T-7.I The Last Step
1. The creative power of God and His creations is limitless, but they are not in reciprocal relationship. ²You communicate fully with God, as He does with you. ³This is an ongoing process in which you share, and because you share it, you are inspired to create like God. ⁴Yet in creation you are not in a reciprocal relation to God, since He created you but you did not create Him. ⁵I have already told you that only in this respect your creative power differs from His. ⁶Even in this world there is a parallel. ⁷Parents give birth to children, but children do not give birth to parents. ⁸They do, however, give birth to their children, and thus give birth as their parents do.
2. If you created God and He created you, the Kingdom could not increase through its own creative thought. ²Creation would therefore be limited, and you would not be cocreator with God. ³As God’s creative Thought proceeds from Him to you, so must your creative thought proceed from you to your creations. ⁴Only in this way can all creative power extend outward. ⁵God’s accomplishments are not yours, but yours are like His. ⁶He created the Sonship and you increase it. ⁷You have the power to add to the Kingdom, though not to add to the Creator of the Kingdom. ⁸You claim this power when you become vigilant only for God and His Kingdom. ⁹By accepting this power as yours you have learned to remember what you are.
3. Your creations belong in you, as you belong in God. ²You are part of God, as your sons are part of His Sons. ³To create is to love. ⁴Love extends outward simply because it cannot be contained. ⁵Being limitless it does not stop. ⁶It creates forever, but not in time. ⁷God’s creations have always been, because He has always been. ⁸Your creations have always been, because you can create only as God creates. ⁹Eternity is yours, because He created you eternal.
4. The ego, on the other hand, always demands reciprocal rights, because it is competitive rather than loving. ²It is always willing to strike a bargain, but it cannot understand that to be like another means that no bargains are possible. ³To gain you must give, not bargain. ⁴To bargain is to limit giving, and this is not God's Will. ⁵To will with God is to create like Him. ⁶God does not limit His gifts in any way. ⁷You are His gifts, and so your gifts must be like His. ⁸Your gifts to the Kingdom must be like His gifts to you.
5. I gave only love to the Kingdom because I believed that was what I was. ²What you believe you are determines your gifts, and if God created you by extending Himself as you, you can only extend yourself as He did. ³Only joy increases forever, since joy and eternity are inseparable. ⁴God extends outward beyond limits and beyond time, and you who are cocreator with Him extend His Kingdom forever and beyond limit. ⁵Eternity is the indelible stamp of creation. ⁶The eternal are in peace and joy forever.
6. To think like God is to share His certainty of what you are, and to create like Him is to share the perfect Love He shares with you. ²To this the Holy Spirit leads you, that your joy may be complete because the Kingdom of God is whole. ³I have said that the last step in the reawakening of knowledge is taken by God. ⁴This is true, but it is hard to explain in words because words are symbols, and nothing that is true need be explained. ⁵However, the Holy Spirit has the task of translating the useless into the useful, the meaningless into the meaningful, and the temporary into the timeless. ⁶He can therefore tell you something about this last step.
7. God does not take steps, because His accomplishments are not gradual. ²He does not teach, because His creations are changeless. ³He does nothing last, because He created first and for always. ⁴It must be understood that the word “first” as applied to Him is not a time concept. ⁵He is first in the sense that He is the First in the Holy Trinity Itself. ⁶He is the Prime Creator, because He created His cocreators. ⁷Because He did, time applies neither to Him nor to what He created. ⁸The “last step” that God will take was therefore true in the beginning, is true now, and will be true forever. ⁹What is timeless is always there, because its being is eternally changeless. ¹⁰It does not change by increase, because it was forever created to increase. ¹¹If you perceive it as not increasing you do not know what it is. ¹²You also do not know Who created it. ¹³God does not reveal this to you because it was never hidden. ¹⁴His light was never obscured, because it is His Will to share it. ¹⁵How can what is fully shared be withheld and then revealed?