This single thought, held firmly in the mind, would save the world. From
time to time we will repeat it, as we reach another stage in learning.
It will mean far more to you as you advance. These words are sacred, for
they are the words God gave in answer to the world you made. By them it
disappears, and all things seen within its misty clouds and vaporous
illusions vanish as these words are spoken. For they come from God.
Here is the Word by which the Son became His Father’s happiness, His
Love, and His completion. Here creation is proclaimed, and honored as it
is. There is no dream these words will not dispel; no thought of sin and
no illusion that the dream contains that will not fade away before their
might. They are the trumpet of awakening that sounds around the world.
The dead awake in answer to its call. And those who live and hear this
sound will never look on death.
Holy indeed is he who makes these words his own; arising with them in
his mind, recalling them throughout the day, at night bringing them with
him as he goes to sleep. His dreams are happy and his rest secure; his
safety certain and his body healed, because he sleeps and wakens with
the truth before him always. He will save the world because he gives the
world what he receives each time he practices the words of truth.
Today we practice simply. For the words we use are mighty, and they need
no thoughts beyond themselves to change the mind of him who uses them.
So wholly is it changed that it is now the treasury in which God places
all His gifts and all His Love to be distributed to all the world,
increased in giving; kept complete because its sharing is unlimited. And
thus you learn to think with God. Christ’s vision has restored your
sight by salvaging your mind.
We honor you today. Yours is the right to perfect holiness you now
accept. With this acceptance is salvation brought to everyone, for who
could cherish sin when holiness like this has blessed the world? Who
could despair when perfect joy is yours, available to all
as remedy for grief and misery, all sense of loss, and for complete
escape from sin and guilt?
And who would not be brother to you now; you, his redeemer and his
Savior. Who could fail to welcome you into his heart with loving
invitation, eager to unite with one like him in holiness? You are as God
created you. These words dispel the night, and darkness is no more. The
light is come today to bless the world, for you have recognized the Son
of God, and in that recognition is the world’s.