I am capable of making a world of this size and complexity, as is everyone reading this thread. I can make it without effort, and in the twinkling of an eye...and so can anyone else. So it is up to us to unmake it, and we will. Does this sound arrogant? God made it not. Of this you can be sure. What can he know of the ephemeral, the sinful and the guilty, the afraid, the suffering and lonely, and the mind that lives within a body that must die? But you accuse Him of insanity, to think He made a world where such things seem to have reality. He is not mad. Yet only madness makes a world like this. To think that God made chaos, contradicts His Will, invented opposites to truth, and suffers death to triumph over life; all this is arrogance. Humility would see at once these things are not of Him. And can you see what God did not create? To think you can is merely to believe you can perceive what God willed not to be. And what could be more arrogant than this? That is why I said that those with eyes are "blind". You think you see something. No you do not. You see nothing that is actually created. What is it you seem to see? You see images driven by your wishes. You see a movie. But instead of looking at a screen, you are an image in a movie that would prove to you every minute and every second that it is real. Obviously, you are wishing to punish yourselves. Why? Because you think you are guilty! Look what guilt is doing to you! No one can suffer loss unless it be his own decision. No one suffers pain except his choice elects this state for him. No one can grieve nor fear nor think himself sick unless these are the outcomes that he wants. And no one dies without his own consent. Nothing occurs but represents your wish, and nothing is omitted that you choose. Here is your world, complete in all details. Here is its reality for you. And it is only here, in this idea, salvation is discovered. You may believe that this position is extreme, and too inclusive to be true. Yet can truth have exceptions? If you have the gift of everything, can loss be real? Can pain be part of peace, or grief of joy? Can fear and sickness enter in a mind where love and perfect holiness abide? Truth must be all-inclusive, if it be the truth at all. Accept no opposites and no exceptions, for to do so is to contradict the truth entirely. Salvation is the recognition that the truth is true, and nothing else is true. You don't know how you made such a world. Admit this, and begin your salvation. If you think you are unable to make such a world, you are not yet ready for salvation. As God created you, you must remain unchangeable, with transitory states by definition false. And that includes all shifts in feelings, alterations in conditions of the body and the mind; in all awareness and in all response. This is the all-inclusiveness which sets the truth apart from falsehood, and keeps the false separate from the truth. God created you holy, like Himself. But this world is all about guilt. Guilt is hell. If guilt is hell, what is it's opposite? Therefore your holiness is your salvation. What keeps the world in chains but your beliefs? And what can save the world except your Self? Belief is powerful indeed. The thoughts you hold are mighty, and illusions are as strong in their effects as is the truth. A madman thinks the world he sees is real, and does not doubt it. Nor can he be swayed by questioning his thoughts' effects. It is only when their source is raised to question that the hope of freedom come to him at last. So salvation is easily achieved, because anyone is free to change his mind, and all his thoughts change with it. Until then, you enslave the world with all your fears, your doubts and miseries, your pain and tears; and all your sorrows press on it, and keep the world a prisoner to your beliefs. Death strikes it everywhere because you hold the bitter thoughts of death within your mind. The world is nothing in itself. Your mind must give it meaning. And what you behold upon it are your wishes, acted out so you can look on them and think them real. Perhaps you think you did not make the world, but came unwillingly to what was made already, hardly waiting for your thoughts to give it meaning. Yet in truth, you found exactly what you looked for when you came. There is no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies your ultimate release. Change your mind on what you want to see, and all the world must change accordingly. It is not pride that tells you that you made the world you see, and that it changes as you change your mind. But it is pride that argues that you have come into a world quite separate from yourself, impervious to what you think, and quite apart from what you chance to think it is. There is no world! Not everyone is ready to accept it, and each one must go as far as he can let himself be led along the road to truth. But healing is the gift of those who are prepared to learn there is no world. If you are real the world you see is false, for God's creation is unlike the world in every way. Release the world! Your real creations wait for this release to give you fatherhood. You have real creations...this world is not one of them. You are a father, but not to this world. There is no world because it is a thought apart from God, and made to separate the Father and the Son, and break away a part of God Himself and thus destroy His Wholeness. Can a world which comes from this idea be real? Can it be anywhere? Deny illusions, but not the truth. Deny that you are a shadow briefly laid upon a dying world. Release your mind and you will look upon a world released. Nothing at all has happened but that you have put yourself to sleep, and dreamed a dream in which you were an alien to yourself, and a part of someone elses dream. A dream is like a memory in that it pictures what you wanted shown to you. A miracle does not awaken you, but merely shows you who the dreamer is. It teaches you there is a choice of dreams while you are still asleep, depending on the purpose of your dreaming. Do you wish for dreams of healing, or for dreams of death? Jesus