Without Idea of Death There is No World.

Without the idea of death there is no world.  All dreams will end with this world….. If death is real for ANYTHING, there is no life, for Death denies life. But if there is reality in life, death is denied. No compromise in this is possible.

In death are all illusions born, and the end of all illusions is salvation’s final goal. What can be born of death and still have life? What is born of God and still can die?

The inconsistencies, the compromises and the rituals the world fosters in its vain attempts to cling to death and yet think love real are mindless magic, ineffectual and meaningless. God is and in Him, all created things MUST BE eternal. Do you not see that otherwise God has an opposite, and fear would be as real as love?

Learner of God, your one assignment could be stated: Accept no compromise in which death plays a part. Do not believe in cruelty, nor let attack conceal the truth from you. What seems to die has but been misperceived and carried to illusion. Now it becomes your task to let the illusion be carried to the truth. Be steadfast only in this; be not deceived by the “reality” of any changing form.

Truth neither moves, nor wavers, nor sinks down to death and dissolution. Accepting the Holy Spirit’s purpose in place of the ego’s, you RENOUNCE death, exchanging it for life.  Taken from “A Course in Miracles” Teacher’s Manual–Death is the Symbol.  See “A Course in Miracles” Workbook Mind Training Lessons.  Download from here.