Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-18
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70. love Is a divine virtue. Every bit OF
lover power we have evolved is something
10 cherish and increase. For this reason no
matter through what agony, through what
anguish OF spirit, what misery of heart, our
earthly loves may temporarily watt us, they
are inestimably precious.
They are increasing our capacity for low
ing they are teaching us sorely needed les
Sous in loving. They are guiding US into
The ways of celestial love, the supreme and
only end Of our loves of earth And the
more our earthly loves tax our forgiying
affection, tax our generosity of affection,
tax our constancy of affection. our clarity
and hHeness Of affection the more they are
10 be held Ia thankfulness and Joy.
Fog through this exercise of the incipient
love powers. our love nature clarifies. puri-
lies, strengthens, sweetens, ennobles. Only
by our purer and our larger loving can our
love increase, can our love body wax Wig
orous and beautiful Our emotions In their
ensemble form q body real as our physi-
cal body In its ideal this body Is a body of
love. For every ideal emotion is some form
OF love. Every emotion we entertain can
express some aspect of love; and IN its ex-
preston of love 1t builds something into the
structure of the body of love.
AIlu Wneu our emotions are all purlned
and refined and invigorated and spiritual
lied they together constitute a true en-
boGlment of love. Nothing save love is
there.
But the earthly love with all it's impell-
ing powers is only the gray shadow of the
celestial love-the spiritual love, the love
OF the supreme self and the overruiing,
almighty power II generates. How the love
of the supreme self lifts US out OF the heay
mess and s.oth of earth into the pure &C
Jiyities of the spirit! How it bursts the
bonds of the self-Centered mind and heart,
uberatng their pent-up faculties into mag
uiIed Hfei Emotions never dreamed OF
ravishiug the soul. Unimagined splendor
ana vitality transport the consciousness. All
feeling knowing, willing, doing are absorb
Ell III the one being and moving for and
with and In the Beloved One, which is the
supreme self
Whatsoever thou doest, Whatsoever thou
catest whatsoever thou ofReTest. whatso-
ever thou givest. whatsoever thou doest OF
austerIty do thou that as an offering unto
Me- on Me fix thy mind. devoted to Me;
sacrifice TO Ne. harmonlzed in the self thou
shalt come unto Ne, having Me as thy SUI
prene goal" Blessed Is all loving. for 1t
leads rs to this heavenly love.
In Bliss
We feel ourselves one with God. There is
a certain coalescence with the divine. The
barriers separating the soul from God are
burned away. The bonds that manacled US
Bre dissolved. We have penetrated the holy
Of HOLES; we commune with the Lord; we
are at one with Him. We are In unison
with that will which guides the rudder of
The universe. His ways, IN so far as may
be, are our ways His purposes are our
purposes We discern the meaning of
His unspeakable plans.
The upward march of humanity, the evo-
luton of the soul. the guerdon of the fu-
tGTe unfold in an unutterable panorama of
1 ,,,,ft
with God has enabled us to glimpse some
thing Of the divine scheme We hear the
music Of the spheres. We are in tune with
the infinite.
n tune with the infinite, we can only lend
ourselves 20 the heavenly harmonies. at
tune ourselves to more intimate accord with