5. The Illusion of Requirement
This Is The Fifth Illusion:
REQUIREMENT EXISTS
The existence of Insufficiency led rapidly and inevitably to the idea of the next Illusion.
If there were enough stuff, there would be nothing you would have to do get whatever it was that you wanted or needed. You would just reach out and it would be there. But that is not how humans decided that it is. They said, there is not enough. So now they faced the question: How does one get enough? How does one qualify?
You imagined that there must be something that you had to do in order to get the stuff of which there was not enough—something that would allow you to lay claim to it without argument. This is the only way that you could figure out how to get everything—including God—divided in your favor without killing and squabbling.
You imagined this to be the Requirement.
You told yourselves that fulfilling it—whatever it was—is “what it takes.” That idea has held firm to this very day. If anything, it has grown stronger. You believe that when you do the things you need to do, you can be the things you want to be.
If you want to be happy, if you want to be secure, if you want to be loved, then there are things you are going to have to do. You cannot be these things unless you have enough. And you cannot have enough unless you do what it takes to get enough—to qualify your enough.
This is what you believe, and because you believe it, you have elevated doing to be the highest place in your cosmology.
Even God says there is something that you have to do in order to get into heaven.
This is how you have it put together.
This is the Requirement.
Mind you, now, all of this is based on The Third Illusion—that you are separate. When there was only One of you, there was always enough, and so, there was nothing you had to do in order to be anything.
And that idea of separation was based on The Second Illusion—that Failure exists. Because God failed to get what He wanted, He separated all humans from Him.
And Failure was based on The First Illusion—that Need exists. God could not fail to get what God wanted if God wanted nothing, and God would want nothing if God needed nothing.
In truth, there is only one Illusion, and all the others are permutations of that. Everything else is an expansion of the only Illusion, with a different nuance.
Thus, the Illusion of Requirement is nothing more than a different take on the Illusion of Need. Similarly, the Illusion of Insufficiency is a different take on The Illusion Need, as is The Illusion of Failure, and so on, through all The Illusions of Humans.
You will see clearly, as you explore each illusion, that each is an outgrowth of the illusions that have gone before. It is like watching a balloon being blown up.
The announcement of your species that there is a Requirement that must be met in order to acquire anything of which there is not enough—including God’s love—has proven to be one of the most significant decisions the human race has ever made. It has resulted in entire lists and sets of rules and regulations, guidelines and procedures, laws of God and laws of man, by which you imagine you must live you life.
Here are few of the things you have decided that you must do in order to have a good life on Earth:
Be a good boy or girl.
Don’t talk back.
Get good grades and go on to college.
Graduate with a degree and find a good job.
Marry and have children.
Be good parents and give your children more than you were given.
Be cool.
Do as you are told.
Don’t do bad things—or, at least, don’t get caught.
Follow the leader.
Don’t ask too many questions, and don’t ask any of the wrong ones.
Keep everybody happy.
Do not include your self in the group of people you are trying to keep happy if it may mean excluding someone else from the group.
Don’t impose on anybody, especially when you get old.
And here are few of the things you have decided that you must do in order to please God and get into heaven:
Don’t do anything bad—and forget about not getting caught, because you will.
If you do do something bad, for God’s sake, beg forgiveness and promise never, ever to do it again.
Be a good boy or girl.
Do not play with yourself.
Do not play with anyone else, either. Not that way…
In fact, do not play much at all. Try to understand that all pleasures of the body are, at best, distractions from what you really came to earth to do, and, at worst, absolute sins against God.
If you must have pleasures, do not enjoy them.
Do not enjoy money.
Do not enjoy attention.
Do not enjoy sex.
Above all, do not enjoy sex.
Never, ever have a sexual relationship outside of marriage and never, ever love more than one person in “that way.”
If you must have sex for any reason other than procreation, be embarrassed, do not freely or uninhibitedly enjoy it.
Do not take money for something truly enjoyable, and if you make a great deal of money, make sure you give most of it away.
Believe in the right God.
For heaven’s sake, believe in the right God.
Beg forgiveness and mercy form God for having been born imperfect, and ask Him for help in meeting the conditions for you to be loved again.
Humans have many other beliefs. These were listed here to give you just a few examples. This is what you have to do. This is the Requirement, and you would do well to understand it.
Who set this Requirement? Who put it into place?
You say that I did.
You claim that the author was God. And since there is not enough God to go around, you have to lay claim to Me in order to justify setting yourself up as the winners in your competitions.
You claim, then, that yours is the One Nation Under God, or that you are the Chosen People, or that yours is the One True Faith.
You lay claim to Me and you do so viciously, ferociously, for you feel that if you can lay claim to Me, you can then lay claim to anything else you desire, in My name.
This you have done for centuries, waving high your holy books, your crossers, and your flags to justify taking what there is not enough of by whatever means is necessary—including killing. You have even gone so far as to call such an event a holy war, seeking to close wounds in your soul while you open wounds in the bodies of others.
You have performed the most ungodly acts in the name of God, and all because you think that I have a Requirement that you must fulfill in order to receive Me, My love, and all the stuff of Life.
As long as you believe there is something that you have to do, you will struggle to find out what it is, and struggle further to achieve it.
Achievement will become your god. Indeed, it already has. Yet, if doing the right things brings you happiness and allows you to go home to God, why has all the striving to do those things felt so unhappy, and seemed so surely to be leading you away from God?
And, perhaps even more important, how will it be determined whether or not all of this was worth it? By what measure, what system, will it be decided if the Requirement has been met?
This is something you did not know. This was the question that humans began to ask.
Clearly, there was a flaw in the Fifth Illusion. This should have revealed the idea of Requirement as false, but humans knew at some very deep level that they could not give up the Illusion, or something very vital would come to an end.
Again, they were right. But again, they made a mistake. Instead of seeing the Illusion as an illusion, and using it for the purpose for which it was intended, they thought they had to fix the flaw.
It was to fix the flaw in The Fifth Illusion that The Sixth Illusion was created.
Monday, May 28, 2007
The Illusion of Judgment
6. The Illusion of Judgment
This is The Sixth Illusion:
JUDGMENT EXISTS
Your decision that there is something that you must do in order to obtain that of which there is not enough—including God—required you to answer difficult question: How will it be determined whether a person has met the Requirement or not? And what will happen to those who have not?
Your answer to these questions produced the invention of Judgment.
Someone, you reasoned, must be the final arbiter. Since the Creator was the one who established the Requirement, it seemed only that the Creator would also be the one to decide who had met the Requirement and who had not.
For a very long time your species has held the thought that there was something you had to do in order to please God—and that failure to please God produced dire consequences. That you came to such a conclusion was understandable. Looking around you, you saw that people’s lives went well, and some did not. Primitive mind asked, Why? And primitive mind came up with a primitive answer.
Fortune smiled upon those who were in favor with the gods. It was the gods who had to be satisfied, and then the gods would judge.
Sacrifices and rituals of all kinds grew up around this belief, all designed to mollify difficult deities.
In these earliest days, your sense of Insufficiency was so strong that you even imagined the gods to be in competition with each other. There were many gods to please, and it was often not easy to keep track of what had to be done to keep everybody happy.
Each new earthly disaster, each hailstorm, each hurricane, each drought, or famine, or personal misfortune was seen as evidence that one of the gods had not been satisfied—or, sometimes, that they had been warring each other.
How else to explain what was going on?
Now, these beliefs arose in ancient times, and through the millennia they have been refined and clarified. Most humans today do not believe that there is a long list of ill-tempered gods who have to be mollified. Today most people believe that there is only one ill-tempered God who has to be mollified.
And although it may seem as if your species long ago evolved out of the primitive constructions that created an “I’m-going-to-get-you” kind of God, these idea continue to dominate your planet’s theologies.
This God As Avenger model of Deity has never lost favor in your societies. You’ve used both personal and planetary disasters as evidence of its validity. Even in very recent times, such as when your AIDS epidemic hit, there were many people—including some religious leaders—who proclaimed life’s misfortunes to be God’s punishment for the individual or collective misbehaviors of the human race.
Humans continue to agree in numbers that there is a Requirement set down by Me, which they must meet in order to become eligible for rewards here and in heaven. They continue to agree that there is a system of Judgment by which it is determined who has met the Requirement and who has not.
On the other hand, some theologies state flatly that no one can meet the Requirement, no matter what they do. Not even if they lead a perfect life, without error, blunder or mistaken of any kind. This is, the teaching declares, because everyone is born imperfect (some religions call this Original Sin), with a blotch on their soul even before they begin.
This blotch cannot be removed by any act that the person performs, not even an act of true repentance, but only the grace of God. And God, it is taught, will not grant this grace unless the person comes to Him in a very specific way.
This teaching claims that I am a very particular God, one who will bestow the joys of heaven upon anyone who does not do as I say.
It is said that I am very stubborn about this; that it truly does not matter how good people may have been, how compassionate or generous or kind. It does not matter how sorry they may be for their offenses, and it does not matter what they have done to make amends. Indeed, it does not matter if they have made the greatest contribution to the betterment of life on the planet that the world has ever seen: If they have not come to Me by the right path, saying the right words, believing in the right religion, they cannot sit at the right hand of God the Father almighty.
Because such rightness is required, this idea could be called righteousness…
Given their belief that this is the way God has set things up between Himself and the entire human race, members of the human race have set things up precisely the same way with each other.
Taking a page out of God’s book (what’s good for Me ought, certainly, to be good for you), humans have put a “blotch” on each other even before they begin. As I have already described, they do this to others of the “wrong gender”, color, or religion. They extend it to those of the “wrong” nationality, neighborhood, political persuasion, sexual orientation, or whatever other “wrongness” they choose to create. In doing this, human beings “play God.”
Yes, it is God, you say, who taught you to prejudge like this, for it is God who put the first blotch of imperfection on your own soul—who prejudged you, even before you had a chance to prove yourself, or the other.
