Using the Illusions

15. Using the Illusions


In preparation for your meeting with the Creator, it will serve you well to step away from your illusions—including that you and the Creator are separate.

That is what you are doing here. That has been the purpose of this entire conversation with God. For you seek now to live with the Illusions, and not within them. And it is that honest seeking which has brought you here, to this communication.

It has been clear to you for some time that there is a flaw in the Illusions. This should have revealed all of them as false, but humans knew at some very deep level that they could not give up the Illusions, or something very vital would come to an end.

And, they were right. But they made a mistake. Instead of seeing the Illusions as illusions, and using them for the purpose for which they were intended, they thought they had to fix the flaw.

The answer was never to fix the flaw but merely to see it, and thus to remember what you knew at a very deep level. And that is why you could not give up the Illusions without something very vital coming to and end.

This has been explained to you before in our conversation. I will explain it to you again, here, one final time, so that you may be absolutely clear in your remembering.
The reason for the Illusions is to provide a localized context field within which you may re-create yourself anew in the next grandest version of the greatest vision you ever held about Who You Are.

The Universe itself is a contextual field. That is both its definition and its purpose. It provides life with a way to be expressed and experienced physically.
You are localized version of that same contextual field, as is everyone and everything else around you. In other words, localized God.

Outside of this localized context, you can only know yourself as All That Is. And All That Is cannot experience itself as what it is, since there is nothing else.
In the absence of that which you are not, That Which You Are is not. It cannot be experienced. It cannot be known.

This you have been told many times.

You have been told that in the absence of fast, “slow” is not. In the absence of up, “down” is not. In the absence of here, “there” is not.

In the absence of the Illusions, then, you are—quite literally neither here nor there.

And so, you have collectively produced these magnificent Illusions. A world—indeed, a Universe—of your own creation. This has provided you with a contextual field within which you may decide and declare, create and express, experience and fulfill Who You Really Are.

You have all done this. The lot of you. Every one of you who are the individuations of the Divine Whole. You are, each of you, seeking to know yourself, to define yourself.

Who are you? Are you good? Are you bad? What is “good”? What is “bad”? Are you big? Are you small? What is “big”? What is “small”? Are you any of these things? What does it mean to be these things? Are you wondrous indeed?

This is the only question God ever had.

Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?

And who do I now choose to be?

This is only question that matters, and this is what your soul is using your life to decide, every moment.

Not to find out. To decide. For life is not a process of discovery, it is a process of creation.

Every act is an act of self-definition.

God is the process of self-creation and self-experience in every moment. That is what you are doing here. And you are using the experience of that which you are not in order to have the experience of That Which You Really Are.

There is nothing which you are not. You are all of it, you are everything. God is All Of It. God is everything. Yet for you (God) to know the part of it that you are now expressing, you must imagine that there are parts of it you are not. This is the Great Imagining. These are the Illusions of Life.

Therefore, use the Illusions, and be grateful for them. Your life is a magic trick, and you are the magician.

Expressing the glory of Who You Really Are in the moment that you are confronted with an Illusion is what the journey to mastery is about. Within this context, it is important to acknowledge that the Illusions can seem very real.

Understanding that the Illusions are illusions is the first step in using them for their intended purpose, but it is not the only step. Next comes your decision about what the Illusions mean.

Finally, you choose the aspect of Divinity (the part of your self) that you wish to experience within a localized contextual field (what you would call a “situation” or “circumstance”) that you have encountered (created).
Here is that process in brief:

A. See the Illusions as Illusions.
B. Decide what they mean.
C. Re-create yourself anew.

There are many ways to use The Ten Illusions, and many ways to experience
them. You may choose to experience them as present-moment realities, or as memories from the past. The latter is how the Illusions are used by advanced cultures and beings.

Highly evolved beings remain aware of the Illusions, and they never end them (remember, to end them would be to end life itself, as you know it), but they experience them as part of their past, rather than part of their present. They encourage each other to always remember them but never to live them as if they were here-and now realities ever again.

Yet, whether you experience them in present time or as reminders from past, the important thing is to see them for what they are—Illusions. Then you can use them for what you will.

If it is your will to experience a particular aspect of you, the Illusions are your tools. Each illusion may be used to experience many aspects of Who You Really Are, and you may combine Illusions to experience multiple aspects—or to experience an individual aspect in multiple ways.

For instance, the First and Fourth Illusion—Need and Insufficiency—may be combined to experience a particular nuance of your true being that you might call self-assurance.

You cannot feel self-assured if there is nothing to feel self-assured about. By using the Illusion of Need and Insufficiency, you can first entertain the idea that there is “not enough,” and then overcome it. By doing this repeatedly, you produce the experience of self-assurance, confident that there will always be whatever you need. This experience will be verified and validated by Ultimate Reality.

This is what is meant when it its said that one is “entertaining an idea.” You are in the process of re-creating yourself anew—and this is true recreation!

To use another in an infinite number of examples, the Second and Sixth Illusion—Failure and Judgment—may be combined for a particular effect or experience. You can allow yourself to imagine that you have failed, then you can judge yourself for it, or accept the judgment of others. Then you can rise above your “failure,” raising your fist to the sky with an “I’ll show you” attitude, and triumph in the end!

This is a delicious experience, and most of you have given this experience to yourself many times. Yet if you lose sight of the fact that Failure and Judgment are Illusions, you could find yourself stuck in those experiences, and they will soon seem like harsh realities indeed.

The movement away from the “harsh realities” of life is to step away from the Illusions, and to see them for what they really are.

Any of the Illusions may be combined with any other—Disunity with Need, Condemnation with Superiority, Ignorance with Superiority, Insufficiency and Condemnation with Failure, and so on. Standing alone or combined with others, the Illusions exist as magnificent contrasting contextual fields, allowing you to experience Who You Really Are.

It has been said to you many times that, in the relative world, you cannot experience Who You Are except in the space of that which you are not. The purpose of the Illusions is to provide precisely that—a space, a context, within which to experience every aspect of yourself, and an opportunity to choose the Highest Aspect of which you can then conceive, in any given moment.

Do you understand now? Do you see?

Good. Let’s look at the Illusions one by one now, with some examples of how they may be utilized to re-create yourself anew in the way that has been described here.


The First Illusion, the Illusion of Need, may be used to experience the huge aspect of Who You Really Are that you might conceptualize as: that which needs nothing.

