☥ ∞ As Above ☼ So Below ∞ ☥

LOVE IS THE LAW

Immediately accepting the Law of Compensation, which also embraces personal responsibility, we begin to function under a vastly different Law than that which today governs man - the mass -almost universally. We place ourselves into the hands of the Universal Law which tends toward universal freedom, and we begin to rise to a higher plane of being. Justice begins to be tempered with mercy, born of love, an attribute of infinite mercy, of the Supreme, who is declared to be the essence of Love as the essential of His existence; and as we progress the balancing is gradually accomplished.

The present universal trend appears to be against all things religious, and such statements as these would appear to be fundamentally religious. The misunderstanding is due to making the term"religious" synonymous with "Spiritual," and "Spiritual" with something that is not of this earth and is too impractical for the struggles of the earth life. This is a misconception. The more fully the Spiritual Laws are comprehended, the more certain we are to gain an understanding of those Laws which underlie all human, worldly or material success; but such success is won without the exploitation of our fellow men, or depriving them of something so that we may benefit. Hermetic and Arcane Science has as its mission the developing of man as a whole, a dualistic, acting being, balanced Spiritually and materially in tune with the Infinite and, therefore, a free man.

That which really exists (the things which continue after this earth life or earth span ends) and that which seems to exist (the temporal and fleeting) bring us to the question of reality and unreality;one being the truth, while the other is only the semblance of it. God (the self-existing and continually existing) is the only reality. Do we desire a knowledge of actualities? Then, must we contemplate that which was before we were, and which continues after we pass; that which was,and changes but continues to be. The two are identical, even "as the flower grows (changes)unconsciously, but eagerly anxious to open its soul to the sunshine and give its beauty freely and unselfishly to all who will have love for it, without itself losing anything thereby." Love and truth are of the Spirit, part of the Soul, the inner man; the inner man is distinguished from the physical,which is grossly selfish until it accepts the Law and turns its efforts toward reconstruction and transmutation.

Compendium of Occult Laws