Towards a Better World

Towards a Better World #30

Sunday 14 March 2021

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LEAVING SECTARIANISM BEHIND

The second level to pass on the path of love is that of a widespread human love, less selfish than the “love for oneself” mentioned in the previous post [1], but which remains “restricted to the family, a people, a nation, a religion”. When it becomes exclusive, it can come dangerously close to sectarianism, intolerance, exclusion, racism and other forms of violence towards the rest of the world…

Even without reaching such degrees, human love can thus shut itself up in prejudice, in mistrust of the unknown, the foreigner, the different.

Changing this state of mind means succeeding in ridding it of the limits that create divisions and oppositions. While of course continuing to cherish one’s loved ones and to love one’s roots or culture, one can learn to love without borders. [2]

“Raise your consciousness beyond the separate soap bubbles formed by your families, your regions, your homelands,” says His Holiness Lord HAMSAH MANARAH. “Reach the dimension of Love for the whole Earth…“

Here is an extract from the Aumist prayer “to pour out Love over the whole Earth”, which fosters this wonderful expansion that, step by step, opens us to Love in all its dimensions:

“I reject no one, I love each and every one,

for I have understood that the Earth is a unity of Divine Love

with which I must be in solidarity.”

(Vers un Age d’Or d’Unité, pp. 157-158)

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[1] See post no. 29, “Leaving selfishness behind”.

[2] See post no. 11, “Beyond borders”.