When 2 + 2 = 5: Reflecting Love in a Loveless World [MP3]

The musings of Dostoevsky's famed underground man give this workshop its title and set the stage for the discussion. The unquestioned equation of 2 + 2 = 4 symbolizes the ego's plan to bind us to its laws. When the hopelessness and sterility of the world's laws dawn, we begin to realize that 2 + 2 = 5, which symbolizes our turning within for answers, accepting that we are "under no laws but God's," as Lesson 76 tells us. This leads us to the undoing of our fundamental mistake of believing that 1 + 1 = 2, which symbolizes the reality of separation and defends against the only true equation: 1 + 1 = 1. Thus we accept the love of Jesus as our guide for living within the world, while not allowing it any power over our inner peace.