{"id":11898,"date":"2016-02-11T18:17:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T01:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/?p=11898"},"modified":"2016-02-11T18:17:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T01:17:58","slug":"in-the-words-of-jesus-part-1335","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/11\/in-the-words-of-jesus-part-1335\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE WORDS OF JESUS\u2013Part 1335"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ON LOVE; PART\u00a0CMLXXIV<\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\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<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the last essay we centered our thoughts on the idea of <em>factions<\/em> and we should try to see how that it IS the <em>factious<\/em> thoughts and attitudes of men in this world that ARE\u00a0at the center of the second group of words that the apostle gives us as\u00a0&#8220;<em>the works of the flesh<\/em>&#8220;. It IS in <em>factions<\/em> which results in\u00a0the\u00a0<em>divisions<\/em> of men over innumerable lines of thought and attitude as well as the more concrete sense of <em>division<\/em> that IS found in race, in color and in the tenor of Life which becomes custom. These latter ideas ARE the more physical and, as we discussed in the last post, these ARE intentional and ARE the result of the Great and Awesome Plan of God which we can but glimpse as we Truly <em>strive<\/em> toward <strong><em>realization<\/em><\/strong> of the Presence of God in Life. The former however, those that ARE of the fabric of men&#8217;s thoughts and attitudes, compound the intentional and add fuel. It IS these compounded ideas that\u00a0cause those things\u00a0listed by the apostle in the Greek words that ARE rendered in that variety of ways as\u00a0we discussed two posts back .<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That this added fuel IS the <em>hatred<\/em> and the <em>emulation<\/em> and the <em>wrath<\/em> felt towards those who ARE of a different <em>faction<\/em>\u00a0IS beyond the ken of the man whose <em>focus<\/em> IS in his own Life in this world; this man DOES NOT see past the <strong>glamour<\/strong> that he holds in regard to his own sense of the\u00a0<em>divisions<\/em> of men. It IS in the <strong>illusory<\/strong> tone that IS established by men, a tone that shows themselves to be the carnal man of <em>flesh<\/em> with his mind and his emotions rather that the True view that shows men as the spiritual man, as a Soul in form, that allows for their <em>factious<\/em> behavior. And it IS the force of <strong>glamour<\/strong> that holds men fast in their own belief that their own division IS the right one and IS the best. These ARE <em>vanity<\/em>, these ARE the thoughts and the attitudes from which a man must be <em>freed<\/em> or, better, from which a man must <em>free<\/em> himself. Here again we come upon that\u00a0<em>freedom<\/em> in the words of Jesus that we call our <strong><em>trifecta<\/em><\/strong> and which IS rendered for us as <em><strong>deliverance<\/strong><\/em> in the Apostle Paul&#8217;s words that show us the plight of the man in this world saying that &#8220;<em>the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in<\/em><strong> expectation that<\/strong><em> the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God\u201d\u00a0<\/em>(Romans 8:20-21).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We should understand that as\u00a0it IS True\u00a0that the Plan of God has erected the more physical divisions of men in race and color and the necessity of custom according to one&#8217;s region of Life, so it IS the Plan of God that has set the <strong>illusion<\/strong> and the <strong>glamour<\/strong>, the <em>vanity,<\/em> in place as a part of the very experience of Life in this world. And while we can but glimpse His reasoning as we look away from doctrines and nurturing and experience and <em>seek<\/em> for the Truth, we should be able to discern that the Truth IS NOT found in\u00a0the folly of men&#8217;s fables regarding the &#8216;fall of man&#8217;. There IS a KEY\u00a0to these mysteries of Life that IS found in our <strong><em>trifecta<\/em><\/strong> and the simplicity of this IS that we <em>keep His words<\/em>\u00a0which Paul shows us IS accomplished in Love, in <em>agape<\/em>; we read the Master&#8217;s words on the <strong><em>trifecta<\/em><\/strong> again saying:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><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 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><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 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><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;\">That <em>keeping His