What is universal love,
reflecting divine Love?
Did you ever ask yourself what specifically
defines universal love in the social, political, and economic context, not
to mention the social and sexual context?
In researching this question ,
I found it expedient
to write a novel about the extraordinary challenge that the principle of
universal love, reflecting the model of divine Love, poses in the human
realm. This project began a long time ago, and became a series of five
novels before it was completed. This larger scope unfolded as a necessity,
because our emotions and conventions, including our perceptions about
love, are generally far removed from the divine standard.
No, I am not
going to suggest that you read this five volume work (The
Lodging for the Rose), although you may wish to do so. I believe
it is sufficient for the scope of this article to attach a sample chapter
that focuses on the political and economic dimension in the context of
universal love, especially the dimension of the funding of one another's
contribution to civilization, with which our riches as a society, or our
poverty begin.
The attached
sample is a single chapter of the fourth novel of the series. The chapter
draws into contrasts of what could be our world, with what it might be.
Both of the described dimensions that are explored together in this
chapter are totally real, though they appear like science fiction at first
glance, and we do indeed stand at the crossroads between the two
dimensions. The direction in which we go will be determined by only one
single factor as far as I can tell, and this possibly in the near future.
This factor is the principle of universal love. Without it, humanity has
no future and little chance to maintain its civilization, and indeed its
existence. In other words, the principle of universal love is of vital
importance to all human beings in our modern age.
But what is
universal love? Mary Baker Eddy didn’t define this concept for us in the
Glossary. She didn’t say: Love is…. And how could she have defined it
in absolute terms, when it is a human concept that is always changing the
nearer we approximate the divine model. The social challenge, let alone
the sexual dimension of it, is far too challenging to explore in the scope
of a single article. I even once thought it could be dealt with in the
space of a single novel. Fortunately, the political and economic dimension
of civilization, that is squarely rooted in the principle of universal
love, is much simpler than that, and appears to be useful to provide a
glimpse into the vast dimension of universal (divine) love unfolding in
our humanity.
As you read the attached
chapter, please pay some special attention to the visual image of
universal love that is brought into this context in the form of a lateral
lattice near the end in the chapter. This image is related to an actual
healing experience, exactly as described.
In real terms, love begins
with a love of ourselves, of our boundless humanity, and since there is
but one humanity, this love necessarily embraces all mankind. This broader
aspect, of course, is not dealt with in this chapter. It is understood at
this point. Still, one needs to understand that anything less is
hypocrisy. I believe the funding problem that society is facing today in
almost every aspect of its self-development is rooted in that, and may be
resolved in the context of dealing with the concept of the lateral lattice
as described in that chapter.
Most of mankind's request
for development funding have received no response, or at best sorrowful
rejection. This kind of response echoes what has been my experience in
many ways. An incident comes to mind from a long time back, while living
in Germany, I had a special project planned, at one point, designed for
the enrichment of the public community. No, this was not a project focused
on the expose’ of Christian Science, specifically. It was merely a
reflection of love. In order to advance the project, I had asked one of
the practitioners of that city, who was considered a person of
considerable means, for a modest funding assistance. As it turned out,
generosity wasn’t a part of his game. Indeed, it appears not to be a
part of anyone’s game, to the contrary. Naturally, this is the reason
why a large part of present the world-financial and economic system is
disintegrating. It has been widely acknowledged that we are in the very
end phase of a collapse process that was official started 35 years ago.
From this time on, money and love were increasingly separated from each
other, as if they were contradictions of each other. Our modern society
now suffers acutely from this disease.
Of course, this isn't
anything new. In the 1500’s certain philosophers obliged their king, by
creating a new type of philosophies that proclaim that love has no place
in state and business relationships. People who opposed this philosophy
were persecuted, in those days, even executed. One of the most prominent
philosophers of that time, Thomas Hobbes, is still revered today, and
those who oppose his kind of philosophy, even today, are still persecuted,
incarcerated, and even executed by assassination. In other words, nothing
much has changed on this scene for half a millennium. It has been said
that the principle of universal love poses too great a challenge.
This is what we are facing
in our modern world, a deeply ingrained error, and the price we may have
to pay for not dealing with this error, this perversion of truth, is the
destruction of our civilization. I believe that the lateral lattice
concept may be the best platform that we have to address this problem. Our
love must reflect the divine model where all is love, and love reflects
the infinite divine Principle.
As we hold on to this goal,
and embrace the divine reality as a standard to judge ourselves against,
and win our way along this road, we may find that the lateral lattice
actually functions according to the divine design. We will find in it,
that spiritual self-love, our love of the one humanity that we express,
and that we all share, necessarily embraces all mankind in that love of
humanity that reflects the image of God. This brings to light the divine
model.
"And God saw everything
that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." (Gen. 1:31)
Please continue
(sample chapter: Philanthropy or Truth)
E-Mail:
CScsb@shaw.ca
Thank you for visiting -
Rolf Witzsche
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