_LOVE EXISTS_

"There is a reason why people, as you see them in the supermarket and on the street, are sad, desolate, blank-faced, irritable, gloomy, why they snap out rude remarks and why they have so many problems.
I'm going to tell you why people are that way. It's because that man or woman has no one to love and has no one to love him. That's it.
_Love exists_.
You don't know it,
but like a lighted lodge in a dark forest,
love exists."

VH

 Sickness is but another name for sin.
Healing is but another name for God.
The miracle is thus a call to Him.

 The First Five Years Of Childhood Exert A Decisive Influence On Our Life

It is not that I have anything new to say, nothing that I have not clearly expressed a quarter of a century ago.

I found the kindliest welcome in beautiful, free, generous England. Here I live now, a welcome guest, relieved from that oppression and happy that I may again speak and write I almost said "think" as I want or have to. I dare now to make public the last part of my essay.

This went on until a member of the Jewish people, in the guise of a political-religious agitator, founded a doctrine which together with another one, the Christian religion separated from the Jewish one. Paul, a Roman Jew from Tarsus, seized upon this feeling of guilt and correctly traced it back to its primaeval source. This he called original sin; it was a crime against God that could be expiated only through death. Death had come into the world through original sin. In reality this crime, deserving of death, had been the murder of the Father who later was deified. The murderous deed itself, however, was not remembered; in its place stood the phantasy of expiation and that is why this phantasy could be welcomed in the form of a gospel of salvation (Evangel). A Son of God, innocent himself, had sacrificed himself and had there by taken over the guilt of the world. It had to be a Son, for the sin had been murder of the Father. Probably traditions from Oriental and Greek mysteries had exerted their influence on the shaping of this phantasy of salvation. The essence of it seems to be Paul's own contribution. He was a man with a gift for religion, in the truest sense of the phrase. Dark traces of the past lay in his soul, ready to breakthrough into the regions of consciousness.

Freud eluded to the past and that the memory of the one God founded by Akhetaton had by and large disappeared but that that memory of One God had been buried in the psyche of future generations by orasl tradition. This “original sin” was then being separate from God. ACIM students will appreciate that analogy.

MOSES AND MONOTHEISM by SIGMUND FREUD

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN by KATHERINE JONES

1939