words<\/em> IS seen as beyond the ability of men, IS ONLY because of men&#8217;s reliance upon the <strong>illusion<\/strong>; an <strong>illusion<\/strong> that founded in and fostered through their nurturing and experience and their indoctrination into the many forms of &#8216;religion&#8217; that Life offers. We should understand here that this idea of &#8216;religion&#8217; covers most ALL aspects of one&#8217;s Life. This idea of &#8216;religion&#8217;\u00a0IS what one comes to believe as the Truth in spiritual matters, in politics, in career, in family&#8230;.in the whole host of human endeavor. We should try to see here how that it IS in <em>striving<\/em>\u00a0toward the Truth that one can overcome the nurturing, the experience and ALL indoctrination; it IS in <em>striving<\/em> that one can begin to see the True Light and the <em>expectation<\/em>\u00a0of being &#8220;<em> delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God<\/em>&#8220;. In this sense we should see the very idea of <em>corruption<\/em>, the <em>corruption<\/em> of the True Life of the Soul, through\u00a0the nurturing that one receives according to the ways of the world and one&#8217;s indoctrination into the many forms of &#8216;religion&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We should be able to see in these ideas the point that the Prophet Isaiah makes as he asks\u00a0&#8220;<em>Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?<\/em>&#8221; (Isaiah 53:1). We discussed these words and how that these ARE repeated by Paul and the Apostle John and we use them here again to complete our point: that the report IS the Truth that IS hidden by the doctrines of men; the Truth which\u00a0IS lost in the <em>corruption<\/em> from which men must be <em>freed<\/em>. Both the prophet and John continue the thought and we should try to see that the &#8220;<em>the arm of the Lord<\/em>&#8221; IS <em>revealed<\/em> to the man who\u00a0has &#8220;<em>believed our report<\/em>&#8220;&#8230;.the man who has had some <em><strong>realization<\/strong><\/em> of the Truth\u00a0which comes to the man who will &#8220;<em>continue in my word<\/em>&#8221; and, by measure, to the man who <em>strives<\/em> toward that goal. This IS the simplicity of the gospel message and there IS naught that can be found in the entire New Testament that will declare otherwise save for out of context ideas and words. And to this we must add the ideas that we have been discussing, ideas which ARE the erroneous translations of Greek words and the common understanding of the words which ARE rendered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As we have been discussing, there IS great depth in the words that the Apostle Paul uses in our selection from his Epistle to the Galatians and in the first segment of his list of &#8220;<em>the works of the flesh<\/em>&#8221; Paul&#8217;s\u00a0words ARE rendered and understood most always with a sexual view. These convenient translations ARE the creations of men and the common understanding of them IS the doctrines of men.\u00a0And while the sexual ways of everyman IS NOT according to the Way to Truth and the Presence of God, it IS the infidelity of everyman toward the Godhead that IS the deeper Truth of the apostle&#8217;s message. These things we have discussed in great detail and this view can be easily seen in the proper translation of the words themselves and one&#8217;s view of them apart from doctrine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Similarly the ideas of the second segment, which we should see as those things that ARE contrary to the second part of the Great Commandments, ARE NOT translated nor understood in the context that\u00a0the apostle intended. Doctrines see these ideas as singular offences without ever noting how that these ARE rather normal human behaviors that singularly, according to the apostle, will keep men from &#8220;<em>the kingdom of God<\/em>&#8220;. And doctrines DO NOT see nor understand how that the idea of <em>factions<\/em>, the idea of the <em>divisions<\/em> of men over most every conceivable difference, ARE the apostle&#8217;s point. Paul&#8217;s ideas can be summarized as that &#8220;<em>if ye be led of the Spirit<\/em>&#8221; that one would NOT DO\u00a0&#8220;<em>the works of the flesh<\/em>&#8220;. Repeating the apostle&#8217;s words\u00a0again we read:<\/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 \u00a05:17-24).