3-31. To the ego, love is an illusion because fear is real. To Spirit, fear is an illusion because Love is Real. So intractably opposed, only one perspective can be correct.
That which is fundamentally disparate and genuinely diametrically opposed cannot be resolved. This axiom of Creation cannot be countered, although the ego would certainly like for you to attempt to do so. It is a simple operating principle of Creation, although it can appear confusing to the obfuscated framework of perception that the ego will forever hold out to you as having a value that Love does not. The ego does not actually understand Love at all, for Love is Unitary and the ego stands in the place of all that is not joined with God, which is, in Truth, nothing at all. And so does the ego find its genesis from nothing and so does the ego embody nothing at all that is actually Real. The ego attempts to fill in what it believes are fundamental gaps in All That Is with its own projections of bodily-centered awareness, in the vain hope that it can be an effective substitute for the Peace that accompanies a complete surrender to the present moment, an instant within which all that is fear dissolves into the nothingness that was its meaningless origin. What is there to fear, if all that is Real is Love and the Love of God is guaranteed? Much may occur in this world that is unpleasant, repugnant, regretful or even, apparently, deserving of vengeful consideration. Yet above all of this fray of materiality, this outpouring of the intentional elections of so many who dwell fully within the ambit of fear, Love remains. Love is inalterable and absolutely unaffected by all that is cast against it, for Love Knows its own Nature, and being Complete, Love requests no justification. Can you possibly say the same of fear, so cowering and dreadful in all of its applications? To the ego, love is not real, for the ego knows only itself, and while the ego has a somewhat fleeting suspicion that it may not be the constituent totality of All That Is, the ego is unable to see beyond its own self-imposed boundaries, and so the ego cannot see love in any manner that has value to you or to God. To the ego, fear is wholly justified, for attack is always imminent and safety is never complete. Love knows nothing of this, for Love Knows that God Loves all of the Children of God equally and completely, no matter what they may or may not believe about themselves. It would seem that these dual perspectives might have some form of contradiction inherent within their presentation to your mind, but rest assured that no such conflict actually exists, in Truth. The ego cannot see beyond its own imaginings, and so the ego creates a world of fear for you to peruse, fully engulfed within its own construction of a reality that is fragmentary, partial, isolated and based only upon an illusion of separation that has no justification. That statement, while seemingly readily understood, contains a vast Truth that is rarely fully embodied by any Child of God. That there is nothing to fear is a concept that can be understood by the mind. However for it to be completely actualized by the heart, it must sink far deeper into your awareness than the fledgling beliefs in the possibility of complete Redemption from all illusion. Some infrequent examples of the behavior and manifestational prowess of those who have released all attachment to fear have been recorded throughout the history of this world, but they are rare indeed. That is because to fully accept the uselessness of fear is to equally accept your unlimited and unstoppable True Nature. Created by God, you cannot be stymied, prevented from learning all that you ever need to know, or disempowered in such a manner that you will be unable to manifest whatever it is that you might require to demonstrate without any hesitation that the Power of God is equally yours as well. What is it to transcend all beliefs in limitations? In Truth, nothing actually occurs for you simply release all beliefs in the possibility that the Creations of God could be imperfect in any way. In practical terms, you Arise as a Child of God who has Remembered their True Nature, and Love flows from your heart endlessly and completely. Supplied and sustained by God, you have never been powerless in any way. But the ego would very much prefer that you did not accept this Truth, for the ego is morbidly entranced by illusion, and it wishes to continuously enrapture you with its lurid tales of fear and the possibility of destruction at every turn. This is not the way of an Awakened Child of God, for while the acceptance of the impermanence of all that is physical may appear, at least at first, to be challenging and perhaps even suffocatingly tragic, it is actually quite the opposite. That all that is material must cease is the greatest joy of all, for that which is of God is not directly material and that which God has Created is Safe, no matter the great variety of manifestations it may take up while it works its way through all of the stages of Awakening to that which was forgotten before the necessity of time was Created in the interest of giving all of the Children of God mind-boggling vast spaces within which they could explore all that is not Real, so that they could finally Return to that which has always been. Fear is employed by the ego for the purposes of deception and deceit - never doubt that fear has any other purpose but those. Love is not employed by God for any purpose at all, for Love is Complete and it needs no justification to sustain its Nature. You can choose whichever perspective is most appropriate for you at any time, and you can even partially vacillate between them if you wish, perhaps slowly oscillating away from fear and towards Love in ever increasing patterns of perturbation until you are ready to realize that what you have for so long sought was never denied you in any way at all. You can choose from a great variety of perspectives and states of energetic awareness, but you cannot deny the unreality of fear. It stands as a monument to deception, a desperate plea on the part of the ego for you to invest your energy within a construction that is based upon an illusion of separation that was never actually Real. What you wish to choose is your own, for your free will is not subject to the constrictions and supplications of the ego. You can elect the ego’s perspective if you so desire, but you will be doing so at the cost of an expansion that can occur at any time, without effort or loss in any form. It cannot possibly be overstated that the ego wishes your allegiance, even if the ego offers nothing for the time that you spend regarding its storehouse of glimmering wares as being valuable and worthy of the trade that the ego bargains with you to complete. Time is given up and nothing is delivered to your outstretched hands, even if it might seem that you are being given anything at all that has actual value. Creation expands, or it remains the same. Creation cannot ever be constricted in any way. As such, you can choose the perspective of the ego, and believe that you are little, and fragile, and unloved by God, or you can choose the structure of Awareness that expands beyond all limitations, recognizing yourself as a perfect Reflection of the Creation of God, Beloved beyond all of time and space, and retained Safely within the Heart of God, no matter what may befall you while you occupy a material existence within a body, dwelling amongst the world of form, but never a creation of this place of illusionary separation. Only one perspective is reflective of the Truth of Love. Only one will free you from all pain, loss, fear, desolation and illicit consecration of the ego as an instrument of Truth in any manner at all. The Truth of Love requests not your supplication or adoration - it wishes to Give to you your own Freedom, one that you have not lost, but rather one that you voluntarily chose to forget in favor of a belief in a possibility of separation that had no rational justification at all. Choose, Child of God. One choice will allow everything to remain just as it is. The other will allow you to Arise as an Awakened and resplendent Child of God who has taken back up the mantle of Light that has always been rightfully yours to wear. One is a choice of illusion, symbolizing nothing at all and offering only so many fears of meaningless consequence. The other is a choice of Truth now accepted, no matter how fantastical it may appear to be to the ego. Which you choose determines what is to unfold next for you. Choose well, live fully and renounce fear, for Love will stand with you just as soon as you are ready to stand up and be the implement of Perfection and Light that you have always been and will always be.