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21st
January 2012
Divine Love
Cont’d from last Weekend
VOICE
 The
fourth standard is that of inspiration. In past
centuries many philosophers have claimed illumination
or revelation, prefacing their statements by
the announcement that “this subject has
been revealed through me” or “thus
do I speak by inspiration.” Of this class
were the philosophers of the Illuminati. Inspirations
are the promptings or susceptibilities of the
human heart. The promptings of the heart are
sometimes satanic. How are we to differentiate
them? How are we to tell whether a given statement
is an inspiration and prompting of the heart
through the merciful assistance or through the
satanic agency?
Consequently it has become evident that the
four criterions or standards of judgment by
which the human mind reaches its conclusions
are faulty and inaccurate. All of them are liable
to mistake and error in conclusions. But a statement
presented to the mind accompanied by proofs
which the senses can perceive to be correct,
which the faculty of reason can accept, which
is in accord with traditional authority and
sanctioned by the promptings of the heart, can
be adjudged and relied upon as perfectly correct,
for it has been proved and tested by all the
standards of judgment and found to be complete.
When we apply but one test there are possibilities
of mistake. This is self-evident and manifest.
We will now consider the subject of “Love”
which has been suggested, submitting it to the
four standards of judgment and thereby reaching
our conclusions.
We declare that love is the cause of the existence
of all phenomena and that the absence of love
is the cause of disintegration or nonexistence.
Love is the conscious bestowal of God, the bond
of affiliation in all phenomena. We will first
consider the proof of this through sense-perception.
As we look upon the universe we observe that
all composite beings or existing phenomena are
made up primarily of single elements bound together
by a power of attraction. Through this power
of attraction, cohesion has become manifest
between atoms of these composing elements. The
resultant being is a phenomenon of the lower
contingent type. The power of cohesion expressed
in the mineral kingdom is in reality love or
affinity manifested in a low degree according
to the exigencies of the mineral world. We take
a step higher into the vegetable kingdom where
we find an increased power of attraction has
become manifest among the composing elements
which form phenomena. Through this degree of
attraction a cellular admixture is produced
among these elements which make up the body
of a plant. Therefore in the degree of the vegetable
kingdom there is love. We enter the animal kingdom
and find the attractive power binding together
single elements as in the mineral, plus the
cellular admixture as in the vegetable, plus
the phenomena of feelings or susceptibilities.
We observe that the animals are susceptible
to certain affiliation and fellowship, and that
they exercise natural selection. This elemental
attraction, this admixture and selective affinity
is love manifest in the degree of the animal
kingdom.
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Finally we come to the kingdom
of man. As this is the superior kingdom, the
light of love is more resplendent. In man
we find the power of attraction among the
elements which compose his material body,
plus the attraction which produces cellular
admixture or power augmentative, plus the
attraction which characterizes the sensibilities
of the animal kingdom, but still beyond and
above all these lower powers we discover in
the being of man the attraction of heart,
the susceptibilities and affinities which
bind men together, enabling them to live and
associate in friendship and solidarity. It
is therefore evident that in the world of
humanity the greatest king and sovereign is
love. If love were extinguished, the power
of attraction dispelled, the affinity of human
hearts destroyed, the phenomena of human life
would disappear.
This is a proof perceptible to the senses,
acceptable to reason, in accord with traditions
and teachings of the holy books and verified
by the promptings of human hearts themselves.
It is a proof upon which we can absolutely
rely and declare to be complete. But these
are only degrees of love which exist in the
natural or physical world. Their manifestation
is ever according to the requirement of natural
conditions and standards.
Real love is the love which exists between
God and His servants, the love which binds
together holy souls. This is the love of the
spiritual world, not the love of physical
bodies and organisms. For example, consider
and observe how the bestowals of God successively
descend upon mankind; how the divine effulgences
ever shine upon the human world. There can
be no doubt that these bestowals, these bounties,
these effulgences emanate from love. Unless
love be the divine motive, it would be impossible
for the heart of man to attain or receive
them. Unless love exists the divine blessing
could not descend upon any object or thing.
Unless there be love the recipient of divine
effulgence could not radiate and reflect that
effulgence upon other objects. If we are of
those who perceive, we realize that the bounties
of God manifest themselves continuously, even
as the rays of the sun unceasingly emanate
from the solar center. The phenomenal world
through the resplendent effulgence of the
sun is radiant and bright. In the same way
the realm of hearts and spirits is illumined
and resuscitated through the shining rays
of the Sun of Reality and the bounties of
the love of God. Thereby the world of existence,
the kingdom of hearts and spirits is ever
quickened into life. Were it not for the love
of God, hearts would be inanimate, spirits
would wither and the reality of man would
be bereft of the everlasting bestowals.
Cont’d next weekend
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