| BkI:12.IV.2 | Because it was desired to make separation real—which in reality is impossible because it is impossible to create an opposite to love—a temporary world was created in which separation seemed to be true. This experience is strictly temporary. The ego wanted to create the experience of being autonomous and separate from God, so a world of opposites was created within the matrix of pure potentiality—the world of good and evil, the world of love and fear, not in created reality but in the dream of forgetting the self. Now Adam—the molecule from which everything arose in the universe of matter, the particle of the soul that, having split, created multiplicity—fell into a dream. The dream of forgetting God, the amnesia of the soul, began. The soul fell asleep in the arms of the God of life. It began to dream a dream of its own creation. It began to create a nightmare of a world separate from the self, a world of fear, and limitation, a world without love, imagining that it was God and creating without God. For this to happen it has to first or simultaneously create a condensation that allowed it to entertain a limitation of lack and death. That is the body. |