| BkI:13.IV.5 | Beloved humanity! There is a reason that you so jealously guard your painful memories. Think! What could be so valuable that you would to retain suffering in your memory, even beyond what you can bear? Daughters and sons of Heaven, you retain in your memory all the pain of the dream of Adam with the sole purpose of preserving that which seems to make you special, different, unique. That is your well-kept, hidden secret. That is what you fear to be exposed. You believe that pain makes you unique. God does not suffer, but you do. Suffering humanity is a unique identity. Now you have something that God does not. In that, you are greater than Him. Pain has whispered to you: "You will not only be like God but you will be even more than Him. That is why He did not want you to eat the forbidden fruit." This is your triumph. Now you can say with certainty, “God and I are different. I am more than God. I have different myself from God. I am me. I have achieved an identity of my own. I may be suffering and unhappy, but I am. God may be a self of love, but I am a suffering self.” |