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JESUS – CHRIST |
There is no need for help to enter Heaven for you have never left. But
there is need for help beyond yourself as you are circumscribed by false beliefs
of your Identity, which God alone established in reality. Helpers are
given you in many forms, although upon the altar they are one. Beyond each
one there is a Thought of God, and this will never change. But they have
names which differ for a time, for time needs symbols, being itself unreal.
Their names are legion, but we will not go beyond the names the course itself
employs. God does not help because He knows no need. But He creates
all Helpers of His Son while he believes his fantasies are true. Thank God
for them for they will lead you home.
The name of , Jesus, is the name of one who was a man but saw the face of Christ
in all his brothers and remembered God. So he became identified with
Christ, a man no longer, but at one with God. The man was an illusion, for
he seemed to be a separate being, walking by himself, within a body that
appeared to hold his self from Self, as all illusions do. Yet who can save
unless he sees illusions and then identifies them as what they are? Jesus
remains a Savior because he saw the false without accepting it as true.
And Christ needed his form that He might appear to men and save them from their
own illusions.
In his complete identification with the Christ–the perfect Son of God, His one
creation and His happiness, forever like Himself and One with Him–Jesus became
what all of you must be. He led the way for you to follow him. He
leads you back to God because he saw the road before him, and he followed it.
He made a clear distinction, still obscure to you, between the false and true.
He offered you a final demonstration that it is impossible to kill God's Son;
nor can his life in any way be changed by sin and evil, malice, fear or death.
And therefore all your sins have been forgiven because they carried no effects
at all. And so they were but dreams. Arise with him who showed you
this because you owe him this who shared your dreams that they might be
dispelled. And shares them still, to be at one with you.
Is he the Christ? O yes, along with you. His little life on earth
was not enough to teach the mighty lesson that he learned for all of you.
He will remain with you to lead you from the hell you made to God. And
when you join your will with his, your sight will be his vision, for the eyes of
Christ are shared. Walking with him is just as natural as walking with a
brother whom you knew since you were born, for such indeed he is. Some
bitter idols have been made of him who would be only brother to the world.
Forgive him your illusions, and behold how dear a brother he would be to you.
For he will set your mind at rest at last and carry it with you unto your God.
Is he God's only Helper? No, indeed. For Christ takes many forms
with different names until their oneness can be recognized. But Jesus is
for you the bearer of Christ's single message of the Love of God. You need
no other. It is possible to read his words and benefit from them without
accepting him into your life. Yet he would help you yet a little more if
you will share your pains and joys with him, and leave them both to find the
peace of God. Yet still it is his lesson most of all that he would have
you learn, and it is this:
There is no death because the Son of God is like his Father. Nothing you can
do can change Eternal Love. Forget your dreams of sin and guilt, and come
with me instead to share the resurrection of God's Son. And bring with you
all those whom He has sent to you to care for as I care for you.