XVII. The I Was and the I Am [God in Man’s Image] According to the original Christian teaching (as I understand it), all undesirable conditions and circumstances are constituted by illusions that are held by ignorant, immature minds, and that project on to the bodily or material plane what may be compared to shadows. “If thine eye be single”—that is, if thy view be true, if thy understanding of life be sound,—“thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness.” Undesirable experiences are the darkness wherein a person walks and works and stumbles about, whose notion of the universe, instead of shedding light on the meaning of life, casts on it a shadow. They are the effects produced on the field of our senses, by mistaken thought on the main issues of life, by a misunderstanding of life, by believing, and therefore practicing, a lie. The stuff they are woven of is something like the unsubstantial kind of stuff that makes up nightmares. They are the sort of thing from which Truth, thoroughly known, can set people free. —J. Bruce Wallace.
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