{"id":7103,"date":"2013-06-18T19:12:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T23:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/?p=7103"},"modified":"2013-06-18T19:22:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T23:22:19","slug":"in-the-words-of-jesus-part-709","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/18\/in-the-words-of-jesus-part-709\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE WORDS OF JESUS\u2013Part 709"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love is the Fulfilling of the Law<\/span><\/h2>\n

ON LOVE; PART\u00a0CCXCVIII<\/span><\/h2>\n
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GoodWill\u00a0IS Love in Action<\/h2>\n

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Of all that the Master told us, He considered this as the Greatest of Commandments. So much of what we are to understand as aspirants or as believers is found in the precept that we must KEEP HIS WORDS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd 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>\u201d (Mark 12:30-31).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We ask ourselves WHAT THEN IS LOVE?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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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.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We add to this THE EVER IMPORTANT AND HIGH IDEAL TAUGHT TO US BY THE CHRIST which can serve to both give us an understanding of what it means to Love oneself and how it is that we can Love our neighbor:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cTherefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them\u201c\u00a0(Matthew 7:12).<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the last post we closed out our look at the words of the Apostle Paul to the Epicureans and the Stoics at Athens and would here just try to emphasize the bottom line message that we get from this speech. Remembering that the apostle IS speaking to what would be considered heathens from the doctrinal Christian perspective, Paul tells them clearly that the God that they worship IS the SAME GOD that he is preaching as the Father of the Christ, the Father God as the Master teaches us, and this for us says simply that there IS but ONE GOD, a fact that we already realize based upon our ability to view this from the perspective of the Soul in form and not the self-centered personality in the world that is beset by the illusion<\/strong> and the glamour<\/strong> of Life in form. We find here in these words part of the impetus that led to our own declaration of the Truth of ONE WORLD, ONE HUMANITY and ONE GOD ALL working together toward that final redemption of which we can only dream. These words ARE a realization<\/strong><\/em> that must be accepted by ALL men as the Truth of our existence here in this world and this IS like any other spiritual pursuit and accomplishment; ALL are realizations<\/em><\/strong> of Truth that serve to center the Life of the personality, his<\/em> focus if you will, onto the important parts of Life in the world, the most important of which are listed above in the Great Commandment and the Golden Rule. Paul’s speech here to these Greeks should serve to show how he reconciled his own understanding of God with that of these men of Athens and the lesson to the world should have been that we reconcile our views of God with those of others as well rather that let the roles of illusion<\/strong> and glamour<\/strong> intercede and cause this separative attitude of religions and Gods that still persists today. Our lesson in ALL this IS that there IS AND CAN BE ONLY ONE GOD if our understanding of God is True, that He IS that\u00a0One Boundless, Immutable, Eternal and Infinite Presence in whom<\/strong>, as Paul tells us, \u201cwe live, and move, and have our being<\/em><\/strong>\u201d (Acts 17:28). And while it is common to attach personality to God as this Awesome Presence, there is in reality none that we can even remotely comprehend and we should try to see His personality as the accumulated and individual personalities of those who have been able to realize<\/strong><\/em> His Truth….and chief among these from our perspective IS the Christ.<\/span><\/p>\n

The personality of Christ IS in essence the personality that was displayed by Jesus over 2000 years ago and we should try to realize here that our understanding of the Christ IS at best deficient. The physical body and the personality of Jesus was born into this world as ALL bodies and personalities are born into this world but with one great difference which IS that the Soul that gives Life to the body of Jesus IS a Soul who had already accomplished the Highest Calling of a Soul in incarnation. He did this in a previous Life and was thereby suited to come into His Life as Jesus in the reality of Paul’s words that “in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily<\/strong><\/em>” (Colossians 2:9), while this same achievement, expressing<\/strong><\/em> the fullness of the Godhead in this world, IS for us an objective and a goal. And, in His Virgin Birth we have the sign and the symbol that it IS the Soul Life that IS True man and that this Life is active, sans the body, in eternity albeit in ways that we can hardly comprehend. And this IS our Truth, that the more that a man in the world can focus<\/em> upon the Soul, the Christ Within, which IS the True self, the closer he will come to the expression<\/strong><\/em> of the Love and the Power of the Soul up to that perfection<\/strong><\/em> that we see in Jesus as\u00a0“in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily<\/strong><\/em>“. It IS the Master who tells us clearly that:<\/span><\/p>\n