Brotherly Love

We are conce
ed with your understanding relevant to these concepts you term "brotherly love". Therefore, we shall examine the elements and the nature as our consciousness is capable of understanding.

The term is applied in a poor manner within your language. Certainly, man must seek the ultimate state where he is worthy of being loved; and in recognizing those who have achieved a state of excellence, that they are worthy of being loved. One does not always love or feel strongly towards those about him. Too often this nature of love is totally misunderstood. To hear your teachers speak, we would assume that the nature called brotherly love were as a platonic form might be. This is not the case! The term "brother" bespeakes of an intensity of relationship that is unique and individual. Certainly, we must love as you say, the divine spark that is within each man - the emanation. We must seek to love that which each soul shall someday be. The greatest element is not in achievement but in the seeking to understand and to love.

Your social systems and your condemnations and judgements make it very difficult for one to enter into a clear relationship. Within your society, your separation of the masculine and feminine nature is so extreme that it becomes anti-social and anti-cultural, and even illegal in essence, for one man to say to another that, "I love you." Even betwixt the brother, and the son and the father, this statement is seldom employed because of the consciousness. Truly, one must consider himself worthy of being loved, but one must also realize that one has to project and to clarify the feelings. We, of course, are not speaking of the earthy desires, of the physical desires, but that principle of love which still exists. The love that is between the parent and child, between the brothers, between the sisters, and the brothers and sisters, and the relatives. All of this sharing, this belonging to the same collective family, is the ultimate goal of the element of love.

To say that you love each person, is to lie, for you so not love each person. To say that you strive or desire to learn how to love each person would be more truthful and more accurate. Many souls manifest an outward appearance which you cannot love. Therefore, to mask and to act as if this negativity did not exist, is hypocritical. This is not the pathway of consciousness!

The pathway of consciousness recognizes reality as it is, looks to the future in the potential of that reality, and seeks the opportunity to project itself into oneness with the potential of each being. But first, the false barriers must be removed. One cannot project a universal concept. One cannot be honest if the social element prohibits it. It is therefore imperative that man understand that the term "brotherly love" was not an accident of choice, but a deliberate meaning to express the deep feeling, the deep emotion, the deep ties that bind. It is for man to recognize the collective nature of his family and even as there is a collective bond. The love grows first from the understanding that it is a part of the family, and then for the potential of the individual. But let us not reach out and say that we love all men, for even WE do not love all men. We do not love all souls or all spiritual forms. We seek to. We desire to. But we cannot love that which is not yet seek! ing perfection.

One does not surround oneself with negativity on the hopes of overcoming it. If one finds negativity about oneself, seek to enlighten. If it does not absorb the light; if it will not accept the gift, then leave it. "Depart from thence," as it is written, for you are held accountable for the environment that you maintain. You are held accountable for the souls with whom you keep company, because your own progress is limited when it is not shared with those who can comprehend.

Seek to love, but do not pretend, for in such pretence you create mental barriers and blocks that within your subconscious says, "But I do not; yet I must say that I do in order to be considered holy and pure and to be on the path. Therefore, I will say it and perchance some day, I shall achieve it." The truth of what is in the heart is more important than the attainment of the goals of the future. If you were to achieve the total comprehension and universality of love as we have tried to direct it, then my brothers and sisters, you would no longer need to reside upon this plane. You see the difficulty is in knowing that we must love and in recognizing which to love, but more important, the desiring to learn how to love.

We love more the struggle of the soul than the nature it manifests at any point in time except at the moment of its initiation. For it is like watching the younger or elder brother, the son or daughter, or the parents, receive a great honor. The love must flow naturally. So seek to learn to love, but love with discrimination.

Thus is the message that I have been instructed to bring." nn?Copyright by Richard Rebeck, Peggy Rebeck, Salvatore Cacciola nnn