umankind is a collection of individuals, each of us going about our daily effort and desperately clinging to an image of ourself. Some of us are satisfied with ourselves to some degree and others are not. Pleased or not, we all, with extremely few exceptions, adhere to an Illusion of Self. We are not what we can be and what God intended us to be, Gods and Goddesses under God. The effort to liberate ourself from the Illusion of Self also liberates our God, and we receive assistance from God to join God.
The Illusion of Self is a parasite that feeds on the soul through an extension of the soul, our mind. (Soul and mind are interchangeable terms.) The Illusion of Self is created by our egos. The Illusion of Self is our ego's apparel. What the vast majority of us do not know is that the ego is our spiritually negative side. It is our anti- rather than our pro-God side, and it is still in rebellion against God. God desires that we conquer the Illusion of Self by subduing our egos. Shortly after God created souls, some of us rebelled against our creator, God. Subsequently, by meditation, God discovered that there was a rebellious side to God. (Rebellion or negativity was created when God separated from the void.) Since souls were created to resemble God, the negative aspect of God was also manifested. God learned to conquer the negativity; so did the vast majority of us, as souls under God's tutelage. We serve as co-creators with God, as Gods, under God eternally. For those of us who continued to rebel until God's patience was exhausted, God created the human system. God could have destroyed us, but chose not to because that would ultimately lead to the destruction of all God's creation.
The Illusion of Self is an accumulation of negativity coalescing into traits that become fixed in our personality. They remain there in our Illusion of Self, becoming evermore energized and interfering with our gullible soul's ability to think rationally, until it is freed by Objective Meditation.
From inception, our human bodies are entwined with ego, and a soul will join our body at some time after birth. If a soul chooses not to join, our assigned body dies. Our ego needs our soul to combat and dominate it, or else it atrophies and dies with its entwined body.
Initially, our soul and its extension mind are in a state of innocence. (There are exceptions because of karmic obligations.) It is in a state of complete unawareness about its condition, which is a result of our previous incarnate and discarnate experiences. Our soul, it seems, is reset to zero for this, our latest life.
Beginning with our eighth year, however, our mind's window, which has been shut, opens gradually to let in the karmic set (parameters) within which it will operate. Gradually, as a result of interaction with our ego, our mind assimilates those necessary experiences from past lives, both positive and negative, with which it will continue to confront our ego.
If our soul, as a result of past life experiences, is in a negative state, the ego has the advantage in its attempt to keep us in our anti-God extreme. Our mind, when it is in a positive spiritual disposition because of belief in God, has to be vigilant, because the ego will try constantly to condition it to be anti-God. Being in an unwavering, positive spiritual mood indicates we have reached our higher self, but it is only the launching platform from which we can try to become one with God.
Our ego begins its campaign to mesmerize our mind early in life. It is masterful in its use of deceit and rationalization to obtain cooperation from our mind. Our ego's goal is to be omnipotent, but separated from God our creator and without any restraint.
Much of the time our ego convinces our soul that what it is doing is in our soul's best interest. In this way, it is an easier task for our ego to create and energize blocks to rational thinking and, therefor, to our spirituality. Some typical blocks are unwarranted anger, envy, hate, jealousy, romantic or idealized love. Blocks such as these narrow the scope of our thinking so that it becomes focused on what our ego wants and dictates for its survival and growth. Our ego would have us commit horrendous acts of bigotry while simultaneously espousing belief in God. Acts such as slandering, being prejudiced and even killing a fellow human, all justified as being done in the name of God, are possible when our ego is in control. There are no demons other than those we create for ourselves and for our fellow human beings. We are capable of being a demon in an incarnate or discarnate state until we conquer our Illusion of Self. The devil that is loose and at work in the world is only our individual demons doing their collective work. There is no superstar demon in opposition to God. It is only us enmeshed in our Illusion of Self created by our ego.
Our ego is God-given. God made a distinct separation between our negative and positive spiritual self for us. We are expected to overcome, as did God and the non-rebelling souls, our negative self through Objective Meditation. God will not receive us until we overcome our negativity. It is only because of God's love, understanding, kindness and forgiveness that we are allowed as much time as we need. God miscalculated in thinking that we would understand a God of love and kindness sooner than we have. It is only in recent years that we have evolved to a realistic understanding of a God of love. Let us individually, and as individuals, seek God's assistance and build on this understanding.
