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with never a .law or a rule to bind them, and yet
always a perfectly harmonious, loving regard for
each other, shown by everyone associated in the
meetings; showing that without by-laws there has
been obedience to the law of harmony. She said,
" Moses administered the negative laws, as he knew,
according to his unfoldment. Human nature will
break a law to find out why it is made. Jesus taught,
'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' When the Law of
Love is practised there is no need of ' thou sbalt
nots.' He said he came not to make new laws, but
to fulfill the Law. To love divinely is to know and
feel oneness with Universal Power and Substance,
and to realize the eternal unity of souls with each
other, and with the One Source."
Mr. Evelyn Arthur See: There is one authority
to which we not only need must submit, but desire
to, and that is the Truth. The dividing line
between the old way and the new is, that in the
former souls lean upon authority; while the new,
because true way, is to stand and live above law,
because in entire conformity with it. Laws are not
always what they are supposed to be upon the surface,
but it is a way Truth has of forcing obedience. There
is a difference between direct and indirect authority.
When we speak of being obedient to the law, there
is a suggestion at once of a law-giver. Blackstone's
definition of law, "A line of action laid down by one
in authority," makes the ignoble confession of being
subject to some authority capable of subscribing a
law over us. We cannot be conscious of becoming
at-one with law, so long as we see ourselves as
creatures. Obedience is conformity to the true law
of what man is. It does not limit us, but it compels
us to find out what we are; so the compulsion we
find in broken civic laws, is only forcing us to find
ourselves, not as creatures living in process, but as
masters of ourselves. We can force the threshold of
consciousness back out of this creature, back into the
region of the absolute, practical reality, where man is
at-one with the All-Good.
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