Blessed Night, Loves 😊

I Pray All Is Well With Everyone… And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion… For All God’s Children… And All God’s Creation. As Much As Humanity Is Stressing And Suffering… Consequences Of Selfishness, Ignorance, Discord, And Destruction; All Other Life On This Planet Suffers As Well – Including The Plant Life That Produces Food, Trees That Produces Oxygen; Oceans, Waterways, Aquatic And Animal Life; Even Mother Earth Herself… The Living Sphere… That Sustains Our Human Bodies. Where Is The Collective Love; Where Is The Collective Harmony; Where Is The Collective Sincerity? Where Is The One Heart, One Mind, One Spirit Of The “Mighty I AM Presence” That Dwells Within Us? Ever-Present, Indeed! But Mankind Must Work Harder To Raise The Collective Vibration – Out Of The Darkness That Surrounds Us – To The Highest Heights Of Light… Of The Living God… That Will Never Fail Us; Regardless Of Worldly Distractions! And REMEMBER… No Matter What May Come… No Matter The Wiles Of The Darkness… THE LOVE IN US IS THE ETERNAL, UNIVERSAL POWER OF THE LIVING GOD – OVER ALL LIFE – THAT WILL SAVE US! Amen… 15.1emoji-timelineemoji-timelineemoji-timeline

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LOVE

“Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. He that abides in love abides in God and God abides in him. He that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me; and he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him. Love, in Divine Mind, is the idea of universal unity. In expression, love is the power that joins and binds in divine harmony, the universe and everything in it. Among the faculties of the mind, love is pivotal. Its center of mentation in the body is the cardiac plexus. The physical representative of love is the heart, the office of which is to equalize the circulation of the blood in the body. As the heart equalizes the life flow in the body, so love harmonizes the thoughts of the mind.

We have found that the twelve sons of Jacob represent the twelve faculties of mind. When Levi (love) was brought forth by the human soul (Leah), his mother said: “Now this time will my husband be joined unto me.” We connect our soul forces with whatever we center our love upon. If we love the things of sense or materiality, we are joined or attached to them through a fixed law of being. In the divine order of being, the soul, or thinking part of man is joined to its spiritual ego. If it allows itself to become joined to the outer or sense consciousness, it makes personal images that are limitations. The Lord commanded Moses to “make all things according to the pattern that was showed thee in the mount.” This “mount” is the place of high understanding, or spiritual consciousness, whose center of action is in the very apex of the brain.

In the regeneration, our love goes through a transformation, which broadens, strengthens, and deepens it. We no longer confine love to family, friends, and personal relations, but expand it to include all things. The denial of human relationships seems at first glance, to be a repudiation of the family group, but it is merely a cleansing of the mind from limited ideas of love, when this faculty would satisfy itself solely by means of human kinship.

If God is the Father of all, then men and women are brothers and sisters in a universal family, and he who sees spiritually should open his heart and cultivate that inclusive love which God has given as the unifying element in the human family. Just to the extent that we separate ourselves into families, cliques, and religious factions, we put away God’s love. Unless there is specific denial along every line of human-thought bondage, one will still be under the law of sense. Direct affirmation of spiritual unity, based upon obedience, should be made by everyone who desires to realize this true relation. Jesus said: “Who is my mother, and who are my brethren? And he stretched forth his hand towards his disciples, and said, Behold, my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

Among the apostles of Jesus, John represents love – he laid his head on the Master’s bosom. When this apostle is “called”, love is quickened in consciousness. The calling of this apostle consists in bringing into one’s consciousness a right understanding of the true character of love, also in exercising love in all the relations of life. One should make it a practice to meditate regularly on the love idea in universal Mind, with the prayer, “Divine love, manifest thyself in me.” Then there should be periods of mental concentration on the love center in the cardiac plexus, near the heart. It is not necessary to know the exact location of this aggregation of love cells. Think about love with the attention drawn within the breast, and a quickening will follow; all the ideas that go to make up love will be set into motion. This produces a positive love current, which, when sent forth with power, will break up opposing thoughts of hate, and render them null and void. The thought of hate will be dissolved, not only in the mind of the thinker but in the minds of those with whom he comes in contact, in mind or in body.

The love current is not a projection of the will; it is a setting free of a natural, equalizing, harmonizing force that in most persons has been dammed up by human limitations. The ordinary man is not aware that he possesses this mighty power, which will turn away every shaft of hate that is aimed at him. We know that “a soft answer turns away wrath”, but here is a faculty native to man, existent in every soul, which may be used at all times to bring about harmony and unity among those who have been disunited through misunderstandings, contentions, or selfishness.

