 Chapter 31, section 5, 656 in the second edition. Okay, chapter 31, the final vision. Section 5, self-concept versus self. The learning of the world is built upon a concept of the self, adjusted to the world's reality. It fits it well. For this, an image is that suits a world of shadows and illusions. Here it walks at home where what it sees is one with it. The building of the concept of the self is what the learning of the world is for. This is its purpose, that you come without a self and make one as you go along. And that's what I call the newcomer, the collector. And the mind is seeker, comes to make one. And by the time you reach maturity, you have perfected it to meet the world on equal terms, at one with its demands. And this is how we feel. This is what we tell ourselves as we're becoming another person or a better person, whatever that means to us, whatever that value is. We believe that we're doing it because that's what the world asks us to do. But isn't it actually what's structured up, you know, the classroom, the whole thing? Yes, all that is an outward picture of that thought system. So the constructs that you see are basically really the ego revealing itself. So remember I said the ego always tells on itself? Just look outside. Everything is a reflection of your thought. And everything that's being built up in the world is based on the ego's thought system, which is the state of becoming something that you're not. And then we feel as people, as these body identities, we feel that we have to meet it with its demands. So then we make decisions based on that demand. I want to make that very clear, a demand. So we feel like we've been demanded. It's demanding us. That's the struggle. Exactly. That's the struggle. Yeah, nothing short of a demand. It's a demand. A concept of the self is made by you. It bears no likeness to yourself at all. The self concept is made by you back here. And you're the light. It's not like you at all. It's an image. It's an image. Right, the image maker in here, the image maker and the image are one in that sense. So a concept of self is made by you. It bears no likeness to yourself at all. It is an idol made to take the place of your reality as the Son of God. So any concept in your mind that you're struggling with, and you pay attention to how I feel, I seem to have mother problems. I seem to have wife problems. I seem to have marriage problems. You see all this? All of that is an outspring of the one idol, which is the ego, but the ego conceptualizes itself into compartments, come apart mentally. So it's mentally come apart. It's fragmented. It's fragmented. So now I have all these specific conceptual problems, which are idols on the one tree, the one idol. There's one idol, but there seems to be all these different idols on the tree, the tree branches. Okay. If there's no likeness to yourself at all, it is an idol made to take the place of your reality as Son of God, as the light. The concept of the self the world will teach is not the thing that it appears to be. For it is made to serve two purposes, but one of which the mind can recognize. The first presents the face of innocence, the aspect acted on. So the purpose, it serves two purposes, the self concept that I have made. The purpose of being the hero, which now Jesus is calling another word, the face of innocence. It's the same thing. I'm a body that can be acted on by an object of the world, demanded from a world. I'm being demanded. But see, this is back here in the mind. The mind splits it and gives it two purposes. The part that can be, the part that I give away, and the part I keep, the part that can be acted on. See, mind, cause cannot be acted on. Mind is. Only when the mind believes it's a body that it can be acted on. See. So for it was made to serve two purposes, but one of which the mind can recognize. So the mind only can recognize one of them, the part that can be acted on. So we're getting at the idea of disassociation again, or forgetting. I forget what I've made. I forget that I believe in intellectual, I believe in stupid, whatever the concept is, and I've just given away the part of it. I kept the part that can be acted on, the face of innocence. Not real innocence, cause real innocence is unabated. Innocence that can be acted on, and have it taken away, without my knowledge, and my consent. The first presents the face of innocence, the persona, the persona, the aspect acted on. It is this face that smiles and charms and even seems to love. It searches for companions and it looks at times with pity on the suffering and sometimes offers solace. And pity. This is what we're looking at. This is deep. This is the part of mind that we're running from. It searches for companions and it looks at times with pity on the suffering and sometimes offers solace. It believes that it is good within an evil world. So this little face of innocence, this little private mind, the hero, it pets and looks for, and says, oh, you'll be okay. It's okay. Yes, you were, you were, you had your innocence taken away, but that's okay, we can forget that. You let it go now. Not really realizing that, that what go. The idea that I made it up. You see, it's false empathy. There's nothing innocent about it in that sense. Innocent makes whole. And it, and then it reinforces duality. I am a real good person in an evil world when I'm really the dreamer of the dream. How could I be a good person in a world, in an evil world? And so you've heard things like, you know, the idea of perfect love cast out of fear. Perfect love cast, that's when you get to the bottom of that. Perfect love cast out of fear. Well, you see that, you see that there is only perfect love and perfect love does cast out of fear. I have an illusion of fear, but it's an illusion. So we have to see in order to be casted out, we need to bring it back to our mind and see that there is no evil world apart from my mind, apart from me. Ideas leave not their source. You've heard that before. This aspect can grow angry for the world is wicked and unable to provide the love and shelter innocence deserves. And so this face is often wet with tears at the injustices the world accords to those who would be generous and good. So this is like the human condition. Where are these good people struggling in an evil world trying to make it good but really all along it's all thoughts in their mind and we're just making it all up. So, and let's get into this. This is getting into the split. This aspect never makes the first attack but every day a hundred little things make small insults upon its innocence provoking it to irritation and at last to open insult and abuse. Oh, some damn thing. One damn thing after another. Those on and on and on. The face of innocence, the concept of the self so proudly wears can tolerate attack and self-defense for it is not a well-known fact the world deals harshly with defenseless innocence. No one who makes a picture of himself omits this space for he has need of it. He has desire for it. The other side he does not want to see yet it is here the learning of the world has set its sights for it is here the world's quote-unquote reality is set to see to it the idolast. So if someone comes along and you agree with them about the illusion in any way then you're just set up the world there is no world the world is in your mind I've always found it kind of funny this idea of society who is the society? What is society? What does that mean? Society. Can you touch it? Is it a real thing? When does it end and when does it begin? Where does it start and where does it end? Who is the society? It seems to shift and change wherever we go. Well this person says that and this group says this and this group says that so where is it? Who is it? Define it. You see. So if we agree then we make a collective an agreement the collective is a sickness because there is no collective there is only mind. And it's a commonly agreed upon thing. It's a commonly agreed but if you notice everyone says don't do that when you're younger and your mother would even do it don't do that the neighbors would see you it's a shame. Don't do that. It's a face of innocence. Let's pretend to be these people these puppets let's pretend to be something that what is all this weird based on this weird idea of something that this seems to shift and change even and no one can really even agree upon it because the more you start talking to the people it all seems to shift and change the agreement is then as well I don't agree with that but that disagrees it's more over that then but it's just an idea what I'm getting at here is it's like the matrix you need to unplug from the matrix from the world from society the idea that there's such thing as a society society is agreed upon sick idea which is the ego it's a sick idea it's a cancer in your mind it's a cancer society is so when you have society thoughts worldly thoughts well I can't do that because this is so and so and so what would they think? that's a world thought when Jesus says world that's what he's talking about that's how the ego thinks that thinks through subject to object individual mind, collective mind like Christian Murdie would say you are the world it was the same it's all your mind there's no inner and outer like you think there is it's just an assumption in your mind so Jesus says that right here at the end let me read you yet it is here the learning of the world is set at sights it's plans for it is here the world's reality is set to see to it the idolathe so the values collective values collective morals ethics all those things are there to set the ego in place to make sure that the idol everyone's worshiping can last hmm ooh world I will do anything for you world my my god really when you have fear and resistances when you're afraid of how someone sees you that's what you're saying I'm not worthy idol what do I need to do now to to praise you what is it that you want