Sin is insanity. It is the means by which the mind is driven mad, and
seeks to let illusions take the place of truth. And being mad, it sees
illusions where truth should be, and where it really is. Sin gave the
body eyes, for what is there the sinless would behold? What need have
they of sights or sounds or touch? What would they hear or reach to
grasp? What would they sense at all? To sense is not to know. And truth
can be but filled with knowledge, and with nothing else.

The body is the instrument the mind made in its striving to deceive
itself. Its purpose is to strive. Yet can the goal of striving change.
And now the body serves a different aim for striving. What it seeks for
now is chosen by the aim the mind has taken as replacement for the goal
of self-deception. Truth can be its aim as well as lies. The senses then
will seek instead for witnesses to what is true.

Sin is the home of all illusions, which but stand for things imagined,
issuing from thoughts which are untrue. They are the “proof ” that what
has no reality is real. Sin “proves” God’s Son is evil; timelessness
must have an end; Eternal life must die. And God Himself has lost the
Son He loves, with but corruption to complete Himself, His Will forever
overcome by death, love slain by hate, and peace to be no more.

A madman’s dreams are frightening, and sin appears indeed to terrify.
And yet what sin perceives is but a childish game. The Son of God may
play he has become a body, prey to evil and to guilt, with but a little
life that ends in death. But all the while his Father shines on him, and
loves him with an everlasting Love which his pretenses cannot change at
all.

How long, oh Son of God, will you maintain the game of sin? Shall we not
put away these sharp-edged children’s toys? How soon will you be ready
to come home? Perhaps today? There is no sin. Creation is unchanged.
Would you still hold return to Heaven back? How long, oh holy Son of
God, how long?