Pre-judgment—that is, prejudice—must, therefore, be okay, for how can what is acceptable for God not be acceptable for man?
And what is the reason for My having declared all of you imperfect at the moment of your birth? I have done it, so the teaching goes, because the first humans were bad.
So we see how you have doubled back to the first Three Illusion to justify the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth. And so it is, with each Illusion producing the next, and each new Illusion proving those preceding.
Your cultural story says that when Adam and Eve sinned, they were driven from Paradise, losing happiness and their claim to eternal life—and yours along with it. This is because I sentenced them not only to a life of limitation and struggle but to eventual death (The Fourth Illusion)—none of which they experienced before they misstep.
Other cultural stories and theologies that arose and exist on your planet do not embrace the Adam and Eve scenario but nevertheless create their own evidence of the Requirement. On this, most agree: Humans are imperfect in the eyes of God, and there is something that they have to do in order to achieve perfection—variously described as Purification, Salvation, Enlightenment … whatever.
Because you believe in human imperfection, and since you believe that you have received this characteristic from Me, you have felt perfectly free to pass it on to others. all the while you have expected the same thing of others that you have been told I expect you: perfection.
And so has it come to pass that humans have gone through life demanding perfection of those whom they, themselves, have called imperfect—namely humans.
First, they do this to themselves. This is their initial, and often most costly, error.
Then they do it to others. This is their second mistake.
They have made it impossible for either themselves or others to ever fully meet…
The Requirement.
Parents demand perfection from their imperfect children, and children demand perfection from their imperfect parents.
Citizens demand perfection from their imperfect government, and the government demands perfection from its imperfect citizens.
Churches demand perfection from their imperfect followers, and followers demand perfection from their imperfect churches.
Neighbors demand perfection from other neighbors, races from other races, nations from other nations.
Your world rushes to judge, in particular, anyone receiving the rewards—fame, power, success—that are supposed to go only to the perfect, and your world condemns those in whom it uncovers the slightest imperfection.
So fanatical have you become that you have made it virtually impossible for people to become leaders, heroes, or icons in your present day and time—thus robbing yourself of exactly what your society needs.
You have placed yourself in a trap of your own devising, unable to release yourself from the Judgments you have imposed on each other, and the Judgment you believe God has imposed on you.
Yet why should a simple observation about you make you so uncomfortable? Is simply observing that something is so really a Judgment? Couldn’t it be merely an observation? So what if someone has not met the Requirement? What does it matter?
These are the questions that humans began to ask.
Clearly, there was a flaw in The Sixth Illusion. This should revealed the idea of Judgment as false, but humans knew at some very deep level that they could not give up the Illusion, or something very vital would come to an end.
Again, they were right. But again, they made mistake. Instead of seeing the Illusion as an illusion, and using it for the purpose for which it was intended, they thought they had to fix the flaw.
It was to fix the flaw in The Sixth Illusion that The Seventh was created.
This is The Sixth Illusion:
JUDGMENT EXISTS
Your decision that there is something that you must do in order to obtain that of which there is not enough—including God—required you to answer difficult question: How will it be determined whether a person has met the Requirement or not? And what will happen to those who have not?
Your answer to these questions produced the invention of Judgment.
Someone, you reasoned, must be the final arbiter. Since the Creator was the one who established the Requirement, it seemed only that the Creator would also be the one to decide who had met the Requirement and who had not.
For a very long time your species has held the thought that there was something you had to do in order to please God—and that failure to please God produced dire consequences. That you came to such a conclusion was understandable. Looking around you, you saw that people’s lives went well, and some did not. Primitive mind asked, Why? And primitive mind came up with a primitive answer.
Fortune smiled upon those who were in favor with the gods. It was the gods who had to be satisfied, and then the gods would judge.
Sacrifices and rituals of all kinds grew up around this belief, all designed to mollify difficult deities.
In these earliest days, your sense of Insufficiency was so strong that you even imagined the gods to be in competition with each other. There were many gods to please, and it was often not easy to keep track of what had to be done to keep everybody happy.
Each new earthly disaster, each hailstorm, each hurricane, each drought, or famine, or personal misfortune was seen as evidence that one of the gods had not been satisfied—or, sometimes, that they had been warring each other.
How else to explain what was going on?
Now, these beliefs arose in ancient times, and through the millennia they have been refined and clarified. Most humans today do not believe that there is a long list of ill-tempered gods who have to be mollified. Today most people believe that there is only one ill-tempered God who has to be mollified.
And although it may seem as if your species long ago evolved out of the primitive constructions that created an “I’m-going-to-get-you” kind of God, these idea continue to dominate your planet’s theologies.
This God As Avenger model of Deity has never lost favor in your societies. You’ve used both personal and planetary disasters as evidence of its validity. Even in very recent times, such as when your AIDS epidemic hit, there were many people—including some religious leaders—who proclaimed life’s misfortunes to be God’s punishment for the individual or collective misbehaviors of the human race.
Humans continue to agree in numbers that there is a Requirement set down by Me, which they must meet in order to become eligible for rewards here and in heaven. They continue to agree that there is a system of Judgment by which it is determined who has met the Requirement and who has not.
On the other hand, some theologies state flatly that no one can meet the Requirement, no matter what they do. Not even if they lead a perfect life, without error, blunder or mistaken of any kind. This is, the teaching declares, because everyone is born imperfect (some religions call this Original Sin), with a blotch on their soul even before they begin.
This blotch cannot be removed by any act that the person performs, not even an act of true repentance, but only the grace of God. And God, it is taught, will not grant this grace unless the person comes to Him in a very specific way.
This teaching claims that I am a very particular God, one who will bestow the joys of heaven upon anyone who does not do as I say.
It is said that I am very stubborn about this; that it truly does not matter how good people may have been, how compassionate or generous or kind. It does not matter how sorry they may be for their offenses, and it does not matter what they have done to make amends. Indeed, it does not matter if they have made the greatest contribution to the betterment of life on the planet that the world has ever seen: If they have not come to Me by the right path, saying the right words, believing in the right religion, they cannot sit at the right hand of God the Father almighty.
Because such rightness is required, this idea could be called righteousness…
Given their belief that this is the way God has set things up between Himself and the entire human race, members of the human race have set things up precisely the same way with each other.
Taking a page out of God’s book (what’s good for Me ought, certainly, to be good for you), humans have put a “blotch” on each other even before they begin. As I have already described, they do this to others of the “wrong gender”, color, or religion. They extend it to those of the “wrong” nationality, neighborhood, political persuasion, sexual orientation, or whatever other “wrongness” they choose to create. In doing this, human beings “play God.”
Yes, it is God, you say, who taught you to prejudge like this, for it is God who put the first blotch of imperfection on your own soul—who prejudged you, even before you had a chance to prove yourself, or the other.
Pre-judgment—that is, prejudice—must, therefore, be okay, for how can what is acceptable for God not be acceptable for man?
And what is the reason for My having declared all of you imperfect at the moment of your birth? I have done it, so the teaching goes, because the first humans were bad.
So we see how you have doubled back to the first Three Illusion to justify the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth. And so it is, with each Illusion producing the next, and each new Illusion proving those preceding.
Your cultural story says that when Adam and Eve sinned, they were driven from Paradise, losing happiness and their claim to eternal life—and yours along with it. This is because I sentenced them not only to a life of limitation and struggle but to eventual death (The Fourth Illusion)—none of which they experienced before they misstep.
Other cultural stories and theologies that arose and exist on your planet do not embrace the Adam and Eve scenario but nevertheless create their own evidence of the Requirement. On this, most agree: Humans are imperfect in the eyes of God, and there is something that they have to do in order to achieve perfection—variously described as Purification, Salvation, Enlightenment … whatever.
Because you believe in human imperfection, and since you believe that you have received this characteristic from Me, you have felt perfectly free to pass it on to others. all the while you have expected the same thing of others that you have been told I expect you: perfection.
And so has it come to pass that humans have gone through life demanding perfection of those whom they, themselves, have called imperfect—namely humans.
First, they do this to themselves. This is their initial, and often most costly, error.
Then they do it to others. This is their second mistake.
They have made it impossible for either themselves or others to ever fully meet…
The Requirement.
Parents demand perfection from their imperfect children, and children demand perfection from their imperfect parents.
Citizens demand perfection from their imperfect government, and the government demands perfection from its imperfect citizens.
Churches demand perfection from their imperfect followers, and followers demand perfection from their imperfect churches.
Neighbors demand perfection from other neighbors, races from other races, nations from other nations.
Your world rushes to judge, in particular, anyone receiving the rewards—fame, power, success—that are supposed to go only to the perfect, and your world condemns those in whom it uncovers the slightest imperfection.
So fanatical have you become that you have made it virtually impossible for people to become leaders, heroes, or icons in your present day and time—thus robbing yourself of exactly what your society needs.
You have placed yourself in a trap of your own devising, unable to release yourself from the Judgments you have imposed on each other, and the Judgment you believe God has imposed on you.
Yet why should a simple observation about you make you so uncomfortable? Is simply observing that something is so really a Judgment? Couldn’t it be merely an observation? So what if someone has not met the Requirement? What does it matter?
These are the questions that humans began to ask.
Clearly, there was a flaw in The Sixth Illusion. This should revealed the idea of Judgment as false, but humans knew at some very deep level that they could not give up the Illusion, or something very vital would come to an end.
Again, they were right. But again, they made mistake. Instead of seeing the Illusion as an illusion, and using it for the purpose for which it was intended, they thought they had to fix the flaw.
It was to fix the flaw in The Sixth Illusion that The Seventh was created.
The Illusion of Condemnation
7. The Illusion of Condemnation
This is The Seventh Illusion
CONDEMNATION EXISTS
There had to be a consequence of Judgment. If it was true that Judgment Exists, there had do be why.
Clearly, one was judged in order to determine whether one should receive the rewards of meeting the Requirement.