Henry Drummond says that Paul’s 13th chapter of 1 Corinthians is the greatest love poem ever written. In his book based on this chapter, “Love, the Supreme Gift”, Professor Drummond analyzes love and portrays its various activities. We quote:

“THE SPECTRUM OF LOVE. Love is a compound thing, Paul tells us. It is like light. As you have seen a man of science take a beam of light and pass it through a crystal prism, as you have seen it come out on the other side of the prism broken up into its component colors – red and blue and yellow and orange, and all the colors of the rainbow – so Paul passes this thing, love, through the magnificent prism of his inspired intellect, and it comes out on the other side broken up into its elements. And in these few words we have what one might call the Spectrum of Love, the analysis of love. Will you observe what its elements are? Will you notice that they have common names; that they are virtues which we hear about every day; that they are things that can be practiced by every man in every place in life; and how, by a multitude of small things and ordinary virtues, the supreme thing, the Summum bonum, is made up?”

The Spectrum of Love has nine ingredients, viz.: Patience – “Love suffers long.” Kindness – “and is kind.” Generosity – “Love envies not.” Humility – “Love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up.” Courtesy – “Does not behave itself unseemly.” Unselfishness – “Seeks not her own.” Good Temper – “Is not easily provoked.” Guilelessness – “Thinks no evil.” Sincerity – “Rejoices not in iniquity but rejoices in the truth.”

… Love is more than mere affection, and all our words protesting our love are not of value, unless we have this inner current, which is real substance. Though we have the eloquence of men and of angels, and have not this deeper feeling, it profits us nothing. We should deny the mere conventional, surface affection, and should set our mind on the very substance of love.

Charity is not love. You may be kindhearted and give to the poor and needy until you are impoverished, yet not acquire love. You may be a martyr to the cause of Truth and consume your vitality in good works, yet be far from love. Love is a force that runs in the mind and body like molten gold in a furnace, it does not mix with the baser metals – it has no affinity for anything less than itself. Love is patient; it never gets weary or discouraged. Love is always kind and gentle. It does not envy; jealousy has no place in its world. Love never becomes puffed up with human pride and does not brag about itself. It is Love that makes the refinement of the natural gentleman or lady, although he or she may be ignorant of the world’s standards of culture. Love does not seek its own – its own comes to it without being sought.

Jesus came proclaiming the spiritual interrelationship of the human family. His teaching was always of gentleness, nonresistance, love. “I say unto you, love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you.” To do this, one must be established in the consciousness of divine love, and there must be discipline of the mental nature to preserve such a high standard. The divine law is founded in the eternal unity of all things, and “Love, therefore, is the fulfillment of the law.”

Physical science has discovered that everything can be reduced to a few primal elements, and that if the universe were destroyed it could be built up again from a single cell. So this law of harmony, which has its origin in Love, is established in the midst of every individual. “I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it.” But before this fixed inward principle can be brought to the surface, man must open the way by having faith in the power of Love to accomplish all that Jesus claimed for it.

… Divine love and human love should not be confounded, because one is as broad as the universe and is always governed by undeviating laws, while the other is fickle, selfish, and lawless. It was to this personal aspect of the love center in man that Jesus referred when He said: “Out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed.” But in the regeneration, all this is changed; the heart is cleansed and becomes the standard of right relation among all men. “By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another.”

We cannot enter fully into the Christ consciousness so long as we have a grudge against anyone. The mind is so constituted that a single thought of a discordant character tinges the whole consciousness; so, we must cast out all evil and resisting thoughts before we can know the love of God in its fullness. “If therefore, you are offering your gift at the altar, and there, remember that your brother has aught against you, leave there your gift before the altar, and go your way, first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.”

DIVINE LOVE IN THE HEART ESTABLISHES ONE IN FEARLESSNESS AND INDOMITABLE COURAGE. “GOD GAVE US NOT A SPIRIT OF FEARFULNESS; BUT OF POWER AND LOVE AND DISCIPLINE.”

… Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and every one that loves is begotten of God; and knows God. He that loves not, knows not God; for God is love. Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No man has beheld God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us; hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. And we know and have believed the love which God has in us. God is love; and he that abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, even so are we in this world. There is no fear in love: but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment; and he that fears, is not made perfect in love. We love, because he first loved us. If a man says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment have we from him, that he who loves God, love his brother also.”

Christian Healing: The Science of Being, by Charles Fillmore, 1926

 

 

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