Salvation lies in the simple fact that illusions are not fearful because they are not true. They but seem to be fearful to the extent to which you fail to recognize them for what they are; and you will fail to do this to the extent to which you want them to be true. And to the same extent you are denying truth, and so are failing to make the simple choice between truth and illusion; God and fantasy. Remember this, and you will have no difficulty in perceiving the decision as just what it is, and nothing more.
The core of the separation illusion lies simply in the fantasy of destruction of love’s meaning. And unless love’s meaning is restored to you, you cannot know yourself who share its meaning. Separation is only the decision not to know yourself. This whole thought system is a carefully contrived learning experience, designed to lead away from truth and into fantasy. Yet for every learning that would hurt you, God offers you correction and complete escape from all its consequences.
The decision whether or not to listen to this course and follow it is but the choice between truth and illusion. For here is truth, separated from illusion and not confused with it at all. How simple does this choice become when it is perceived as only what it is. For only fantasies make confusion in choosing possible, and they are totally unreal. (A Course in Miracles, T-16.V.14-16. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
Our true Identity is the one Self created by God like Himself — Love and nothing else. The illusion of separation manifests as a body and the world we experience through the body. The body is a dream. (W-pII.5) It is an image made to hide the truth of our oneness in God’s Love. We have taught ourselves to believe that we are a false self that denies the Truth of What we are.
This false self cannot comprehend God’s Love because it is founded on the denial of that Love. We value this denial because we want to be special, to have some value no one else has. It is this wish for specialness that makes the world of form seem real.
In Truth, this wish is the denial of Life; it is the wish for death. And so the world of separate forms appears to be a place where Life ends in death. Fear is inevitable in such a world. But the Truth is that the Life of our true Self is the Life of God, eternal, unchanging, without end. In each moment we choose between a separate self identity and the one Self God created. We choose between death and Life.
We are saved from death by the fact that death could never happen in the changeless Reality of Love. God does not die nor does His Son, Who shares His Life. Our true Self is God’s Son. Every brother is one with us in the unity of God’s Son. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s vision of oneness in place of the ego’s images of separation, we free ourselves from death and accept our eternal Life in God. There truly is nothing to fear.
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