Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1897.] Gon I~"> Lon:. 489
feot weapon of offense. Truly, as we learn to give our life in
love, we will realize that we are growing i11to the divine image:
and we will find peace, and joy in obeying tht~ oomrnand which
our elder Brother repeated for the third time, saying, " These
th.iuga I oommud yon, that ye love oue anQther. "
It is written, " Beloved, let; us love one another : for Jove is
of God ; and every ou.e that loveth ie born of God ; " and of
him tliat is boru of God, Job~ wrote, "And we have s~n and
do teRtify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the
world." Thus it is by means of the divine life, lloH love flowing
through the Son to the world, that the world shall be u.ved from
darkness, disl'Ue, anq death.
There is, however, a love wbic~ is the antitheeis of thi11.
divine love: perhaps we should not call it luve, but selfishness,
or animal desire. h ~keth her OWQ, is easily provoked, and
thinketh evil. It is the love that is manife~ted between the
~ext>s. Frequently a ptan is insistent in his intmsinn upon
woman, trying to induce her to fooalize her l11Vt:l upon hirnsf'lf,
or, in other words, to appropriate to himself the life that iff
radiating from her. It is her love, which thus