Article January 19, 1952 Issue

MANIFESTING THE LOVE THAT IS GOD

IOLANI INGALLS

The Love that is God is the absolute consciousness of good alone. Our sense of love is as large as our understanding of the truth of the allness and goodness of God and of His creation, wherein all is lovable and loving.

That person does not necessarily express the most love who runs around picking up things that other people have dropped or doing little things for others which give them either a sense of helplessness or a sense of being overindulged. That individual expresses the most love who is most conscious of the goodness, the irreproachable goodness, of man united with God, who sees qualities of God reflected in the lives of his associates, who refuses to accept as fact unpleasant traits in others, not because he ignores or overlooks them, but because he consciously denies their identification with man.

The child of God is the only man this individual recognizes, and he glimpses this man wherever he looks. Suppose he meets anger in another, or stupidity, or negligence. He refuses to give anger, stupidity, or negligence place in his consciousness as marks of identification for anyone. He does not love another's anger. He does not love another's stupidity or negligence. He is not expected to love error, or evil, in any form. The bigness of his love is expressed in his God-endowed ability to refuse to identify man with evil traits. Rather does he identify man with such qualities as poise, intelligence, and respect for all that is good. He who is angry, stupid, or negligent is not God's man. The spiritualized consciousness, which denies reality to such traits, expresses the true love, the love that dissolves all erroneous concepts and frees humanity from the consequences of false beliefs. That individual expresses the most love who beholds creation as God, Love, beholds it.

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