You need nothing to exist, and you need nothing to continue existing forever. The Illusion of Need creates a contextual field within which you can have the experience of that. It is when you step outside of the Illusion that you experience Ultimate Reality. The Illusion creates a context within which Ultimate Reality may be understood.

The Ultimate Reality is that everything you think you need, you already have. It exists inside of you. Indeed, it is you. You are what you need—and, therefore, you give yourself everything you need in any given moment. This means, in effect, that you need nothing at all. To understand this, and to know it experientially, you must see the Illusion of Need as an illusion. You must step outside of it.

The way to step outside of the Illusion of Need is to look at what you think you need right now—that is, what you think you do not now have that you feel you must have—and then notice that, even though you are without it, you are still here.
The implications of this are enormous. If you are here, right now, without what you think you need, then why do you think you need it?

This is the key question. It will unlock the golden door, the door to everything.
The next time you imagine that you need something, ask yourself: “Why do I think I need this?”

This is a very liberating inquiry. It is freedom in seven words.

If you are seeing clearly, you will realize that you do not need whatever “it” is, that you never did need it, and that you have been making it all up.

Even the air you breathe, you do not need. You will notice the moment you die. Air is something that only your body needs, and you are not your body.

Your body is something that you have, it is not something that you are. It is a wonderful tool. Yet you do not need your present body to continue the process of creation.

This information may be esoterically pleasing but may do nothing to alleviate your fear of losing your body, your family, and the circumstance in which you find yourself. A way to alleviate such fears is through detachment—the practice of Masters. Masters have learned to achieve detachment before they have evidence that the life of the body is an illusion. For those not operating at the level of mastery, the experience of what you call death is often needed to provide this evidence.

Once you are away from your body (that is, once you have “died”), you will realize immediately that this state of being is not the dreaded experience of which you have heard, and is, in fact, an experience of glorious wonder. You will see, too, that it is infinitely preferable to being tied to your physical form, whatever attachments your most recent form may have created. Detachment will then be a simple matter.
Yet you can master Life while in your physical form, and do not have to wait until you are removed from it to know the glory of life, and of Who You Really Are. You can do this by achieving detachment before you die. And you can achieve this through the simple expediency of stepping away from the Illusion of Need.

This stepping away is accomplished through a deeper comprehension of both life and death, including the knowledge that death as you have conceived of it does not exist, and that Life goes on forever. When you understand this, it becomes possible to detach from anything in Life—including Life Itself—because you know, given that life goes forever, that you may have those attachments again, as well as others that you might have thought you would nevermore experience.

All of your earthly attachments, in fact, may be experienced in what you call “afterlife,” or in any future life, and so, you will have the experience that you have lost nothing at all. Gradually, you will release yourself from your attachments, as you become aware of extraordinary opportunity for continued expansion and growth that never-ending Life offers you.

Yet you will never stop loving those you have loved, in this or any other lifetime, and you will experience full Oneness with them at the level of Essence at any time that you wish.

Should you miss someone who is still living with a physical body on Earth, you can be with them with the speed of your thought.

This is only part of the wonder of what is to come. I will tell you more—much more—in a future communication focusing on the experience of dying with God.

You cannot die without God, but you can imagine that you are doing so. This is your imaginary hell, the fear of which has sponsored every other fear you have ever had. Yet you have nothing to fear, and there have nothing to fear, and there is nothing you need, for not only is it impossible for you to die without God, it is also impossible for you to live without God.

This is because I am you, and you are Me, and there is no separation between us. You cannot die without Me, because “without Me” is not a state in which you can, or will ever, find yourself.

I am God, and I am All That Is. Since you are a part of All That Is, I am what you are. There is not a part of you that I am not.

And if All That Is is always with you, then you need nothing—and that is the truth of your being. When you deeply understand this, you will live in your body in an entirely different way. You will become fearless—and fearlessness produces its own blessing, for lack of fear creates a lack of anything to be afraid of.

Conversely, the presence of fear draws to you that which you fear. Fear is a strong emotion, and strong emotion—energy in motion—is creative. This why I have inspired it to be said, “You have nothing to fear, but fear itself.”

The way to live without fear is to know that every outcome in life is perfect—including the outcome that you fear most, which is death.

I am telling you that here. I am giving you this information now. If you will look closely at your life, you will see that you have always had whatever you have needed in order to get to the next moment, and, ultimately, to bring you here, where you are, right now. The evidence of this is the fact that you are here. Clearly, you have needed nothing more. You may have wanted something more, but you have needed nothing more. All your needs have been met.

This is an amazing revelation, and it always true. Every appearance to the contrary is False Evidence Appearing Real (FEAR). Yet, “Fear not, for I am with you.”
When you know that everything turns out perfectly and there is nothing of which to be afraid, conditions that you would once have defined as fearful are seen in an entirely different light. Indeed, they are seen in the light, rather in the darkness, and you begin to call your fears “adventure.”

Using the illusion that you need your body, for instance, motivates you to protect it, to care for it, to make sure it is not abused. In this way, the body may be used for the greater glory for which it was intended.

Using the illusion that you need a relationship likewise motivates you to protect that relationship, to care for it, to make sure it is not abused. In this way, the relationship may be used for the greater glory for which it was intended.

The same is true of anything that you imagine that you need. Use the imagining. Use it in very practical ways. Yet know that it only serves you when you see that it is an Illusion. As soon as you believe that the Illusion is real, then you turn caution (a very purposeful use of an Illusion) into fear, and begin to cling. Love becomes possession, and possession becomes obsession. You have fallen into the trap of attachment. You have become lost in the Illusion.

And when you are lost in the Illusion of Need, you are lost indeed. For the Illusion of Need is the biggest Illusion of all. It is the First Illusion, and the most powerful. It is the Illusion upon which all other Illusions are based. Who You Are is that which is without need, and it is Who You Are that is lost.

It is often said of a person that “he is just trying to find himself.” And that is very true. What you are all trying to find is your self. Yet you will not find that self anywhere outside of you. What you are looking for can only be found within.
Remember what I told you: If you do not go within, you go without.

Only within can you find your answer to the question, “Why do I think I need this external person, place, or thing?” Only within can you remember that you do not. Then you will know what is meant by, “Once I was lost, but now I am found.”

What you will have found is your true identity. You have used The First Illusion to experience yourself as a Divine being who needs nothing, for every need is always met. As you awaken this truth, you will experience it more and more in your day-to-day reality. And you will find literally become what you know yourself to be.
Always remember that.

