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Chapter 6: (row 3) The Scientific Development of Love.How does one develop love? Or, how does one develop justice? It is plain that murders or violence cannot be stopped by banning the ownership of guns. The murdering of human beings will not be ended until mankind's fascination with violence, killing, and the manipulation of one another for whatever advantage, is replaced by a deeply scientific understanding of the substance of Truth and Love. But how is this substance to be developed? When truth and love come to light in the universal acknowledgment of the divine reality in which we coexist with God, love may unfold. Love, therefore, is the divine manifest manifest on the human scene. According to Bible language "justice and mercy" go hand and hand as though they are one, and both point to love. They are also recognized as divine qualities. True civil justice requires that truth and love become both cherished in an integrated sense, as mankind's most valuable asset. Thus, the development of love is not an emotional process, but is fundamentally a scientific process. That love is a corner stone of the foundation for metaphysical healing is also indicated by the results of a rather recent study conduced by several medical practitioners. These doctors have conducted a number of comparative tests which provide clear evidence that 'prayer' does indeed heal. The most interesting part about their report is, that they found that any type of prayer that was centered on love, affection, support, a recognition of inherent integrity and value, had remedial effects. While the studies do not report the type of instantaneous healing that were common in Christ Jesus' days or Mary Baker Eddy's time, they did point to an underlying connection between healing and the prayerful focus of consciousness on some aspects of truth in an environment of love. The fact is, whenever hatred or injustices are condoned, no matter what their type may be, as in the case of political persecution or the manipulation of nations, a vital pillar of the foundation of the identity of man and nations has been obliterated and social chaos and destruction results. Truth and Love are sacred elements of man's identity and need to be protected. Without this protection, manipulations do easily occur. The development of the human potential unfolding out of love for God and man, as manifest in practical universal economic redevelopment of the world, is a scientific necessity for human existence. It is the only foundation on which life can be secured. Life cannot be secured on any other foundation, such as global oligarchism (or Global Governance, as it is called). There exists no substitute for truth and love that one might choose as an alternate platform for peace and security. Therefore, love is something quite specific. Divine Science defines God, or absolute reality, as Truth, and as Love. We cannot change the substance of what is real, but explore it, discover its underlying principle, and built on what we understand of it. Human history has shown that whenever war was chosen - the opposite of Truth and Love - as a platform to advance a nation, nothing is ever won while all becomes lost in the ensuing catastrophe of destruction and murder. No nation or empire, no matter how glorious, has ever achieved any facet of permanent good, by war or human devolution, but has set in motion its own self-destruction. By reversal, it can be said that love is a quality that heals. But how do you develop something that heals? By the opposite of that which develops war. War is developed through consciousness manipulation. The opposite to war, which is love, is evidently developed by allowing consciousness to unite with its fundamental principle of divine Mind. If love, therefore, is destroyed by human will, it can be developed by the removal of human will, by the burial of false mortal concepts that would separate man from his infinite base in God. Love is developed through the recognition of Mind reflected in mind. If this concept is raised to the third dimension, the define gate is called "The polar magnet of Revelation." We are working from a level where good is "omniscience," but this Science is not man's own. The human intellect is not man-created, it has a higher basis which is anchored in infinite mind. Should this infinite value not inspire love? || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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