A GUIDE TO AWARENESS AND TRANQUILLITY
BY WILLIAM SAMUEL

THE PHANTOM OF FEAR

Dear Mary,
Concerning fear, listen with your Heart!
The images on the television screen may appear to shake, jump, roll and crack asunder but their gyrations do not, cannot, do anything to the screen. Can they?

Our Identity is the screen of life, "within" which the images of people, things, events, etc., appear, but those events cannot do anything to this Identity we are no matter how much they quake or threaten to!

"Seest thou this?" The consciousness that even now reads these words is the "screen" and the images included within it can do nothing to it or for it.

So do not be frightened. Words are just words; threats are just threats, sights are just sights-all powerless. Power ever resides as God, Reality, Isness which is even now being this awareness-we-are, this Life. Reality is in no way self-destructive. The Identity we are is the very self of Deity-and there is no need for fear. Have we not heard that "love casts out fears"? Have we not also heard that "God is love" and that God is all? Isn't All all? To be frightened is to disavow God's existence-and even a shadow cannot disavow the substance that produces the shadow. Unless God is frightened of himself, fear is illusory… Reality is in no way self-destructive. The Identity we are is the very self of Deity-and there is no need for fear. Have we not heard that "love casts out fears"? Have we not also heard that "God is love" and that God is all? Isn't All all? To be frightened is to disavow God's existence-and even a shadow cannot disavow the substance that produces the shadow. Unless God is frightened of himself, fear is illusory… Well, God is not frightened and fear is senseless foolishness, powerless to bind us. We are not bound by fear, Mary, and you do not need to act as though you are.