That’s how humans constructed it. Seeking insight, trying to find answers, you went back to your original cultural stories, and to the first Illusions on which they were based.
You told yourself that I separated you from Myself when you failed to meet My Requirement the first time.
When you were perfect, you lived in a perfect world, Paradise, and you enjoyed everlasting life. Yet when committed the Original Sin and rendered yourself imperfect, your experience of perfection in every way ended.
The most perfect thing about your perfect world was that you never died. Death did not exist. Yet with your experience of perfection ending, you accepted The Fourth Illusion as fact. Insufficiency Exists. There was not enough. There was not enough life.
So death must have been the consequence. This was the punishment for not meeting the Requirement.
But how could that be so? The advanced thinkers among you asked. Now everybody dies. So, how could death be the punishment for not meeting the Requirement? Even those who did meet the Requirement died.
Perhaps the reason for the existence of death was that there simply was Insufficiency in the universe. Insufficiency was the state of things. This you learned from The Fourth Illusion.
Yet if death was the result of Insufficiency, then what was the outcome of not meeting the Requirement?
There was something wrong here. Something did not add up. You went back to your original myth. God threw Adam and Eve out of the garden when they did not meet the Requirement. This created Disunity, which created Insufficiency, which created the Requirement.
So insufficiency was the result of God’s punishment. The punishment was separation, and Insufficiency was the result. Death is the insufficiency of Life-so, by a stretch, death was the punishment.
This how you reasoned it out. The purpose of death must have been to punish you for not meeting the Requirement. For without death, there was only what there always was—namely, Life Everlasting. And if you could live forever, what was the consequence of not having met God’s requirement?
So what always was had to be called the reward.
That’s it! You said to yourself. Everlasting Life is the reward. But now you had another conundrum. If death existed, then Life Everlasting could not.
Hmmm.
There’s a challenge here. How to create a way for both to exist—despite the fact that the two appear to be mutually exclusive.
You decided that the death of the physical body did not mean the end of you. Since the existence of death precluded the possibility of a life that goes on forever, you decided that life must go on forever after physical death.
But it life went forever after physical death, then what was the point of death?
It had no point. And so, there had to be created in your after-death experience…another outcome.
This is you called Condemnation.
It fit perfectly, when you thought about it. It fell right into line with The Second Illusion—the outcome of life is in doubt; Failure Exists!
Now you could have your cake and eat it too. Now you could have death and Everlasting Life, punishment and reward. By placing both after death, you were able to make death itself not the punishment but simply the ultimate manifestation of Insufficiency—the most impressive evidence of The Fourth Illusion.
One Illusion now really began to support the other. The interweaving was perfect. Your work was complete, and this was the reality produced by your cultural story, and by your endless creation and passing on of myths that solidified it.
Myths support the Story, and the Story supports the Illusions. This is the superstructure of your entire cosmology. These are underpinnings of all your understandings.
And they are—all of them—false.
Death does not exist. To say that death exists would be to say that you do not exist, for you are Life itself.
To say that death exists would be to say that God does not exist, for if God is everything that is (which is exactly what God is), and if all things form a unified whole (which they do), then if one thing dies, all things die—which would mean God dies. Of one thing dies, God dies.
This, of course, cannot be. Therefore, know this: Death and God are mutually exclusive. It is not possible for them to exist side by side.
If death exists, then God does not. Or, it must be concluded that God is not everything that is.
This brings up an interesting question. Is there anything that God is not?
If you believe that there is a God, but that there is something that God is not, then you can believe in a great many other things. Not only death but the Devil, and everything in between.
If, on the other hand, you believe that God is the energy of Life Itself, and that this energy never dies but merely change form, and that this Divine energy not only is in everything but is everything—that it is the energy that forms that which has taken form—then it is a small step to understand that death does not, and cannot exists.
This is what is so. I am the energy of Life. I am that which forms that which has taken form. Everything you see is God, in differing formation.
You are all God, in formation.
Or, put another way, you are God’s information.
This I have said to you before, yet now you may at last truly comprehend it.
Much of what I have said to you in our conversations is reiterated a number of times, and this is, of course, by design. You must have a firm grasp of every concept you have been given before you can grasp new concepts you would seek to understand.
Some of you will want to move faster. Some of you will say, “OK, I’ve got it already!” Yet do you really have it? Your life lived is a measure of what you have and what you do not have. It is a reflection of your deepest understandings.
If your life is an experience of constant joy and total bliss, then you truly have it. This does not mean that your life is without the conditions that can cause pain, suffering, and disappointment. It does mean that you live in joy despite those conditions. Your experience has nothing to do with conditions.
This is unconditional love, of which I have spoken many times. You may experience this with regard to another person, or with regard to Life itself.
When you have an unconditional love of Life, then you love. Life just the way it is showing up, right here, right now. This is possible only when you are “seeing the perfection.”
I tell you that everything and everyone is perfect. When you can see this, you have taken your first step toward mastery. Yet you cannot see this unless and until you understand exactly what everyone is trying to do, and the purpose for everything under heaven.
For instance, when you understand that the purpose of this dialogue’s returning to its main points repeatedly is to bring you deeper and deeper into your own understanding, and closer and closer to mastery, then you will love the repetition. You will love it because you understand the benefit. You embrace the gift.
This will bring you equanimity in this moment, and in all the moments of your life, no matter how unpleasant you might previously have judged them. You will even find equanimity in the moments before your death, for you will see your death, too, as perfect.
You will find and create equanimity even more masterfully when you understand that every moment is a dying. Every moment is the end of our live as what you were, and the beginning of your new life as what you now choose to become.
In each moment you are recreating yourself anew. You are either doing this consciously or unconsciously, with awareness or completely unaware of what is going on.
You don’t have to be facing the moment of what you have previously called “death” in order to experience more life. You can experience more life whenever you wish, in a hundred different ways, at a hundred different times—at the moment of your birth, at the moment of your death, or at moment in between.
This much I promise you: You will experience more life at the moment of your physical death—and this will do more than anything else to convince you that there is more life, that life goes on and on, and never, ever ends. In that instant will you realize that there was never not enough. There was never not enough of Life, and there was never not enough of the stuff of Life.
This will dissolve The Fourth Illusion forever. Yet that Illusion can be dissolved before the moment of our death, and that is My message here.
The way to produce more life is to experience more death. Don’t let death be a once-in-a-lifetime thing! Experience each moment of your life as a death, for that is, in truth, what it is when you re-define death as simply the end of one experience and the beginning of another.
When you do this, you can have a little funeral each moment for what just passed, for what just died. And then you can turn around and create the future, realizing that there is a future, that there is more life.
When you know this, the idea of not enough is shattered, and you can begin to use each golden Moment of Now in a new way, with new understanding and deeper appreciation, with larger awareness and greater consciousness.
And your life will never be the same, ever.
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Once you understand that there is always more Life, you will learn to use the illusion that there is not enough Life in a way that serves you. This will allow the illusion to assist you, rather than hinder you, as you walk your path and make your way back home.
You can relax, because you know that you have more time, even though the illusion is that your time is running out. You can create with enormous efficiency, because you know that you have more Life, even though the illusion is that your life is ending. You can find peace and joy, even though the illusion is that there is not enough of whatever it is that you think you need in your life, because you know now that there is enough. There is enough time, there is enough Life, and there is enough of the stuff of life to allow you to live in happiness forever.
When you allow yourself to experience that there is enough of what you once thought there was not enough of, extraordinary changes occur in the way you live your life.
When you know that there is enough, you stop competing with others. you stop competing for love, or money, or sex, or power, or whatever it is you felt there was not enough.
The competition is over.
This alters everything. Now, instead of competing with others to get what you want, you begin to give what you want away. Instead of fighting for more love, you begin giving more love away. Instead of struggling for success, you begin making sure that everyone else is successful. Instead of grasping for power, you begin empowering others.
Instead of seeking affection, attention, sexual satisfaction, and emotional security, you find yourself being the source of it. Indeed, everything that you have ever wanted, you are now supplying to others. And the wonder of it all is that, as you give, so do you receive. You suddenly have more of whatever you are giving away.
The reason for this is clear. It has nothing to do with the fact that what you have done is “morally right,” or “spiritually enlightened,” or the “Will of God.” It has to do with a simple truth: There is no one else in the room.
There is only one of us.
Yet the Illusion says this is not so. It says that you are all separate from each other, and from Me. It says that there is not enough—not even enough of Me—and so, there is something you have to do in order to have enough. It says that you will be carefully watched to make sure that you do it. It says that if you do not do it, you will be condemned.
This does not seem to be a very loving thing to do. And yet, if there is one thing that all your cultural stories have told you, it is that God Is Love. Supreme Love. Complete Love. Unfathomable Love. Yet if God Is Love, how could Condemnation exist? How could God sentence us to everlasting torture beyond description?
These are questions that humans began to ask.
Clearly, there was a flaw in The Seventh Illusion. This should have revealed the idea of Condemnation as false, but humans knew at some very deep level that they could not give up the Illusion, or something very vital would come to and end.
Again, they were right. But again, they made a mistake. Instead of seeing the Illusion as an Illusion, and using it for the purpose for which it was intended, they thought they had to fix the flaw.
It was to fix the flaw in The Seventh Illusion that Eighth Illusion was created.
This is The Seventh Illusion
CONDEMNATION EXISTS
There had to be a consequence of Judgment. If it was true that Judgment Exists, there had do be why.
Clearly, one was judged in order to determine whether one should receive the rewards of meeting the Requirement.
That’s how humans constructed it. Seeking insight, trying to find answers, you went back to your original cultural stories, and to the first Illusions on which they were based.
You told yourself that I separated you from Myself when you failed to meet My Requirement the first time.
When you were perfect, you lived in a perfect world, Paradise, and you enjoyed everlasting life. Yet when committed the Original Sin and rendered yourself imperfect, your experience of perfection in every way ended.
