Depression - The Denial of God

The rituals of the god of sickness are strange and very demanding.
Joy is never permitted, for depression is the sign of allegiance to him.

Depression means that you have forsworn God.

Many are afraid of blasphemy, but they do not understand what it means.
They do not realize that to deny God is to deny their own Identity, and in this sense the wages of sin is death.
The sense is very literal; denial of life perceives its opposite, as all forms of denial replace what is with what is not.
No one can really do this, but that you can think you can and believe you have is beyond dispute.

Do not forget, however, that to deny God will inevitably result in projection, and you will believe that others and not yourself have done this to you.

You must receive the message you give because it is the message you want.
You may believe that you judge your brothers by the messages they give you, but you have judged them by the message you give to them.
Do not attribute your denial of joy to them, or you cannot see the spark in them that would bring joy to you.

It is the denial of the spark that brings depression, for whenever you see your brothers without it, you are denying God.

Allegiance to the denial of God is the ego’s religion.
The god of sickness obviously demands the denial of health, because health is in direct opposition to its own survival. But consider what this means to you.
Unless you are sick you cannot keep the gods you made, for only in sickness could you possibly want them. Blasphemy, then, is self–destructive, not God–destructive. It means that you are willing not to know yourself in order to be sick. This is the offering your god demands because, having made him out of your insanity, he is an insane idea. He has many forms, but although he may seem to be many different things he is but one idea;—the denial of God.

Sickness and death seemed to enter the mind of God’s Son against His Will.
The “attack on God” made His Son think he was Fatherless, and out of his depression he made the god of depression.
This was his alternative to joy, because he would not accept the fact that, although he was a creator, he had been created.
Yet the Son is helpless without the Father, Who alone is his Help.

I said before that of yourself you can do nothing, but you are not of yourself.
If you were, what you have made would be true, and you could never escape.
It is because you did not make yourself that you need be troubled over nothing. Your gods are nothing, because your Father did not create them. You cannot make creators who are unlike your Creator, any more than He could have created a Son who was unlike Him.
If creation is sharing, it cannot create what is unlike itself.
It can share only what it is.
Depression is isolation, and so it could not have been created.

Son of God, you have not sinned, but you have been much mistaken. Yet this can be corrected and God will help you, knowing that you could not sin against Him.

You denied Him because you loved Him, knowing that if you recognized your love for Him, you could not deny Him. Your denial of Him therefore means that you love Him, and that you know He loves you.

Remember that what you deny you must have once known. And if you accept denial, you can accept its undoing.

Your Father has not denied you.
He does not retaliate, but He does call to you to return. When you think He has not answered your call, you have not answered His. He calls to you from every part of the Sonship, because of His Love for His Son. If you hear His message He has answered you, and you will learn of Him if you hear aright.

The Love of God is in everything He created, for His Son is everywhere. Look with peace upon your brothers, and God will come rushing into your heart in gratitude for your gift to Him.

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