Library of Christ Mind Teachings
ACIM Original Edition
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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. It is the will that
sees the Will of God as enemy and takes a form in which It is denied.
The ego is the “proof” that strength is weak and love is fearful, life
is really death, and what opposes God alone is true.
2 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.
3 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 eternal joy? What can he know of fear and
punishment, of sin and guilt, of hatred and attack when all there is
surrounding him is everlasting peace, forever conflict-free and
undisturbed in deepest silence and tranquility?
4 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.
5 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.