47 Yes, you are blessed indeed. Yet in this world, you do not know it. But you have the means for learning it and seeing it quite clearly. The Holy Spirit uses logic as easily and as well, as does the ego, except that His conclusions are
not insane. They take a direction exactly opposite, pointing as clearly to Heaven as the ego points to darkness and to death. We have followed much of the ego's logic and have seen its logical conclusions. And having seen them, we have realized that they cannot be seen but in illusions, for there alone their seeming clearness
seems to be clearly seen. Let us now turn away from them and follow the simple logic by which the Holy Spirit teaches you the simple conclusions that speak for truth and
only truth.
48 If you are blessed and do not know it, you need to
learn it must be so. The knowledge is not taught, but its
conditions must be acquired, for it is they that have been thrown away. You
can learn to bless and
cannot give what you have not. If, then, you
offer blessing, it
must have come first to yourself. And you must also have
accepted it as yours, for how else could you give it away?
49 That is why your miracles offer
you the testimony that you are blessed. If what you offer
is complete forgiveness, you
must have let guilt go, accepting the Atonement for yourself and learning you are guiltless. How could you learn what has been done for you, but which you do not know, unless you do what you would
have to do if it
had been done unto you?
Indirect proof of truth is needed in a world made of denial and without direction. You will perceive the need for this if you will realize that to deny is the decision
not to know. The logic of the world
must therefore lead to nothing, for its
goal is nothing.
50 If you decide to have and give and
be nothing except a dream, you
must direct your thoughts unto oblivion. And if you have and give and are
everything, and all this has been
denied, your thought system is closed off and wholly separated from the truth. This
is an insane world, and do not underestimate the actual extent of its insanity. There is no area of your perception that it has not touched, and your dream
is sacred to you. That is why God placed the Holy Spirit
in you, where you placed the dream.
51 Seeing is always
outward. Were your thoughts wholly of
you, the thought system which you made would be forever dark. The thoughts which the mind of God's Son projects have all the power that he gives to them. The thoughts he shares with God are
beyond his belief, but those he made
are his beliefs. And it is
these, and
not the truth, that he has chosen to defend and love. They will not be taken from him. But they can be
given up by him, for the Source of their undoing is
in him. There is nothing
in the world to teach him that the logic of the world is totally insane and leads to nothing. Yet in him who made this insane logic, there is One Who
knows it leads to nothing, for He knows everything.
52 Any direction which will lead you where the Holy Spirit leads you not goes nowhere. Anything you deny which He knows to be true, you have denied
yourself, and He must therefore teach you
not to deny it. Undoing
is indirect, as doing is. You were created only to
create, neither to see
nor do. These are but indirect expressions of the will to live, which has been blocked by the capricious and unholy whim of death and murder that your Father shared not with you. You have set yourselves the task of sharing what cannot
be shared. And while you think it possible to
learn to do this, you will not believe all that
is possible to learn to do.
53 The Holy Spirit, therefore, must begin His teaching by showing you what you can
never learn. His
message is not indirect, but He must introduce the simple truth into a thought system which has become so twisted and so complex that you cannot
see that it means nothing.
He merely looks at its foundation and dismisses it. But
you, who cannot undo what you have made [nor escape the heavy burden of its dullness that lies upon your minds], cannot see
through it. It deceives you because you chose to deceive yourselves. Those who choose to
be deceived will merely attack direct approaches, which would seem but to encroach upon deception and strike at it.
