The tenth illusion , the illusion of ignorance, has produced the idea that you don’t know any of this; that everything which has just been said is new to you, and that you can’t comprehend it.
This illusion allows you to continue living in the Realm of Relativity. Yet you do not have to continue living, as you have been living, in pain and in suffering, hurting, yourselves and each other, waiting, waiting, waiting for better times yet to come – or for your eternal reward in heaven. You can have your heaven on Earth. You can live in your garden of paradise. You were never cast out. I would never do that to you.
You know this. In your heart, you already know this. Just as you know about the Oneness of humanity, and of all life. Just as you know about the equality of everything, and that love is unconditional. You now all these things and more, and you hold this knowing deeply in your soul.
Ignorance is an illusion. You use the illusion wisely when you see it as an illusion – when you know that it is not true that you do not know. You know . . . and you know that you know.
This is what is said of all Masters.
They know that they know, and they use their knowing to live with, and not within, the illusory world in which they have placed themselves. This makes them appear in your world as if they are magicians, creating and using all Life’s illusions easily.
“Not knowing” is a wonderful illusion, and useful. It allows you to know again, to learn again, to remember once more. It allows you to re-experience the cycle. To become a snowflake.
It is the illusion that you do not know that allows you to know what you know. If you know everything, and know that you know it, then you can know nothing.
Look deeply into this truth, and you will understand it.
Give yourself the illusion, then, that you are ignorant of something. Anything. In that moment, you will have the experience of that of which you are not ignorant – and what you know will suddenly become apparent to you.
This is the wonder of humility. This is the power in the statement, “There is something here I do not know, the knowing of which could change everything.” This single statement can heal the world.
The call to humility is a call to glory.
And in terms of your theology, there could be no greater tool for advancement. I have inspired it to be said that a little “humility theology” is what the world needs. A little less assurance that you know it all, and a little more willingness to continue the search, to acknowledge that there may be something you do not know – the knowing of which could change everything.
Not knowing leads to knowing. Knowing it all leads to not knowing anything.
That is why the illusion of Ignorance is so important. And so it is , too, with all the illusions. They are the keys to your experience of Who You Really are. They open the door form the Realm of Relative to the Realm of the Absolute. The door to everything.
Yet, as with all Ten Illusions, when the illusion of Ignorance runs away with you, when it becomes your total experience, your ever-present reality, then it no longer serves you. Then you are like the magician who has forgotten his own tricks. You become one who is fooled by his own illusions. Then will you need to be “saved” by another, someone who sees through the illusion, who wakes you up, and reminds you of Who you Really Are.
This soul will truly be your savior, even as you can truly be the savior of others by simply reminding them of Who They Really Are, by giving them back to themselves. “Savior” is just another word for “reminder.” It is someone who re-minds you, someone who re-members you, causing you to be of a new mind, and to once again know yourself as a member of the Body of God.
Do this for others. For you are today’s savior. You are My Beloved, in whom I am well pleased. You are the one I have sent to bring the others home.
Therefore, step out to the illusion, but not away from it. Live within, but not within it. Do this and you will be in this world, but not of it. You will know your own magic, and what you know, you will grow. Ever larger will be your idea about your magic, until you one day understand that you are the magic.
Always remember that.
You are the magic.
When you use the illusion of Ignorance, no longer living it but simply using it, you acknowledge and admit that there is much that you still do not know (do not remember), yet this very humility raises you beyond the humble, causing you to understand more, remember more, become more aware. Now you are among the cognoscenti – those who now.
You remember that you are simply using illusions to create a localized contextual field within which you can experience, and not merely conceptualize, any one of the myriad aspects of Who You Are. You begin using this contextual field consciously, like an artist using a paint brush, producing wonderful pictures and creating powerful and extraordinary moments – moments of grace – which you may know your self experientially.
If you wish to experience your self as forgiveness, for instance, you could mix the illusions of Judgment, Condemnation, and Superiority. Projecting those in front of you, you quite suddenly will find (create) people in your life who give you the opportunity to exhibit forgiveness. You can even add the illusion of Failure, projecting it on yourself, to heighten the experience. Finally, you can use the illusion of Ignorance, to pretend that you don’t know you are doing all of this.
If you want to experience your self as compassion, or as generosity, you might mix the illusions of Need and insufficiency to create a contextual field within which to express those aspects of Divinity within you. You may then find yourself walking down the street, confronted by beggars. Strange, you may say to yourself, I have never seen beggars on this corner before .
You feel compassion of them, and it touches your heart. You feel generosity stirring within you, and you reach into your pocket and give them some money.
Or perhaps a relative will call and ask for financial help. You could choose to feel any one of many aspects of your being in that moment. But on this occasion, you choose kindness, caring, and love. You say, “Of course, how much do you need?”
But be careful, because if you are not careful, you will not understand how the beggar on the street, or how the relative on the phone, found their way to your life. You will forget that you put them there.
If you fall too deeply into the illusion, you will forget that you have called every person, place, and event of your life to you. You will forget that they are there to create the perfect situation, the perfect opportunity, to know yourself in a particular way.
You will forget My grandest teaching: I have sent you nothing but angels.
You may cast my angels as villains in your story. If you are not careful, you will see your self as the victim, rather than the beneficiary, of the many moments of grace that have come into your life, not all of which will be initially welcome, but all of which will hold a gift for you.
Or you may decide to become a beneficiary in a way other than the one you had initially chosen. You may decide, for instance, that not only do you wish to experience compassion but also power and control. You may continue giving to the same beggar, going down to the same corner every day at the same time, until the two of you establish a ritual. You may continue giving to that relative, mailing a check every month, until the two of you establish a ritual.
Now you are in control. You have the power. You have disempowered them – literally, taken their power to re-create their lives away from them – so that you may feel glorified, gratified, and powerful. Suddenly, they cannot function without you. Neither the beggar nor the relative – both of whom existed for years on the planet without your help at all – can function without you. You have rendered them dysfunctional, and have created a dysfunctional relationship with them.
Instead of helping them out of the pit by throwing them a rope and pulling them up, you have tossed the rope into the pit and jumped in after it.
Watch carefully, then, your motivation for doing anything. Keep looking at your agenda. Monitor closely what aspect of your being you are experiencing. Is there a way to experience that without disempowering another? Is there a way to remember Who You Are without inviting someone else to forget who they are?
These are some of the ways you may use The Ten Illusions, and the countless smaller illusions beneath them. Now you see, now you understand; now you remember how the illusions are used.
Remember what was said earlier. It is not necessary to use illusions in the present moment in order to create a contextual field within which to experience higher aspects of your self. Advanced beings not only step outside of the illusions but away from them. That is, they put the illusions behind them and merely use the memory of them to create that contextual field.
Whether you use them in memory form or in physical form in your present moment, you employ them every day. Yet if you are not using illusions consciously – if you do not know that you have been creating them, and why you have done so – you could imagine yourself to be at the effect of your life, rather than at cause in the matter. You could think that life is happening to you, rather than through you.
This is what you may not have known, the knowing of which could change everything:
With regard to all that is happening in your life, you are at cause in the matter.
You understand this perfectly when you step outside of the illusions. You experience this in your body, at the cellular level, when you experience communion with God.
In is this for which every soul yearns. It is this that is the ultimate purpose of all of life. You are on a journey to mastery, returning to Oneness, that you may know the wonder and the glory of God in your own soul, and express in through you, as you, in a thousand ways over a million moments in countless lifetimes that reach eternity.
