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LOVE
- (Genesis 22:2)
- He said, "Take
your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of
Mori'ah, and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the
mountains of which I shall tell you." ... Bible,
Old Testament
LOVE - (Matthew
22:37,39) - And
he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your
heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. And a
second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself ...
Bible, New Testament
LOVE
- Thus are we put in training for a
love which knows not sex, nor person, nor partiality, but which seeks
virtue and wisdom everywhere, to the end of increasing virtue and
wisdom. We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our
permanent state. But we are often made to feel that our affections are
but tents of a night. Though slowly and with pain, the objects of the
affections change, as the objects of thought do. There are moments when
the affections rule and absorb the man, and make his happiness dependent
on a person or persons. But in health the mind is presently seen again,
-- its overarching vault, bright with galaxies of immutable lights, and
the warm loves and fears that swept over us as clouds, must lose their
finite character and blend with God, to attain their own perfection. But
we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul.
The soul may be trusted to the end. That which is so beautiful and
attractive as these relations must be succeeded and supplanted only by
what is more beautiful, and so on for ever ... Emerson
LOVE
(John 13:34,35)
- Love is the central flame of the universe, nay, the very fire itself.
It is written that God is Love, and that we are His expressed likeness,
the image of the Eternal Being. Love is self-givingness through
creation, the impartation of the Divine through the human.
Love is an essence, an
atmosphere, which defies analysis, as does LIFE Itself. It is that
which IS and cannot be explained: it is common to all people, to
all animal life, and evident in the response of plants to those who love
them. Love reigns supreme over all.
The essence of love, while
elusive, pervades everything, fires the heart, stimulates the emotions,
renews the soul and proclaims the Spirit. Only love knows love,
and love knows only love. Words cannot express its depths or
meaning. A universal sense alone bears witness to the divine fact:
God is Love and Love is God ... Dr. Ernest
Holmes, The Science of Mind
Every day we all get to
choose how we want to live, from the understanding of Love as presented
in the Old Testament of the Bible or the understanding of Love as taught
by the Master Mind Jesus, Emerson and Dr. Ernest Holmes. Love is a
choice ... we can choose it or we can deny it. Each time we
"judge" someone ... anyone ... in an un-loving way we have
denied Love ... and therefore denied God. Let's not do that ... as
we continue to study the philosophy of Religious Science, we understand
that it is truly the philosophy of the Rabbi Jesus ... and our studies
will bring us into a greater understanding of
Life, Love and the Universe in which we live. God is Love .... and
as we gain a greater "realization" of this Truth we begin to
live our life from Love.
And
So It Is!
Maximum Love,
Rev.
Hank Bates
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