Topical Index
Art
7.
96.
Beauty
96.
Blasphemy
21.
Brevets & Missions
5.
8.
11.
18.
22.
88.
105.
116.
130.
142.
207.
257.
Celestial Administration
12.
19.
60.
69.
79.
91.
92.
137.
138.
165.
198.
209.
Change
41.
45.
Children
37.
63.
196.
Circumspection
212.
Communion
1.
62.
178.
200.
200.
201.
206.
Comportment
40.
44.
97.
129.
134.
142.
241.
244.
249.
251.
Divine Instruction
23.
25.
35.
78.
95.
97.
122.
140.
194.
Dogma
25.
91.
163.
Etheric Vacuum
66.
Evil & Ignorance
5.
11.
23.
36.
47.
89.
97.
98.
144.
159.
215.
222.
236.
237.
238.
249.
Experience
8.
9.
27.
86.
152.
186.
193.
253.
Faith
78.
210.
211.
Fear
27.
31.
111.
241.
Force : Physical 128, 169. Cosmic 151. Moral 80.
Giving
70.
Growth
148.
Humility
155.
Impatience
226.
Justice
231.
Knowledge & Wisdom
37.
86.
122.
163.
189.
232.
256.
Leadership
81.
133.
215.
Light
25.
30.
109.
Love
43.
46.
50.
57.
58.
147.
148.
217.
218.
Matter
109.
152.
Mediums
75.
76.
Numerology
85.
Omens, Symbols & Miracles
35.
55.
73.
74.
96.
126.
146.
168.
195.
203.
Pact, Plan & Program
14.
17.
78.
142.
178.
180.
215.
233.
257.
Parables: Figs 104, Five Sons 156, Gardener 163, Mustard Seed 156, Ravens 160, Roses 101, Small Mishiefs 175, Two Bounties 182.
Pattern
149.
Patience
9.
22.
84.
Patriotism
15.
Peace
230.
234.
246.
Personal Choice
14.
16.
29.
93.
153.
157.
168.
246.
253.
Prayer
32.
131.
241.
Promise
10.
16.
24.
28.
42.
117.
166.
192.
205.
248.
Prophets & Prophecy
65.
66.
67.
83.
172.
Reincarnation
6.
12.
25.
31.
72.
76.
81.
152.
Rewards, Recompense & Money
39.
40.
82.
87.
143.
144.
201.
247.
250.
Sacrifice
34.
Self Command
93.
147.
Science & Inovation
14.
166.
Second Coming
25.
26.
29.
36.
72.
81.
106.
114.
120.
146.
181.
219.
Service
2.
33.
69.
107.
114.
156.
177.
Space
65.
Spirit
20.
Suffering
13.
176.
Thought
57.
66.
148.
Time
41.
45.
Tolerence
27.
Tranquility
38.
Vibration
67.
Victory
223.
War
18.
47.
230.
Others
3.
4.
48.
49.
50.
51.
52.
53.
54.
56.
59.
61.
64.
68.
71.
77.
90.
92.
94.
99.
100.
102.
103.
108.
110.
112.
113.
115.
118.
119.
121.
123.
124.
125.
127.
132.
135.
136.
139.
141.
145.
150.
154.
158.
161.
162.
164.
167.
170.
171.
172.
173.
174.
179.
183.
184.
185.
187.
188.
190.
191.
197.
198.
202.
204.
208.
209.
213.
214.
216.
220.
221.
224.
225.
227.
228.
229.
235.
239.
240.
242.
243.
245.
252.
254.
255.
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Chapter 217:
The Cosmic Meaning of Love
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1. BEHOLD I instruct you on the matter of Love, for verily it hath
become a confusion unto many that Love hath an essence
which man knoweth not.
2. What think ye that I meant when once I said unto you:
See above all things that ye love one another?
3. Think ye, beloved, I bespoke an affection? think ye,
beloved, I referred to a passion, yea even a lechery for
possession of the body?
4. Nay, my beloved; your wits are your enemies and
surrender false spoils.
5. Different were the ideas that did utter from my mind when
I spake of Love between you. Hear me this hour. I discourse
upon them. . . .
6. Of old it was known unto the fathers that if a man did
deport himself without fairness or righteousness, his conduct
returned unto that man in the rancor of his neighbor.
7. Behold there is in Cosmos a power that seeketh ever to
keep balance;
8. The laws of Cosmos are laws of probity in this, that if there
be not a force opposed by another force of equal content,
neither force knoweth the nature of its essence.
