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As I have told you before, in
our Victoria church we define God
as all, both invisible and
visible. It eliminates a lot of
confusion when we think of
ourselves as souls, meaning that
we too are both invisible and
visible. As souls we have eternal
life - life beyond physical death
- life as individuals forever
because our invisible nature is
spirit, one with God as Spirit,
the universal Life Germ that is
deathless and is constantly
creating life expression.
As souls, then, we are
individuals. We have life in the
invisible. This includes prayer,
meditation, inspiration,
epiphanies, creativeness. As
souls we also manifest as human
beings, and this, of course, is
how we basically think of
ourselves - human beings with
bodies and minds. The invisible
part functions in and through our
bodies and rninds.
The psychologists' term "ego"
refers to our human awareness of
ourselves as individuals and also
our awareness of others and the
so-called "outer" world. It is
not used to relate to spiritual
matters.
Not long ago someone defined
ego as edging God
out. This is what happens
when we become egocentric. We can
edge God out by a poor
self-image, not identifying with
God. Or we can be egotistic,
thinking that we can go it alone.
It is hard to say which is the
worse form of egocentricity, but
the error (the fall of man?) is
not recognizing that "... the Son
can do nothing of himself, but
what he seeth the Father do: for
whatsoever things he doeth, these
also doeth the Son likewise." (I
used this favorite quote last
month tool)
The word "ego" has "g" for God
right in the middle of it just as
you and I do as spiritual/human
beings. We are no less spiritual
for being human; ego is not in
itself unspiritual. Ego is our
soul expressing as
self-consciousness, but it is at
the same time capable of reaching
into our spiritual Self (God in
us) and not edging God out at
all.
Isn't this a glorious concept
of unityl?
Don
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