Lesson 13

Idea: A meaningless word engenders fear.

"Nothing without meaning exists. However, it does not follow that you will not think you perceive something that has no meaning.

Recognition of meaninglessness arouses intense anxiety in all separated ones. It represents a situation in which God and the ego "challenge" each other as to whose meaning is to be written in the empty space that meaninglessness provides. The ego rushes in frantically to establish its own ideas there, fearful that the void may otherwise be used to demonstrate its own impotence and unreality. And on this alone it is correct.