The 49th Mystic (Beyond the Circle #1)

by Ted Dekker

“All fear springs from an aversion to being threatened or wronged on some level. And yet it is written that true love holds no record of wrong.3 Love does not take wrong into account. There is no fear in love.

Though saved in the next life, they cling to judgment, holding records of wrong and thus subjecting themselves to what they believe threatens them. Without love that holds no record of wrong, they are as powerless as the Horde.

Your beliefs are powerless to save you from worry and fear when you hold any record of wrong. True love holds no record of wrong. It’s the only way you can walk on water.”

Become like an infant, a little child who hasn’t yet learned not to believe the impossible, because, in truth, nothing is impossible.”

There is the realm of polarity—the law—in which all living things must forcefully protect against what they fear, trading and fighting, back and forth, up and down, winning and losing. And the realm of love. A grace that is beyond polarity, in which there is no battle, no fear, only love. No darkness, only light—because it is finished! The lamb has overcome.”

“Is this beautiful flesh you? Are you these fingernails so that when you cut them you fall to the ground? Are you your hair, your cells, dying by the millions every moment? Are you your clothes, your sweat, your fingers?” “No.” “Are you your memories, snatched from you so easily by poison or a blow to the head? Never! Are you your emotions and thoughts? Never. These are all part of your earthen vessel, a beautiful gift that is here today and gone tomorrow. Protecting yourself from death is only a temporary and utterly futile war you wage in polarity until your earthen vessel finally dies and you discover death always was only a shadow. There is no death. There is no darkness in light. It is finished. Inchristi is all; Inchristi is in all!”6

You continue your own struggle in vain because you mistake the dust as your true identity.”