The Two Great Commandments

The two great commandments are to love God and our brother man.

On these hang all the law and the prophets. Love is a complete unity with life and we cannot enter this state unless we are in unity with all that lives, for all life is One. To love God alone is not enough for this would exclude our fellow-man. To love our fellow-man alone is not sufficient, for this would be too limited a concept of God.

When we realize that God and man are One and not two, we shall love both. We shall love man, as an expression of God, and God, as the Life Principle in all.

From this teaching we are not to suppose that we are to love that in each other which does not savor of right. We are to love the right alone. We are to look for God in each other and love this God, forgetting all else. But would this compel us to accept from people that which is not good? Of course not! It is not necessary for one to make a door mat of himself in proving that God is love, for this would be like suffering for righteousness' sake, which is always a mistake.

We should be wise in the ways of the world as well as imbued with Divine wisdom. We are not to mistake a counterfeit for the real, nor accept every man's doctrine lest we disagree. The Truth is positive but non-combative; it is sure of itself but never argumentative. It deserts dishonesty and receives honesty; loves sincerity and abhors deceit. Above all else, the Truth is wise. It represents the all-seeing eye from which nothing can be hidden.

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The student of Truth will receive all that comes in the name of the Lord, that is, all that is of the Truth; all else will fall by its own weight.

Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. . . . Then said Jesus unto him,

Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take up the sword shall perish with the sword.

~MATTHEW -- Twenty-six.