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Study of Manual for Teachers 7-7-12

7-7-12
2 What is the ego? Nothingness, but in a form that seems like something. In a world of form the ego cannot be denied for it alone seems real. Yet could God’s Son as He created him abide in form or in a world of form? Who asks you to define the ego and explain how it arose can be but he who thinks it real, and seeks by definition to ensure that its illusive nature is concealed behind the words that seem to make it so.

I am not really here in this world of the ego, entrapped in a body. How could that be true? I am as God created me. I am as God. I cannot be defined by form. I have no boundaries, and certainly I am not bound by skin and bone. And yet, I imagine myself made small and imprisoned, and this was supposedly done by a thought of smallness that I am learning to think of as ego.

Even though the ego is nothing, doesn’t really exist, as long as our mind is dreaming dreams of form we cannot deny the ego. In this world it seems very real, and since this is where we choose to be, we have to deal with the ego as if it is real. I deny the ego because I know it is not real, but if I pretend it has no affect on me, I am in denial about the ego.

When I began to learn about the ego and to understand how it works, I became obsessed with defining it. I wanted to know all about it, how we got to this place, what it means. Why would we ever leave Heaven if it were all that great? I wanted to learn to master the ego, to destroy the ego. And all of that was the ego response to the news that the ego exists. Even the desire to rid myself of the ego proclaimed its reality and its power to be a threat.

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