Very interesting info here, particularly in the latter half of the video. It’s pretty dumb to think of our beautiful planet and human race as pieces on a chessboard, but that’s how the narcissists in power think. Maybe one day they will be redeemed and will experience a renewing of their minds.
The video talks about all things being made new, the New Heaven and New Earth, in the blink of an eye. And that there are many, many false prophets right now on YouTube, perhaps the majority of them, just like the huckster tele-evangelists. But Alwyn Uys, Amanda Grace’s Ark of Grace, Circles of Life with Angela, Last Days with Brandon and Joseph Z, are the real deal.
It would be so much smarter (and cheaper!) to be able to just put ourselves in others’ shoes and live in peace and prosperity. But humanity doesn’t seem to be ready yet to aim for this goal. Maybe someday. Until then, this is a realistic depiction of the delusion of war. (Scroll down to read the very helpful explanation of war as war against oneself in ACIM.)
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1. The memory of God comes to the quiet mind. ²It cannot come where there is conflict, for a mind at war against itself remembers not eternal gentleness. ³The means of war are not the means of peace, and what the warlike would remember is not love. ⁴War is impossible unless belief in victory is cherished. ⁵Conflict within you must imply that you believe the ego has the power to be victorious. ⁶Why else would you identify with it? ⁷Surely you realize the ego is at war with God. ⁸Certain it is it has no enemy. ⁹Yet just as certain is its fixed belief it has an enemy that it must overcome and will succeed.
2. Do you not realize a war against yourself would be a war on God? ²Is victory conceivable? ³And if it were, is this a victory that you would want? ⁴The death of God, if it were possible, would be your death. ⁵Is this a victory? ⁶The ego always marches to defeat, because it thinks that triumph over you is possible. ⁷And God thinks otherwise. ⁸This is no war; only the mad belief the Will of God can be attacked and overthrown. ⁹You may identify with this belief, but never will it be more than madness. ¹⁰And fear will reign in madness, and will seem to have replaced love there. ¹¹This is the conflict’s purpose. ¹²And to those who think that it is possible, the means seem real.
3. Be certain that it is impossible God and the ego, or yourself and it, will ever meet. ²You seem to meet, and make your strange alliances on grounds that have no meaning. ³For your beliefs converge upon the body, the ego’s chosen home, which you believe is yours. ⁴You meet at a mistake; an error in your self-appraisal. ⁵The ego joins with an illusion of yourself you share with it. ⁶And yet illusions cannot join. ⁷They are the same, and they are nothing. ⁸Their joining lies in nothingness; two are as meaningless as one or as a thousand. ⁹The ego joins with nothing, being nothing. ¹⁰The victory it seeks is meaningless as is itself.
4. Brother, the war against yourself is almost over. ²The journey’s end is at the place of peace. ³Would you not now accept the peace offered you here? ⁴This “enemy” you fought as an intruder on your peace is here transformed, before your sight, into the giver of your peace. ⁵Your “enemy” was God Himself, to Whom all conflict, triumph and attack of any kind are all unknown. ⁶He loves you perfectly, completely and eternally. ⁷The Son of God at war with his Creator is a condition as ridiculous as nature roaring at the wind in anger, proclaiming it is part of itself no more. ⁸Could nature possibly establish this, and make it true? ⁹Nor is it up to you to say what shall be part of you and what is kept apart.
5. The war against yourself was undertaken to teach the Son of God that he is not himself, and not his Father’s Son. ²For this, the memory of his Father must be forgotten. ³It is forgotten in the body’s life, and if you think you are a body, you will believe you have forgotten it. ⁴Yet truth can never be forgotten by itself, and you have not forgotten what you are. ⁵Only a strange illusion of yourself, a wish to triumph over what you are, remembers not.
6. The war against yourself is but the battle of two illusions, struggling to make them different from each other, in the belief the one that conquers will be true. ²There is no conflict between them and the truth. ³Nor are they different from each other. ⁴Both are not true. ⁵And so it matters not what form they take. ⁶What made them is insane, and they remain part of what made them. ⁷Madness holds out no menace to reality, and has no influence upon it. ⁸Illusions cannot triumph over truth, nor can they threaten it in any way. ⁹And the reality that they deny is not a part of them.
7. What you remember is a part of you. ²For you must be as God created you. ³Truth does not fight against illusions, nor do illusions fight against the truth. ⁴Illusions battle only with themselves. ⁵Being fragmented, they fragment. ⁶But truth is indivisible, and far beyond their little reach. ⁷You will remember what you know when you have learned you cannot be in conflict. ⁸One illusion about yourself can battle with another, yet the war of two illusions is a state where nothing happens. ⁹There is no victor and there is no victory. ¹⁰And truth stands radiant, apart from conflict, untouched and quiet in the peace of God.
8. Conflict must be between two forces. ²It cannot exist between one power and nothingness. ³There is nothing you could attack that is not part of you. ⁴And by attacking it you make two illusions of yourself, in conflict with each other. ⁵And this occurs whenever you look on anything that God created with anything but love. ⁶Conflict is fearful, for it is the birth of fear. ⁷Yet what is born of nothing cannot win reality through battle. ⁸Why would you fill your world with conflicts with yourself? ⁹Let all this madness be undone for you, and turn in peace to the remembrance of God, still shining in your quiet mind.
9. See how the conflict of illusions disappears when it is brought to truth! ²For it seems real only as long as it is seen as war between conflicting truths; the conqueror to be the truer, the more real, and the vanquisher of the illusion that was less real, made an illusion by defeat. ³Thus, conflict is the choice between illusions, one to be crowned as real, the other vanquished and despised. ⁴Here will the Father never be remembered. ⁵Yet no illusion can invade His home and drive Him out of what He loves forever. ⁶And what He loves must be forever quiet and at peace because it is His home.
10. You who are beloved of Him are no illusion, being as true and holy as Himself. ²The stillness of your certainty of Him and of yourself is home to Both of You, Who dwell as one and not apart. ³Open the door of His most holy home, and let forgiveness sweep away all trace of the belief in sin that keeps God homeless and His Son with Him. ⁴You are not a stranger in the house of God. ⁵Welcome your brother to the home where God has set him in serenity and peace, and dwells with him. ⁶Illusions have no place where love abides, protecting you from everything that is not true. ⁷You dwell in peace as limitless as its Creator, and everything is given those who would remember Him. ⁸Over His home the Holy Spirit watches, sure that its peace can never be disturbed.
11. How can the resting place of God turn on itself, and seek to overcome the One Who dwells there? ²And think what happens when the house of God perceives itself divided. ³The altar disappears, the light grows dim, the temple of the Holy One becomes a house of sin. ⁴And nothing is remembered except illusions. ⁵Illusions can conflict, because their forms are different. ⁶And they do battle only to establish which form is true.
12. Illusion meets illusion; truth, itself. ²The meeting of illusions leads to war. ³Peace, looking on itself, extends itself. ⁴War is the condition in which fear is born, and grows and seeks to dominate. ⁵Peace is the state where love abides, and seeks to share itself. ⁶Conflict and peace are opposites. ⁷Where one abides the other cannot be; where either goes the other disappears. ⁸So is the memory of God obscured in minds that have become illusions’ battleground. ⁹Yet far beyond this senseless war it shines, ready to be remembered when you side with peace.
