T-30.II:Freedom of Will

1. 1Do you not understand that to oppose the Holy Spirit is to fight yourself? 2He tells you but your will; He speaks for you. 3In His Divinity is but your own. 4And all He knows is but your knowledge, saved for you that you may do your will through Him. 5God asks you do your will. 6He joins with you. 7He did not set His Kingdom up alone. 8And Heaven itself but represents your will, where everything created is for you. 9No spark of life but was created with your glad consent, as you would have it be. 10And not one Thought that God has ever had but waited for your blessing to be born. 11God is no enemy to you. 12He asks no more than that He hear you call Him “Friend.”

2. 1How wonderful it is to do your will! 2For that is freedom. 3There is nothing else that ever should be called by freedom’s name. 4Unless you do your will you are not free. 5And would God leave His Son without what he has chosen for himself? 6God but ensured that you would never lose your will when He gave you His perfect Answer. 7Hear It now, that you may be reminded of His Love and learn your will. 8God would not have His Son made prisoner to what he does not want. 9He joins with you in willing you be free. 10And to oppose Him is to make a choice against yourself, and choose that you be bound.

3. 1Look once again upon your enemy, the one you chose to hate instead of love. 2For thus was hatred born into the world, and thus the rule of fear established there. 3Now hear God speak to you, through Him Who is His Voice and yours as well, reminding you that it is not your will to hate and be a prisoner to fear, a slave to death, a little creature with a little life. 4Your will is boundless; it is not your will that it be bound. 5What lies in you has joined with God Himself in all creation’s birth. 6Remember Him Who has created you, and through your will created everything. 7Not one created thing but gives you thanks, for it is by your will that it was born. 8No light of Heaven shines except for you, for it was set in Heaven by your will.

4. 1What cause have you for anger in a world that merely waits your blessing to be free? 2If you be prisoner, then God Himself could not be free. 3For what is done to him whom God so loves is done to God Himself. 4Think not He wills to bind you, Who has made you co-creator of the universe along with Him. 5He would but keep your will forever and forever limitless. 6This world awaits the freedom you will give when you have recognized that you are free. 7But you will not forgive the world until you have forgiven Him Who gave your will to you. 8For it is by your will the world is given freedom. 9Nor can you be free apart from Him Whose holy Will you share.

5. 1God turns to you to ask the world be saved, for by your own salvation is it healed. 2And no one walks upon the earth but must depend on your decision, that he learn death has no power over him, because he shares your freedom as he shares your will. 3It is your will to heal him, and because you have decided with him, he is healed. 4And now is God forgiven, for you chose to look upon your brother as a friend.