The most perfect thing about your perfect world was that you never died. Death did not exist. Yet with your experience of perfection ending, you accepted The Fourth Illusion as fact. Insufficiency Exists. There was not enough. There was not enough life.
So death must have been the consequence. This was the punishment for not meeting the Requirement.
But how could that be so? The advanced thinkers among you asked. Now everybody dies. So, how could death be the punishment for not meeting the Requirement? Even those who did meet the Requirement died.
Perhaps the reason for the existence of death was that there simply was Insufficiency in the universe. Insufficiency was the state of things. This you learned from The Fourth Illusion.
Yet if death was the result of Insufficiency, then what was the outcome of not meeting the Requirement?
There was something wrong here. Something did not add up. You went back to your original myth. God threw Adam and Eve out of the garden when they did not meet the Requirement. This created Disunity, which created Insufficiency, which created the Requirement.
So insufficiency was the result of God’s punishment. The punishment was separation, and Insufficiency was the result. Death is the insufficiency of Life-so, by a stretch, death was the punishment.
This how you reasoned it out. The purpose of death must have been to punish you for not meeting the Requirement. For without death, there was only what there always was—namely, Life Everlasting. And if you could live forever, what was the consequence of not having met God’s requirement?
So what always was had to be called the reward.
That’s it! You said to yourself. Everlasting Life is the reward. But now you had another conundrum. If death existed, then Life Everlasting could not.
Hmmm.
There’s a challenge here. How to create a way for both to exist—despite the fact that the two appear to be mutually exclusive.
You decided that the death of the physical body did not mean the end of you. Since the existence of death precluded the possibility of a life that goes on forever, you decided that life must go on forever after physical death.
But it life went forever after physical death, then what was the point of death?
It had no point. And so, there had to be created in your after-death experience…another outcome.
This is you called Condemnation.
It fit perfectly, when you thought about it. It fell right into line with The Second Illusion—the outcome of life is in doubt; Failure Exists!
Now you could have your cake and eat it too. Now you could have death and Everlasting Life, punishment and reward. By placing both after death, you were able to make death itself not the punishment but simply the ultimate manifestation of Insufficiency—the most impressive evidence of The Fourth Illusion.
One Illusion now really began to support the other. The interweaving was perfect. Your work was complete, and this was the reality produced by your cultural story, and by your endless creation and passing on of myths that solidified it.
Myths support the Story, and the Story supports the Illusions. This is the superstructure of your entire cosmology. These are underpinnings of all your understandings.
And they are—all of them—false.
Death does not exist. To say that death exists would be to say that you do not exist, for you are Life itself.
To say that death exists would be to say that God does not exist, for if God is everything that is (which is exactly what God is), and if all things form a unified whole (which they do), then if one thing dies, all things die—which would mean God dies. Of one thing dies, God dies.
This, of course, cannot be. Therefore, know this: Death and God are mutually exclusive. It is not possible for them to exist side by side.
If death exists, then God does not. Or, it must be concluded that God is not everything that is.
This brings up an interesting question. Is there anything that God is not?
If you believe that there is a God, but that there is something that God is not, then you can believe in a great many other things. Not only death but the Devil, and everything in between.
If, on the other hand, you believe that God is the energy of Life Itself, and that this energy never dies but merely change form, and that this Divine energy not only is in everything but is everything—that it is the energy that forms that which has taken form—then it is a small step to understand that death does not, and cannot exists.
This is what is so. I am the energy of Life. I am that which forms that which has taken form. Everything you see is God, in differing formation.
You are all God, in formation.
Or, put another way, you are God’s information.
This I have said to you before, yet now you may at last truly comprehend it.
Much of what I have said to you in our conversations is reiterated a number of times, and this is, of course, by design. You must have a firm grasp of every concept you have been given before you can grasp new concepts you would seek to understand.
Some of you will want to move faster. Some of you will say, “OK, I’ve got it already!” Yet do you really have it? Your life lived is a measure of what you have and what you do not have. It is a reflection of your deepest understandings.
If your life is an experience of constant joy and total bliss, then you truly have it. This does not mean that your life is without the conditions that can cause pain, suffering, and disappointment. It does mean that you live in joy despite those conditions. Your experience has nothing to do with conditions.
This is unconditional love, of which I have spoken many times. You may experience this with regard to another person, or with regard to Life itself.
When you have an unconditional love of Life, then you love. Life just the way it is showing up, right here, right now. This is possible only when you are “seeing the perfection.”
I tell you that everything and everyone is perfect. When you can see this, you have taken your first step toward mastery. Yet you cannot see this unless and until you understand exactly what everyone is trying to do, and the purpose for everything under heaven.
For instance, when you understand that the purpose of this dialogue’s returning to its main points repeatedly is to bring you deeper and deeper into your own understanding, and closer and closer to mastery, then you will love the repetition. You will love it because you understand the benefit. You embrace the gift.
This will bring you equanimity in this moment, and in all the moments of your life, no matter how unpleasant you might previously have judged them. You will even find equanimity in the moments before your death, for you will see your death, too, as perfect.
You will find and create equanimity even more masterfully when you understand that every moment is a dying. Every moment is the end of our live as what you were, and the beginning of your new life as what you now choose to become.
In each moment you are recreating yourself anew. You are either doing this consciously or unconsciously, with awareness or completely unaware of what is going on.
You don’t have to be facing the moment of what you have previously called “death” in order to experience more life. You can experience more life whenever you wish, in a hundred different ways, at a hundred different times—at the moment of your birth, at the moment of your death, or at moment in between.
This much I promise you: You will experience more life at the moment of your physical death—and this will do more than anything else to convince you that there is more life, that life goes on and on, and never, ever ends. In that instant will you realize that there was never not enough. There was never not enough of Life, and there was never not enough of the stuff of Life.
This will dissolve The Fourth Illusion forever. Yet that Illusion can be dissolved before the moment of our death, and that is My message here.
The way to produce more life is to experience more death. Don’t let death be a once-in-a-lifetime thing! Experience each moment of your life as a death, for that is, in truth, what it is when you re-define death as simply the end of one experience and the beginning of another.
When you do this, you can have a little funeral each moment for what just passed, for what just died. And then you can turn around and create the future, realizing that there is a future, that there is more life.
When you know this, the idea of not enough is shattered, and you can begin to use each golden Moment of Now in a new way, with new understanding and deeper appreciation, with larger awareness and greater consciousness.
And your life will never be the same, ever.
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Once you understand that there is always more Life, you will learn to use the illusion that there is not enough Life in a way that serves you. This will allow the illusion to assist you, rather than hinder you, as you walk your path and make your way back home.
You can relax, because you know that you have more time, even though the illusion is that your time is running out. You can create with enormous efficiency, because you know that you have more Life, even though the illusion is that your life is ending. You can find peace and joy, even though the illusion is that there is not enough of whatever it is that you think you need in your life, because you know now that there is enough. There is enough time, there is enough Life, and there is enough of the stuff of life to allow you to live in happiness forever.
When you allow yourself to experience that there is enough of what you once thought there was not enough of, extraordinary changes occur in the way you live your life.
When you know that there is enough, you stop competing with others. you stop competing for love, or money, or sex, or power, or whatever it is you felt there was not enough.
The competition is over.
This alters everything. Now, instead of competing with others to get what you want, you begin to give what you want away. Instead of fighting for more love, you begin giving more love away. Instead of struggling for success, you begin making sure that everyone else is successful. Instead of grasping for power, you begin empowering others.
Instead of seeking affection, attention, sexual satisfaction, and emotional security, you find yourself being the source of it. Indeed, everything that you have ever wanted, you are now supplying to others. And the wonder of it all is that, as you give, so do you receive. You suddenly have more of whatever you are giving away.
The reason for this is clear. It has nothing to do with the fact that what you have done is “morally right,” or “spiritually enlightened,” or the “Will of God.” It has to do with a simple truth: There is no one else in the room.
There is only one of us.
Yet the Illusion says this is not so. It says that you are all separate from each other, and from Me. It says that there is not enough—not even enough of Me—and so, there is something you have to do in order to have enough. It says that you will be carefully watched to make sure that you do it. It says that if you do not do it, you will be condemned.
This does not seem to be a very loving thing to do. And yet, if there is one thing that all your cultural stories have told you, it is that God Is Love. Supreme Love. Complete Love. Unfathomable Love. Yet if God Is Love, how could Condemnation exist? How could God sentence us to everlasting torture beyond description?
These are questions that humans began to ask.
Clearly, there was a flaw in The Seventh Illusion. This should have revealed the idea of Condemnation as false, but humans knew at some very deep level that they could not give up the Illusion, or something very vital would come to and end.
Again, they were right. But again, they made a mistake. Instead of seeing the Illusion as an Illusion, and using it for the purpose for which it was intended, they thought they had to fix the flaw.
It was to fix the flaw in The Seventh Illusion that Eighth Illusion was created.
The Illusion of Conditionality
8. The Illusion of Conditionality
This is The Eighth Illusion:
CONDITIONALITY EXISTS
In order for Condemnation to exist, there must be something that you don’t understand about love.
This was your conclusion, and you invented Conditionality as a characteristic of life in order to resolve the dilemma that this presented.
Everything in life must be conditional. Wasn’t this self-evident? Some of the thinkers among you asked. Have you not understood The Second Illusion? The outcome of life is in doubt.
Failure Exists.
That means you can fail to win God’s love. God’s love is conditional. You must meet the Requirement, you will be separated. Is this not what The Third Illusion taught you?
Your cultural stories have been very persuasive. I have spoken in this communication largely through the stories of Western culture, because that is the culture in which this communication began. But the culture of the East, and all of the many cultures and traditions of humans in their wide variety, have their stories as well, and most are based on some or all of The Ten Illusions.
As I have made clear, there are more than ten illusions. You are creating hundreds everyday. Each of your cultures has created its own, but in some way or another they are all based on the same basic misconceptions. This is evidenced by the fact that they have all created the same results.
