31 Never forget that the Sonship is your salvation, for the Sonship is your Soul. As God's creation, it is yours, and belonging to you, it is His. Your Soul does not need salvation, but your mind needs to learn what salvation
is. You are not saved
from anything, but you are saved
for glory. Glory is your inheritance, given your Soul by its Creator that you might
extend it. Yet if you hate part of your own Soul,
all your understanding is lost because you are looking on what God created as
yourself without love. And since what He created is part of Him, you are denying Him His place in His own altar.
32 Could you try to make God homeless and know that
you are at home? Can the Son deny the Father
without believing that the Father has denied
him? God's laws hold only for your protection, and they never hold in vain. What you experience when you deny your Father is still for your protection, for the power of your will cannot be lessened without the intervention of God
against it, and any limitation on your power is not the Will of God. Therefore, look
only to the power that God gave to save you, remembering that it is yours
because it is His, and join with your brothers in His peace.
33 The peace of your Soul lies in its limitlessness. Limit the peace you share, and your own Soul
must be unknown to you. Every altar to God is part of your Soul because the light He created is one with Him. Would you cut off a brother from the light that is yours? You would not do so if you realized that you can only darken your
own mind. As you bring
him back, so will
your mind return. That is the law of God for the protection of the wholeness of His Son.
34
Only you can deprive yourself of anything. Do not oppose this realization, for it is truly the beginning of the dawn of light. Remember also that the denial of this simple fact takes many forms, and these you must learn to recognize and to oppose steadfastly and
without exception. This is a crucial step in the reawakening. The beginning phases of this reversal are often quite painful for, as blame is withdrawn from without, there is a strong tendency to harbor it within. It is difficult at first to realize that this is
exactly the same thing, for there
is no distinction between within and without.
35 If your brothers are part of you and you blame
them for your deprivation, you
are blaming yourself. And you cannot blame yourself
without blaming them. That is why blame must be undone,
not re-allocated. Lay it to yourself and you cannot
know yourself, for
only the ego blames at all. Self-blame is therefore ego identification and as strong an ego defense as blaming others.
You cannot enter God's Presence if you attack his Son. When His Son lifts his voice in praise of his Creator, he
will hear the Voice of his Father. Yet the Creator cannot be praised
without His Son, for their glory is shared, and they are glorified together.
36 Christ is at God's altar, waiting to welcome His Son. But come wholly without condemnation, for otherwise you will believe that the door is barred and you cannot enter. The door is
not barred, and it is impossible for you to be unable to enter the place where God would have you be. But love yourself with the love of Christ, for so does your Father love you. You can
refuse to enter, but you
cannot bar the door which Christ holds open. Come unto me who holds it open
for you, for while I live it cannot be shut, and I live forever. God is my life
and yours, and nothing is denied by God to His Son. Remember that to deny is to refuse to accept, and everything awaits only your acceptance.
37 At God's altar Christ waits for the restoration of Himself in
you. God knows His Son as wholly blameless as Himself, and He is approached through the appreciation of His Son. Christ waits for your acceptance of Him as
yourself and of His wholeness as
yours. For Christ is the Son of God Who lives in his Creator and shines with His glory. Christ is the extension of the love and the loveliness of God, as perfect as his Creator and at peace with Him.
38 Blessed is the Son of God, whose radiance is of his Father and whose glory he wills to share as his Father shares it with him. There is no condemnation in the Son, for there is no condemnation in the Father. Sharing the perfect love of the Father, the Son must share what belongs to Him, for otherwise he will not know the Father
or the Son. Peace be unto you who rest in God and in whom the whole Sonship rests.
