OrEd-T-24.8-The Meeting Place.2

68. A co-creator must have a Son. This Son must have been created like it's father, a perfect being, all-encompassing and all-encompassed, nothing to add and nothing taken away. It is not born of size nor weight nor time nor held to limits or uncertainties of any kind. Here the means and end unite as one. This one has no end. All this is true, but has no meaning to one with uncertain purpose, divided aim, and/or an unlearned lesson in his memory.

69. This course only attempts to teach what can be learned easily. Its scope does not exceed mine. What is mine will come to me when I am ready. Here, the means and the purpose are separated. They were made so, are so perceived, and we deal with them as if they are separate. Perception does not seem to be a means. But it witnesses to what I taught, and seems to show me what I 'see'. All perception is upside down until its purpose has been understood. My perception depends on the purpose I see for it. Perception is the outward picture of a wish--an image that I want to be true.

70. I look at myself, and I see a body. I look at this body in different lights and it looks different. And without a light, it seems to be gone. I am reassured that it is there, because I can feel it with my hands and feel it move. The body gives me the eyes to look on it, the hands to feel it, the ears to hear the sounds it makes. It self-proves its reality to me. This is the image that I want to be myself. The body is the means to make my wish come true.

71. Thus the body is made a theory of myself, with no evidence beyond itself, and no escape within its sight. The body's course is sure when seen through its own eyes. It grows and withers, flourishes and dies. The body is branded sinful. Its acts are hated and judged as evil. And I cannot conceive of myself apart from it. Yet specialness whispers, 'Here is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.' Thus the 'son' becomes the means to serve his 'father's' purpose. Not identical, not even like, but still a means to offer to the 'father' what he wants. So the body testifies to the 'reality and truth' of the idea that made it. Such is the travesty on God's creation. Gods Son's creation gave Him joy, witnessed to His love, and shared His purpose.

72. Thus two sons are made. Each seems to walk this earth with no encounter with the other, and no meeting-place. One, I see outside myself, my own beloved son (body/world). The other is resting within, His Father's Son, within my brother as in me. Their difference does not lie in how they look, where they go, or even what they do. Their difference lies in purpose. The Son of God keeps His Father's Will and purpose. It is this that joins them to ones like themselves, and separates them from everything with a different purpose. But, the son of man wants an alien will, and perceives it to be true. Perception serves his special wish by giving it the appearance of truth. But specialness does not bind perception. By my choice, perception can serve another goal, and a different purpose. And I will perceive that which will prove its own reality and truth to me.