{"id":11739,"date":"2015-12-10T18:20:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T01:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/?p=11739"},"modified":"2015-12-10T18:20:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T01:20:52","slug":"in-the-words-of-jesus-part-1321","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/10\/in-the-words-of-jesus-part-1321\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE WORDS OF JESUS\u2013Part 1321"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ON LOVE; PART\u00a0CMLX<\/span><\/h2>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391<\/span><\/h6>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">GoodWill\u00a0IS Love in Action<\/span><\/h2>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391<\/span><\/h6>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">FIRST IS THE GREAT COMMANDMENTS: &#8220;<em>The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these<\/em>&#8221; (Mark 12:29-31).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">WHAT THEN IS LOVE? In a general sense love is benevolence, good will; that disposition of heart which inclines men to think favorably of their fellow men, and to do them good. In a theological sense, it includes supreme love to God, and universal good will to men. While this IS from an older definition of Charity, which IS rendered in the King James Bible from the same Greek word <em>agape<\/em> which IS generally rendered as Love,\u00a0we should amend our own definition here to include the idea that in the reality of Love a man will accord to ALL men ALL things that he would accord to himself and to say that Love IS our thoughts and attitude\u00a0of the equality of ALL men regardless of their outward nature or appearance&#8230;that ALL ARE equally children of Our\u00a0One God<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PLUS THE EVER IMPORTANT AND HIGH IDEAL TAUGHT TO US BY THE CHRIST: &#8220;<em>Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them<\/em>&#8221; (Matthew 7:12).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We ended the last essay with a discussion of the Great Commandments and how that these predate Jesus&#8217; teaching and\u00a0show the Jews the same principal of Love. This principal of Love IS the <em>expression<\/em> of the man whose <em>focus<\/em> IS upon God and, if we should look at the clarity of the first of the Great Commandments we will see how that this requires such <em>focus<\/em> and thereby such Love. In the idea of Love for God we should see the reality of Jesus&#8217; words and the words of the Apostle John as both of these show us the reality of that Love; one from the simple perspective of <em>keeping His words<\/em> and the other from the perspective of the second of the Great Commandments which IS that a man &#8220;<em>shalt love thy neighbour as thyself<\/em>&#8220;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jesus shows us the Truth of this relationship between <em>keeping His words<\/em> and Loving God as a part of what we call our <strong><em>trifecta<\/em><\/strong> of spiritual reality where\u00a0the idea IS repeated from His earlier saying that &#8220;<em>If ye love me, keep my commandments<\/em>&#8221; (John 14:15). In the <em><strong>trifecta<\/strong> <\/em>the Master repeats this charge two more times and He DOES so with great clarity;\u00a0it IS Truly unfortunate that most doctrines DO NOT see nor understand these ideas. When we take these words\u00a0&#8220;<em>If ye love me, keep my commandments<\/em>&#8221; and add them to His saying that <em>&#8220;He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me<\/em>&#8221; and His next thought, which IS in answer to an apostle&#8217;s question, saying &#8220;<em>If a man love me, he will keep my words<\/em>&#8220;, the clarity IS deafening; yet there IS NO such idea in the doctrines of men who DO claim to Love God. And we should see as well how that this idea of Love for God, as evidenced by <em>keeping His words<\/em>, IS also the KEY to the Presence of God in one&#8217;s Life which IS the essence of Jesus words that we repeat again as the third part of our <em><strong>trifecta<\/strong><\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>&#8220;If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free<\/em>&#8220;<em> (John 8:31-32).<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>&#8220;Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0(Matthew 7:21).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>&#8220;He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father&#8217;s which sent me&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0(John 14:21-24).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John shows us this same idea of Love for God in his first epistle where we read &#8220;<em>If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?\u00a0And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also<\/em>&#8221; (1 John 4:20-21). Here we have the relationship between Loving God and Loving one&#8217;s neighbor, brother and the stranger who qualifies as both; and here we also have John&#8217;s relationship of Love for God and <em>keeping His words<\/em> as this whole idea of Love IS His word. And this IS the same relationship that we should take from the Apostle Paul&#8217;s words to the Romans and to the Galatians; we read:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<em>Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.\u00a0For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.