Appearances

Each day the Teachers of God appear in the role of being responsible for the figures in the dream. Each one appears and fulfills this role as it is given for the day exactly as it comes and goes.

Nothing to question, each instant a recognition that all is just an appearance.

My function is to remember that I am an appearance in a dream to be the witness that all appearances have already appeared again and again, and will appear untill I see its nothingness.

Appearances deceive because they are appearances and not reality. Dwell not on them in any form.

And so we find our peace. We will accept the function God has given us, for all illusions rest upon the weird belief that we can make another for ourselves.

Our self-made roles are shifting, and they seem to change from mourner to ecstatic bliss of love and loving. We can laugh or weep, and greet the day with welcome or with tears.

Our very being seems to change as we experience a thousand shifts in mood, and our emotions raise us high indeed, or dash us to the ground in hopelessness.

They but obscure reality, and they bring fear because they hide the truth. Do not attack what you have made to let you be deceived, for thus you prove that you have been deceived.

Attack has power to make illusions real. Yet what it makes is nothing. Who could be made fearful by a power that can have no real effects at all? What could it be but an illusion, making things appear like to itself?

Look calmly at its toys, and understand that they are idols which but dance to vain desires. Give them not your worship, for they are not there. Yet this is equally forgotten in attack. God's Son needs no defense against his dreams.

His idols do not threaten him at all. His one mistake is that he thinks them real. What can the power of illusions do?



Appearances can but deceive the mind that wants to be deceived. And you can make a simple choice that will forever place you far beyond deception.
 
You need not concern yourself with how this will be done, for this you cannot understand. But you will understand that mighty changes have been quickly brought about, when you decide one very simple thing; you do not want whatever you believe an idol gives.
 
For thus the Son of God declares that he is free of idols. And thus is he free.