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As we have been discussing, it IS factions and the divisions which these ARE that ARE the cause and the result of the <em>hatreds<\/em> and the <em>wrath<\/em> that abounds in the world yet today. It IS this sense of difference that causes men to suffer from <em>emulations<\/em> and <em>envyings<\/em> as their sense of worth in this world IS found in their carnal Life rather than in the spiritual. Here we should look deeper into the words on Love, on <em>agape<\/em>, that the Apostle James gives us saying &#8220;<em>if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin<\/em>&#8221; (James 2:9). When we can see and understand James&#8217; words as that these refer to ALL carnal differences among men, we can than perhaps understand the relationship to Paul&#8217;s words on <em>factions<\/em> and on the <em>divisions<\/em> of men. James&#8217; words ARE NOT ONLY in regard to the rich and the poor but ARE in regard to every difference set up in one&#8217;s mind and emotions and we should try to see here how that these ideas cut both ways&#8230;.everyman IS both the perpetrator and the victim.\u00a0Jesus makes this same point of &#8220;<em>respect to persons<\/em>&#8221; in\u00a0the first part of\u00a0His parable that IS called the Parable of the Wedding Feast. Here the Master shows us the opposite side of the coin; we read:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<em>When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;\u00a0And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.\u00a0But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.\u00a0For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted<\/em>&#8221; (Luke 14:8-11).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Master is here showing us a Truth that may be difficult to see in terms of &#8220;<em>respect to persons<\/em>&#8221; and the simple idea IS that one should NOT <em>respect<\/em> oneself; NOT respect in the way that one may regard himself, but respect in the way that one makes himself better than others, that one may see himself above others in any way. This idea IS best seen in the view through which God sees man as we discuss above&#8230;.as the spiritual being, as the Soul. And this idea of how one may view himself IS an important part of Jesus&#8217; teaching to His apostles as He tells them more than once such things as &#8220;<em>but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;\u00a0And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:\u00a0Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister<\/em>&#8221; (Matthew 20:26-28). Can we see the point here? Can we see how that ALL men, oneself included, must be seen the same in this world despite the apparent differences. And can we see how that\u00a0the\u00a0<em>factions<\/em> and the <em>divisions<\/em> along any lines IS what Paul IS speaking against.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">These ideas ARE NOT difficult to see nor to hard to understand for the man who can look past his nurturing and his indoctrination into the many forms of religion that fill his Life. They ARE however very cumbersome for the man whose Life IS centered in the <em>corruption<\/em>, in the <strong>illusion<\/strong> and <strong>glamour<\/strong>, of Life here in this world. We should try to understand here again that the apostle IS speaking to men who ARE <em>free<\/em> from the common understanding of the ideas that doctrines see in the &#8220;<em>the works of the flesh<\/em>&#8220;. We should try to see that these men to whom Paul writes ARE &#8220;<em>led of the Spirit<\/em>&#8221; and that this IS True according to the <em><strong>trifecta <\/strong><\/em>which IS that they DO <em>keep His words<\/em> or <em>strive<\/em> toward that goal.\u00a0\u00a0It IS this idea that we should take from the apostle&#8217;s closing of our selection above. In his words saying &#8220;<em>they that are Christ&#8217;s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts<\/em>&#8221; we should look past the common understanding of doctrines that paint this idea in the same carnal way, that the\u00a0&#8220;<em>affections and lusts<\/em>&#8221; are sexual. We should see here\u00a0the deeper idea of <em>affliction<\/em> and <em>suffering<\/em> in place of <em>affection<\/em> and strong desire in place of <em>lust<\/em> as this is commonly understood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We will continue with our thoughts in the next post.<\/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 \u00a0God<\/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 n<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">o 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ON LOVE; PART\u00a0CMLXXIV \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\/2016\/02\/11\/in-the-words-of-jesus-part-1335\/\">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-11898","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\/11898","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=11898"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11914,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11898\/revisions\/11914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}