\u00a0Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law<\/em>&#8221; (Romans 13:8-10).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<em>For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself<\/em>&#8221; (Galatians 5:14).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While there IS NO question as to the intent of the apostles and the Master regarding Love, doctrines DO NOT treat this reality with the vigor that IS necessary; nor DO they acknowledge this strong relationship between Love and<em> keeping His words<\/em>. Using the out of context words of Paul to fuel their doctrines of <em>atonement<\/em>, they fail to see Jesus&#8217; own words on Love and on the Way that it IS in <em>keeping His words<\/em> that one can achieve the Kingdom of God. And this IS the center point of the whole idea that IS presented in our <em>trifecta<\/em> where there IS the reality of discipleship as KNOWING God, \u00a0attaining the Kingdom of God, and the Truth of His Presence in one&#8217;s Life&#8230;.ALL of these come to the man who will <em>keep His words<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It IS in this same way that we should look at the Truth of being &#8220;<em>born again<\/em>&#8220;. While many <em>believe<\/em> that they ARE &#8220;<em>born again<\/em>&#8221; by way of the &#8216;<em>believing<\/em>&#8216; and the affirmations of such belief as\u00a0IS interpreted from Paul&#8217;s words, the greater reality IS found in the Master&#8217;s words that tell us &#8220;<em>Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God<\/em>&#8221; (John 3:14). The relationship between these words and the words of our <strong><em>trifecta<\/em><\/strong> ARE lost in the doctrinal teachings that rely upon the misconstrued words of the Apostle Paul, words that ARE taken out of context and allowed to stand alone as the way of <em>salvation<\/em>. The Truth IS found in the simple logic that if one must <em>keep His words<\/em> in order to\u00a0&#8220;<em>enter into the kingdom of heaven<\/em>&#8220;, which idea we should clearly see in Jesus words saying&#8221;<em>he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven<\/em>&#8220;, then this must be equally True for the reality of being &#8220;<em>born again<\/em>&#8220;. If we must <em>keep His words<\/em> to\u00a0&#8220;<em>enter into the kingdom of heaven<\/em>&#8221; then we must equally <em>keep His words<\/em> to be &#8220;<em>born again<\/em>&#8220;, the result of which IS the Kingdom of God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It IS in the <strong>illusion<\/strong> and the <strong>glamour<\/strong> of Life in this world that men DO come to believe the doctrinal ideas of <em>salvation<\/em> that have been created out of the same sense of <strong>illusion<\/strong> and this IS ALL a part of that <strong>deception<\/strong> that the Apostle James shows us, a <strong>deception<\/strong> that replaces the need to <em>keep His words<\/em> with ALL other approaches to God. James&#8217; words ARE rendered as &#8220;<em>be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves<\/em>&#8221; and understood in the context of <em>hearing<\/em> as men parse the apostle&#8217;s words without seeing the Truth that to NOT DO His words IS the continuation of <strong>illusion<\/strong> and in this IS the <strong>deception<\/strong>. While it may appear that the Truths ARE buried in the words of the Master and and His apostle&#8217;s, the reality IS that the Truth of <em>keeping His words<\/em> IS presented to us in clear terms but, at the same time, in terms that ARE inconvenient for the man in this world to CHOOSE to DO. Much of this IS based in the fear of losing one&#8217;s own sense of humanity and perhaps being seen by others as the one who IS <strong>deceived<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It IS keeping the sense of one&#8217;s humanity that has fostered the doctrines that have become the very essence of the spiritual Life of so many millions of men and in this we must see the work of the Church Fathers as well as the Reformers and those who follow them still to this day. When we can see however that this sense of humanity IS a function of the <strong>illusion<\/strong> and the <strong>glamour<\/strong>, a function of the <em>vanity<\/em>\u00a0which Paul tells us afflicts ALL men, we can then understand that the ONLY <em>escape,<\/em> the ONLY way to True <em>salvation<\/em>, IS in <em>keeping His words<\/em>. And this IS the intent of Paul&#8217;s words that we have been studying: to allow men to see the reality and the Truth of <em>keeping His words<\/em> as he shows us those things that ARE contrary to the Great Commandments of Love for God and Love for ALL men as well as those things that move one&#8217;s\u00a0<em>focus<\/em> away from the One essential Truth. It IS the <strong>illusion<\/strong> and the <strong>deception<\/strong> that causes men to interpret the apostle&#8217;s words into strictly carnal ideas and then pay them NO heed as regards their own <em>salvation.<\/em>\u00a0We repeat Paul&#8217;s words again saying:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<em>For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.\u00a0But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.\u00a0Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,\u00a0Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,\u00a0Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.