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True Forgiveness and Healing
T. 27. 1. 9 – II. 3.  Jesus:  “Forgiveness changes not the body into something it is not.  It only takes away from it all the signs of accusation and of blamefulness the ego used it for.  Pictured now without a purpose, it is seen as neither sick nor well; not bad nor good.  No grounds are offered that it may be judged in any way at all!

Of itself, the body has no life, but neither is it dead.  It stands apart from all experience of love or fear.  For now it witnesses to nothing yet, its purpose being open, and the mind made free again to choose what it is for. 
 
Now is the body not condemned, but waiting for a purpose to be given it, that it may fulfill the function that it will receive.  Into this empty space within the mind, from which the goal of sin has been removed, is Heaven free to be remembered.  Here its peace can come, and perfect healing take the place of death.  The body can become a sign of life, a promise of redemption, and a breath of immortality to those grown sick of breathing in the fetid scent of death.
Let the body now have healing as its purpose!  Then will it send forth the message it received, and by its health and loveliness proclaim the truth and value that it represents.  Let it receive the power to represent an endless life, forever un-attacked.  And to your brother let its message be, ‘Behold me, brother, at your hand I live, and live eternally!’
The simple way to let this be achieved is merely this:  Let no body have a purpose from the past.  For the past insists your crippled picture of yourself be a lasting sign of what the body was to represent.  That would leave no latitude in which a different view, and another purpose, can be given it.  Accept simply that you do not know its purpose!  
 
You but gave illusions of a purpose to a thing you made to hide your function from yourself.  This thing without a purpose cannot hide the function that the Holy Spirit gives to you to give to it.  Let, then, its purpose and your function both be reconciled at last and seen as one!
Is healing frightening?  To many, yes!  For sickness’ accusation of guilt is a bar to love, and damaged bodies are relentless accusers.  They stand firmly in the way of trust and peace, proclaiming that the frail can have no trust, and that the damaged have no grounds for peace.
Who has been injured by his brother, and could love and trust him still?  To the ego, he has attacked and will attack again.  ‘Forgive him not,’ the ego says, because your damaged body shows that you are vulnerable and must be protected from him.  To forgive may be an act of charity, but it is surely not his due.  He may be pitied for the guilt he suffers, but not exonerated!  And if you forgive him his transgressions, you but add to all the guilt that he has really earned.
Thus the unhealed cannot wholly pardon.  For they use their bodies as the witnesses that pardon is unfair.  They fear they would retain the consequences of the guilt they overlook in others.  No one can forgive a sin that he believes is real.  And what has consequences must be real, because what it has done is plainly there to see.
Forgiveness is not pity, which but seeks to pardon what it thinks to be the truth.  Good cannot be returned for what is seen as evil, and true forgiveness does not first establish sin as real and then forgive it.  Who can say and mean, ‘My brother, you have injured me, and yet, because I am the better of the two, I pardon you my hurt.’
His pardon and your hurt cannot exist together.  One denies the other and must make it false.  To witness ‘sin’ and yet forgive it is a paradox that reason cannot see.  For sin maintains that what was done to you deserves no pardon.  And so by giving it, you would grant your brother mercy but ‘retain the proof’ that he is not really innocent.  So the suffering remain accusers.  They cannot forgive their brothers and themselves as one!
No one in whom true forgiveness rests can suffer!  He holds not the proof of sin before his brother’s eyes.  And thus he must have looked beyond it and removed it from his own.  Forgiveness cannot be for one without the other!
Whose forgiveness is whole is healed!  And in his healing lies the proof that he has truly pardoned, and retains no trace of condemnation that he still would hold against himself or any living thing.
Forgiveness is not real unless it brings a healing to your brother and yourself.  You must attest his sins have no effect on you to demonstrate they are not real.  How else could he be guiltless?  And how could his innocence be justified unless his sins have no effect to warrant guilt?
Sins, if real, would be beyond forgiveness just because they would entail effects that cannot be undone and overlooked entirely.  In their undoing with forgiveness lies the proof that they are merely errors.
 
Let yourself be healed in the Holy Spirit, that you may be truly forgiving, offering salvation to your brother and yourself as one!”