You become what you know yourself to be.

The Second Illusion, the Illusion of Failure, may be used to experience your inability to fail at anything.

Nothing you do is failure but merely part of the process you have undergone to achieve what you are seeking to achieve, and to experience what you are seeking to experience.

What you are seeking to experience is That Which You Are. You cannot experience That Which You Are in the absence of that which you are not. Therefore, know that when you experience that which you are not, it is not a failure to experience but a way to experience That Which You Are.

What was just said is very important, yet it is easy to move right through statements like that and miss their enormous significance. So I am going to repeat the statement.

When you experience that which you are not, it is not a failure to experience but a way to experience That Which You Are.

And so, when what you call “failure” visits your life, embrace it lovingly, do not condemn it and make it wrong. For what you resist persists, and what you look at disappears. That is, it ceases to have its illusory form. You see it for what it really is, just as you see yourself as Who You Really Are.

By using the Illusion of Failure to notice what you have learned (remembered) about life, and to motivate you to apply the wisdom that you have acquired, the Illusion becomes a tool with which to notice that you are always succeeding.

Put simply, that way to step outside of the Illusion of Failure is to simply see everything as a part of your success. All things lead to your success, produce your success, are part of the process by which you experience your success.

Many people understand this intuitively. Scientists are among them. When they embark on an important experiment, they not only anticipate failure, they relish it. The pure scientist understands completely that a “failed” experiment has not “failed” at all but merely pointed the way to success.

Something working out “the way you wanted it to” is not the definition of success, and something “not working out the way you wanted it to” is not the definition of failure. Indeed, if you live a long life there will be times when you will claim the opposite is to be true.

What you call many failures are actually successive experiences. And how can any experience which you call “successive” be a failure?

Yet the Illusion of Failure is necessary in order to experience the exhilaration of success. If you “succeed” at everything, then you will experience succeeding at nothing. You will simply feel that you are doing what you are doing, but you will not know it as success, nor experience the wonder and the glory of Who You Really Are, because there would be no contextual field within which to notice that.

If you throw a touchdown pass on the first attempt, that may be exhilarating, for sure. Yet if you throw a touchdown pass on every attempt, you would soon lose the excitement of it. It would mean nothing. There would be nothing but touchdown passes, and throwing them would be pointless, meaningless.

All of life moves in cycles. And it is these cycles that give meaning to life.
In fact, there is no such thing as failure. There is only success, manifesting in many aspects. There is also no such thing that which is not God. There is only God, manifesting in Its many aspects.

Do you see the parallel? Do you see the model?

This simple seeing changes everything. When this is clear to you, you will be immediately struck with gratitude and wonder. Gratitude for all the “failures” of your life, and wonder that it took so long to recognize the treasures that you have been given.

You will understand at last truly “I have brought to you nothing but angels,” and “I have given you nothing but miracles.”

In the moment of this understanding, you will know that you never fail to succeed.
Always remember that.

You never fail to succeed.


The Third Illusion, the Illusion of Disunity, may be used to experience your unity with everything.

If you are united with something for a long time, you will at some point cease to notice that there is a “you” at all. The idea of “you” as separate entity will gradually disappear.

People who have been together for a very long time often experience this. They begin to lose their individual identity. This is one-derful—to a point. Yet there wonder of it disappears when the Unity is experienced without end, because Unity in the absence of Disunity is nothing. It is not experienced as ecstasy but as a void. In the absence of any separation, ever, Oneness is noneness.

That is why I have inspired it to be written: Let there be spaces in your togetherness. Drink from a full cup but not from the same cup. The pillars that support a structure stand apart, and the strings of the lute are separate, though they quiver with the same music.

All of life is a process of experiencing Unity and separation, Unity and separation. This is very rhythm of life. Indeed, this is the rhythm that creates Life itself.
I say to you again: Life is a cycle, as is everything in it. The cycle is to and fro, to and fro. Together, apart. Together, apart.

Even when a thing is apart, it is always together, for it cannot truly separate, but only get larger. Therefore, even when a thing appears to be apart, it is still apart, which means it is not apart at all.

Your entire Universe was once unified beyond comprehension, compacted into a dot infinitesimally smaller than the period at the end of this essence. It then exploded, yet it did not truly separate but merely became larger.

God cannot dismember Itself. We can appear to have come apart, but we have all simply become a part. Our Intrinsic Unity is experienced once again when we re-member.

When you see others who appear separate from you, look at them deeply. Look into them. Do this for a long moment and you will capture their essence.

And then you’ll meet you, waiting there.

When you see things in your world—a part of nature, another aspect of life—that appear separate from you, just look at them deeply. Look into them. Do this for a long moment and you will capture their essence.

And then you’ll meet you, waiting there.

In that moment you will know Unity with all things. And as your sense of Oneness increases, suffering and sorrow will vanish from your life, for suffering is a response of separation, and sorrow is an announcement of its truth. Yet it is a false truth. It is something that only appears to be true. It is not ultimately true. True separation, from anyone or anything, is simply not possible. It is an Illusion. It is a wonderful illusion, because it allows you to experience the ecstasy of Union, but it is an illusion nonetheless.

Use the Illusion of Disunity as if it were a tool in the hands of a craftsman. Craft your experience of total unification with this tool, and use the tool again to re-create the experience over and over again.

When you see nothing but you wherever you look, you peer through the eyes of God. And as your sense of Oneness increases, pain and disappointment will vanish from your life.

Always remember that.

As your sense of Oneness increases, pain and disappointment will vanish from your life.

The Fourth Illusion, the Illusion of Insufficiency, may be used to experience your abundance.

God is abundant, and so are you. In the Garden of Eden you had everything, but you did not know. You experienced eternal life, but it did not matter. It did not impress you because you experienced nothing else.

The Garden of Eden is a myth, but the story was intended to convey a great truth. When you have everything and do not know that you have everything, you have nothing.
The only way for you to know what it means to have everything is for you to at some point have less than everything. Hence, the Illusion of Insufficiency.

Your insufficiency was intended as a blessing, through which you could know and experience your true and total abundance. Yet it is necessary to step outside of the Illusion—to see the Illusion as an illusion, and move away from it—in order to have this experience.

Here’s how you can step outside of the Illusion of Insufficiency: Fill the insufficiency that you see, wherever you see it outside of yourself. For this is where the Illusion lies: outside of yourself. If, then, you see insufficiency outside yourself, fill the insufficiency.

