Understand the Divine Dichotomy in All Things
“It’s important to learn about Divine Dichotomy and understand it thoroughly if you are to live in our universe with grace. Divine Dichotomy holds that it is possible for two apparently contradictory truths to exist simultaneously in the same space.
Now on your planet people find this difficult to accept. They like to have order, and anything that does not fit into their picture is automatically rejected. For this reason, when two realities begin to assert themselves and they seem to contradict one another, the immediate assumption is that one of them must be wrong, false, untrue. It takes a great deal of maturity to see, and accept, that, in fact, they might both be true.
Yet in the realm of the absolute—as opposed to the realm of the relative, in which you live—it is very clear that the one truth which is All There Is sometimes produces an effect which, viewed in relative terms, looks like a contradiction.”
- Conversations with God, Book 3
“In ultimate reality there is no such thing as good and evil. In the realm of the absolute, all there is is love. Yet in the realm of the relative you have created the experience of what you “call” evil, and you have done it for a very sound reason. You wanted to experience love, not just “know” that love is All There Is, and you cannot experience something when there is nothing else but that. And so, you created in your reality (and continue to do so every day) a polarity of good and evil, thus using one so that you might experience the other.
And here we have a Divine Dichotomy—two seemingly contradictory truths existing simultaneously in the same place. Specifically:
There is such a thing as good and evil.
All there is is love.”
- Conversations with God, Book 3
God: “The greatest Divine Dichotomy is the one we are looking at now. There is only One Being, and hence, only One Soul. And, there are many souls in the One Being.
Here’s how the dichotomy works: You’ve just had it explained to you that there is no separation between souls. The soul is the energy of life that exists within and around (as the aura of) all physical objects. In a sense, it is that which is “holding” all physical objects in place. The “Soul of God” holds in the universe, the “soul of man” holds in each individual human body.”
Neale Donald Walsch: “The body is not a container, a “housing,” for the soul; the soul is a container for the body.”
God: “That’s right.”
Neale Donald Walsch: “Yet there is no “dividing line” between souls—there is no place where “one soul” ends and “another” begins. And so, it is really one soul holding all bodies.”
God: “Correct.”
Neale Donald Walsch: “Yet the one soul “feels like” a bunch of individual souls.”
God: “Indeed it does—indeed I do—by design.”
- Conversations with God, Book 3
“Here is the greatest Divine Dichotomy: The greatest complexity is the greatest simplicity.
The more “complex” a system is, the more simple is its design. Indeed, it is utterly elegant in its Simplicity.
The master understands this. That is why a highly evolved being lives in utter simplicity. It is why all highly evolved systems are also utterly simple. Highly evolved systems of governance, highly evolved systems of education, highly evolved systems of economics or religion—all are utterly, elegantly simple.
Highly evolved systems of governance, for instance, involve virtually no governance at all, save self- governance.”
- Conversations with God, Book 3
