Love is Freedom
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Dr. Joseph Murphy
Dr. Murphy wrote, taught, counseled, and lectured to thousands of people all over the world, as Minister-Director of the Church of Divine Science in Los Angeles. His lectures and sermons were attended by thousands of people every Sunday. Millions of people tuned in his daily radio program and have read the over 30 books that he has written. Dr. Joseph Murphy has been acclaimed as a major figure in the human potential movement, the spiritual heir to writers like James Allen, Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, and Norman Vincent Peale and a precursor and inspirer of contemporary motivational writers and speakers like Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar and Earl Nightingale. He was one of the best selling authors in the mid-twentieth century. His book THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND has sold millions of copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. This book has never been out of print and is still one of the best sellers in the self-help genre. Over the years Dr. Murphy has given lectures and radio talks to audiences all over the world. In his lectures he points out how real people have radically improved their lives by applying specific aspects of his concepts, and gives the listener guidelines on how they too can enrich their lives.
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Love is Freedom - Dr. Joseph Murphy
Introduction
by Joseph Murphy
The Bible has been said to have seven layers of meaning:
1. The physical and historical. All Scripture was held (by ORIGEN) to be written ab intus,
from the inward mystery, and not ab extra
with a mystical sense put into it. In every case the historical account is the rind or coating, the mystical meaning being the essence of Holy Scripture—not the former the essential truth containing a mystical sense. As St. Paul says (I Cor. 2:14), the truth of the Scriptures must be ‘spiritually discerned’. This implies that the inspired element is underneath the phraseology rather than on it. We must drill beyond the merely semantic layers and sands before the oil
of the Spirit is struck
and a gusher
is brought in.
2. The solar—dealing with the garden in which man finds himself.
3. The phallic—concerning the throb of life coursing through all animate beings.
4. The mental—which is ruler over many things, but not all.
5. The psychic—which approaches the Holy of Holies, but does not always make it
because of astral distractions in the forest of illusion. (Hindu Maya)
6. The mystic—in which the seeker longs for God as the heart panteth after the water brooks
. Many falter on the way here as they get stuck in the mire of the mere play of mental operations, which practice often misses the manna
falling from the Throne of God. (I and the Father are one type of consciousness.)
7. The absolute spiritual consciousness in which God functions through the God-man outlet.
We must remember that there are many overtones in the field of consciousness. There are many mansions in my Father’s House.
There is an atomic science of the spirit also, with its own wavelengths and electronics. Let us enter into the high oscillations of the spirit by focusing our attention on He who Is
. If thine eye be single, thy whole body is full of light.
With mine eyes stayed on Thee, there is no evil in my pathway.
This viewpoint requires skillful mountain
climbing with the mystics’ sure-footedness like hinds’ feet
and not mere elementary psychology or hypnotics. We must seek reality In Him whom to know aright
is the highest wisdom. For God is—He was not made.
Chapter 1
The scripture says, God is love, God is all, over all, through all, all in all.
Therefore, love is resident in all men and in all things. And so let us seek it in all. Seek and ye shall find.
Yes, if you truly look for the God love in the other it will shine forth in all its pristine glory. The first thing we do when we see another is to look for that Divine Love to radiate through his thoughts, words and deeds. If we truly recognize it as being within him, it must certainly appear on the without. As within, so without.
As above so below.
As in heaven (consciousness) so on earth (manifestation).
We must not let fear step in—for it is the opposite of love. There is only Love, and fear is the inversion of Love, or Love turned upside down. If man recognizes Love in a dog, the animal responds in kind. When we fear the dog or any other animal, the latter senses it and it strikes up a similar response in him.
When we are faced with a problem let us become still and feel within ourselves that the Divine Love is working through the situation now and that only harmony and peace prevail, and then dismiss it from our minds knowing that it is so. We will find a perfect solution is offered us which blesses all.
A woman told me a few years ago that her son was an aviator during the war. Each night while he was away, all she did was simply to take her son in her arms in meditation, realizing that Divine Love enfolded him in the midst of the chaos of war. The aura of His Love surrounded the plane, always making it invisible to the so-called enemy. The boy was never attacked; the enemy planes never saw
him, so how could they attack him.
Jesus disappeared in the multitude. Yes, the multitude of human thoughts and false beliefs disappear when the shining armor of Truth comes rushing in, lighting up the whole house. Then the dawn appears and the shadows vanish.
Chapter 2
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
—(I Cor. 13:1)
This is the greatest Love Epic ever written. If men and women were to meditate on the inner meaning of this chapter, one of the greatest in the Bible, their lives would be transformed. It is only too true that men use high-sounding words, write beautiful poetry and give wonderful sermons, yet unless these words be permeated with love and feeling they are empty.
For example, a man told me recently that his mother was dying in the hospital. His sister visited him, and together they went to the hospital, where the girl began to pray audibly. He said the words were beautiful, poetic and flowery. When she had finished she said to him, Were the words not lovely?
And