This is the reason for the family; the lodge; the community; the nation;
there must be some motive other than the preservation of the personal self,
in order to develop the higher quality of love which embraces the world,
until the spirit of a Christ takes possession of the human and he would
gladly offer himself a sacrifice to the world, if by so doing he could
eliminate all the pain from the world.
How natural it is to feel, when we see a loved one suffering, that we would
gladly take upon ourselves that pain; the heart fills with love until it
aches with the burden of it; this love enlarged, expanded and impersonal in
its application is the same love with which we are told to love God, and to
"do all for Him." Do all for love of all the other hearts in the Universe
that feel as we feel when their loved ones suffer--that is the way to love
God--it is the only way we know. We only know divine love through human
love: human love is divine when it is unselfish and eternal--not fed upon
carnality, but anchored in spiritual complement.
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