If you see people who are hungry, feed them. If you see people who need clothing, clothe them. If you see people who need shelter, give them shelter. You will then experience that you have no insufficiencies at all.

However little of anything you have, you can always find someone who has less. Find that someone, and give to them from the abundance that is yours.

Seek not to be recipient of anything but to be the source. That which you wish to have, cause another to have. That which you would seek to experience, cause another to experience. In so doing, you will remember that you have had these things in your possession all along.

This is why it has been said, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
So don’t go around asking, What are we to eat? What are we to drink? Look at the birds in the air. They neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns, and yet they are fed. Which of you, by being anxious, can add one thing to your life?
And do not ask, How shall we clothe ourselves? Consider the lilies of the field, and how they grow. They neither toil, nor do they spin. Yet I tell you, even in Solomon n all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Therefore, seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and all else will be added unto you.
And how may you seek the kingdom of heaven? By providing the kingdom of heaven to others. By being the kingdom of heaven, in which others may find refuge and strength. By bringing the kingdom of heaven, and all its blessings, to all those whose lives you touch. For what you give, you become.

Always remember that.

What you give, you become.


The Fifth Illusion, the Illusion of Requirement, may be used to experience that there is nothing you have to do to know and experience Who You Really Are.

Only by doing those things that you imagine you are required to do to make life work can you come to a complete knowing that none of it is necessary.

Ask those among you who are very old. Ask those who have danced the dance and toed the line and obeyed the rules. They will give you their advice in three words.
“Disobey the rules.”

They will not hesitate. Their counsel will be quick and clear.

“Color outside the lines.”

“Don’t be afraid.”

“Listen to your heart.”

“Don’t let anyone tell you what to do.”

At the end of your life you will know that nothing you have done will matter—only who you have been while you have done it.

Have you been happy? Have you been kind? Have you been gracious? Have you been caring, and compassionate, and considerate of others? Have you been generous, and sharing, and—most of all—have you been loving?

You will see that it is who you have been, not what you have done, that matters to your soul. And you will see that it is your soul, after all, that is Who You Are.

Yet the Illusion of Requirement, the idea that there are things you must do, can serve to motivate your mind while you are with your body. It is useful as long as you understand at some level that it is an Illusion, and that nobody has to do anything that they don’t want to do.

For most people thus truth is both incredibly freeing and incredibly frightening. The fear is that if human beings were really allowed to do only what they wanted to do, nothing that truly needs to be done would ever get done.

Who would take the garbage out?

Seriously.

Who would do the things that nobody wants to do?

That is the question, that is the fear. Humans believe that, left to their own devices, people would not do what needs to be done to keep life going.

That fear is unfounded. Humans, it would be discovered, are pretty wonderful beings. And in a community where there were no rules, no regulations, and no requirements, there would still be plenty of people who would do the things that need to be done.
In fact, there would be very few who would not, for they would be uncomfortable being known as non-contributors.

And that is what would change if there were no rules, regulations, or requirements. What would change is not what is being done, but why it is being done.

The “why” of doing would be altered.

Instead of doing things because they are told they must, humans would do what they do because they choose to, as an expression of Who They Are.

This is, in truth, the only real person to do anything. But it reverses the entire doing-being paradigm, one does something, and then one is something. Under the new paradigm, one is something, and then one does something.

One is happy, and then one does what a happy person does. One is responsible, and then one does what a responsible person does. One is kind, and then one does what a kind person does.

One does not do responsible things in order to be responsible. One does not do kind things in order to be kind. This only leads to resentment (“After all I’ve done!), because it assumes that all the doing will be rewarded.

And that is precisely what you have deemed the purpose of heaven.

Heaven has been held out as your eternal reward for all the things you have done while on Earth—and for not doing the things you were “not supposed to do.” So you have decided that there must also be a place for people who have not done good things, or who have done things they were not supposed to do. You have called this place hell.

Now I come to tell you this: There is no such place as hell. Hell is a state of being. It is the experience of separation from God, an imagining that you are separate from your very self and cannot be reunited. Hell is forever trying to find your self.

What you have called heaven, too, is a state of being. It is the experience of Oneness, the ecstasy of reunification with All That Is. It is the knowing of the true self.

There are no requirements for heaven. That is because heaven is not a place that you get to, it is a place that you are in, always. Yet you can be in heaven (Oneness with All) and not know it. Indeed, most of you are.

This can be changed, but not by something you are doing. It can only be changed by something that you are being.

This is what is meant by, “There is nothing you have to do.” There is nothing to do but be.

And there is nothing to be but One.

The amazing thing is that when you are being One with everything, you wind up doing all the things you thought you “had to do” in order to receive the reward you thought you had to work so hard to receive. It becomes your natural will to do to, and for, others only those things that you would do to and for yourself. And you would not do to others what you would not want done to you. When you are being One, you are realizing—that is, making real—the idea that there is no “other.”

Yet even being One is not “required.” You cannot be required to be what you already are if you have blue eyes, nobody can make you have blue eyes. If you are six feet tall, no one can force you do be six feet tall. And if you are One with everything, you cannot be required to be.

Therefore, there is no such thing as Requirement.

Requirement does not exist.

Who would do this requiring? And of whom would it be required? There is only God.
I Am That I Am, and there is nothing else that is.

Use the Illusion of Requirement to notice that there can be nothing that is truly required. You cannot know and experience freedom from Requirement if you have nothing but freedom from Requirement. You will seek to imagine, therefore, that certain things are required of you.

This you have done very well. You have created a God who demands perfection of you, and who requires you to come to Him in only a certain way, through particular rituals, all of which are carefully prescribed. You must say the exact and perfect words, do the exact and perfect things. You must live in particular way.

Having created the illusion that such requirements exist in order to acquire My love, you are now beginning to experience the indescribable joy of knowing that none of this is necessary.

You will notice this by observing that “rewards” often come to people on Earth whether they “do what they are supposed to do” or not. The same is true of what you imagine your rewards to be in your afterlife. Yet your experience in the afterlife is not a reward, it is an outcome. It is the natural result of a natural process called Life.

When you become clear about this, you will understand free will at last.
In that moment, you will know that your true nature is freedom. You will never again confuse love with Requirement, for true love requires nothing.

Always remember that.

True love requires nothing.


The Sixth Illusion, the Illusion of Judgment, may be used to experience the wonder of a non-judgmental you, and a non-judgmental God.

