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Speaker 1: Perfect love. The children of Light who abide in the

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Kingdom of Heaven see the universe in all that it contains,

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as the manifestation of one law, the law of love.

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They see love as the molding, sustaining, protecting, and perfecting

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power imminent in all things animate and inanimate. To them,

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love is not merely and only a rule of life.

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It is the law of life. It is life itself.

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Knowing this, they order their whole life in accordance with love,

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not regarding their own personality. By thus practicing obedience to

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the highest, to divine love, they become conscious partakers of

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the power of love, and so arrive at perfect freedom

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as masters of destiny. The universe is preserved because love

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is at the heart of it. Love is the only

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preservative power. Whilst there is hatred in the heart of man,

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he imagines the law to be cruel. But when his

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heart is mellowed by compassion and love, he perceives that

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the law is infinite kindness. So kind is the law

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that it protects man from his own ignorance. Man, in

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his puny efforts to subvert the law by attaching undue

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importance to his own little personality, brings upon himself such

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trains of suffering that he is at last compelled, in

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the depth of his afflictions to seek for wisdom, and

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finding wisdom, he finds love and knows it as the

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law of his being, the law of the universe. Love

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does not punish Man punishes himself by his own hatred,

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by striving to preserve evil, which has no life by

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which to preserve itself, and by trying to subvert love,

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which can neither be overcome nor destroyed, being the substance

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of life. When a man burns himself, does he accuse

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the fire. Therefore, when a man suffers, let him look

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for some ignorance or disobedience within himself. Love is perfect harmony,

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pure bliss, and contains therefore no element of suffering. Let

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a man think no thought and do no act which

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is not in accordance with pure love, and suffering shall

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no more trouble him. If a man would know love

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and partake of its undying bliss, he must practice it

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in his heart. He must become love. He who always

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acts from the spirit of love, is never deserted, is

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never left in a dilemma or difficulty. For love, impersonal

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love is both knowledge and power. He who has learned

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how to love has learned how to master every difficulty,

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how to transmute every failure into success, to clothe every

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event and condition in the garments of blessedness and beauty.

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The way to love is by self mastery. In traveling

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that way, a man builds himself up in knowledge. As

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he proceeds. Arriving at love, he enters into full possession

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of body and mind by right of the divine power

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which he has earned. Perfect love casteth out fear. To

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know love is to know that there is no harmful

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power in the whole universe. Even sin itself, which the

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worldly and unbelieving imagine is so unconquerable, is known as

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a very weak and perishable thing that shrinks away and

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disappears before the compelling power of good. Perfect love is

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perfect harmlessness, and he who has destroyed in himself all

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thoughts of harm and all desire to harm, receives the

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universal protection and knows himself to be invincible. Perfect love

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is perfect patience. Anger and irritability cannot dwell with it

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nor come near it. It sweetens every bitter occasion with

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the perfume of holiness and transmutes trial into divine strength.

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Complaint is foreign to it. He who loves bewields nothing,

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but accepts all things and conditions as heavenly guests. He

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is therefore constantly blessed, and sorrow does not overtake him.

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Perfect love is perfect trust. He who has destroyed the

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desire to grasp can never be troubled with the fear

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of loss. Loss and gain are alike foreign to him.

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Steadfastly maintaining a loving attitude of mind toward all and

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pursuing in the performance of his duties a constant and

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loving activity, love protects him and evermore supplies him in

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fullest measure with all that he needs. Perfect love is

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perfect power. The wisely loving heart commands, without exercising any authority,

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all things that all men obey. Him who obeys the

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highest he thinks, and low he has already accomplished. He

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speaks and behold A world hangs upon his simple utterances.

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He has harmonized his thoughts with the imperishable and unconquerable forces,

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and for him, weakness and uncertainty are no more. His

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every thought is a purpose, his every act is an accomplishment.

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He moves with the great law, not setting his puny

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personal will against it, and he thus becomes a channel

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through which the divine power can flow in unimpeded and

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beneficent expression. He has thus become power itself. Perfect love

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is perfect wisdom. The man who loves all is the

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man who knows all. Having thoroughly learned the lessons of

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his own heart, he knows the task and trials of

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other hearts, and adapts himself to them gently and without ostentation.

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Love illuminates the intellect. Without it, the intellect is blind

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and cold and lifeless. Love succeeds where the intellect fails,

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sees where the intellect is blind, knows where the intellect

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is ignorant. Reason is only completed in love, and is

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ultimately absorbed in it. Love is the supreme reality in

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the universe, and as such it contains all truth, infinite tenderness,

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and folds and cherishes the universe. Therefore, it is the

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wise man, gentle and childlike and tender hearted. He sees

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that the one thing which all creatures need is love,

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and he gives it unstintingly. He knows that all occasions

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require the adjusting power of love, and he ceases from harshness.

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To the eye of love, all things are revealed not

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as an infinity of complex events, but in the light

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of eternal principles, out of which spring all cause and effects,

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and back into which they return. God is Love. Therefore,

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then love is nothing more than perfect. He who would

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find pure knowledge, let him find pure love. Perfect love

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is perfect peace. He who dwells with it has completed

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his pilgrimage in the underworld of sorrow, with mine calm

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and heart at rest. He has banished the shadows of

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grief and knows the deathless life. If thou wouldst perfect

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thyself in knowledge, perfect thyself in love, if thou wouldst

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reach the highest ceaselessly cultivate a loving and compassionate heart,