\u00a0But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,\u00a0Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.\u00a0And they that are Christ&#8217;s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts<\/em>&#8221; (Galatians 5:17-24).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As we have discussed, there IS a reality to the carnal understanding of these words and a sense of wrong can be found in most ALL of them. But we should understand that a man who IS free from the sexual deviations, free from <em>idolatry<\/em> and <em>witchcraft<\/em> as these are commonly understood, free from the <em>hatreds<\/em> and whatsoever IS understood in <em>variance,<\/em> <em>emulations<\/em>, <em>seditions<\/em> and <em>heresies<\/em>, and free from <em>drunkenness<\/em> and what IS seen as <em>revelling<\/em>, DOES NOT have the Kingdom of God, the Presence of God nor the <em>freedom<\/em> of KNOWING the Truth, if he IS NOT <em>keeping His words<\/em> and especially those words on Love. This reality IS shown to us rather clearly but in a seemingly different context as Paul\u00a0writes to the Corinthians about those supposed &#8220;<em>spiritual gifts<\/em>&#8220;&#8230;..supposed for the man who IS NOT in accord with Jesus&#8217; teachings on Love. Here the apostle shows us that NONE of these\u00a0supposed &#8220;<em>spiritual gifts<\/em>&#8221; ARE so in the absence of Love as the reality of <em>agape<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The apostle&#8217;s words to the Corinthians, much like his words to the Galatians above, ARE NOT taken as they ARE intended by the doctrines of the world. In Galatians there IS the failure to see how that the Greek words ARE NOT ONLY as they are presented in the common understanding of men. They\u00a0ARE spiritual realities which ARE, according to our segmented view, the errors of men in regard to God as infidelity and reliance upon the carnal, the errors of men in regard to their relationship with their fellow man and the errors of men by which their <em>focus<\/em> IS taken off of the Truth\u00a0as they succumb to the ways of the world and take joy in it. In Corinthians we have a similar presentation by Paul as he shows us that in the absence of Love, which IS the absence of <em>keeping His words<\/em>, NONE of those things which ARE perceived by men as spiritual ARE such and, from a spiritual perspective, such a man who IS NOT <em><strong>expressing<\/strong><\/em> Love, <strong><em>expressing<\/em> <\/strong><em>agape<\/em>, IS NOTHING. The apostle tells us:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<em>Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.\u00a0And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.\u00a0And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.\u00a0Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,\u00a0Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;\u00a0Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;\u00a0Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.\u00a0Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away<\/em>&#8221; (1 Corinthians 13:1-8).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We should remember here that this rendering of Charity IS from the same <em>agape<\/em> that IS rendered as Love by other translators and we should try to see this idea of Charity as it IS presented at the top of our essay answering the question\u00a0WHAT THEN IS LOVE?.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We will continue with our thoughts in the next post.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"20%\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Aspect\u00a0<del><\/del>of God<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Potency<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Aspect of Man<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>In Relation to the Great Invocation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>In relation to the Christ<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20%\" height=\"59\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>GOD, The Father<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Will or Power<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Spirit or Life<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Center where the Will of God IS KNOWN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Life<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20%\" height=\"57\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Son, The Christ<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Love and Wisdom<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Soul or Christ Within<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Heart of God<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Truth<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20%\" height=\"56\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Holy Spirit<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Light or Activity<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Life Within<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Mind of God<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Way<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2 class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Note on the Quote of the Day<\/span><\/h2>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This daily blog also has a Quote of the Day which may not be in any way related to the essay. Many of these will be from the Bible and some just prayers or meditations that may have an influence on you and are in line with the subject matter of this blog. As the quote will change daily and will not store with the post, it is repeated in this section with the book reference and comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This Quote of the Day is the antithesis of <strong>glamour<\/strong> and <strong>illusion<\/strong>. In this mantram are the thoughts about ourselves and our brothers in the world that can diffuse these forces that hold a man in the world of things and prevent his spiritual progress.