VIII. The Attraction of Love for Love

T-12.VIII.1. Do you really believe that you can kill the Son of God? ² The Father has hidden His Son safely within Himself, and kept him far away from your destructive thoughts, but you know neither the Father nor the Son because of them. ³ You attack the real world every day and every hour and every minute, and yet you are surprised that you cannot see it. ⁴ If you seek love in order to attack it, you will never find it. ⁵ For if love is sharing, how can you find it except through itself? ⁶ Offer it and it will come to you, because it is drawn to itself. ⁷ But offer attack and love will remain hidden, for it can live only in peace.

T-12.VIII.2. God's Son is as safe as his Father, for the Son knows his Father's protection and cannot fear. ² His Father's Love holds him in perfect peace, and needing nothing, he asks for nothing. ³ Yet he is far from you whose Self he is, for you chose to attack him and he disappeared from your sight into his Father. ⁴ He did not change, but you did. ⁵ For a split mind and all its works were not created by the Father, and could not live in the knowledge of Him.

T-12.VIII.3. When you made visible what is not true, what is true became invisible to you. ² Yet it cannot be invisible in itself, for the Holy Spirit sees it with perfect clarity. ³ It is invisible to you because you are looking at something else. ⁴ Yet it is no more up to you to decide what is visible and what is invisible, than it is up to you to decide what reality is. ⁵ What can be seen is what the Holy Spirit sees. ⁶ The definition of reality is God's, not yours. ⁷ He created it, and He knows what it is. ⁸ You who knew have forgotten, and unless He had given you a way to remember you would have condemned yourself to oblivion.

T-12.VIII.4. Because of your Father's Love you can never forget Him, for no one can forget what God Himself placed in his memory. ² You can deny it, but you cannot lose it. ³ A Voice will answer every question you ask, and a vision will correct the perception of everything you see. ⁴ For what you have made invisible is the only truth, and what you have not heard is the only Answer. ⁵ God would reunite you with yourself, and did not abandon you in your distress. ⁶ You are waiting only for Him, and do not know it. ⁷ Yet His memory shines in your mind and cannot be obliterated. ⁸ It is no more past than future, being forever always.

T-12.VIII.5. You have but to ask for this memory, and you will remember. ² Yet the memory of God cannot shine in a mind that has obliterated it and wants to keep it so. ³ For the memory of God can dawn only in a mind that chooses to remember, and that has relinquished the insane desire to control reality. ⁴ You who cannot even control yourself should hardly aspire to control the universe. ⁵ But look upon what you have made of it, and rejoice that it is not so.

T-12.VIII.6. Son of God, be not content with nothing! ² What is not real cannot be seen and has no value. ³ God could not offer His Son what has no value, nor could His Son receive it. ⁴ You were redeemed the instant you thought you had deserted Him. ⁵ Everything you made has never been, and is invisible because the Holy Spirit does not see it. ⁶ Yet what He does see is yours to behold, and through His vision your perception is healed. ⁷ You have made invisible the only truth that this world holds. ⁸ Valuing nothing, you have sought nothing. ⁹ By making nothing real to you, you have seen it. ¹⁰ But it is not there. ¹¹ And Christ is invisible to you because of what you have made visible to yourself.

T-12.VIII.7. Yet it does not matter how much distance you have tried to interpose between your awareness and truth. ² God's Son can be seen because his vision is shared. ³ The Holy Spirit looks upon him, and sees nothing else in you. ⁴ What is invisible to you is perfect in His sight, and encompasses all of it. ⁵ He has remembered you because He forgot not the Father. ⁶ You looked upon the unreal and found despair. ⁷ Yet by seeking the unreal, what else could you find? ⁸ The unreal world is a thing of despair, for it can never be. ⁹ And you who share God's Being with Him could never be content without reality. ¹⁰ What God did not give you has no power over you, and the attraction of love for love remains irresistible. ¹¹ For it is the function of love to unite all things unto itself, and to hold all things together by extending its wholeness.

T-12.VIII.8. The real world was given you by God in loving exchange for the world you made and the world you see. ² Only take it from the hand of Christ and look upon it. ³ Its reality will make everything else invisible, for beholding it is total perception. ⁴ And as you look upon it you will remember that it was always so. ⁵ Nothingness will become invisible, for you will at last have seen truly. ⁶ Redeemed perception is easily translated into knowledge, for only perception is capable of error and perception has never been. ⁷ Being corrected it gives place to knowledge, which is forever the only reality. ⁸ The Atonement is but the way back to what was never lost. ⁹ Your Father could not cease to love His Son.