Salvation is immediate.

Unless you so perceive it, you will be afraid of it, believing that the risk of loss is great between the time its purpose is made yours and its effects will come to you.

In this form is the error still obscured that is the source of fear.

Salvation would wipe out the space you see between you still and let you instantly become as one.

And it is here you fear the loss would lie.

Do not project this fear to time, for time is not the enemy that you perceive. Time is as neutral as the body is, except in terms of what you see it for.

If you would keep a little space between you still, you want a little time in which forgiveness is withheld a little while.

This makes the interval between the time in which forgiveness is withheld and given seem dangerous, with terror justified.

Yet space between you is apparent now, and cannot be perceived in future time.

No more can it be overlooked except
within the present.

Future loss is not your fear. But present joing is your dread.

Who can feel desolation except now?

A future cause as yet has no effects. And therefore must it be that if you fear, there is a present cause.

And it is this that needs correction, not a future state.