9. I say unto you, even force hath its laws, for what is force
but energy measured in terms of that which it meeteth in the
manner of opposition?
10. Force of itself is an emptiness of quality, it is blind to itself;
behold without opposition ye know not at any time that force
itself is force.
11. Ye do see a phenomenon and say, What meaneth it?
verily ye know not unless there be a measure of adjustment in
your consciousness which measureth its wonders and giveth
them identity.
12. Behold this opposition is a display of force acting against
force, and if it acteth not, how know ye force existeth?
13. Therefore is it to achieve self-identification that the
universe projecteth itself in terms of force.
14. All consequences are subject to the workings of this law,
which I tell you is, in essence, the Law of True Identification
working miracles in substance.
15. Lest ye be confused, I say this unto you: Force is never
known for that which it is, until it be met by that which is
opposing; true, the two forces may not come from similar
causes, they may be different in their essence, but ever
they manifest as separate entities, each unto the other,
meeting and colliding in some pattern that maketh for identity
of each.
16. So too it is with the great strange process known as Love.
17. Force meeteth force in love, and each knoweth itself within
the pattern of that Love, but hear me say it:
18. There are as many kinds of love as there are causes and
types of force.
19. Men speak of force of circumstance, or they mention
the force of evil; they refer to the force of battle, or the
force of economic propriety given or dispensed for good
or ill. . . .
20. What mean they but that the earth projecteth a
circumstance where energies are rampant but unknown of one
another until they collide, or until they are harnessed, bearing
in mind that static harnessing is ever a type of competing or
opposing energy, displaying in the act of binding or diverting
into a vortex of effort?
21. I say that it happeneth in life that men match their efforts,
one against the other; they have individuality.
22. What is this miracle called individuality but their following
out impulses of the life-force in action and after a pattern that is
of their private manufacture?
23. These men are prone to goodness or error; life giveth them
tasks which make them of different temperaments according as
they come into contact with conditions in Matter.
24. They are proud or arrogant, or humble and contrite,
according as each hath found it profitable to exercise these
qualities.
25. Make no error, my beloved: those who are proud have
been through experiences wherein it hath been shown them
that pride containeth profit; those who are humble have found it
goodly to make no boastings of themselves, to do all things
seemly but expediently unseen.
26. Men are the results of that which hath been their
personal experiences on the highroads of eternity along
which they have come; always profit to their spirits lieth at the
bottom of that which they perform; I say it is the core of that
which they are, each upon his turret or underneath his
mountain.
27. Too often hath bigotry taught you, beloved, that a certain
man is proud in that he is evil, or that another man is humble in
that he is righteous;
28. I say it is not so.
29. Men have been proud, verily haughty, yet their spirits
have been golden and all their works beauteous; men have
been humble who were servile and cringing; cowardice hath
schooled them in displaying contrite manners.
30. The essence of experience is to so round out the character
that seemliness in circumstance is the conduct of the nature,
that every worldly contact profiteth the spirit.
31. So the essence of the Love-Motive is ever the essence of
the Self-Profit motive, made accurate in its perceptions of that
which enduringly is of rich and balanced benefit.
32. Mark ye, I say balanced. Yet what mean I by balanced?
33. I mean those states of things, or conditions of affairs,
wherein men do see that it is most to their advantage to conduct
themselves in a manner of poised dignity and suspended
judgment, each one toward others, so that at all times they may
be certain that they are of proper spiritual reaction to that which
actually is, not that which seemeth to be so from deceitful
outward aspect.
34. Poise is listening for the eternal Voice of Truth in regard to
character, situation, or event;
35. It is the gift of peaceful consideration of the universe,
knowing that all which is of error or indiscretion shall one day
come to be disclosed.
36. Poise and Love are well-nigh twins, for each denoteth a
state of Balance.
37. The things of the character, which are ever the sum and
total of experiences with life, are balanced in each form or
phase of power with those oppositions which come from Nature
or the hearts of one's fellows..
38. And yet these two rarely act in concert. They act in
collisions. They come and go in circumstance, making the
neighbor neighborly or unneighborly. But each, by so exhibiting,
maketh manifestation of that which is his essence.
39. Love, therefore, is a field of force in which man exerteth
that which is himself and findeth out which is the stronger,
himself in accumulations of character-building experiences, or
the things of life that force themselves upon his notice---whether
or not he approveth of them in his spirit as creators of pleasure
or pain.
40. Now do I speak further unto you of the essence of these
forces. . . .
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