You have chosen to create experience of judgment in order to experience the wonder of a non-judgmental God, and to understand that judgment is utterly impossible in God’s world. Only through feeling the sadness and the destructiveness of judgment yourself could you truly know that it is not something that love could ever sponsor.

It is when other people judge you that you know this most keenly, for nothing hurts more than judgment.

Judgment hurts deeply when those who judge you are wrong—yet it hurts even more deeply when they are right. This is when the judgment of others cuts to the quick, tearing at the fabric of the soul. You have only to experience this once to know that judgment is never a product of love.

In creating your illusory world, you have produced societies in which judgment is not only accepted but expected. You have even created an entire system of what you call “justice” around this idea that someone else can judge you to be “guilty” or “innocent.”

I tell you this: No one is ever guilty, and everyone is forever innocent, in the eyes of God. That is because My eyes see more than yours. My eyes see why you think things, why you say things, and why you do things. My heart knows that you have merely misunderstood.

I have inspired it to be said, “No one does anything inappropriate, given their model of the world.” This is a great truth. I have inspired it to be said, “Guilt and fear are the only enemies of man.” That is a great truth.

In highly evolved societies, no members of those societies are ever judged and found guilty of anything. They are simply observed to have done something, and the outcome of their actions, the impact of them, is made clear to them. Then they are allowed to decide what, if anything, they wish to do with regard to that. And others in society are likewise allowed to decide what, if anything, they wish to do to and for themselves with regard to that. They do nothing to another. The idea of punishment is simply not something that occurs to them, because the concept of punishment itself is incomprehensible to them. Why would be the One Being want to hurt Itself? Even if it has done something that is damaging, why would It want to hurt Itself again? How does hurting Itself once more correct the damage of the first hurt? It’s like stubbing one’s toe, then kicking twice as hard to retaliate.

Of course, in a society that does not see itself as one, and does not see itself as one with God, this analogy would not make sense. In such a society, judgment would make perfect sense.

Judgment is not the same as observation. And observation is a simple looking, a simple seeing of what is so. Judgment, on the other hand, is a concluding that something else must be so because of what is observed.

Observing is witnessing. Judging is concluding. It is adding a “therefore” to the sentence. In fact, it becomes a sentence—often handed down without mercy.
Judgment sears the soul, for it brands the spirit with an Illusion of who you are, ignoring the deeper reality.

I will never judge you, ever. Because even if you have done certain thing, My observation of that would be a simple seeing of what is so. I would draw no conclusions about Who You Are. It is, in fact, impossible to draw conclusions about Who You Are, because in you creation of yourself you are never concluded. You are a work in progress. You are not finished creating you—and you never will be.

You are never you were in the last moment, and I never see you as that, but, rather, as who you now choose to be.

I have inspired others to describe it this way: You are continually creating yourself form the field of infinite possibilities. You are constantly re-creating your self anew in the next grandest version of the greatest vision you ever held about Who You Are. You are, in every moment, born again. And so is everyone else.

In the moment you understand this you will see that judging yourself, or judging another, is pointless. Because that which you would judge has ceased to be, even as you are judging it. It has come to a conclusion even as you are coming to your own conclusions.

In that moment you will relinquish forever your idea of a judging God, for you will know that love could never judge. As your awareness increases, you will comprehend the full impact of the truth that self-creation never ends.

Always remember that.

Self-creation never ends.


The Seventh Illusion, the Illusion of Condemnation, may be used to experience the fact that you are deserving of nothing but praise. This is something that you cannot fathom, for you live so deeply within your Illusion of Condemnation. If, however, you lived within the heart of praise every moment, you could not experience it.
Praise would mean nothing to you. You would not know what it was.

The glory of praise is lost when praise is all there is. Yet you have taken this awareness to an extreme, taking the illusion of imperfection and Condemnation to new levels, where you now actually believe praise to be wrong—especially self-praise. You are not to praise yourself, or to notice (much less announce) the glory of Who You Really Are. And you must be sparing in your praise of others. Praise, you have concluded, is not good.

The Illusion of Condemnation is also your announcement that you, and God, can be damaged. Exactly the opposite is true, of course, but you cannot know this truth, nor experience it, in the absence of any other reality. And so, you have created an alternate reality in which damage is possible, and Condemnation is proof of it.

To repeat, the idea that you, or God, can be damaged is an illusion. If God is the All In All (and I am), and if God is the Most Powerful (and I am), and if God is the Supreme Being (it is true), then God is incapable of being hurt of damaged. And if you are made in the image and likeness of God (and you are), then you cannot be hurt or damaged either.

Condemnation is device you have created to help you experience the wonder of this, by producing a context within which this truth can have meaning. “Damage” is one of the many lesser illusions that evolve every day from the Ten Illusions. The First Illusion (that God and you need something) is what creates the illusion—that if you don’t get what you need, God and you will be injured, hurt, or damaged.

This sets up the perfect case for retribution. And this is not a small but a very big illusion.

Nothing has captured the imagination of humans more completely than the idea that hell exists, that there is a place in the Universe to which God condemns those who have not obeyed His law.

Frightening, gruesome pictures of this horrific place appear in frescoes on the ceiling and walls of churches all over the world. Equally upsetting images adorn the pages of catechism texts and Sunday-school booklets given to little children—the better to scare them with.

And while good, church-going people have for centuries believed the message that these images send, it happens that the message is false. That is why I inspired Pope John Paul II to indicate to a Papal Audience at the Vatican (July 28, 1999) the “improper use of biblical pictures must not create psychosis or anxiety.” The biblical descriptions of hell are symbolic and metaphorical.

I inspired the Pope to say that the “inextinguishable fire” and “the burning oven” the Bible speaks of “indicate frustration and vacuity of a life without God.” Hell is a state of separation from God, he explained, a state caused not by a punishing God but rather, self-induced.

It is not God’s function to administer retribution or to punish anyone, and the Pope made that clear in his Audience.

Still, the idea of condemning god has been a useful illusion. It has created a context within which you could experience all manner of things, many aspects of being.

Fear, for instance. Or forgiveness. Compassion, and mercy, too.

A condemned man understands, at the deepest level, the expression of mercy. So does the person doing the condemning—or the granting of pardon.

Forgiveness is another nuance of the expression of love that it has served your species to experience. Forgiveness is experienced only in young, primitive cultures (advanced cultures have no need for it, understanding that, since there can be no damage, no forgiveness is necessary), but it has enormous value within the context of evolution—the process by which cultures mature and grow.

