THE  GREAT  AWAKENING

PART II

CHAPTER 6

To know Reality must involve the willingness to judge unreality for what it is.  To acknowledge and accept the Truth, is to deny all that you think you know.  But what you think you know was never True.  What gain is there in clinging to it and denying the evidence for Truth?  Consider all the distortions you have made out of nothing, all the strange forms and feelings, and actions and reactions, that you have woven out of it.  Are you really safer in maintaining the reality of illusions than you would be in joyously accepting the Truth and giving thanks for it?

If you believe you are absent from God, you will believe that He is absent from you.  What greater sacrifice could be demanded than that God's Son perceive himself without his Father?  And His Father be without His Son?  You would condemn his Joy to misery, and make him different.  And all the misery you made has been your own.  Are you not glad to learn it is not True?  Would you not willingly be free of misery, and learn again of Joy?  Do you not want to know your own Identity?  Would you not happily exchange your doubts for Certainty?  That you are joined to your brother is a FACT.  How can this be fearful unless it disagrees with what you hold more dear than Truth?  Reason will tell you that this FACT is your release.

To give up the dissociation of Reality brings more than merely lack of fear.  In this decision lie Joy, Peace and the glory of Creation.  You will realise that Salvation must come to you this way if you consider what dissociation is.  Unless you first know something, you cannot dissociate it.  Knowledge must precede dissociation, so that dissociation is nothing more than a decision to forget.  Dissociation is a distorted process of thinking whereby two systems of belief which cannot coexist are both maintained. It is a delusion.  Everything and nothing cannot co-exist.  Light and darkness cannot co-exist.  Knowledge and ignorance cannot co-exist.  To believe in one is to deny the other.  Peace and conflict are opposites and so where one abides, the other cannot be; where either goes, the other disappears.  And the seeming conflict between Truth and illusion can only be resolved by separating yourself from the illusion, and not from Truth.

You who are beloved of God are no illusion, being as True and Holy as Himself.  The stillness of your Certainty of Him and of yourself is Home to both of You, Who dwell as One and not apart.  God knows you NOW.  He remembers nothing, having always known you exactly as He knows you NOW.  God does not change His mind about you, for He is not uncertain of Himself.  When anything threatens your peace of mind ask yourself  "Has God changed His mind about me?"  Then accept His decision, and refuse to change your mind about yourself.