Life on your planet is filled with experiences of greed, violence, killing, and nearly everywhere, conditional love.
You have learned conditional love from your thought that the love of the Supreme Being, however you conceptualize that Being, is conditional. Or, if you do not believe in a Supreme Being, but rather, in Life itself, then you have conceived of Life as a process expressing itself within the context of Conditionality. That is to say, one condition depends upon another. Some of you would call this Cause and Effect.
Yet what of First Cause?
That is the question that none of you has been able to answer. Even your greatest scientists have not been able to unravel the mystery. Even your greatest philosophers have not been able to solve the problem.
Who created That Which Creates?
If you conceive of a cause-and-effect Universe, fair enough—but what caused the First Cause?
This is where your teachers stumble. This is where your path ends. This is where you reach the edge of understanding.
Now we shall fly off the edge.
There is no Conditionality in the Universe. That Which Is is That Which Is, and there are no conditions under which it is not.
Do you understand?
It is no possible for “What Is” not to be. There are no conditions under which that would be true. This is why Life is eternal. Because Life is That Which Is, and That Which is can never not be.
Life always was, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
So, too, with God. For God is what Life is.
So, too, with love. For love is what God is.
Love cannot not “be,” and there are no conditions under which it can be made to disappear.
You may substitute the word “Life” or the word “God” for “love” in the above sentence and it would be equally true.
Conditional love is an oxymoron.
Did you get that? Do you understand that? The two are mutually exclusive. The experience of Conditionality and the experience of love cannot exist at the same time in the same place.
Your idea that they can is what is destroying you.
Your civilization has chosen The Eighth Illusion at a very high level. The result is that your civilization itself threatened with extinction.
You are not threatened with extinction. You cannot be. For you are Itself. Yet the form in which you express Life at the present moment—the civilization which you have created, and are about to uncreate—is not unchangeable. It is wonder of Who You Are that you can change form whenever you wish. Indeed, you do this all the time.
If, however, you are enjoying the form in which you now experience yourself, why you change it?
That is the question now facing the whole human race.
You have been given a paradise in which to live. Every possible joy of physical life has been made available to you. You are truly in a Garden of Eden. That part of you cultural Story is real. Yet you have not been separated from Me, and you never have to be. You can experience this paradise as long as you wish. Or, you can destroy it on a moment’s notice.
Which do you choose?
You are about to choose the latter.
Is that your choice? Is that your conscious decision?
Look at this question very carefully. There is much riding on your answer.
The lack of true Conditionality in the Universe notwithstanding, you have believed firmly that Conditionality exists. Surely it exists in God’s kingdom. Every one of your religions has taught you that. So it must exist in the Universe at large. It was, you decided, a fact of life. So you have spent lifetimes trying to figure out what conditions could allow you to create the life—and afterlife—that you desire if you did not meet the Requirement. If you met the Requirement, there was no problem. But what if you did not?
This search has led you down a blind alley, fore there are no conditions. You may have the life that you desire, and whatever afterlife you imagine, simply by choosing it.
This you do not believe. The formula can’t be that simple, you say. No, no…you have to meet the Requirement.
You do not understand yourselves to be creative beings. Nor do you understand Me to be so. You imagine that I can somehow fail to have something that I desire (all My children returning home to Me)—which means that I must not be a truly a creative being at all but a dependent one. If I were a truly creative, I would be able to create anything I choose. But I seem to be dependent upon certain conditions in order to have what I want.
Humans could not imagine what conditions could possibly have to be met in order for them to get back home to God. So they did the best they could… and just made some up. These were explained through what you call religions.
Religions could not only explain the Requirements but could also explain how one could recapture God’s love if one did not meet the Requirement. Thus, the concepts of forgiveness and salvation were born. They were the conditions of love. God says “I love you if,” and these were the “ifs.”
Had people looked at things objectively, the fact that every religion explains forgiveness and salvation differently might have been proof that it was all being made up. But objectively was not something humans proved to be particularly capable of it. It is not something many humans are capable of even today.
You continue to declare that you are not making anything up. You say that the conditions of return to God were established by Me. And if there are several hundred different religions, pointing to several thousand different conditions, it is not because I have given a mixed message, but because the human race has simply not gotten it right.
You have got it right, of course. It’s just those other people, in those other religions, who have not gotten it right.
Now, there are a lot of ways you could solve that. You could ignore them. You could try to convert them. You could even decide to simply eliminate them.
Your race has tried all of those things. And you had a right to do so, didn’t you? You had a responsibility to do so, didn’t you? Was this not the work of God? Were you not called upon to convince and convert others so that they too, might know what was right? And was your killing and your ethnic cleansing not justified when others could not be convinced? Was there not something, some unwritten “something,” that gave you this right?
These are questions that humans began to ask.
Clearly, there was a flaw in The Eighth Illusion. This should have revealed the idea of Conditionality as false, but humans knew at some very deep level that they could not give up the Illusion, or something very vital would come to and end.
Again, they were right. But again, they made a mistake. Instead of seeing the Illusion as an Illusion, and using it for the purpose for which it was intended, they thought they had to fix the flaw.
It was to fix the flaw in The Eighth Illusion that The Ninth Illusion was created.
This is The Eighth Illusion:
CONDITIONALITY EXISTS
In order for Condemnation to exist, there must be something that you don’t understand about love.
This was your conclusion, and you invented Conditionality as a characteristic of life in order to resolve the dilemma that this presented.
Everything in life must be conditional. Wasn’t this self-evident? Some of the thinkers among you asked. Have you not understood The Second Illusion? The outcome of life is in doubt.
Failure Exists.
That means you can fail to win God’s love. God’s love is conditional. You must meet the Requirement, you will be separated. Is this not what The Third Illusion taught you?
Your cultural stories have been very persuasive. I have spoken in this communication largely through the stories of Western culture, because that is the culture in which this communication began. But the culture of the East, and all of the many cultures and traditions of humans in their wide variety, have their stories as well, and most are based on some or all of The Ten Illusions.
As I have made clear, there are more than ten illusions. You are creating hundreds everyday. Each of your cultures has created its own, but in some way or another they are all based on the same basic misconceptions. This is evidenced by the fact that they have all created the same results.
Life on your planet is filled with experiences of greed, violence, killing, and nearly everywhere, conditional love.
You have learned conditional love from your thought that the love of the Supreme Being, however you conceptualize that Being, is conditional. Or, if you do not believe in a Supreme Being, but rather, in Life itself, then you have conceived of Life as a process expressing itself within the context of Conditionality. That is to say, one condition depends upon another. Some of you would call this Cause and Effect.
Yet what of First Cause?
That is the question that none of you has been able to answer. Even your greatest scientists have not been able to unravel the mystery. Even your greatest philosophers have not been able to solve the problem.
Who created That Which Creates?
If you conceive of a cause-and-effect Universe, fair enough—but what caused the First Cause?
This is where your teachers stumble. This is where your path ends. This is where you reach the edge of understanding.
Now we shall fly off the edge.
There is no Conditionality in the Universe. That Which Is is That Which Is, and there are no conditions under which it is not.
Do you understand?
It is no possible for “What Is” not to be. There are no conditions under which that would be true. This is why Life is eternal. Because Life is That Which Is, and That Which is can never not be.
Life always was, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
So, too, with God. For God is what Life is.
So, too, with love. For love is what God is.
Love cannot not “be,” and there are no conditions under which it can be made to disappear.
You may substitute the word “Life” or the word “God” for “love” in the above sentence and it would be equally true.
Conditional love is an oxymoron.
Did you get that? Do you understand that? The two are mutually exclusive. The experience of Conditionality and the experience of love cannot exist at the same time in the same place.
Your idea that they can is what is destroying you.
Your civilization has chosen The Eighth Illusion at a very high level. The result is that your civilization itself threatened with extinction.
You are not threatened with extinction. You cannot be. For you are Itself. Yet the form in which you express Life at the present moment—the civilization which you have created, and are about to uncreate—is not unchangeable. It is wonder of Who You Are that you can change form whenever you wish. Indeed, you do this all the time.
If, however, you are enjoying the form in which you now experience yourself, why you change it?
That is the question now facing the whole human race.
You have been given a paradise in which to live. Every possible joy of physical life has been made available to you. You are truly in a Garden of Eden. That part of you cultural Story is real. Yet you have not been separated from Me, and you never have to be. You can experience this paradise as long as you wish. Or, you can destroy it on a moment’s notice.
Which do you choose?
You are about to choose the latter.
Is that your choice? Is that your conscious decision?
Look at this question very carefully. There is much riding on your answer.
The lack of true Conditionality in the Universe notwithstanding, you have believed firmly that Conditionality exists. Surely it exists in God’s kingdom. Every one of your religions has taught you that. So it must exist in the Universe at large. It was, you decided, a fact of life. So you have spent lifetimes trying to figure out what conditions could allow you to create the life—and afterlife—that you desire if you did not meet the Requirement. If you met the Requirement, there was no problem. But what if you did not?
This search has led you down a blind alley, fore there are no conditions. You may have the life that you desire, and whatever afterlife you imagine, simply by choosing it.
This you do not believe. The formula can’t be that simple, you say. No, no…you have to meet the Requirement.
You do not understand yourselves to be creative beings. Nor do you understand Me to be so. You imagine that I can somehow fail to have something that I desire (all My children returning home to Me)—which means that I must not be a truly a creative being at all but a dependent one. If I were a truly creative, I would be able to create anything I choose. But I seem to be dependent upon certain conditions in order to have what I want.
Humans could not imagine what conditions could possibly have to be met in order for them to get back home to God. So they did the best they could… and just made some up. These were explained through what you call religions.
Religions could not only explain the Requirements but could also explain how one could recapture God’s love if one did not meet the Requirement. Thus, the concepts of forgiveness and salvation were born. They were the conditions of love. God says “I love you if,” and these were the “ifs.”
