satisfied with empty
forms, made but to fill a gap which is not there. It is not this you
WANT. Creation gives no separate person and no separate thing the power
to complete the Son of God. What idol can be called upon to give the Son
of God what he already has? Completion is the FUNCTION of God’s Son. He
has no need

to seek for it at all. Beyond all idols stands his holy will to be but
what he is. For more than whole is meaningless. If there were change in
him, if he could be reduced to any form and limited to what is not in
him, he would not be as God created him. What idol can he need to be
himself? For can he give a part of him away? What is not whole cannot
make whole. But what is really asked for cannot BE denied. Your will IS
granted. Not in any form that would content you not, but in the whole
completely lovely Thought God holds of you.

Nothing that God knows not exists. And what He knows exists forever,
changelessly. For thoughts endure as long as does the mind that thought
of them. And in the Mind of God there is no ending, nor a time in which
His Thoughts were absent, or could suffer change. Thoughts are not born
and cannot die. They share the attributes of their creator, nor have
they a separate life apart from his. The thoughts you think are in your
mind, as you are in the Mind Which thought of you. And so there are no
separate parts in what exists within God’s Mind. It is forever one,
eternally united and at peace.

Thoughts seem to come and go. Yet all this means is that you are
sometimes aware of them, and sometimes not. An unremembered thought is
born again to you when it returns to your awareness. Yet it did not die
when you forgot it. It was always there, but you were unaware of it. The
Thought God holds of you is perfectly unchanged by your forgetting. It
will always be exactly as it was before the time when you forgot, and
will be just the same when you remember. And it is the same within the
interval when you forgot.

The Thoughts of God are far beyond all change, and shine forever. They
await not birth. They wait for welcome and remembering. The Thought God
holds of you is like a star, unchangeable in an eternal sky. So high in
Heaven is it set that those outside of Heaven know not it is there. Yet
still and white and lovely will it shine through all eternity. There was
no time it was not there; no instant when its light grew dimmer or less
perfect ever was.

Who knows the Father knows this light, for He is the eternal sky which
holds it safe, forever lifted up and anchored sure. Its perfect purity
does not depend on whether it is seen on earth or not. The
sky embraces it, and softly holds it in its perfect place, which is as
far from earth as earth from Heaven. It is not the distance nor the time
which keeps this star invisible to earth. But those who seek for idols
cannot know this star is there.

Beyond all idols is the Thought God holds of you. Completely unaffected
by the turmoil and the terror of the world; the dreams of birth and
death that here are dreamed; the myriad of forms that fear can take;
quite undisturbed, the Thought God holds of you remains exactly as it
always was. Surrounded by a stillness so complete no sound of battle
comes remotely near, it rests in certainty and perfect peace. Here is
your one reality kept safe, completely unaware of all the world that
worships idols, and that knows not God. In perfect sureness of its
changelessness, and of its rest in its eternal home, the Thought God
holds of you has never left the Mind of its Creator, Whom it knows as
its Creator knows that it is there.

Where could the Thought God holds of you exist but where YOU are? Is
your reality a thing apart from you, and in a world which your reality
knows nothing of? Outside you, there is no eternal sky, no changeless
star, and no reality. The Mind of Heaven’s Son in Heaven is, for there
the Mind of Father and of Son joined in creation which can have no
end. You have not two realities, but one. Nor can you be AWARE of more
than one. An idol OR the Thought God holds of you is your reality.
Forget not, then, that idols must keep hidden what you are, not from the
Mind of God, but from your own. The star shines still; the sky has never
changed. But you, the holy Son of God Himself, are unaware of your
reality.