T-29.III:God’s Witnesses

1. 1Condemn your savior not because he thinks he is a body. 2For beyond his dreams is his reality. 3But he must learn he is a savior first, before he can remember what he is. 4And he must save who would be saved. 5On saving you depends his happiness. 6For who is savior but the one who gives salvation? 7Thus he learns it must be his to give. 8Unless he gives he will not know he has, for giving is the proof of having. 9Only those who think that God is lessened by their strength could fail to understand this must be so. 10For who could give unless he has, and who could lose by giving what must be increased thereby?

2. 1Think you the Father lost Himself when He created you? 2Was He made weak because He shared His Love? 3Was He made incomplete by your perfection? 4Or are you the proof that He is perfect and complete? 5Deny Him not His witness in the dream His Son prefers to his reality. 6He must be savior from the dream he made, that he be free of it. 7He must see someone else as not a body, one with him without the wall the world has built to keep apart all living things who know not that they live.

3. 1Within the dream of bodies and of death is yet one theme of truth; no more, perhaps, than just a tiny spark, a space of light created in the dark, where God still shines. 2You cannot wake yourself. 3Yet you can let yourself be wakened. 4You can overlook your brother’s dreams. 5So perfectly can you forgive him his illusions he becomes your savior from your dreams. 6And as you see him shining in the space of light where God abides within the darkness, you will see that God Himself is where his body is. 7Before this light the body disappears, as heavy shadows must give way to light. 8The darkness cannot choose that it remain. 9The coming of the light means it is gone. 10In glory will you see your brother then, and understand what really fills the gap so long perceived as keeping you apart. 11There, in its place, God’s witness has set forth the gentle way of kindness to God’s Son. 12Whom you forgive is given power to forgive you your illusions. 13By your gift of freedom is it given unto you.

4. 1Make way for love, which you did not create, but which you can extend. 2On earth this means forgive your brother, that the darkness may be lifted from your mind. 3When light has come to him through your forgiveness, he will not forget his savior, leaving him unsaved. 4For it was in your face he saw the light that he would keep beside him, as he walks through darkness to the everlasting light.

5. 1How holy are you, that the Son of God can be your savior in the midst of dreams of desolation and disaster. 2See how eagerly he comes, and steps aside from heavy shadows that have hidden him, and shines on you in gratitude and love. 3He is himself, but not himself alone. 4And as his Father lost not part of him in your creation, so the light in him is brighter still because you gave your light to him, to save him from the dark. 5And now the light in you must be as bright as shines in him. 6This is the spark that shines within the dream; that you can help him waken, and be sure his waking eyes will rest on you. 7And in his glad salvation you are saved.