VI. Forgiveness and the End of Time

T-29.VI.1. How willing are you to forgive your brother? ² How much do you desire peace instead of endless strife and misery and pain? ³ These questions are the same, in different form. ⁴ Forgiveness is your peace, for herein lies the end of separation and the dream of danger and destruction, sin and death; of madness and of murder, grief and loss. ⁵ This is the "sacrifice" salvation asks, and gladly offers peace instead of this.

T-29.VI.2. Swear not to die, you holy Son of God! ² You make a bargain that you cannot keep. ³ The Son of Life cannot be killed. ⁴ He is immortal as his Father. ⁵ What he is cannot be changed. ⁶ He is the only thing in all the universe that must be one. ⁷ What seems eternal all will have an end. ⁸ The stars will disappear, and night and day will be no more. ⁹ All things that come and go, the tides, the seasons and the lives of men; all things that change with time and bloom and fade will not return. ¹⁰ Where time has set an end is not where the eternal is. ¹¹ God's Son can never change by what men made of him. ¹² He will be as he was and as he is, for time appointed not his destiny, nor set the hour of his birth and death. ¹³ Forgiveness will not change him. ¹⁴ Yet time waits upon forgiveness that the things of time may disappear because they have no use.

T-29.VI.3. Nothing survives its purpose. ² If it be conceived to die, then die it must unless it does not take this purpose as its own. ³ Change is the only thing that can be made a blessing here, where purpose is not fixed, however changeless it appears to be. ⁴ Think not that you can set a goal unlike God's purpose for you, and establish it as changeless and eternal. ⁵ You can give yourself a purpose that you do not have. ⁶ But you can not remove the power to change your mind, and see another purpose there.

T-29.VI.4. Change is the greatest gift God gave to all that you would make eternal, to ensure that only Heaven would not pass away. ² You were not born to die. ³ You cannot change, because your function has been fixed by God. ⁴ All other goals are set in time and change that time might be preserved, excepting one. ⁵ Forgiveness does not aim at keeping time, but at its ending, when it has no use. ⁶ Its purpose ended, it is gone. ⁷ And where it once held seeming sway is now restored the function God established for His Son in full awareness. ⁸ Time can set no end to its fulfillment nor its changelessness. ⁹ There is no death because the living share the function their Creator gave to them. ¹⁰ Life's function cannot be to die. ¹¹ It must be life's extension, that it be as one forever and forever, without end.

T-29.VI.5. This world will bind your feet and tie your hands and kill your body only if you think that it was made to crucify God's Son. ² For even though it was a dream of death, you need not let it stand for this to you. ³ Let this be changed, and nothing in the world but must be changed as well. ⁴ For nothing here but is defined as what you see it for.

T-29.VI.6. How lovely is the world whose purpose is forgiveness of God's Son! ² How free from fear, how filled with blessing and with happiness! ³ And what a joyous thing it is to dwell a little while in such a happy place! ⁴ Nor can it be forgot, in such a world, it is a little while till timelessness comes quietly to take the place of time.