Forgiveness allows you to heal virtually any psychological, emotional, spiritual, and sometimes even physical, wound that you imagine has been inflicted upon you. Forgiveness is a great healer. You can literally forgive your way to health. You can forgive your way to happiness.

Your use of the Illusion of Condemnation has been very creative in this regard, creating many moments in your life, and in human history, in which forgiveness could be expressed. You have experienced this as an aspect of divine love—moving you closer and closer to the truth of both love and Divinity itself.

One of the most famous stories of forgiveness that has done this is the account of Jesus forgiving the man on the cross beside Him, revealing the eternal truth that no one is condemned who seeks God. This means that no one is ever condemned, because everyone ultimately seeks God, whether they call it that or not.

Hell is the experience of separation from God. Yet anyone who does not wish to experience eternal separation does not have to. The mere desire for reunion with God produces it.

That is an extraordinary statement, and I am going to repeat it.

The mere desire for reunion with God produces it.

Forgiveness is never necessary, since no true offense can ever be committed by or against Divinity itself, given Divinity itself is All That Is. This is something that advanced cultures understand. Who would forgive whom? And, for what?
Does the hand forgive the toe for stubbing itself? Does the eye forgive the ear?
The hand may confront the toe, true enough. It may rub it and heal it and make it better. But does it need to forgive the toe? Or could it be that forgiving is just another word for comforting in the language of the soul?

I have inspired it to be written: Love means never having to say you’re sorry.
When your culture, too, understand this, you will never again condemn yourself or another for those times when the soul is “stubbing the toe.” You will never again embrace a vengeful, angry, damning God who would condemn you to everlasting torture for what would, to God, surely be less than the stubbing the toe.

In that moment, you will relinquish forever your idea of a condemning God, for you will know that love could never condemn. Then you will condemn no one and nothing, either, according to my injunction: Judge not, and neither condemn.

Always remember that.

Judge not, and neither condemn.


The Eighth Illusion, the Illusion of Conditionality, may be used to experience that aspect of your self which exists without condition—and which can love without condition for that very reason.

You are an unconditional being, yet you cannot know that you are an unconditional being because there is no condition in which you are not unconditional. You are, therefore, in no condition.

This is true, literally. You are in no condition to do anything. You can only be. Yet pure beingness does not satisfy you. For this reason, you have created the Illusion of Conditionality. This is the idea that one part of you—one part of Life, one part of God—depends upon another in order to be.

This is an outgrowth, or an enlargement, of your Illusion of Disunity, which, in turn, springs from your Illusion of Need, which is the First Illusion. There is really only One Illusion, and all other illusions are an enlargement of that, as I have said repeatedly.

It is from the Illusion of Conditionality that what you call relativity was created. Hot and cold, for instance, are really not opposites but the very same thing in a different condition.

Everything is the same thing. There is only one energy, and that is the energy that you call Life. The word “God” may be used interchangeable here. It is the individual and specific vibration of this energy that you refer to as its condition. Under certain conditions, certain things occur and appear to be what you call true.
For instance, up is down and down is up—under certain conditions. Your astronauts learned that in outer space, definitions of “up” and “down” disappeared. Truth changed, because conditions changed.

Changing conditions create changing truth.

Truth is nothing more than a word meaning “what is so right now.” Yet what is so is always changing. Therefore, truth is always changing.

Your world has shown you this. Your life has demonstrated this to you.

The process of Life, in fact, change. Reduced to one word, life is change.

God is Life. Therefore, God Is Change.

In one word, God Is Change.

God is a process. Not a being, but a process.

And that process is called change.

Some of you might prefer the word evolution.

God is the energy that evolves…or, That Which Becomes.

That Which Becomes needs no special condition in order to become. Life is simply becomes what it becomes, and in order for you to define it, describe it, quantify it, measure it, and try to control it, you ascribe certain conditions to it.

Yet Life has no conditions. It simply is. Life is that it is.

I AM THAT I AM.

You may now fully understand this ancient enigmatic statement for the first time.
When you know that conditions must appear to exist in order for you to experience non-conditionality (that is, in order for you to know God), you will bless the conditions of your life, and every condition that you have ever experienced. These conditions have allowed you to experience that you are larger than any of them. Larger than all of them combined. You life has shown you this.

Think of this for a moment, and you will see that this is true. Imagine a condition in which you have found yourself, in which you have imagined yourself to be. Have you ever risen above that condition, to discover that you have overcome it? In truth, you did not overcome it at all. You never were it. You simply threw your off your idea that this condition in which you found yourself was you. You saw yourself as bigger than that, other than that.

“I am not my condition,” you may have said. “I am not my handicap, I am not my job, I am not my wealth, or lack of it, I am not this. This is not Who I am.”

People who have made such declarations have produced extraordinary experiences in their lives, extraordinary outcomes. They have thus used the Illusion of Conditionality to re-create themselves anew, in the next grandest version of the greatest version of the greatest vision they ever held about Who They Are.

Because of this, there are those who have blessed the very conditions of life that others have condemned. For they have embraced these conditions as a great gift, allowing them to see and declare the truth of their being.

When you bless the conditions of your life, you change them. For you are calling them something other than what they appear to be, even as you are calling yourself something other than what you appear to be.

It is at this point you begin to consciously create, and not merely notice, the conditions and circumstances of your life, for you will know that you have always been, and always will be, the perceiver and the definer of every condition. What one person perceives poverty, you may perceive as abundance. What one person defines as defeat, you may define as victory (as you will when you decide that every failure is a success).

Thus, you will experience your self as the creator of every condition—it’s “imaginer,” if you will (but only if it is your will), since true Conditionality does not exist.

In that moment you will cease blaming any other person, place, or thing in your life of your experience. And the whole of our experience—past, present, and future—will change. You will know that you have never truly been victimized, and what you know, you will grow. Ultimately, you will realize that there are no victims.

Always remember that.

There are no victims.


The Ninth Illusion, the Illusion of Superiority, may be used to experience that not thing is superior to any other thing, and that inferiority is likewise a fiction. All things are equal. Yet you cannot know that all things are equal when equality is all there is.

If everything is equal, then nothing is equal—for the very idea of “equalness” is something which cannot be experienced, inasmuch as there is only one thing, and it is all equal to itself.

A thing cannot be “unequal” to itself. If you take a thing and divide it into parts, the parts equal the whole. They are not less than the whole, simply because they have been taken apart.

