Be Love
Love is the key to the Universe. –Ann Ree Colton
Love is the key to the Cosmos. –Jonathan Murro
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. –1 John 4:7
One can see how important love is by these quotes from our beloved teachers, Ann Ree Colton and Jonathan Murro, and also from the Bible. Both Ann Ree and Jonathan speak of love as being universal, infinite. There is no place in the Universe where love is not, where God is not. This tells us that whenever we do not love, God is not with us – or, to say this more accurately, we are not with God.
In the book entitled, The Third Music, Ann Ree reminds us
of some of the nuances of love with these words:
Love is the element uniting the flexibilities of existence. Hate acts as a solder or hardened psychic mineral holding together the negatives within the Undersoul.
Love has an essence. Love is the flame floating upon the ocean of truth. Love is greater than hate. Love is light. Love is the healer. Love is the exorciser. Love embraces all. The embrace of love provides justice,mercy, peace, happiness, joy.
To love is sacred. To hate is to curse. Love mixed with hatred is evil, and begets evil. Love unsullied by hatred is the power of God in the human heart, producing grace-works of holiness. Pray to be love, total love He who shuns evil has obtained love. Be not tempted to hate. Be prepared to love. Keep a love vigil with love consciousness, which is God in you. –Ann Ree Colton
Jonathan in The Divine Image writes:
Jesus emphasized the importance of love because of the healing power of love’s energies. –Jonathan Murro
How many energies of love are there? We might say that love is the glue that holds the Universe together. God is love. God is infinite and His energy is limitless. What does infinite mean? It means there is no end. If we could go to the farthest reaches of the Universe, we would find that God is there. How comforting to know that God is always present, and that His love and caring will never end. Ann Ree tells us:
God is the only Power.
There is no power greater than the power of God.
There is no power greater than love. –Ann Ree Colton
And from the Bible:
God is love. –1 John 4:16
In the Bible, we read of some of the ways that Jesus taught about love. He tells us:
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. –St. John 13:34
Jesus words, “love one another; as I have loved you” speak of His love that He has for each of us, and, that is the love we must have for each other. The love of Jesus is a pure and holy love, a love divine – a love with no strings attached.
Another way that Jesus taught about love. For example, in St. Matthew we read:
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. –St. Matthew 5:44
Ann Ree further explains:
Love covers all variations of human nature and emotions. Love neutralizes, yet makes positive, all human emotions. Love is the unifier, the blender and the salvation. –Ann Ree Colton
In the Bible, 1 Corinthians Chapter 13 is known as the love chapter. In that chapter, the greek word ἀγάπη (agápē), is translated as charity in the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible, which is the version we use at the Ann Ree Colton Foundation of Niscience. Most modern Bibles translate agápē as love in that verse. The following is the KJV translation of 1 Corinthians Chapter 13, substituting love for charity:
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not (LOVE), I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not (LOVE), I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not (LOVE), it profiteth me nothing.
4 (LOVE) suffereth long, and is kind; (LOVE) envieth not; (LOVE) vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 (LOVE) never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, (LOVE), these three; but the greatest of these is (LOVE).
–1 Corinthians 13
You can see how important love was for a whole chapter in the Bible to be to be devoted to it.
Jonathan Murro wrote these inspiring words entitled “Be Love”:
Be love.
Be healed of the moods that move thee from high to low.
Be constant in love through union with the Constant of
God’s Love.
Be centered in the Love-Commandments.
When the sins darkening thy subconscious are erased, dark
moods will disappear; thy angers will be healed; thy
guilts and fears will be no more.
Love heals.
Therefore, be love.
As thou art healed, the Christ Light is beginning to abide
in thee.
The Christ Light will enlighten thee and make of thee a
healer of others.
Be love.
And Heaven will be nigh thy heart and mind.
Be love.
And thou shalt find the treasures sealed in thy soul by the
Hand of God.
Oneness with God and Christ comes through love.
Therefore, be love.
Be love in speech.
Be love in emotion.
Be love in deed.
Be constant in love.
Be centered in love.
And thou shalt be illumined by Love – the Holy Love of God.
And from 1 John 4:16:
God is love. –1 John 4:16
