Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-20
Love and Hate

Love and Hate
One of our constant readers asks
me to explain what effect the mental
states of love and hate, respectively,
have on the system; also, whether or
not one can cultivate a mental state
OF love exclusively.
These are hard mental nuts to crack,
but shall try my hardest to crack
them: rather, make an attempt to do
so. because the same questions sug-
gested themselves to me after dis
cussion with an educated individual
about matters of more or less impor-
tance.
While the discussion was going on
I used word that Is too often abused,
and whenever 1 would mention 1t my
opponent said "I hate that word.
have been thinking ever since that
incident whether my opponent really
hates the word I used or hates me for
using 1t.
II have learned anything at all
since I attained the age of discretion,
there Is one thing / give myself credit
of knowing very WELL namely, that
whenever people do not agree with
you, they will either abuse or hate
you. And the abnormal, mental state
of hate that the majority of mortals
seem to cultivate more than anything
else Is responsible for the well-nlgh
invisible place called "heaven on
earth"
TO be sure, conditions are different
today from what they used to be, say,
n thousand years ago; in other words,
people are not as intolerant, bigoted,
oppressive, or prosecuting now as they
were in times past; but, broadly speak
ing, the long wished and prayed-for
heaven on earth does not exist. That
II will exist in time, and every mortal
will feel it's benign influence, no one
need doubt. For with every degree or
intellectual developmnt exhibited by
man there Is a corresponding degree or
heaven on earth.
In times past for the sake of mere
opinion entertained by finite and, In
q sense, crude being, he or she was
either burned at the stake or made to
do penance or submit to some other
form Of unnatural punishment; but
conditions are different today. An in
dividual may now entertain any kind
of opinion, and so long as he or she
does not try to impose 1t on somebody
else, II goes we'll with him or her.
There is only one notable exception.
The exception 1 have reference to is
that doctors of medicine can still i'm
pose their opinions, not on intelligent
people, but on people less favored in
tellectualy. Even medical bigots,
however, will in time be relegated to
the past, for truth travels fast in mod
ern times.
People who conceive an infinite power
thot rules the universe know, nay,
feel, that that power is love. Love
nnd the infinite, or the infinite and
love are synonymous terms. To put
IL in other words, love is the essence
of the infinite-the power that rules
the universe. That being the case q
hope no one can deny iD, what of
hate, the counterpart Of love? Hate
Is mental condition cultivated by
flnite-I say finite, remember-beings
by means of suggestions from without
or within. 1t follows, therefore, that
hate is, as it were, earthly, while love
is heavenly.
1t is the easiest thing in the world
to conceive why people should love-
but it Is not so easy to comprehend
why they should hate. For, from
whatever standpoint we consider finite
beings. they are part and parcel of
the universe, and therefore related to
one another by chains that no human
genius can sever. In other words,
whether we consider the animal king
dom (and this includes MANI from the
standpoint of the philosopher or the
religiously inclined, or even the scien-
tist, each and every breathing animal
derives it's existence from the same
source-the infinite.
When the child inhales the first
breath of life no degree of hate is
commingled with it. 1t inhales-it ex-
pands it's lungs with air, the source
of which is the same that gave it life,
namely, the infinite. And all the time
that the child is not susceptible to sug-
gestion it inhales the same air from
the same loving source. But life i'm
plies growth, and here the trouble be-
gins.
The child while young belongs to its
parents, and parents, unfortunately,
have their likes and dislikes, their be-
liefs and unbeliefs, their prejudices and