Had people looked at things objectively, the fact that every religion explains forgiveness and salvation differently might have been proof that it was all being made up. But objectively was not something humans proved to be particularly capable of it. It is not something many humans are capable of even today.
You continue to declare that you are not making anything up. You say that the conditions of return to God were established by Me. And if there are several hundred different religions, pointing to several thousand different conditions, it is not because I have given a mixed message, but because the human race has simply not gotten it right.
You have got it right, of course. It’s just those other people, in those other religions, who have not gotten it right.
Now, there are a lot of ways you could solve that. You could ignore them. You could try to convert them. You could even decide to simply eliminate them.
Your race has tried all of those things. And you had a right to do so, didn’t you? You had a responsibility to do so, didn’t you? Was this not the work of God? Were you not called upon to convince and convert others so that they too, might know what was right? And was your killing and your ethnic cleansing not justified when others could not be convinced? Was there not something, some unwritten “something,” that gave you this right?
These are questions that humans began to ask.
Clearly, there was a flaw in The Eighth Illusion. This should have revealed the idea of Conditionality as false, but humans knew at some very deep level that they could not give up the Illusion, or something very vital would come to and end.
Again, they were right. But again, they made a mistake. Instead of seeing the Illusion as an Illusion, and using it for the purpose for which it was intended, they thought they had to fix the flaw.
It was to fix the flaw in The Eighth Illusion that The Ninth Illusion was created.
The Illusion of Superiority
9. The Illusion of Superiority
This is The Ninth Illusion:
SUPERIORTY EXISTS
Humans concluded that if Conditionality existed, then knowing the conditions would be necessary to enjoy and create the life—and the afterlife—that one desired.
This conclusion was unavoidable, as was: Those who knew the conditions were better off than those who did not.
And it did not take much time for the human race to remove the word “off” from the previous sentence.
Thus the idea of Superiority was born.
Superiority had many uses. Chief among them was providing inarguable justification for doing whatever was needed in order to guarantee that “enough” of everything—God’s love—was available. Knowing the conditions gave one the right to ignore others, or seek to convert others, or simply eliminate others who did not know the conditions, or agree to them.
Therefore, seeking to know the conditions of Life became a major preoccupation. Knowing the conditions of Life was called science. Knowing the conditions of the afterlife was called conscience. If one knew these conditions and understood them, one was said to have “a good conscience,” or to be conscious.
A “high consciousness” was said to result from the earnest study of something you called theology, from theo + logy, or, loosely, God logic.
After much study, it was concluded that there were certain circumstances under which the Requirement could be met, and certain circumstances under which that was impossible. There were also certain circumstances under which one could be forgiven for not having the Requirement.
These circumstances came to be known as “the conditions.”
“Having” was added to “doing” in your experience.
When you have enough brains, you can do the thing called get good grades, graduate at the top of your class, and find a great job. Then you can be the thing called successful.
When you have enough money, you can do the thing called buy a wonderful house, and you can be the thing called secure.
When you have enough time, you can do the thing called take a vacation, and you can be the thing called rested, refreshed, and relaxed.
When you have enough power, you can do the thing called determine your own destiny, and you can be the thing you called free.
When you have enough faith, you can do the thing called find God, and you can be the thing called saved.
This is how you set up your world. When someone has the right stuff, they can do the right things—the things that allow them to be what they’ve always wanted to be.
The difficulty is that people cannot easily do all the things they need to do unless they have all of the things you say they need to have.
They cannot get a good job and rise to the top, even if the have the brains, unless they are also the right gender. They cannot buy a wonderful house even if they have the money, unless they also have the right skin color. They cannot find God, even if they have faith, unless they also have the right religious beliefs.
Having the right stuff is not a guarantee of getting all that you desire, but it gives you a big head start.
The more knowledge of these conditions one acquired (or was thought to have acquired), the more superior one was understood to be. As has been mentioned, this Superiority gave people the authority (or encouraged people to grant themselves authority) to do whatever they felt was necessary in order to assure themselves more Life and more God—neither of which there was enough of.
This is why you’ve had to do what you’ve had to do: because there was not enough. This is what you have told yourself. Your entire species has accepted this mantra.
There’s more than one of you, and so there is not enough to go around. Not enough food, not enough money, not enough love, not enough God.
You have to compete for it.
And if you’re going to compete, you have to have some way of figuring out who wins.
The one who is superior wins—and Superiority is based on certain conditions.
Some humans sought to guarantee that they would win, and so arbitrarily added to the conditions. They made it possible to declare themselves the victors in advance.
They declared, for instance, that males were superior than females. Wasn’t this self-evident? Some of the thinkers among you asked. (Of course, it was mostly males doing the asking.)
Similarly, whites were pronounced to be Superior.
And then, later, Americans.
And, of course, Christians.
Or was it Russians? And Jews? Or Women?
Could such thing be true? Of course they could. It all depended upon who was creating the system.
The very earliest superior beings were not male… and males actually agreed. After all, were females not the bringers of life? And was life not that for which everyone had the highest desire? So it was during your matriarchal period that females were considered superior.
Similarly, the white race was not the first race, and therefore not superior.
In truth, it is not superior today.
Nor are males superior.
Nor Jews.
Nor Christians.
Nor Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, nor even Democrats or Republicans, Conservatives or Communists, nor anything else whatsoever.
Here is the truth—the truth that will set you free, the truth you cannot allow to be spoken because it will set anyone free:
There is no such thing as Superiority.
You have made it all up.
You have defined what you think is superior, based on your preferences and your desires and your understandings (which are very limited, indeed). You have announced what you proclaim to be better based on your perspective and your objectives and your agenda.
Yet some of you have claimed this is My agenda. God is the one who named the Chosen People, or the One True Faith, or the only path to salvation.
All of this goes back to the First Illusion: Need Exists.
You imagine that because God has needs, that God has an agenda.
This was your first mistake, and it has led to what could be your last. For I tell you this: Your idea of Superiority could be the last mistake you ever made.
Humans think that they are superior to nature, and so, they seek to subdue it. In doing this, they destroy the very habitat which was created to protect them and to be their paradise.
Humans think that they are superior to each other, and so, they seek to subdue each other. In doing this, they destroy the very family that was created to embrace them and to give them love.
Your species is making it very difficult to experience Life in its present form because of your belief in the Illusions. By not using the Illusions as they were intended, you are turning what was intended to be a beautiful dream into a living nightmare.
But you can undo all of this right now. Simply see the Illusions for what they are—realities contrived for a purpose—and then stop living them as if they were real.
In particular, stop living The Ninth Illusion with such conviction. Indeed, use the Illusion to notice that Superiority is not real. There can be no such thing as Superiority when We Are All One. A thing cannot be superior to itself.
All things are One Thing, and there is nothing else. “We Are All One” is more than a beautiful slogan. It is precise description of the nature of Ultimate Reality. When you understand this, you begin to experiencing life—and treating each other way—in a new way. You see the relationship of all things differently. You notice the connectedness at a much higher level. Your awareness is expanded, your insight becomes very keen. You, quite literally, see in.
The increased ability to peer deeply into life allows you to look past the Illusion and to recognize—to “know again,” to re-cognize—your reality. It is by this process that you remember Who You Really Are.
This movement, from not knowing to knowing again, may be made slowly. The journey may be undertaken in small steps. Small steps can produce large advances. Always remember that.
One such small step would be to put and end to better.
This idea of Superiority is the most seductive idea ever visited upon the human race. It can turn the heart to stone, change the warm to cold, yes to no, in an instant.
A single sentence, uttered from your pulpits, lecterns, and rostrums, by your national congresses and your world summit leaders, could change everything.
“Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.”
This humble utterance could begin to heal the divisions between your religions, close the gap between your political parties, curb the conflicts between your nations.
With one word you could end them.
“Namasté.”
God in me honors God in you.
How simple. How beautiful. How wondrous, indeed.
Yet how difficult, when one is caught up in the Illusion, to see God in every one and every thing. Each person would have to be aware of the Illusion—be aware that it is an illusion.
Yet if it is not an illusion but is life as it reality is, then how is it that precisely when we imagine ourselves to be superior, we behave in the most inferior ways? Why is it exactly when we think ourselves better than we act worse?
Clearly, there was a flaw in The Ninth Illusion. This should have revealed the idea of Superiority as false, but humans knew at some very deep level that they could not give up the Illusion, or something very vital would come to and end.
Again, they were right. But again, they made a mistake. Instead of seeing the Illusion as an Illusion, and using it for the purpose for which it was intended, they thought they had to fix the flaw.
It was to fix the flaw in The Ninth Illusion that The Tenth Illusion was created.
This is The Ninth Illusion:
SUPERIORTY EXISTS
Humans concluded that if Conditionality existed, then knowing the conditions would be necessary to enjoy and create the life—and the afterlife—that one desired.
This conclusion was unavoidable, as was: Those who knew the conditions were better off than those who did not.
And it did not take much time for the human race to remove the word “off” from the previous sentence.
Thus the idea of Superiority was born.
Superiority had many uses. Chief among them was providing inarguable justification for doing whatever was needed in order to guarantee that “enough” of everything—God’s love—was available. Knowing the conditions gave one the right to ignore others, or seek to convert others, or simply eliminate others who did not know the conditions, or agree to them.
Therefore, seeking to know the conditions of Life became a major preoccupation. Knowing the conditions of Life was called science. Knowing the conditions of the afterlife was called conscience. If one knew these conditions and understood them, one was said to have “a good conscience,” or to be conscious.
A “high consciousness” was said to result from the earnest study of something you called theology, from theo + logy, or, loosely, God logic.
After much study, it was concluded that there were certain circumstances under which the Requirement could be met, and certain circumstances under which that was impossible. There were also certain circumstances under which one could be forgiven for not having the Requirement.
These circumstances came to be known as “the conditions.”
