What is the WILL TO LOVE?
Dear Friends and Coworkers on the Path of Light,
The following thoughts are an excellent reminder of the work of those who are working on (or towards) the Path of Light. If you have moments of feeling critical, and know that criticism of all kinds creates karmic debts, and you seek to develop the loving understanding needed today. If you read it carefully, you will gain greater understanding of the next step to fulfill your life purpose in the one work for humanity.
The will-to-love means the love of the greater Whole and the ability to do that which is needed for the good of the group in the right way and with the needed skill in action. It involves capacity for firm action where need arises, because the disciple has a long range vision and is not misled by the immediate perspective.
He works and prepares for the future. It is, in other words, the loving intention to fire the entire world with the new idea of the "spirit of relationship," beginning with the disciple's own self, his family and immediate group. This is the will-to-fire. It would be well to reflect deeply on these ideas. To bring about and render effective this fiery stimulation, the disciple must apply the fire to himself and in the ensuing blaze see himself as he truly is.
The fire of the material aspect (the fire of the personality) is still too prevalent and too powerful in the lives of aspirants. It renders them harmful. I would remind you that the fire of the mental plane (that is, of the mind) is the reflection (and the distorted reflection) of the fire of spirit. Some disciples use only the fire of the mind; in their highest and best moments, they attempt to use the fire of love to offset the fires of the critical mind but at the best it is no spontaneous flow but a laborious effort to be nice, to refrain (through drastic disciplining of themselves) from uttering the things which their critical minds say or to act upon the opinions they may have formed through the use of the fire of mind.
“This fire is always directed at an individual and the effort to refrain from the use of this fire inevitably creates a gap or barrier. Among the majority of aspirants, there is no true love in action but only much personality effort to be non-critical. Their concentration is upon the recognised and basic need to be non-critical because it is right so to be, and there is a reward for those who achieve it, but the concentration is not based upon the effects upon others when the fire of the mind is let loose with its destroying, burning and damaging effects.”
(Adapted by LH from Education in the New Age by A.A.Bailey)
With light, love, and will,
Launa Huffines
(PathofLight.com and TrianglesofLight.org)
