Lesson 163
There is no death. The Son of God is free.
p1. Death is a thought that takes on many forms, often unrecognized.
2 It may appear as sadness, fear, anxiety or
doubt; as anger, faithlessness and lack of trust; concern for bodies, envy,
and all forms in which the wish to be as you are not may come to tempt you.
3 All such thoughts are but reflections of the
worshipping of death as savior and as giver of release.
p2. Embodiment of fear, the host of sin, god of the guilty and
the lord of all illusions and deceptions, does the thought of death seem
mighty. 2 For it seems to hold all living things
within its withered hand; all hopes and wishes in its blighting grasp; all
goals perceived but in its sightless eyes. 3
The frail, the helpless and the sick bow down before its image, thinking
it alone is real, inevitable, worthy of their trust. 4
For it alone will surely come.
p3. All things but death are seen to be unsure, too quickly lost
however hard to gain, uncertain in their outcome, apt to fail the hopes
they once engendered, and to leave the taste of dust and ashes in their
wake, in place of aspirations and of dreams. 2
But death is counted on. 3 For it will come
with certain footsteps when the time has come for its arrival. 4
It will never fail to take all life as hostage to itself.
p4. Would you bow down to idols such as this? 2
Here is the strength and might of God Himself perceived within an idol made
of dust. 3 Here is the opposite of God proclaimed
as lord of all creation, stronger than God’s Will for life, the endlessness
of love and Heaven’s perfect, changeless constancy. 4
Here is the Will of Father and of Son defeated finally, and laid to rest
beneath the headstone death has placed upon the body of the holy Son of
God.
p5. Unholy in defeat, he has become what death would have him be.
2 His epitaph, which death itself has written,
gives no name to him, for he has passed to dust. 3
It says but this: “Here lies a witness God is dead.” 4
And this it writes again and still again, while all the while its worshippers
agree, and kneeling down with foreheads to the ground, they whisper fearfully
that it is so.
p6. It is impossible to worship death in any form, and still select
a few you would not cherish and would yet avoid, while still believing in
the rest. 2 For death is total. 3
Either all things die, or else they live and cannot die. 4
No compromise is possible. 5 For here again
we see an obvious position, which we must accept if we be sane; what contradicts
one thought entirely can not be true, unless its opposite is proven false.
p7. The idea of the death of God is so preposterous that even the
insane have difficulty in believing it. 2 For
it implies that God was once alive and somehow perished; killed, apparently,
by those who did not want Him to survive. 3
Their stronger will could triumph over His, and so eternal life gave way
to death. 4 And with the Father died the Son
as well.
p8. Death’s worshippers may be afraid. 2
And yet, can thoughts like these be fearful? 3
If they saw that it is only this which they believe, they would be instantly
released. 4 And you will show them this today.
5 There is no death, and we renounce it now
in every form, for their salvation and our own as well. 6
God made not death. 7 Whatever form it takes
must therefore be illusion. 8 This the stand
we take today. 9 And it is given us to look
past death, and see the life beyond.
p9. Our Father, bless our eyes today. 2
We are Your messengers, and we would look upon the glorious reflection of
Your Love which shines in everything. 3 We live
and move in You alone. 4 We are not separate
from Your eternal life. 5 There is no death,
for death is not Your Will. 6 And we abide where
You have placed us, in the life we share with You and with all living things,
to be like You and part of You forever. 7 We
accept Your Thoughts as ours, and our will is one with Yours eternally.
8 Amen.
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