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"western\" align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mantram of Unification<\/span><\/h1>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The sons of men are one and I am one with them.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <strong>I seek to love, not hate;<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <strong>I seek to serve and not exact due service;<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <strong>I seek to heal, not hurt.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Let pain bring due reward of light and love.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <strong>Let the Soul control the outer form, and life and all events,<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <strong>And bring to light the love that underlies the happenings of the time.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Let vision come and insight.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <strong>Let the future stand revealed.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <strong>Let inner union demonstrate and outer cleavages be gone.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <strong>Let love prevail.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <strong>Let all men love.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Mantram of Unification is a meditation and a prayer that at first affirms the unity of all men and the Brotherhood of Man based on the Fatherhood of God. The first stanza sets forth several truly Christian ideals in Unity, Love, Service and Healing. The second stanza is a invocation to the Lord and to our own Souls asking that from the pain (if there can truly be any) incurred in focusing on the Spirit and not the world will come Light and Love into our lives and that we begin to function as Souls through our conscious personalities. We ask that the spiritual control of our lives will bring to light for us the Love that underlies world events; a Love that the world\u00a0oriented man will not see working out behind the scenes and also that the Love that we bring forth, individually and as a world group, can be seen by all and ultimately in all. Finally, in the last stanza we ask for those things that are needed for Love to abound. Vision and insight so that we can direct our attention properly; revelation of the future in the sense that all can see the Power of Love in the world; inner union so that we do not fall back into the world\u2019s ways, that we faint not; and that a sense of separation, the antithesis of brotherhood, ends as we know it today. Let Love Prevail, Let All Men Love.spiritual control of our lives will bring to light for us the Love that underlies world events; a Love that the world oriented man will not see working out behind the scenes.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Let the peace of God rule in your hearts<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ON LOVE; PART\u00a0CMLX \u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391 GoodWill\u00a0IS Love in Action \u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391 FIRST IS THE GREAT COMMANDMENTS: &#8220;The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/10\/in-the-words-of-jesus-part-1321\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,45,48,25,39,81,44,41,49,20,38,43,30,24,13,14],"tags":[88,82,95,57,87,22,99,23,94,92,97,9,10,17,83,54,8,6,91,21,31,32,12,52,47,34,33,18,84,93,55,89,26,85,7,15,16,50,98,11],"class_list":["post-11739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abundance-of-the-heart","category-born-again","category-bread-of-life","category-children-of-god","category-christianity","category-disciple-of-christ","category-eternal-life","category-faith","category-forgiveness","category-light","category-living-in-the-light","category-reincarnation","category-righteousness","category-son-of-god","category-the-kingdom","category-jesus-words-2","tag-abundance-of-the-heart","tag-aspirant-to-discipleship","tag-born-again","tag-buddha","tag-children-of-god","tag-christ","tag-disciple-of-christ","tag-enlightenment","tag-eternal-life","tag-faith","tag-forgiveness","tag-goodwill","tag-christian-love","tag-gospel","tag-gospel-of-thomas","tag-holy-spirit","tag-jesus-words","tag-jesus","tag-light","tag-light-of-the-world","tag-merciful","tag-mercy","tag-new-age","tag-new-age-developments","tag-new-birth","tag-peace","tag-pure-in-heart","tag-quote-of-day","tag-rebirth","tag-reincarnation","tag-resurrection","tag-righteousness","tag-sons-of-god","tag-spiritual-reality","tag-the-christ","tag-kingdom-of-god","tag-kingdom-of-heaven","tag-truth","tag-united-nations","tag-unity-in-diversity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11739"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11754,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739\/revisions\/11754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}