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Question:
I notice that you don't seem to judge the ego, or at least the ego takes a back seat in your writings. Other sites emphasize it all differently. In a recent post, one of them made this point: As long as you think that the world is real and that the body is alive, you believe that you are God. It would seem to me that we cannot go past this false idea of God because we cannot see without the ego.
When I first read the Course, I found myself saying as long as we are here, we cannot know God. So do we see God as completely made up? The ancient Gnostics were of the opinion that when one has transcended, then one sees that you are THAT. To my way of thinking, THAT is our very essence. We become God. "Love is what your are." First, we go through various stages till we grasp THAT. But we are always THAT when the ego is out of the way. According to the above post, one is just being arrogant to think this way?
Answer:
Forgiveness clears the way for remembrance of God, so that is always the focus. Until the mind releases the error of ego, the fear of a make-believe "god" is buried deep in the unconscious mind. In this respect, it takes forgiveness or release of the entire ego belief system before the Memory of God's Love can return fully into awareness. God is a Pure Idea as is Christ. When the mind is emptied of false concepts and beliefs, the Pure Idea remains - Eternal and Perfect.
"I am as God created Me" is another way of saying Love is What You are.
Love always,
David