T-20.V:Heralds of Eternity

1. 1In this world, God’s Son comes closest to himself in a holy relationship. 2There he begins to find the certainty his Father has in him. 3And there he finds his function of restoring his Father’s laws to what was held outside them, and finding what was lost. 4Only in time can anything be lost, and never lost forever. 5So do the parts of God’s Son gradually join in time, and with each joining is the end of time brought nearer. 6Each miracle of joining is a mighty herald of eternity. 7No one who has a single purpose, unified and sure, can be afraid. 8No one who shares his purpose with him can not be one with him.

2. 1Each herald of eternity sings of the end of sin and fear. 2Each speaks in time of what is far beyond it. 3Two voices raised together call to the hearts of everyone, to let them beat as one. 4And in that single heartbeat is the unity of love proclaimed and given welcome. 5Peace to your holy relationship, which has the power to hold the unity of the Son of God together. 6You give to your brother for everyone, and in your gift is everyone made glad. 7Forget not Who has given you the gifts you give, and through your not forgetting this, will you remember Who gave the gifts to Him to give to you.

3. 1It is impossible to overestimate your brother’s value. 2Only the ego does this, but all it means is that it wants the other for itself, and therefore values him too little. 3What is inestimable clearly cannot be evaluated. 4Do you recognize the fear that rises from the meaningless attempt to judge what lies so far beyond your judgment you cannot even see it? 5Judge not what is invisible to you or you will never see it, but wait in patience for its coming. 6It will be given you to see your brother’s worth when all you want for him is peace. 7And what you want for him you will receive.

4. 1How can you estimate the worth of him who offers peace to you? 2What would you want except his offering? 3His worth has been established by his Father, and you will recognize it as you receive his Father’s gift through him. 4What is in him will shine so brightly in your grateful vision that you will merely love him and be glad. 5You will not think to judge him, for who would see the face of Christ and yet insist that judgment still has meaning? 6For this insistence is of those who do not see. 7Vision or judgment is your choice, but never both of these.

5. 1Your brother’s body is as little use to you as it is to him. 2When it is used only as the Holy Spirit teaches, it has no function. 3For minds need not the body to communicate. 4The sight that sees the body has no use which serves the purpose of a holy relationship. 5And while you look upon your brother thus, the means and end have not been brought in line. 6Why should it take so many holy instants to let this be accomplished, when one would do? 7There is but one. 8The little breath of eternity that runs through time like golden light is all the same; nothing before it, nothing afterwards.

6. 1You look upon each holy instant as a different point in time. 2It never changes. 3All that it ever held or will ever hold is here right now. 4The past takes nothing from it, and the future will add no more. 5Here, then, is everything. 6Here is the loveliness of your relationship, with means and end in perfect harmony already. 7Here is the perfect faith that you will one day offer to your brother already offered you; and here the limitless forgiveness you will give him already given, the face of Christ you yet will look upon already seen.

7. 1Can you evaluate the giver of a gift like this? 2Would you exchange this gift for any other? 3This gift returns the laws of God to your remembrance. 4And merely by remembering them, the laws that held you prisoner to pain and death must be forgotten. 5This is no gift your brother’s body offers you. 6The veil that hides the gift hides him as well. 7He is the gift, and yet he knows it not. 8No more do you. 9And yet, have faith that He Who sees the gift in you and your brother will offer and receive it for you both. 10And through His vision will you see it, and through His understanding recognize it and love it as your own.

8. 1Be comforted, and feel the Holy Spirit watching over you in love and perfect confidence in what He sees. 2He knows the Son of God, and shares his Father’s certainty the universe rests in his gentle hands in safety and in peace. 3Let us consider now what he must learn, to share his Father’s confidence in him. 4What is he, that the Creator of the universe should offer it to him and know it rests in safety? 5He looks upon himself not as his Father knows him. 6And yet it is impossible the confidence of God should be misplaced.