Grandeur is of God, and ONLY of Him. Therefore, it is in you. Whenever
you become aware of it, however dimly, you abandon the ego automatically
because, in the presence of the grandeur of God, the meaninglessness of
the ego becomes perfectly apparent. Though it does not understand this,
the ego believes that its “enemy” has struck, and attempts to offer
gifts to induce you to return to its “protection.” SELF-inflation of the
ego is its alternative to the grandeur of God. Which will you choose?

Grandiosity is ALWAYS a cover for despair. It is without hope because it
is not real. It is an attempt to counteract your littleness, based on
the belief that the littleness is REAL. Without this belief grandiosity
is meaningless, and you could not possibly want it. The essence of
grandiosity is competitiveness, because it ALWAYS involves attack. It is
a delusional attempt to OUTDO, but NOT to undo. We said before that the
ego vacillates between suspiciousness and viciousness. It remains
suspicious as long as you despair of yourself. It shifts to viciousness
whenever you will not tolerate self-abasement and seek relief. Then it
offers you the illusion of attack as a solution.

The ego does not know the difference between grandeur and grandiosity
because it does not know the difference between miracle impulses and
ego-alien beliefs of its own. We once said that the ego IS aware of
threat, but does not make distinctions between two entirely different
kinds of threat to its existence. Its own profound sense of
vulnerability renders it incapable of judgement EXCEPT in terms of
attack. When it experiences threat, its only decision is whether to
attack NOW, or to withdraw to attack later. If you accept its offer of
grandiosity, it will attack immediately. If you do not, it will wait.

The ego is immobilized in the presence of God’s grandeur because HIS
grandeur establishes YOUR freedom. Even the faintest hint of your
reality literally drives the ego from your mind because of complete lack
of investment in it. Grandeur is totally WITHOUT illusions, and because
it is real, it is compellingly convincing. Yet the conviction of reality
will not remain with you unless you do not allow the ego to attack it.
The ego will make every effort to recover and mobilize its energies
AGAINST your release. It will tell you that you are insane, and argue
that grandeur CANNOT be a real part of you because of the littleness in
which IT believes.

Yet your grandeur is not delusional BECAUSE you did not make it. You have
made grandiosity and are afraid of it because it is a form of attack,
but your grandeur is of God, Who created it out of His Love. From your
grandeur you can only bless because your grandeur is your ABUNDANCE. By
blessing you hold it in your minds, protecting it from illusions and
keeping yourself in the Mind of God. Remember always that you cannot be
anywhere EXCEPT in the Mind of God. When you forget this, you WILL
despair and you WILL attack.

The ego depends SOLELY on your willingness to tolerate it. If you are
willing to look upon your grandeur you CANNOT despair, and therefore you
cannot WANT the ego. Your grandeur is God’s ANSWER to the ego because it
is true. Littleness and grandeur cannot co-exist, nor is it possible for
them to alternate in your awareness. Littleness and grandiosity can and
MUST alternate in your awareness since both are untrue, and are
therefore on the same level. Being the level of shift it is experienced
as shifting, and extremes are its essential characteristic.

Truth and littleness are DENIALS of each other because grandeur IS
truth. Truth does not vacillate; it is ALWAYS true. When grandeur slips
away from you, you have replaced it with something YOU have made.
Perhaps it is the belief in littleness; perhaps it is the belief in
grandiosity. Yet it MUST be insane because it is NOT true. Your grandeur
will NEVER deceive you, but your illusions ALWAYS
will. Illusions ARE deceptions. You cannot triumph, but you ARE exalted.
And in your exalted state you seek others like you and rejoice with
them.

It is easy to distinguish grandeur from grandiosity because love is
returned, but pride is not. Pride will not produce miracles, and
therefore will deprive you of your true witnesses to your reality. Truth
is not obscure nor hidden, but its obviousness to YOU lies in the joy
you bring to its witnesses, who SHOW it to you. They attest to your
grandeur, but they cannot attest to pride because pride is not shared.
God WANTS you to behold what He created because it is His joy.

Can your grandeur be arrogant when God Himself witnesses to it? And what
can be real that HAS no witnesses? What good can come of it? And if no
good can come of it, the Holy Spirit cannot use it. What He cannot
transform to the Will of God does not exist at all. Grandiosity is
delusional because it is used to REPLACE your grandeur. Yet what God has
created cannot BE replaced. God is incomplete without you because His
grandeur is total, and you cannot be missing from it.

You are altogether irreplaceable in the Mind of God. No-one else can
fill your part of It, and while you leave your part of It empty, your
eternal place merely waits for your return. God, through His Voice,
reminds you of It, and God Himself keeps your extensions safe within
It. Yet you do not know them until you return to them. You CANNOT replace
the Kingdom, and you cannot replace YOURSELF. God, Who KNOWS your value,
would not have it so, and so it is NOT so. Your value is in GOD’S Mind,
and therefore not in yours alone. To accept yourself as God created you
cannot be arrogance because it is the DENIAL of arrogance. To accept
your littleness IS arrogant because it means that you believe YOUR
evaluation of yourself is TRUER than God’s.

Yet if truth is indivisible your evaluation of yourself must BE God’s.
You did not establish your value, and it NEEDS no defense. Nothing can
attack it or prevail over it. It does not vary. It merely IS. Ask the
Holy Spirit WHAT it is and He will tell you, but do not be afraid of His
answer, for it comes from God. It IS an exalted answer because of its
Source, but the Source is true and so is Its answer.

Listen and do not question what you hear, for God does not deceive. He
would have you replace the ego’s belief in littleness with His own
exalted answer to the question of your being, so that you can cease to
question it and KNOW it for what it IS.