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LOVE, THE UNITER OF ALL
A symbol of the attraction towards the within
instead of the without.
“Behold the sun, warm and bright on all sides, and whatever is
immortal and is bathed in its bright ray; and behold the rain-cloud,
dark and cold on all sides; from the earth there proceed the
foundations of things and solid bodies. In strife all things are
endued with form and separate from each other, but they come
together in Love and are desired by each other." - Empedocles,
FAIRBANKS, 96.
Regard the Self as loving and wise, both on the planes above and the
planes beneath. Behold all the virtues and all the qualities that
endure, as living within It. And understand the outward
manifestation of the Supreme, which appears to the ignorant,
suffering lower nature, as inexorable law, dark, obscure, and
repellent. From the lower nature proceed the foundations of human
experience (for the sense-nature is the basis of all that is of
utility and beauty to the lower mind). Through “strife,” or the
struggle for existence on the physical plane, all the lower forms of
life subsist in multifarious separateness. But the sense of
separateness is overcome so far as souls unite in knowledge of their
own nature, and in realisation of Truth, for Wisdom brings them
together in Love and enables them to live in harmony and mutual
service.
“But, just as far as it (Strife) is constantly rushing forth, just
so far there ever kept coming in a gentle, immortal stream of
perfect Love; and all at once what before I learned were immortal
were coming into being as mortal things.” - Ibid., 180.
To that degree in which the lower self responds through its vehicles
of consciousness, the Higher Self (Love) forthpours energy and
raises the self to the Self: and so the immortal ideals tend to
actualise as evolution proceeds. Thus the natural gives way to the
spiritual and the soul is purified and rises to life everlasting.
“To know God is to attain to the sublimest conception in the
universe. To love God is to bind ourselves to a being who is fitted,
as no other being is, to penetrate and move our whole hearts; in
loving whom, we exalt ourselves; in loving whom, we love the great,
the good, the beautiful, and the infinite; and under whose influence
the soul unfolds itself as a perennial plant under the cherishing
sun. This constitutes the chief glory of religion. It ennobles the
soul. In this its unrivalled dignity and happiness consist.” - W. E.
CHANNING, Of Christianity.
“Only Love is true, vital, wise. As Love grows in you, God grows in
you. In your Love you become organic with God. When you are naught
but Love you are the express image of His person.” - E. W. LEWIS,
Christ. Com., April 1813.
“Christ, the eternal son of God, is gradually but irresistibly
rising in all that is human, subduing all things unto himself,
bringing them into captivity to the law of divine love, which alone
is perfect freedom.” - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., From Subjection to
Sovereignty.
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