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Enter now the ego’s strategy to devise a plan so the Son of God will never change his mind. Its goal is simple, and its means to achieve it ingenious. Its sole purpose is to make the Son of God mindless, for if he no longer knows he has—and is—a mind, he cannot change it. And so the ego adopts the plan to make the mind so abhorrent and terrifying that the Son will voluntarily wish to leave it, thereby becoming mindless, ensuring that the original decision for the ego remains permanent and its existence secured. The ego’s plan centers on instilling the fear of God—literally—in the Son’s mind. It tells the Son a story—a cosmic myth—the purpose being to cause the Son to choose to flee his mind, never to return. The foundation block of the ego’ s story is the unholy trinity of sin, guilt, and fear. Here is the tale, briefly summarized: We have sinned against God. By selfishly wanting our separation, a price had to be paid for our freedom—God had to be destroyed since oneness and separation cannot coexist.
And thus we fear His Love, believing it will destroy us.
We now have a serious problem confronting us—instant annihilation. Remember, however, that this problem is non-existent, for there is no angry God, no sin to be punished. This is but the ego’s made-up story to motivate us to choose mindlessness.
Pursuing its strategy, the ego sought to drive us out of our minds—literally and figuratively—to attain its goal of mindlessness. It succeeded in blotting from awareness the Content of God’s Love by convincing us to choose against its reflected content, the Holy Spirit ’s Atonement principle.
And so our individual self was preserved, as the ego successfully consummated its strategy of making the Son of God mindless, one among billions of fragments of God’s Son.
Believing now that we are bodies, the content of both love and guilt has been buried beneath the form; the Self of love concealed by the decision-making self of guilt, which in turn has been concealed by the body, the embodiment of the ego’s thought system of separation.
The mind’s battleground of kill or be killed has become the content of the world.
Soon after, when it craves attention, seeks comfort, or wants to be held, it either throws a tantrum or smiles sweetly. In this fashion, we begin our lives in the body by quickly learning to solve the problems of life and getting our needs met. Thus it is that everything in the world is an attempt to solve a problem.
“Let me recognize my problem so it can be solved” and “Let me recognize that all my problems have been solved.” Obviously, nothing truly gets resolved because there is nothing there to resolve. Looking at the body objectively, one can easily see the ego’s strategy of setting up perpetual problems for perpetual dis-ease[1]; e.g., perhaps we solve the problems of food, money, or health today, but what about the future? I may finally have learned to satisfy my needs, but that does not mean the same plan will work tomorrow, next week, or next year.
The ego’s principle here is that the more guilt inducing and fearful the form, the less likely we are to move to the mind, where the Holy Spirit exposes the world’s purpose of being the source of guilt and fear. We want our eyes always to focus on the body—ours and other people’s—and never on the mind.
AI Summary
Form Versus Content by Kenneth Wapnick presents key insights from the Taoism tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
Core Themes:
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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