ACIM
Manual For Teachers
What
Is Death?
Death is the symbol of the
fear of God.
His love is blotted out in
the idea (of death), which holds it (His love) from awareness like
a shield held to obscure the sun.
The grimness of the symbol
is enough to show it cannot co-exist with God (love). It
holds an image of the Son of God in which...
he is "laid to rest"
in devastation's arms, where worms wait to greet him, and to last
a little while by his destruction. Yet
the worms as well are doomed to be destroyed as certainly.
And so do all things live
because of death.
Devouring is nature's "law
of life."
God is insane,
and fear alone is real. |