Enemies

It is surely apparent by now why the ego regards spirit as its "enemy."

The ego arose from the separation, and its continued existence depends on your continuing belief in the separation.

The ego must offer you some sort of reward for maintaining this belief.
All it can offer is a sense of temporary existence, which begins with its own beginning and ends with its own ending.

It tells you this life is your existence because it is its own.

Against this sense of temporary existence spirit offers you the knowledge of permanence and unshakable being.

No one who has experienced the revelation of this can ever fully believe in the ego again.