“The wages of sin is death”
“There is an instant in which terror seems to grip your mind so wholly that escape appears quite hopeless. When you realize, once and for all, that it is you you fear, the mind perceives itself as split. And this had been concealed while you believed attack could be directed outward, and returned from outside to within. It seemed to be an enemy outside you had to fear. And thus a god outside yourself became your mortal enemy; the source of fear. Now, for an instant, is a murderer perceived within you, eager for your death, intent on plotting punishment for you until the time when it can kill at last. Yet in this instant is the time as well in which salvation comes. For fear of God has disappeared. And you can call on Him to save you from illusions by His Love, calling Him Father and yourself His Son. Pray that the instant may be soon,—today.” (W-pI.196.10:1-11:5)
Coming face-to-face with your own terrible ego. Being completely naked Realizing that my ego is the source of all of my pain, suffering, fear…. Realizing *“that it is you you fear.”
The Ego is a Fearful Thought
“The death penalty is the ego’s ultimate goal....Wanting to kill you as the final expression of its feeling for you, it lets you live but to await death. It will torment you while you live, but its hatred is not satisfied until you die. For your destruction is the one end toward which it works, and the only end with which it will be satisfied.” (T-12.VII.13:2, 4-6)
“The ego teaches thus: Death is the end as far as hope of Heaven goes. Yet because you and the ego cannot be sepa- rated, and because it cannot conceive of its own death, it will pursue you still [in hell], because guilt is eternal.”