3-6. Fear will manifest a truly dizzying array of lies in your mind. None can have any effect but what you choose to believe. Because you are Loved, you have no use for fear.
It is a preciously simple error to assume that the opposite of Love is fear. Certainly within the context of this world, almost everything that is manifested here does appear to have an opposite. Yet fear does not have an opposite, for it is nothing at all. Love does not have an opposite, for Love is all that has ever been Real and it stands, unopposed and undaunted, forever Correct and Perfect, just as it has always been and just as it will always be. Love is Real. Fear never is. Yet fear will indeed appear to be quite real, justified, appropriate and perhaps even necessary for just as long as you continue to believe that you have use for its propositions. What fear will attempt to present to you are a vast array of reasons why it might be that you should be afraid. Nevermind that there is no actual justification for fear - it defines itself and that is enough, from the perspective of fear. Fear alludes to a world of separation, a world of great difference and a world of loss. Yet there is nothing that you can actually lose that is permanent, for Love is forever Given to you by God and it cannot be lost, misplaced, rendered impotent or even genuinely discarded by you, no matter how much you might believe it to be possible for you to cast aside the Love of God in favor of the great array of fears that the ego believes to be both necessary and, amazingly enough, absolutely just. Fear is an illusion and so it must reinforce itself, lest you were to finally realize that it has no foundation in Truth. How does fear accomplish this most devious of tasks? It invades your mind, sowing doubt where there should be only Certainty and attempting to cleave your mind from your heart, inserting itself into all of your contemplations, trying to become the sole source of reasoning from which you base all of your decisions. Why would fear wish to become so entrenched in your mind? It attempts to continue to support its ephemeral existence through deceiving you into believing that you have ever had any need of its darkness. Within the Light of Love, all fear dissolves, never again to return and haunt your mind, for fear wishes to substitute itself for Truth and it will do so to the exact extent that you will allow it to effect this most egregious of meaningless exchanges. Yet this is an presumed substitution with no reflection in Truth. It is one devoid of any genuine value, for what fear desires that you to give up is literally everything, so that you might take up in its place that which is actually nothing at all. All fear finds its origin and primarily supportive sustenance through attempting to convince you that death - physical death, specifically - is actually real. Yet it is not. There can be no cessation of the Creations of God, for they are Eternal and they cannot be demolished, no matter how desperately they might wish to be voided from existence. The ego wishes to end. It is a miserable illusion, one that suffers endlessly at its own hand and one that wishes for you to suffer too, in some vainly pointless attempt to justify its own agony. That physical death will occur to your body is certain, for all that is of this world must transform through the processes of decay, returning to the base components from which it arose so that they can be reused to form other physical structures. Such is the nature of material reality - it is utterly temporary and forever in a state of flux. Yet Love is not at this. You are not as this. You are Love. You are Eternal. You need not fear that some enormous loss, some great disappearance or some frightful cancellation of your awareness will accompany the final surrender of your body. None of these imagined events will ever occur. You will not be lost in time, devoid of perception or destined to simply wink out of existence when your body finally fails. That is what fear would have you believe - that your consciousness is dependent upon the continued functioning of your body and that when your body fails, you will somehow fail too, perhaps to rest in a infinitely lengthy and utterly dreamless sleep from which there will be no awakening. This will not transpire, Child of God. You need not fear death, for you certainly did not fear life before you were born unto this world and you need not fear leaving it again. That your body will die is certain. That you, the Child of God that you are, the infinite Soul, the endless Spirit, the Eternal consciousness that you are, in Truth, will die as well is but an affectation and presumption of the ego that has no basis in Truth. Yet it is understandable that you might be afraid of this necessary transition back to formlessness. Don’t be. You expend energy uselessly when you attempt to believe what the ego will desperately inform you must be your fate, for in doing so you are casting your Divine energy into the endless pit of the ego’s insanity and you will receive no benefit whatsoever for what you try in vain to give to your ego. It will consume all of these offerings but it will not return any of them in kind, for the ego has nothing to offer you. Only Love has the Power to help you to See that you are Eternal. Accept this Power to the extent that you are willing to do so. It need not be immediately complete. You can accept whatever amount you are willing to accept at any particular time, gradually allowing more and more Certainty to be given to you by your heart, until your Awareness of your eternal True Nature becomes so unequivocally clear that you will no longer be willing to listen to what your ego will whisper to you. Fear has no power to bind you. Yet it will, if you should so choose, to exactly the extent that you are willing to allow it to do so. The actual effects of fear, in Truth, are none at all. It accomplishes nothing, changes nothing that is Real and offers nothing that you truly want. Yet your ability to create your reality in any manner you should feel most suited to you is paramount. It will not be altered. You are possessed of infinite Free Will. If you should believe that fear can bind you, it will appear to be able to. Yet it will not be fear that genuinely holds you in its iron grasp. It will actually be your own Free Will, now perverted for a use that it was never Created to fulfill, imprisoning you within a web of deception that you will mistake for Truth for just as long as you desire to make it so. Confusion is rampant within this world. It is a state of misunderstanding based upon assumptions that have no justification, but that appear to be quite correct when this world is regarded from the isolated perspective of the ego. Yet there is another way to be present in this world without being affected by what it will teach you of what is true. You can look out upon this great universe of form from the correct perception of your heart, seeing that it actually represents nothing at all, for only Love is Eternal and all that is of form is destined to transform endlessly, forever modifying itself into new arrangements, none ever having any permanent existence at all. What is there to fear from alteration? What is there to be terrified of in a world that must be forever changing? What do you propose - that you should be justified in being afraid of change itself? Why would that be? Would you rather this universe remain exactly the same? What use would there be for time if nothing were to ever move within this universe? What torture would that be indeed, to be destined to remain in a state of singular stillness, unable to alter at all and forever condemned to remain unmoving and stationary, devoid of all hope of growth whatsoever. That is not your fate, nor is it the fate of this universe - quite the opposite. You are destined to evolve, moving away from all incorrect beliefs until there remains but one Certainty above all else - that fear is a useless illusion created by the ego in the hope of distracting you from the perfect Glory and Light of Love that not only is your Origin but your final destination after all that is not Love is given back to the nothingness from which it was first believed to have been created, when in fact it was never created at all - it was merely imagined… and now it is time for it to be forgotten.