“Having” was added to “doing” in your experience.
When you have enough brains, you can do the thing called get good grades, graduate at the top of your class, and find a great job. Then you can be the thing called successful.
When you have enough money, you can do the thing called buy a wonderful house, and you can be the thing called secure.
When you have enough time, you can do the thing called take a vacation, and you can be the thing called rested, refreshed, and relaxed.
When you have enough power, you can do the thing called determine your own destiny, and you can be the thing you called free.
When you have enough faith, you can do the thing called find God, and you can be the thing called saved.
This is how you set up your world. When someone has the right stuff, they can do the right things—the things that allow them to be what they’ve always wanted to be.
The difficulty is that people cannot easily do all the things they need to do unless they have all of the things you say they need to have.
They cannot get a good job and rise to the top, even if the have the brains, unless they are also the right gender. They cannot buy a wonderful house even if they have the money, unless they also have the right skin color. They cannot find God, even if they have faith, unless they also have the right religious beliefs.
Having the right stuff is not a guarantee of getting all that you desire, but it gives you a big head start.
The more knowledge of these conditions one acquired (or was thought to have acquired), the more superior one was understood to be. As has been mentioned, this Superiority gave people the authority (or encouraged people to grant themselves authority) to do whatever they felt was necessary in order to assure themselves more Life and more God—neither of which there was enough of.
This is why you’ve had to do what you’ve had to do: because there was not enough. This is what you have told yourself. Your entire species has accepted this mantra.
There’s more than one of you, and so there is not enough to go around. Not enough food, not enough money, not enough love, not enough God.
You have to compete for it.
And if you’re going to compete, you have to have some way of figuring out who wins.
The one who is superior wins—and Superiority is based on certain conditions.
Some humans sought to guarantee that they would win, and so arbitrarily added to the conditions. They made it possible to declare themselves the victors in advance.
They declared, for instance, that males were superior than females. Wasn’t this self-evident? Some of the thinkers among you asked. (Of course, it was mostly males doing the asking.)
Similarly, whites were pronounced to be Superior.
And then, later, Americans.
And, of course, Christians.
Or was it Russians? And Jews? Or Women?
Could such thing be true? Of course they could. It all depended upon who was creating the system.
The very earliest superior beings were not male… and males actually agreed. After all, were females not the bringers of life? And was life not that for which everyone had the highest desire? So it was during your matriarchal period that females were considered superior.
Similarly, the white race was not the first race, and therefore not superior.
In truth, it is not superior today.
Nor are males superior.
Nor Jews.
Nor Christians.
Nor Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, nor even Democrats or Republicans, Conservatives or Communists, nor anything else whatsoever.
Here is the truth—the truth that will set you free, the truth you cannot allow to be spoken because it will set anyone free:
There is no such thing as Superiority.
You have made it all up.
You have defined what you think is superior, based on your preferences and your desires and your understandings (which are very limited, indeed). You have announced what you proclaim to be better based on your perspective and your objectives and your agenda.
Yet some of you have claimed this is My agenda. God is the one who named the Chosen People, or the One True Faith, or the only path to salvation.
All of this goes back to the First Illusion: Need Exists.
You imagine that because God has needs, that God has an agenda.
This was your first mistake, and it has led to what could be your last. For I tell you this: Your idea of Superiority could be the last mistake you ever made.
Humans think that they are superior to nature, and so, they seek to subdue it. In doing this, they destroy the very habitat which was created to protect them and to be their paradise.
Humans think that they are superior to each other, and so, they seek to subdue each other. In doing this, they destroy the very family that was created to embrace them and to give them love.
Your species is making it very difficult to experience Life in its present form because of your belief in the Illusions. By not using the Illusions as they were intended, you are turning what was intended to be a beautiful dream into a living nightmare.
But you can undo all of this right now. Simply see the Illusions for what they are—realities contrived for a purpose—and then stop living them as if they were real.
In particular, stop living The Ninth Illusion with such conviction. Indeed, use the Illusion to notice that Superiority is not real. There can be no such thing as Superiority when We Are All One. A thing cannot be superior to itself.
All things are One Thing, and there is nothing else. “We Are All One” is more than a beautiful slogan. It is precise description of the nature of Ultimate Reality. When you understand this, you begin to experiencing life—and treating each other way—in a new way. You see the relationship of all things differently. You notice the connectedness at a much higher level. Your awareness is expanded, your insight becomes very keen. You, quite literally, see in.
The increased ability to peer deeply into life allows you to look past the Illusion and to recognize—to “know again,” to re-cognize—your reality. It is by this process that you remember Who You Really Are.
This movement, from not knowing to knowing again, may be made slowly. The journey may be undertaken in small steps. Small steps can produce large advances. Always remember that.
One such small step would be to put and end to better.
This idea of Superiority is the most seductive idea ever visited upon the human race. It can turn the heart to stone, change the warm to cold, yes to no, in an instant.
A single sentence, uttered from your pulpits, lecterns, and rostrums, by your national congresses and your world summit leaders, could change everything.
“Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.”
This humble utterance could begin to heal the divisions between your religions, close the gap between your political parties, curb the conflicts between your nations.
With one word you could end them.
“Namasté.”
God in me honors God in you.
How simple. How beautiful. How wondrous, indeed.
Yet how difficult, when one is caught up in the Illusion, to see God in every one and every thing. Each person would have to be aware of the Illusion—be aware that it is an illusion.
Yet if it is not an illusion but is life as it reality is, then how is it that precisely when we imagine ourselves to be superior, we behave in the most inferior ways? Why is it exactly when we think ourselves better than we act worse?
Clearly, there was a flaw in The Ninth Illusion. This should have revealed the idea of Superiority as false, but humans knew at some very deep level that they could not give up the Illusion, or something very vital would come to and end.
Again, they were right. But again, they made a mistake. Instead of seeing the Illusion as an Illusion, and using it for the purpose for which it was intended, they thought they had to fix the flaw.
It was to fix the flaw in The Ninth Illusion that The Tenth Illusion was created.
The Illusion of Ignorance
10. The Illusion of Ignorance
This is The Tenth Illusion:
IGNORANCE EXISTS
Increasingly, as each Illusion was piled upon last, Life became more and more difficult to figure out. Humans asked more and more questions that could not be answered. If this was true, then why that? If that was true, then why this? It wasn’t long before philosophers and teachers began throwing up their hands. “We don’t know,” they said, “and we don’t know if it’s possible to know.”
Thus the idea of Ignorance was born.
This idea served so many purposes that it spread quickly and soon became the ultimate answer.
We just don’t know.
Human intuitions began finding in this not only a refuge but a certain kind of power. “We don’t know” turned into “we are not supposed to know,” which became “ you do not have a need to know,” which finally became “what you don’t know won’t hurt you.”
This gave religions and governments the authority to say what they chose, and act as they pleased, without having answer to anyone.
“We are not supposed to know” actually became a religious doctrine. There are certain secrets of the Universe that God does not want us to know, this doctrine declared, and to even inquire about such things was blasphemy. This doctrine quickly spread from religion to politics and government.
The result: There was a time in your history when certain question asked at certain times in certain ways could get one’s head cut off.
Literally.
This prohibition against inquiry elevated Ignorance to a desirable attribute. It became very wise and very good manners to ask questions. It became accepted behavior. Indeed, expected behavior.
And while the punishment for the offense of impertinent inquiry may not seem quite as severe today as it was in days gone by, there are certain places on your planet where little has changed.
Certain totalitarian regimes insist to this very hour that only voices of agreement be heard and that voices of dissent be silenced, sometimes in the most brutal ways.
Such barbaric behaviors are justified by proclamations that they are “necessary to ensure order.” Protests by the international community are met with indignant sniffs, repressive governments declaring such issues “internal matters.”
Now I tell you this: The essence of love is freedom. Anyone who says they love you, and that they are looking out for you, will grant you freedom.
It is as simple as that. You do not have to look further or deeper for more sophisticated understanding.
I have told you before, and I will tell you again. There are two energies at the core of the human experience: love and fear.
Love grants freedom, fear takes it away. Love opens up, fear closes down. Love invites full expression, fear punishes it.
Love invites you, always, to break the bonds of ignorance. To ask any questions. To seek any answers. To speak any word. To share any thought. To support any system. To worship any God.
To live your truth.
Love invites you, always, to live your truth.
That’s how you can know that it is love.
I love you. That is why I have to come to tell you that Ignorance is an Illusion.
You know everything that there is to know about Who You Really Are—which is the essence of love. There is nothing you have to learn. You need merely remember.
You have been told that you cannot know God, and that to even ask about Me is an offense against Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that there is something that I need from you, and if you do not give it to Me, you may not return Home, to Oneness with Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that you are separate from Me, and that you are separate from each other.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that there is not enough, and that you must therefore compete with each other for everything, including Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that if you do not do what I require in this competition, you will be punished, and that the punishment is condemnation to everlasting torture.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that My love for you is conditional, and that if you know and meet My conditions, and all the conditions needed to win the competition for life, then you are superior.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
Finally, you have been told that you do not know that these statements are untrue, and that you can never know, because it is all far too much for you to understand.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
NOW HERE IS THE TRUTH…
1. God needs nothing.
2. God cannot fail, and neither can you.
3. Nothing is separate from anything.
4. There is enough.
5. There is nothing you have to do.
6. You will never be judged.
7. You will never be condemned.
8. Love knows no condition.
9. A thing cannot be superior to itself.
10. You already know all of this.
This is The Tenth Illusion:
IGNORANCE EXISTS
Increasingly, as each Illusion was piled upon last, Life became more and more difficult to figure out. Humans asked more and more questions that could not be answered. If this was true, then why that? If that was true, then why this? It wasn’t long before philosophers and teachers began throwing up their hands. “We don’t know,” they said, “and we don’t know if it’s possible to know.”
Thus the idea of Ignorance was born.
This idea served so many purposes that it spread quickly and soon became the ultimate answer.
