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ACIM Workbook For Students What is the Ego? The ego is idolatry—the sign of limited and separated self, born in a body, doomed to suffer and to end its life in death.
the ego is the "proof" that strength is weak and love is fearful, life is really death, and what opposes God alone is true. The ego is insane. In
fear it stands beyond the everywhere, apart from All,
in separation from the Infinite.
In its insanity it thinks it has become a victor over God Himself. And in its terrible autonomy it "sees" the Will of God has been destroyed. It dreams of punishment, and trembles at the figures in its dreams; its enemies, who seek to murder it before it can ensure its safety by attacking them.
The Son of God is egoless. What can he know of madness and the death of God, when he abides in Him? What can he know of sorrow and of suffering, when he lives in the eternal joy?
when all there is surrounding him is everlasting peace, forever conflict-free and undisturbed, in deepest silence and tranquility? To know reality is not to see the ego and.. its
thoughts,
its
works,
its
acts,
its
laws and its beliefs,
its
dreams,
its
hopes,
its
plans for its salvation, and
the
cost belief in it entails.
In suffering, the price for faith in it, is so immense, that crucifixion of the Son of God is offered daily at its darkened shrine, and blood must flow before the altar where its sickly followers prepare to die. Yet will one lily of forgiveness change the darkness into light; the altar to illusions to the shrine of Life Itself. And peace will be restored forever to the holy minds which God created as His Son, His dwelling place, His joy, His love, completely His, completely one with Him. |
Workbook For Students Special Topics - Part 2
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