This article is from ASCENSION! An Analysis of the Art of Ascension as Taught by the Ishayas by MSI pages 27 & 28 This is a wonderful book following Christ's teachings through the Apostle John. It includes 27 ascension techniques and lots more! An valuable tool for understanding oneself and in line with my own beliefs. "Love and Fear There are only two roots to all our emotions: love and fear. Love is the natural state of human life; Fear is the means the ego uses to control and possess the world. They cannot simultaneously coexist: when love increases, fear evaporates since it was never real, it vanishes in the sun of perfect love. When fear increases, love hides and bids its time until the individual opens again to Truth. It can never be destroyed but since the human is endowed with certain inalienable rights (including perfect free will) if the ego insists on illusions, love will as if disappear from the mind until the personality chooses again for Reality. The Ego wants to own everything; this denies the invin-cibility of surrender, the handmaiden of love. Love is universal and freely given, yet the ego insists that it be owned, that it obey the ego's stern dictates of when how and where. In this, the ego will forever fail, for it is fighting the wrong battle. Love can never be limited or exist in separation or isolation. Only by renunciation of the desire to manipulate and control will the ego melt into the Universal Self of Infinite, Eternal Love. It is not by attempting to force feelings to change that they change. Emotions evolve only when they are accepted exactly as they are. The Key to doing this is to stop judging them. Only the Ego defines Good and Bad. This is its principle tool of control: if some desires are good and some are not, life is going to remain split. By separating our feelings from the Ego's belief systems, we can use their powerful energy for personal growth."