T. 19. IV. 7 & 8. Jesus: “Those who suffer in fear of death see not how often and how loudly they call to it, how tightly focused they are upon it, and how they bid it come to save them from communication!
From the ego’s point of view, death is seen as safety, the great dark savior from the light of truth, the answer to the Answer, the silencer of the Voice That speaks for God. Yet keep in mind that the retreat to death is not the end of conflict. Only God’s Answer brings its end!
This obstacle to peace, your seeming love for death, is the last that peace must flow across, yet it seems to be great indeed. For in it lie hidden all the ego’s secrets! Here are all its strange devices for deception, all its sick ideas and weird imaginings, rolled up as one. Here would be the final end of union, the triumph over God’s Creation by the ego’s imaginings, and the victory of lifelessness over Life Itself! The ego would lay the Son of God beneath the dusty surface of the ego’s distorted world, slain by its orders, ‘proof’ in the Son’s decay that God Himself is powerless before the ego’s might, unable to protect the life that He created against the ego’s savage wish to kill.
My brother, child of our Father, this is only a dream of death. You cannot die! In reality, there is no funeral, no dark altars, no grim commandments, nor any twisted rituals of condemnation to which the body leads you.
Ask not the release of the body from death, for it is but a symbol of the ego’s belief in separation! But instead, free the body from the merciless and unrelenting orders that you have laid upon it, and forgive it what you’ve ordered it to do!
By the body’s exaltation in your perception, it is you who have commanded it to die, for it seems to have become the whole of life to you. Yet only death could conquer life, and what but insanity could look upon the defeat of God and think it real?”