We just don’t know.
Human intuitions began finding in this not only a refuge but a certain kind of power. “We don’t know” turned into “we are not supposed to know,” which became “ you do not have a need to know,” which finally became “what you don’t know won’t hurt you.”
This gave religions and governments the authority to say what they chose, and act as they pleased, without having answer to anyone.
“We are not supposed to know” actually became a religious doctrine. There are certain secrets of the Universe that God does not want us to know, this doctrine declared, and to even inquire about such things was blasphemy. This doctrine quickly spread from religion to politics and government.
The result: There was a time in your history when certain question asked at certain times in certain ways could get one’s head cut off.
Literally.
This prohibition against inquiry elevated Ignorance to a desirable attribute. It became very wise and very good manners to ask questions. It became accepted behavior. Indeed, expected behavior.
And while the punishment for the offense of impertinent inquiry may not seem quite as severe today as it was in days gone by, there are certain places on your planet where little has changed.
Certain totalitarian regimes insist to this very hour that only voices of agreement be heard and that voices of dissent be silenced, sometimes in the most brutal ways.
Such barbaric behaviors are justified by proclamations that they are “necessary to ensure order.” Protests by the international community are met with indignant sniffs, repressive governments declaring such issues “internal matters.”
Now I tell you this: The essence of love is freedom. Anyone who says they love you, and that they are looking out for you, will grant you freedom.
It is as simple as that. You do not have to look further or deeper for more sophisticated understanding.
I have told you before, and I will tell you again. There are two energies at the core of the human experience: love and fear.
Love grants freedom, fear takes it away. Love opens up, fear closes down. Love invites full expression, fear punishes it.
Love invites you, always, to break the bonds of ignorance. To ask any questions. To seek any answers. To speak any word. To share any thought. To support any system. To worship any God.
To live your truth.
Love invites you, always, to live your truth.
That’s how you can know that it is love.
I love you. That is why I have to come to tell you that Ignorance is an Illusion.
You know everything that there is to know about Who You Really Are—which is the essence of love. There is nothing you have to learn. You need merely remember.
You have been told that you cannot know God, and that to even ask about Me is an offense against Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that there is something that I need from you, and if you do not give it to Me, you may not return Home, to Oneness with Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that you are separate from Me, and that you are separate from each other.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that there is not enough, and that you must therefore compete with each other for everything, including Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that if you do not do what I require in this competition, you will be punished, and that the punishment is condemnation to everlasting torture.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that My love for you is conditional, and that if you know and meet My conditions, and all the conditions needed to win the competition for life, then you are superior.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
Finally, you have been told that you do not know that these statements are untrue, and that you can never know, because it is all far too much for you to understand.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
NOW HERE IS THE TRUTH…
1. God needs nothing.
2. God cannot fail, and neither can you.
3. Nothing is separate from anything.
4. There is enough.
5. There is nothing you have to do.
6. You will never be judged.
7. You will never be condemned.
8. Love knows no condition.
9. A thing cannot be superior to itself.
10. You already know all of this.
The Illusion of Ignorance
10. The Illusion of Ignorance
This is The Tenth Illusion:
IGNORANCE EXISTS
Increasingly, as each Illusion was piled upon last, Life became more and more difficult to figure out. Humans asked more and more questions that could not be answered. If this was true, then why that? If that was true, then why this? It wasn’t long before philosophers and teachers began throwing up their hands. “We don’t know,” they said, “and we don’t know if it’s possible to know.”
Thus the idea of Ignorance was born.
This idea served so many purposes that it spread quickly and soon became the ultimate answer.
We just don’t know.
Human intuitions began finding in this not only a refuge but a certain kind of power. “We don’t know” turned into “we are not supposed to know,” which became “ you do not have a need to know,” which finally became “what you don’t know won’t hurt you.”
This gave religions and governments the authority to say what they chose, and act as they pleased, without having answer to anyone.
“We are not supposed to know” actually became a religious doctrine. There are certain secrets of the Universe that God does not want us to know, this doctrine declared, and to even inquire about such things was blasphemy. This doctrine quickly spread from religion to politics and government.
The result: There was a time in your history when certain question asked at certain times in certain ways could get one’s head cut off.
Literally.
This prohibition against inquiry elevated Ignorance to a desirable attribute. It became very wise and very good manners to ask questions. It became accepted behavior. Indeed, expected behavior.
And while the punishment for the offense of impertinent inquiry may not seem quite as severe today as it was in days gone by, there are certain places on your planet where little has changed.
Certain totalitarian regimes insist to this very hour that only voices of agreement be heard and that voices of dissent be silenced, sometimes in the most brutal ways.
Such barbaric behaviors are justified by proclamations that they are “necessary to ensure order.” Protests by the international community are met with indignant sniffs, repressive governments declaring such issues “internal matters.”
Now I tell you this: The essence of love is freedom. Anyone who says they love you, and that they are looking out for you, will grant you freedom.
It is as simple as that. You do not have to look further or deeper for more sophisticated understanding.
I have told you before, and I will tell you again. There are two energies at the core of the human experience: love and fear.
Love grants freedom, fear takes it away. Love opens up, fear closes down. Love invites full expression, fear punishes it.
Love invites you, always, to break the bonds of ignorance. To ask any questions. To seek any answers. To speak any word. To share any thought. To support any system. To worship any God.
To live your truth.
Love invites you, always, to live your truth.
That’s how you can know that it is love.
I love you. That is why I have to come to tell you that Ignorance is an Illusion.
You know everything that there is to know about Who You Really Are—which is the essence of love. There is nothing you have to learn. You need merely remember.
You have been told that you cannot know God, and that to even ask about Me is an offense against Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that there is something that I need from you, and if you do not give it to Me, you may not return Home, to Oneness with Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that you are separate from Me, and that you are separate from each other.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that there is not enough, and that you must therefore compete with each other for everything, including Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that if you do not do what I require in this competition, you will be punished, and that the punishment is condemnation to everlasting torture.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that My love for you is conditional, and that if you know and meet My conditions, and all the conditions needed to win the competition for life, then you are superior.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
Finally, you have been told that you do not know that these statements are untrue, and that you can never know, because it is all far too much for you to understand.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
NOW HERE IS THE TRUTH…
1. God needs nothing.
2. God cannot fail, and neither can you.
3. Nothing is separate from anything.
4. There is enough.
5. There is nothing you have to do.
6. You will never be judged.
7. You will never be condemned.
8. Love knows no condition.
9. A thing cannot be superior to itself.
10. You already know all of this.
This is The Tenth Illusion:
IGNORANCE EXISTS
Increasingly, as each Illusion was piled upon last, Life became more and more difficult to figure out. Humans asked more and more questions that could not be answered. If this was true, then why that? If that was true, then why this? It wasn’t long before philosophers and teachers began throwing up their hands. “We don’t know,” they said, “and we don’t know if it’s possible to know.”
Thus the idea of Ignorance was born.
This idea served so many purposes that it spread quickly and soon became the ultimate answer.
We just don’t know.
Human intuitions began finding in this not only a refuge but a certain kind of power. “We don’t know” turned into “we are not supposed to know,” which became “ you do not have a need to know,” which finally became “what you don’t know won’t hurt you.”
This gave religions and governments the authority to say what they chose, and act as they pleased, without having answer to anyone.
“We are not supposed to know” actually became a religious doctrine. There are certain secrets of the Universe that God does not want us to know, this doctrine declared, and to even inquire about such things was blasphemy. This doctrine quickly spread from religion to politics and government.
The result: There was a time in your history when certain question asked at certain times in certain ways could get one’s head cut off.
Literally.
This prohibition against inquiry elevated Ignorance to a desirable attribute. It became very wise and very good manners to ask questions. It became accepted behavior. Indeed, expected behavior.
And while the punishment for the offense of impertinent inquiry may not seem quite as severe today as it was in days gone by, there are certain places on your planet where little has changed.
Certain totalitarian regimes insist to this very hour that only voices of agreement be heard and that voices of dissent be silenced, sometimes in the most brutal ways.
Such barbaric behaviors are justified by proclamations that they are “necessary to ensure order.” Protests by the international community are met with indignant sniffs, repressive governments declaring such issues “internal matters.”
Now I tell you this: The essence of love is freedom. Anyone who says they love you, and that they are looking out for you, will grant you freedom.
It is as simple as that. You do not have to look further or deeper for more sophisticated understanding.
I have told you before, and I will tell you again. There are two energies at the core of the human experience: love and fear.
Love grants freedom, fear takes it away. Love opens up, fear closes down. Love invites full expression, fear punishes it.
Love invites you, always, to break the bonds of ignorance. To ask any questions. To seek any answers. To speak any word. To share any thought. To support any system. To worship any God.
To live your truth.
Love invites you, always, to live your truth.
That’s how you can know that it is love.
I love you. That is why I have to come to tell you that Ignorance is an Illusion.
You know everything that there is to know about Who You Really Are—which is the essence of love. There is nothing you have to learn. You need merely remember.
You have been told that you cannot know God, and that to even ask about Me is an offense against Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that there is something that I need from you, and if you do not give it to Me, you may not return Home, to Oneness with Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that you are separate from Me, and that you are separate from each other.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that there is not enough, and that you must therefore compete with each other for everything, including Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that if you do not do what I require in this competition, you will be punished, and that the punishment is condemnation to everlasting torture.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that My love for you is conditional, and that if you know and meet My conditions, and all the conditions needed to win the competition for life, then you are superior.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
Finally, you have been told that you do not know that these statements are untrue, and that you can never know, because it is all far too much for you to understand.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
NOW HERE IS THE TRUTH…
1. God needs nothing.
2. God cannot fail, and neither can you.
3. Nothing is separate from anything.
4. There is enough.
5. There is nothing you have to do.
6. You will never be judged.
7. You will never be condemned.
8. Love knows no condition.
9. A thing cannot be superior to itself.
10. You already know all of this.
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