Let it be made clear that human struggle is the result of humanity’s selfishness, of their failure to appropriate divine abundance and to apprehend universal purpose. Seeing life then in its smallest dimensions they are not able to grasp the perspective of the overall picture, for they have already circumscribed the potential of their life with their own sense of limitation….
Just as man today does not build without a blueprint, so cosmos was designed after that universal perfection which God was from the beginning and is forever. Don’t you see then inasmuch as perfection is ever the divine lot how easy it would have been had mankind chosen to walk within the confines of the great Law to perpetuate perfection throughout the world? Yet in the dispensation of freewill as it is held by embodied mankind today there is a chastening that comes from man’s inherent freedom to create imperfectly and to live in error….
Then there is the tendency toward radicalism which engenders human hatred against those who either in politics or religion are not as radical as the radicals think they ought to be. There is human self-righteousness and spiritual pride that has become a terrible weight swung upon the thread of mankind’s oppressive sense of foreboding and the desire to inflict punishment upon one another. This has caused untold sorrow in spiritual realms as well as hardship upon earth. Like a sword of Damocles humanity’s damning indictment of one another’s faith in God and in Christ hang over their heads as an indictment of their own sinful consciousness, while their challenges of the universality of divine purpose and the beauty of the pure in heart continue to reinforce the brutal walls mankind have erected among themselves….
It was no easy task to show them (of old) the error of their ways and to place in perspective the little concerns that they so frequently voiced which were not nearly as important as the state of the altar of being--the chalice of the heart and mankind’s attunement with the purposes of God. Men have often strained at a gnat and swallowed a camel., and how they still need with all of their getting even of things spiritual to get understanding and compassion.
It is not enough for men to be bold in their search for truth, for all require that beautiful humility which like a great magnet of cosmic love draws the love of God through the whole net and fiber of creation, infusing it with the glow of cosmic intent and true spiritual compassion….
What a pity it is that self-righteousness is such a barrier to divine reality and to the teachings of the Holy Spirit. For the Holy Spirit guides all men into all truth. And truth, beloved mankind, is not just the letter of the Law as it is interpreted by various groups….To have love without the illumination of the Christ mind and the power to rightly divide the Word is often not enough to promote the universal righteousness of God-activity within the consciousness of the individual that brings divine justice to all.
(by Ruth Hawkins)
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