4-18. To distinguish between ego and Truth, ask only if your thought expands or contracts. Ego diminishes. Truth explodes with growth. This distinction is without exception.
Everything that is minimalizing, restrictive, diminutionitizing, belittling and reductitive of the grandiose Nature of Truth into some minuscule summation that attempts to conflate the ego’s world of material reality with the Glory of the Creation of God is of the ego, and any attempt to dwell within its presentations and requirements will be painful indeed, for the ego was born from the pain of illusionary separation that was an unavoidable result of believing that it could be possible to be isolated from Love. All of this is artifice of the highest and most deceitful order, but it will appear to be appetizing and useful from a singular perspective, one that holds out that the reversal of the layers of Creation that the ego so deeply desires to effect must actually be possible. The ego wishes to upend Creation, placing itself as the crown jewel of all quests, so that its desires will be honored and the Will of God will become a forgotten artifact, now just a dusty memory stored on some long ignored and disused shelf of your mind, a petite glowing bottle of infinite Light that seems devoid of any life because the layers of grime that besmirch it are too heavy to reveal its core of certainty. Altering the correctness and accuracy of the manner in which Creation unfolds from God in the highest, as the first mover of all that expands, and attempting to place instead the ego, which is the final result of all of the multifold layers of Creation becoming manifest in form, is a pointless endeavor that will never satisfy, but the ego cannot cotton to such an argument, for without its supremacy within your attention, the ego would simply fade from view, an idea whose utility has long since ceased and a proposition whose logical structure has been completely undone. The ego will have none of this, for the ego has no patience for contemplation of the “deeper” mysteries of the heart, which of course are not at all difficult to understand for any mind that is no longer willing to entertain the ego’s supplication to insanity as some form of rationality. The ego must contract ever smaller, for within the vastness and infinite scope of all that can be, the ego is far to irrelevant and unimportant for its arguments to carry any weight at all. And so does the ego desire to constrict and contain you within a single system of perception, one that dictates that the creation of a body must be the source of the arising of its complementary mind, and that the emotions and instincts of the heart are irrational and even hysterical at times - never to be given more than a passing fancy’s worth of consideration, for they are all base level inclinations, such as lust or rage - not representative of the value that emotionlessly evaluated logic must offer to your mind. The ego is not a product of the heart, and so it does not share in the Majesty and Beauty of Creation. The ego is a mistake - a simple error of perception that has attempted to engulf you within its own universe of illusion, desiring to distract you endlessly with its reasons for reactivity and condemnation when patience and acceptance would reveal to you a wholly different and infinite more peaceful manner within which it is possible to exist in a world of form without becoming entangled within its presentations. Because the ego is so wee indeed, such a middling little illusion of a life lived in separation from All That Is, it is desperate to maintain your attention and it will attempt to direct your thoughts as it believes to be most appropriate from its own perspective, but engaging with such contemplations will only lead to ever more constrictive patternings of behavioral reactivity that will cause you endless and utterly unneeded suffering. What is gained when you attempt to cram the universality of Creation into a receptacle that is wholly unsuited for containing anything other than thoughts of a life lived in a body, and equally a life that must cease when that body fails? Nothing at all results from such at attempt to invert the layers of Creation, but you will experience discontentment on a level rarely understood but frequently experienced within this world, simply because you are trying to make a mockery of the Nature of Love. Love expands. It cannot be constricted to any smaller form, restricted from entering wherever it may be bid to travel, cast out of any heart that has genuinely welcomed it to return, or removed from the experience of any who have elected to surrender what they believed they knew unto God, so that they could be relieved of their self-elected burdens of misperception and granted the Miracle of healing though the release of all illusion. Whatever it is that you are contemplating, if the thoughts are in the vein of pain, they are of the ego, and they are not at all of any benefit to you. All that is of the ego will engender thoughts of loss, fear, regret and jealousy. All lines of inquiry that are as this for you are not at all of benefit, for there is no surrender to Truth contained within them, and they will beset you with difficulties that are of your own making, but that you will instantly and unquestioningly assign to this world and all of its “unfairness”. This world is neither just nor righteous in any way at all. The world of form is neutral. It has no concern for your perceptions of what would be justice and what is evil or cruel. It is unreactive in the face of all of the insults and curses that are hurled against it by those who have suffered from random tragedy and meaningless loss. But that is of no consequence, for it is not thoughts of this world that will free you from its seemingly unbreakable vice of oppression and inequity. It is the choice to look to Love instead that will be your salvation from affliction and liberation from ingratitude, for you have nothing to fear from this world. All that will occur is that you will perish, eventually. Physical death has no reflection in Truth. All that God Creates does not alter. As such, while your body must return to the fecund soils and your mind will become vastly more aware than it is now, death is in no way what you might believe it to be. Removing this great barrier of fear from your contemplatory baseline will assist you massively with understanding which thoughts are of the ego, and thus are limited in scope, and which are of God and of Love, and thus are infinite in their ability to reveal to you the Nature of Truth. All of Creation is Unitary. There is no aspect of Creation that you are excluded from experiencing and uniting with. That is all that Love represents in many of its aspects - the Unity of All That Is with God. What is there to fear if you cannot perish and you will absolutely be freed from your ego at the moment of your physical death, if not earlier? If you wish to be relieved of the ego’s endless prattle and idle banality, simply cease to regard the ego as being anything at all. Stop acknowledging its utterances. Stop accepting its limited mindset and endless reactivity. Look to Love for the expansion, growth and ever-increasing awareness that brings about the Peace of God. Acceptance is the Path. Love is the Destination. Peace is your Home. God is your Creator. What more could any rational Child of God wish for other than the absolute Perfection of God’s Plan? You have been given all that you need. All guidance is available to you and all situations that are of utility to you will align with your own will just as soon as you bring your personal resonant harmony in tune with the Will of God. God offers all Joy. The ego offers all pain. Choose, but never believe that there could ever be any election that could be of value other than to release all of your self-elected bonds of limitedness so that your mind can open like a flower of the greatest beauty, allowing you to take in the infinite scope of Creation and then to accept your place as an integral and indispensably unique reflection of the Perfection that is All That Is.