Yet the illusion of inequality allows each of the parts to notice itself as the part that it is, rather than seeing itself as the whole. You cannot see yourselves as a part unless you see yourself as apart. Do you understand? You cannot conceive of yourself as a part of God unless you imagine yourself to be apart from God.
Put another way, you cannot see Me unless you stand back and look at Me. Yet you cannot stand back and look at Me if you think that you are Me. So you must imagine that you are not Me, in order to experience Me.

You are equal to God, and this equality with God is something that you yearn to experience. You are not inferior to God, nor to anything at all, yet you cannot know or experience lack of inferiority in a context where nothing is superior. You have therefore created the Illusion of Superiority, that you might know that you are equal to everything—which is to say that you are superior to nothing.

Your oneness with God cannot be experienced outside of a context in which lack of oneness, or Disunity, is possible. You must be within the context, or what we have here called the illusion, in order to know the truth that exists outside of the illusion. You must be “in this world but not of it.”

Likewise, your equality with God, and with everything and everyone in life, is not “experienceable” unless and until you can understand inequality.

It is for this reason that you have created the Illusion of Superiority.

There is another benefit to the idea of Superiority as well. By imagining yourself as superior to the conditions and circumstances of your life, you allow yourself to experience the aspect of our being that is bigger than all of those conditions and circumstances—a point which was made earlier.

There is a wonderful part of you that you can call upon when faced with negative conditions and circumstances. Some of you call this courage. The Illusion of Superiority has thus been very useful to you as you have lived within the larger Illusion called Life in The Physical Realm, for it has given to you the strength to rise above negative circumstances, and to overcome them.

When you see this Illusion as an illusion, you will understand that there is no part of you that is superior to All Of It, because every part of you is All Of It. You will then not call upon courage, you will know that you are courage. You will not call upon God, you will know that you are the aspect of God that you would call upon.
You are the caller and the called. The changer and the changed. The creator and the created. The beginning and the end. The alpha and the omega.

This is what you are, because that is what I Am. And you are made in the image and likeness of Me.

You are Me. I am you. I move in you, as you, and through you. In you I have my being.
In everyone, and all things.

Therefore, none of you is superior to another. Such a thing cannot be. Yet you have created the Illusion of Superiority that you might know the power of you—and, by extension, the power of everyone; the unity and the equality of you with God and all others; and the unity and equality of everyone with God and others.

Yet you must be told that this Illusion of Superiority is a very dangerous one, if human pain and suffering is something that you wish to avoid.

I have already told you that pain and suffering are avoided when you experience your Oneness with each other, and with god. It is the Illusion of Superiority that denies this unity, and creates even greater separation.

Superiority is the most seductive idea ever visited upon the experience of humans. It can feel so good—when you are the one who is imagining yourself to be superior. Yet it can feel so bad when another is claiming to be superior to you.

Be careful with this illusion, then, because it is a powerful one. It must be understood deeply, completely. The idea of Superiority can be a great gift within the world of relative experience, as I have shown you. It can, indeed, bring you the strength and the courage to see yourself and experience yourself as larger than your circumstance, greater than your oppressors, more than you, yourself, thought yourself to be. Yet it can be insidious.

Even religions, the one human institution which was supposedly created to bring you closer to God, have too often used Superiority as their chief too. “Our religion is superior to the other religion,” many institutions have declared, thus doing more to separate human beings on the path to God than to unite them.

States and nations, races and genders, political parties and economic systems have all sought to use their supposed Superiority to attract attention, respect, agreement, adherence, power, or, simply, members. What they have produced by using this tool has been anything but superior.

Yet the largest part of the human race seems so blind or is strangely silent. It cannot see that its own superiority-based behaviors are actually producing inferiority in every way. Or it does see this, and simply refuses to admit it. The result is that the cycle of claiming Superiority as justification for its actions, and then suffering the inferior results of those actions, goes on and on.

There is a way to break out of this cycle.

See this Illusion as an illusion. Understand and know at last that We Are All One. The human race, and all of Life, is unified field. It is all One Thing. There is, therefore, nothing to be superior to, and nothing that is superior to you.

This is the essential truth of the life experience. Is the tulip superior to the rose? Are the mountains more majestic than the sea? Which snowflake is the most magnificent? Is it possible that they are all magnificent—and that, celebrating their magnificence together, they create an awesome display? Then they melt into each other, and into the Oneness. Yet they never go away. They never disappear. They never cease to be. Simply, they change form. And not just once, but several times: from solid to liquid, form liquid to vapor, from the seen to unseen, to rise again, and then again to return in new displays of breathtaking beauty and wonder. This is Life, nourishing Life.

This is you.

The metaphor is complete.

The metaphor is real.

You will make this real in your experience when you simply decide that it is true, and act that way. See the beauty and the wonder of all whose lives you touch. For you are each wondrous indeed, yet no one more wondrous than another. And you will all one day melt into the Oneness, and know then that you form together a single stream.

Such a knowing will change the entirely of your experience on earth. It will change your politics, your economic, your social interactions, the way you educate your young. It will bring you, at last, heaven on earth.

When you see that Superiority is an illusion, you will know that inferiority is an illusion as well. Then you will feel the wonder and power of equality—with each other, and with God. Your idea about yourself will become larger, and the reason for the Illusion of Superiority will have been realized. For the larger your idea of you, the larger will be your experience.

Always remember that.

The larger your idea of you, the larger will be your experience.


The Tenth Illusion, the Illusion of Ignorance, has produced the idea that you don’t know any of this; that everything which has been said is new to you, and that you can’t comprehend it.

This illusion allows you to continue living in the Realm of Relativity. Yet you do not have to continue living as you have been living, in pain and suffering, hurting yourselves and each other, waiting, waiting, waiting for the better times yet to come—or for your eternal reward in heaven. You can have your heaven on Earth. You can live in your garden of paradise. You were never cast out. I would never do that to you.

You know this. In your heart, you already know this. Just as you know about the Oneness of humanity, and of all life. Just as you know about the equality of everything, and that love is unconditional. You know all these things and more, and you hold this knowing deeply in your soul.

Ignorance is an illusion. You use the Illusion wisely when you see it as an illusion—when you know that it is not true that you do not know. You know…and you know that you know.

This what is said of all Masters.

They know that they know, and they use their knowing to live with, and not within the illusory world in which they have placed themselves. This makes them appear in your world as if they are magicians, creating and using all Life’s illusions easily.
“Not knowing” is a wonderful illusion, and useful. It allows you to know again, to learn again, to remember once more. It allows you to reexperience the cycle. To become a snowflake.

