Reversing the Effects of
TRADITION, SHOCK, TEMPTATION
Lesson 12
Everything
you do is a result of what you believe. Because of what you believe to be true
in the moment, you see your environment in a very special way, and you act in
accordance with what you see. Rarely do you apply your will to endeavors
motivated by such belief, because the function of the will is not to exercise
force, but to believe.
Our
troubles then, stem from a series of faulty beliefs, each one growing out of
the one preceding it, each subtlety more outrageous than the last. You did not
set out to make a mess of your life; you were confident and hopeful about the
outcome of your marriage, your business, the cure of your illness.
You did not
will your sufferings into existence; they were the result of a chain of false
beliefs built upon your original belief in a lie. You did not will death and
tragedy into existence either, unless of course, you believe them to be the
just deserts of a useless, guilty life. Perhaps you may view death as a
well-earned rest!
So
all of your troubles grow out of, and are based on, false beliefs; that is to
say, beliefs in a system of ideas which promises that which it does not intend
to deliver.
In fact, we are dealing here with faith in a highly intelligent,
malevolent spirit source which operates in our minds exactly as God would, only
in reverse. Our souls are involved with a god of deception who provides for
us-but he provides just the opposite of the gifts of God: he promises glory,
but delivers humiliation; freedom, but delivers slavery; happiness, but
delivers misery; he even promises eternal life but gives us eternal death
instead-and then it is too late to turn back, to believe differently.
And
so your troubles continue to multiply and to grow as a direct result of your
being misguided, deceived, misdirected or fooled: all of these are variations
of the basic ego-glory-lie theme in which you follow the lie as gospel truth,
simply because it appeals to your pride.
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