| BkII:6.IV.4 | The physical universe, as you perceive it through your ego, is not the universe of divine form. Rather, the physical universe emerged as a loving response, in union with the Father, to your desire to know yourself and God through the path of the knowledge of opposites. That path is always temporary, with all that is needed to achieve the desired goal of separation and to experience the opposite of love. It is a way that requires pain and sacrifice, suffering, contraction, and a fading away—the opposite of love. This way of knowing by means of opposites is an option but not the only one, of course. |