It is the illusion that you do not know that allows you to know what you know. If you know everything, and know that you know it, then you can know nothing.
Look deeply into this truth, and you will understand it.

Give yourself the illusion, then, that you are ignorant of something. Anything. In that moment, you will have the experience of that which you are not ignorant—and what you know will suddenly become apparent to you.

This is the wonder of humility. This is the power in the statement, “There is something here I do not know, the knowing of which could change everything.” This single statement can heal the world.

The call to humility is a call to glory.

And in terms of theology, there could be no greater tool for advancement. I have inspired it to be said that a little “humility theology” is what the world needs. A little less assurance that you know it all, and a little more willingness to continue to search, to acknowledge that there may be something you do not know—the knowing of which could change everything.

I say again, not knowing leads to knowing. Knowing it all leads to not knowing anything.

That is why the Illusion of Ignorance is so important. And so it is, too, with all the Illusions. They are the keys to your experience of Who You Really Are. They open the door from the Realm of the Relative to the Realm of the Absolute. The door to everything.

Yet, as with all Ten Illusions, when the Illusion of Ignorance runs away with you, when becomes your total experience, your ever-present reality, then it no longer serves you. Then you are like the magician who has forgotten his own tricks. You become one who is fooled by his own illusions. Then will you need to be “saved” by another, someone who sees through the illusion, who makes you up, and reminds you of Who you Really Are.

This soul will truly be your savior, even as you can truly be the savior of others by simply reminding them of Who They Really Are, by giving them back to themselves. “Savior” is just another word for “reminder.” It is someone who re-minds you, someone who re-members you, causing you to be of a new mind, and to once again know yourself as a member of the Body of God.

Do this for others. For you are today’s savior. You are My beloved, in whom I am well pleased. You are the one I have sent to bring the others home.

Therefore, step out of the illusion, but not away from it. Live with it, but not within it. Do this and you will be in this world, but not of it. You will know your own magic, and what you know, you will grow. Ever larger will be your idea about your magic, until you one day understand that you are the magic.

Always remember that.

You are the magic.

When you use the Illusion of Ignorance, no longer living it but simply using it, you acknowledge and admit that there is much that you still do not know (do not remember), yet this very humility raises you beyond the humble, causing you to understand more, remember more, become more aware. Now you are among the cognoscenti—those who know.

You remember that you are simply using illusions to create a localized contextual field within which you can experience, and not merely conceptualize, any one of the myriad aspects of Who You Are. You begin using this contextual field consciously, like an artist using a paint brush, producing wonderful pictures and creating powerful and extraordinary moments—moments of grace—in which you may know your self experientially.

If you wish to experience your self as forgiveness, for instance, you could mix the Illusions of Judgment, Condemnation, and Superiority. Projecting those in front of you, you quite suddenly will find (create) people in your life who give you the opportunity to exhibit forgiveness. You can even add the Illusion of Failure, projecting it on yourself, to heighten the experience. Finally, you can use the Illusion of Ignorance, to pretend that you don’t know you are doing all of this.
If you want to experience your self as compassion, or as generosity, you might mix the Illusions of Need and Insufficiency to create contextual field within which to express those aspects of Divinity within you. You may then find yourself walking down the street, confronted by beggars. Strange you may say to yourself, I have never seen beggars on this corner before…

You fell compassion for them, and it touches your heart. You feel generosity stirring within you, and you reach into your pocket and give them some money.
Or perhaps a relative will call and ask for financial help. You could choose to feel any one of many aspects of your being in that moment. But on this occasion, you choose kindness, caring, and love. You say, “Of course, how much do you need?”
But be careful, because if you are not careful, you will not understand how the beggar on the street, or how the relative on the phone, found their way to your life. You will forget that you put them there.

If you fall too deeply into the Illusion, you will forget that you have called every person, place, and event of your life to you. You will forget that they are there to create the perfect situation, the perfect opportunity, to know yourself in a particular way.

You will forget My grandest teaching: I have sent you nothing but my angels.

You may cast My angels as villains in your story. If you are not careful, you will see your self as the victim, rather than the beneficiary, or the many moments of grace that have come into your life, not all of which will be initially welcome, but all of which will hold a gift for you.

Or you may decide to become a beneficiary in a way other than the one you had initially chosen. You may decide, for instance, that not only do you wish to experience compassion but also power and control. You may continue giving to the same beggar, going down to the same corner every day at the same time, until the two of you establish a ritual. You may continue giving to that relative, mailing a check every month, until the two of you establish a ritual.

Now you are in control. You have the power. You have disempowered them—literally, taken their power to re-create their lives away from them—so that you may feel glorified, and powerful. Suddenly, they cannot function without you. Neither the beggar nor the relative—both of whom existed for years on the planet without your help at all—can function without you. You have rendered them dysfunctional, and have created a dysfunctional relationship with them.

Instead of helping them out the pit by throwing them a rope and pulling them up, you have tossed the rope into the pit and jumped in after it.

Watch carefully, then, your motivation for doing anything. Keep looking at your agenda. Monitor closely what aspect of your being you are experiencing. Is there a way to experience that without disempowering another? Is there a way to remember Who You Are without inviting someone else to forget who they are?


These are some of the ways you may use The Ten Illusions, and the countless smaller illusions beneath them. Now you see, now you understand, now you remember how the Illusions are used.

Remember what was said earlier. It is not necessary to use Illusions in the present moment in order to create a contextual field within which to experience higher aspects of your self. Advanced beings not only step outside of the Illusions but away from them. That is, they put the Illusions behind them and merely use the memory of them to create that contextual field.

Whether you use them in memory form or in physical form in your present moment them every day. Yet if you are not using Illusions consciously—if you do not know that you have been creating them, and why you have done so—you could imagine yourself to be at the effect of your life, rather than at cause in the matter. You could think that life is happening to you, rather than through you.

This is what you may not have known, the knowing of which could change everything.
With regard to all that is happening in your life, you are at cause in the matter.
You understand this perfectly when you step outside of the Illusions. You experience this in your body, at the cellular level, when you experience the communion with God.
It is this for which every soul yearns. It is this that is the ultimate purpose of all of life. You are on a journey to mastery, returning to Oneness, that you may know the wonder and the glory of God in your own soul, and express it through you, as you, in a thousand ways over a million moments in countless lifetimes that reach to eternity.