"Love your enemies, do good unto them." Luke 6:27
During the Second World War a very interesting event happened, the story goes like this:
The wife of an official in an Indonesian Province was incarcerated in Prisoner of War Camp.She became hopelessly emaciated and starved, she could not attend roll call. At the lineup she was reported as missing. So she was dragged in front of the commandant. The Commandant was furious, and took off his belt, and raised it with the buckle sticking out to strike her.
As his arm was raised poised to strike, she was engulfed by his unaccountable loathing and hatred. It was a hatred she never thought possible in a human. But in the midst of this hatred, a wave of incredible love over whelmed her. She could look at this perpetrator of hated and death against her with a love that only the very presence of God could give. The commandant transfixed by this look on her face, finally allowed his hand to drop, and with a gesture of the same hand signalled the guard to take her back to her quarters. The guards after this took an interest in her and gave her more food.She finally endured the ordeal of the Camp.
In that crisis she was able to rise up out of all the hatred, fear and loathing to a New consciousness of the Presence of Christ.
Love holds no grievances. As long as there are human beings separate from each other, there will be a struggle. The problem person is no more than a person displaced from his true centre in Christ.There is only one person. Ecclesiastes speaks of God being "One without a second." How can there be selfhood apart from God? There is only One divine Person, call it Christ, call it the Holy Spirit, call it the Father. There is only One Person without a second. That One SELF appears as a multitude, the One in "whom we live exist and have our Being."God being One, must also be all inclusive.
A person getting sick old and dying, is a false sense of person. Far removed from what God IS.It is all based on false separation, and false limited senses. As long as we personalise, that is make separate, decide if it is bad or good, or loved or be hated, or indifferent, we are functioning from our false self, our human conditioning. It is typical of human culture and education to put labels on things and to quantify and objectify things. Only the Ascent into the heart, can we rise up in consciousness to see persons not as images in mind but as Spirit. As such we refuse to see anything but perfection and completion.We are no longer under Law, and condemnation and guilt.Seeing evil in another, is seeing nothingness. God's Realm is Real and knows nothing of what is unreal. No evil can disturb God's Perfect creation. That is rising up to a higher level of consciousness, the impersonal, where all is Divine. Now that place where all dissolves back to it's Source is not outside of us, but WITHIN. Within Consciousness.
We must see beyond the mote in our own eyes, we must see God appearing in that very place we have despised in another. We must see beyond that mask of our own we have placed over our brother/sister. All our brethren are us, we are one, no matter what our finite senses tell us, and they are truly finite.
This World is totally starved of Love.The World knows nothing of Love, but a lot of lust and desire for self. Love is not hypocrisy, looking at itself in others and saying "How awful." The absolute Truth is that no one can harm us, as all have "there being and move, live and exist in God."St. Paul.
Real Love is manifest only when we lose sight of self, and see the unmanifest the SELF/GOD.Only the: " pure in heart can see God." You cannot know God, unless you are God. God is the only Person there is. All other persons take God's name in vain. "There is Only One without a second."
The hardest place to find love is in our own backyard. How hard it is to realise each member of your family is God in disguise.How much we miss, by not seeing each and every member of our family as God in disguise, hidden by our own universal belief systems. Start seeing God in all the members of your family,, and you will become an instrument of light and love flowing out to all. You will become the very Instrument of Love itself in the divine Hand your own hand. Tender love will flow our like a river our of Heaven to all.
In the True House of god, there are no Husbands, no wives and no children, no relatives at all. Only God expressing Himself as the all in All.We all know how blurred focus distorts the one as the many. So too with us, as we see through a glass dimly all things are distorted into the many. Only as we through the power of holy Spirit enter the "household Of God" see all being changed from "Glory to Glory."
To truly Love we must lay down all our concepts of separate selves. We must become ONE, and see all things as they truly are, God all in all. We see all as God sees "This is My Beloved Son, in whom there is no fault."
If our Love must flow in a trickle, then it comes back to us as suck. Let Love flow as a mighty river, and we too will receive the Same.
No greater Love has Man than this To lay down his life for his friends. But only Divine Love can lay down it's life for us "who were enemies and strangers from God."
Pursuing Heaven one perpetuates the Hell of Desire. Entering Hells Gates, one finds Heaven. How else did the Son of Man, find Heaven for us, except by entering Sheol? And He prevailed.
