4-54. All that appears to separate you from perfection is but an error of perception. Beloved Child of God, only your beliefs of perceived inadequacies make the Light of Love appear dim and distant.
The ego genuinely desires to perceive lack and longing in all that it regards, for it is absent any foundational justification for its perspective, and while the ego attempts to obfuscate this within your mind, even the ego itself is not completely unaware that it is based upon nothing at all. Because the ego is an error of perception who’s undoing will become one of the greatest and most beautiful liberations that you can possibly experience, the ego is determined to convince you that you are absent something - some mysterious requirement that cannot be located - or that you represent some affrontery of formulation that will never be forgotten by God. Such are the prevarications and insinuations of the ego, and while they are all patently and inexorably false, they are tempting indeed to accept and imitate within the structures of your own chaotic thought processes, for they appear to have some form of validation or reflection in your own conceptualization of yourself as an individual who is absent Love in some form, even though none of what the ego portends must be your final undoing and dissolution is at all accurate. To understand the self-sustained perversion of perception that is the ego, ask not what it is, but rather what it is not - is the ego love in any form at all? Is the ego real in any manner that has any referential reflection in all that is eternal? Is the ego beneficial to you in any way at all that can be said to be genuinely possessed of any utility at all? All of these inquiries are confrontive, and they must be, for to crack through the thickening layers of the ego that glom on, year after year, all reinforcing that which has been deposited previously, can become increasingly difficult if you are willing to rest upon your virtual laurels, assuming that simply because the ego has apparently served you well in the past, it must be an appropriate conceptualization of reality - a simulacrum of genuineness and a proxy of validity that you desire to continue to hold close, even though all that it offers is the driest of parchments, an imposter of the refreshment that imbibing the ambrosia that flows from the Truth of Love will impart unto your awaiting lips, a scribe that appears to faithfully record all that transpires from a perspective that does not actually exist, writing the narrative of your existence whilst capturing no genuine account of what actually transpired. The ego is a liar and an unrepentant one as well, for it sees nothing at it is and so it must endlessly narrate a story of confrontation in an attempt to ameliorate its own pain, caused by misperception and unhealable through the same mechanisms of cognition. Limitations and littleness are not the ambit or countenance of the soul - they are the affectations of the ego, presuppositions of a place within Creation that you have never occupied and presentations of an absence that is presumed, but never actually justified, for if you were to close your eyes, darkness would apparently reign over your awareness but that would in no way blot out the sun for all who choose to remain open to its healing and enlightening radiance. The ego is as this - a great veil of your own election, a choice effected not in the interest of growth or expansion, but rather with the desire to counteract a world that seems so very hellbent on your own destruction, for physical death is a certainty, but the ego’s belief that all that is real must end when your physical construction withers and fails is but an error of assumption that should no longer be sustained by your participation within its insanity. Look again and much more will be revealed. Look with the perception and clarity of your Awakening heart and you will be shown that which is Real, which is to say, only and exclusively that which is Eternal and unceasable, free of form and universal in scope, for the ego cannot lift its gaze beyond the limits of its own maligned and maudlin kingdom of repose and retrospection, but your heart can be the Light that illuminates all that seemed hidden, revealing that there never was any formulation of Creation that involved loss at all for any Child of God. Choice reigns above all else in these instances, for upon the first dawning of the Light above the nocturnal hallows of the ego’s revelry into its own perception and its endless desire to be certain of what is real, there may arrive a certain level of fright and dissociative misunderstanding, for that which is of the Light cannot be known from the darkness of misperception and the endlessly vast deception that the ego will seek to enrapture you with, casting your gaze ever downwards when it was towards Heaven and God that you were Created to look. It is so very easy, from a perspective of limitation and littleness, to believe that you must be imperfect, but all of that is an attempt to besmirch the Creations of God with the brush of the ego’s error, and no such pigment will affix itself to the canvas of unlimited potential that is your ability to See beyond all beliefs in limits and to realize that you are Unified with Creation - not some substrate of incorrectness upon which the steps of the ascended masters trod but never see. That are all components of the belittling nature of the ego, and they are all meaninglessly futile indeed. But they will be tempting to just the extent that you continue to believe that the ego is of value for you, for all that is aware desires to create a narrative that explains their locale and their relationship to the totality of Creation, seeking out explanations that justify why it is that they believe they are beset by chance and under threat from exposures they do not understand, but that they believe with deeply held conviction must be real. They are not. All that is Real is Love. All that is Eternal is Truth. All that is the liberation of the soul is the undoing of the ego’s madness, not through destruction - for there is nothing at all to disassemble - but rather through the final transcendence that will arrive when you are ready to accept that the way that you are - your manners, inclinations and predilections - are all aspects of your Creation, not some form of an affront to God that is unforgivable and irremediably transient. It is not necessary to “know” your own totality to escape the iron bounds of the ego - the only requirement is that you be willing to be shown another way, a new path of Light and of hope that travels away from externally afflictive pronouncements of repression and impossibility and towards the Truth that because all of Creation was Created by God, and because God is Perfect, you as a Child of God must share in that Perfection - both of purpose and formulation, exactly as you are, without regard for your own ability to correct perceive what this Truth undeniably implies. There is nothing to fear, for all that is of God is Eternal and you are a Child of God - integral and indispensable. Once accepted, all that is misperception and error begins to clear as the fog rolls off of the hills with the morning light, caressing the land as it fades and dissipating into nothingness and hallows of memory, for a new day has arrived and the opacity of the mists are now yielding to the brilliant illumination that the Light offers, endlessly and completely. What you believe will be true for you, without any regard for whether it is genuinely correct or utterly false. When you invest yourself within beliefs of lack and unfulfillment, such is what you will see in the world of form, for you are requesting that it be so and so it will appear to be justified. When you surrender all beliefs in an ability to correctly perceive All That Is solely with the mechanisms and structures of your mind, will equally be granting unto your heart its rightful place as the first evaluator of all that arises, allowing you to see through the surface level presentations so that you can encounter all that is of God within the world of form, becoming increasingly more cognizant of the Truth that while your mind is a fine tool indeed, its purpose is to be in service of the Certainty of your heart - never the inverse. The Light is not dim or hidden. Your beliefs in imperfection, incorrectness and error are based upon a presumption that lacks justification. Being integral with God, you are Perfect, just as you were Created. Accept this in abstract formulation at first, and over time, what it genuinely implies for all that is yet to unfold will become so abundantly clear that the Light that was Created to Guide you Home will be so manifest and so obvious that you will no longer be in doubt at all, for the Way will be clear and the Path certain. Upon your first step, the rest of the journey is guaranteed. Walk forth into and unto the Light of God whenever you’d like, for its Perfection is unblemished and its radiance undimmed by everything that you believed capable of standing between you and the Love that is your Home and eternal Salvation from all that appears to be anything less than Perfect in every possible manner or implication.