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Gracious ones, God himself is born out of Love and his nature exudes this quality throughout space and beyond time. The law of the eternal cycles' ever flowing grace manifests by the power of Love, and it is this power which has framed the world.
An age of reason bereft of love is not reason. The tenderness of the reality of God is more genuine than the deepest friendships which the world could ever create or which is ever possible unto men and unto women. Yet, as in the case of Damon and Phintias,1 great love and friendship have existed upon earth, but it is our knowledge, and we convey it unto you, that each noble example of love does exist because mankind have tapped the love of Infinity.
That which seems to be so concrete unto mankind is abstracted in higher realms. Like wispy smoke, rising from far distant hills, it conveys but does not interpret. The Father's love is not so; it is ever present and nigh. At the very door of man's heart does the hand of God knock, but the opening thereof is reserved for mankind as he abides within the house of individuality.
As we observe the weaving of strands of human tenderness, we long to see the development by mankind of the realization of divine tenderness, for there is great lack on earth of benign faith, of absolute faith in the integrity of God and the universe. Many, unfortunately, believe simply because they are driven to accept the idea of a greater reality outside themselves. And this is similar to the thoughts of Thomas who would not believe unless he were to see for himself. To him the Master said, "Be not faithless, but believing." This admonishment goeth out today into the world and is the means whereby mankind might salvage out of the shipwreck of personal self-seeking the strands of holy reality which, when more fully evaluated, will be treasured above all things in the world of form as beyond price.
The plaudits of action beckon men onward to move their lives by the impulse of love. Love is not empty of reality. Love is not empty of friendship. Love is not empty of God, for God is there, and the breathing reality which he brings to all who sincerely seek him will pull mankind through the darkest night to where the dawn is reverenced with the same delight as the first dawn ever created by God when he spoke the eternal fiat, "Let there be light: and there was light."
How unfortunate it is for those who enter into the consciousness of mortality that extinguishes for them the unfailing light. As has been noted, "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God". Simply because they have not experienced the inflow of divine love and of God, simply because they have covered themselves over with a facade of intelligence, so-called, and because they have nailed up the windows of their beings, through which the immortal light of eternal knowing would shine from within the dark recesses of themselves, they grope and stumble, they fall and tumble.
Even in their darkness, men seek unknowingly for the light, all the while denying that which they seek and its reality. To all who understand even a little of divine love I say, let us gather more of this priceless quality, this immortal blessing - this reality which is the divine sense of knowing that there is flowing into reality, through the tides of life, the precious sense of the Father's love and that this reality is greater than all that which entertains or muddies or muddles the mind of man.
How can men attempt to grasp infinity with the finite sense? How can they grasp the great span of immortal Love by human reason? Yet, how can men dare to imagine that divine love is lacking in intelligent comprehension? Did not Love fashion all things that are? And is not Love the track of eternity upon which the train of life must ride? Love is also the sacred keeper of individuality, for God has sought to preserve the beloved son from the pains of death and to bring resurrection to all, that never again shall they experience darkness but bask in the immortal light of the Eternal Presence.
When life is understood correctly, when truth is apprehended at last by each one and that which is out of focus is brought into focus, men behold the sole reality of life as love and as God. It is the strands of hope that knit together heart to heart and keep the sense of security active for all.
Truly, "he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep," and the hand of God's love is ever active, known or unknown, in all human affairs to lead men from darkness unto light. Let none despise the simplicity of the action of God as pure love, for in this simplicity is the key that opens the door to the greatest reality in all the cosmos by which all things are made truly real to each one.
I remain your elder brother in the light of the infinite Christ,