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The [[mind]] can make the [[belief]] in [[separation]] very real and very fearful, and this belief is the "[[devil]]. "It is powerful, active, destructive and clearly in [[opposition]] to [[God]], because it literally denies His Fatherhood. Look at your [[life]] and see what the devil has made. But realize that this making will surely [[dissolve]] in the light of [[truth]], because its [[foundation]] is a [[lie]]. Your [[creation]] by God is the only Foundation that cannot be shaken, because the [[light]] is in it. Your starting point is truth, and you must return to your Beginning. Much has been seen since then, but nothing has really happened. Your [[Self]] is still in [[peace]], even though your mind is in [[conflict]]. You have not yet gone back far enough, and that is why you become so fearful. As you approach the Beginning, you feel the fear of the destruction of your [[thought]] system upon you as if it were the fear of [[death]]. There is no death, but there is a belief in death.

The [[mind]] can make the [[belief]] in [[separation]] very real and very fearful, and this belief is the "[[devil]]. "It is powerful, active, destructive and clearly in [[opposition]] to [[God]], because it literally denies His Fatherhood. Look at your [[life]] and see what the devil has made. But realize that this making will surely [[dissolve]] in the light of [[truth]], because its [[foundation]] is a [[lie]]. Your [[creation]] by God is the only Foundation that cannot be shaken, because the [[light]] is in it. Your starting point is truth, and you must return to your Beginning. Much has been seen since then, but nothing has really happened. Your [[Self]] is still in [[peace]], even though your mind is in [[conflict]]. You have not yet gone back far enough, and that is why you become so fearful. As you approach the Beginning, you feel the fear of the destruction of your [[thought]] system upon you as if it were the fear of [[death]]. There is no death, but there is a belief in death.

The branch that bears no fruit will be cut off and will wither away. Be glad! The [[light]] will shine from the true [[Foundation]] of [[life]], and your own thought system will stand corrected. It cannot stand otherwise. You who fear [[salvation]] are choosing death. [[Life]] and [[death]], [[light]] and [[darkness]], [[knowledge]] and [[perception]], are irreconcilable. To believe that they can be [[reconciled]] is to believe that God and His Son can not. Only the oneness of knowledge is [[free]] of [[conflict]]. Your Kingdom is not of this world because it was given you from beyond [[this world]]. Only in this world is the idea of an [[authority]] problem meaningful. The world is not left by death but by [[truth]], and truth can be known by all those for whom [[the Kingdom]] was created, and for whom it waits.  

The branch that bears no fruit will be cut off and will wither away. Be glad! The [[light]] will shine from the true [[Foundation]] of [[life]], and your own thought system will stand corrected. It cannot stand otherwise. You who fear [[salvation]] are choosing death. [[Life]] and [[death]], [[light]] and [[darkness]], [[knowledge]] and [[perception]], are irreconcilable. To believe that they can be [[reconciled]] is to believe that God and His Son can not. Only the oneness of knowledge is [[free]] of [[conflict]]. Your Kingdom is not of this world because it was given you from beyond [[this world]]. Only in this world is the idea of an [[authority]] problem meaningful. The world is not left by death but by [[truth]], and truth can be known by all those for whom [[Kingdom of Heaven|the Kingdom]] was created, and for whom it waits.  

[[Category: Chapter 3 - The Innocent Perception]]

[[Category: Chapter 3 - The Innocent Perception]]