Love is Freedom
By Ernest Holmes and Joseph Murphy
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Ernest Holmes
Ernest Holmes (1887- 1960) was an influential member of the New Thought movement and in 1927 he founded what would later come to be called The Centers for Spiritual Living. There are currently over 400 CSL churches throughout America.
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Love is Freedom - Ernest Holmes
Love is Freedom
Joseph Murphy
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FOREWORD
True mysticism is the ability inwardly to sense the invisible things of the Spirit, and through feeling, present them to the intellect.
In discerning the deep things of the Spirit, the intellect must follow the intuition—and it will never follow it in vain, for that which the intuition reveals, the intellect may later analyze. It is this feeling back toward spiritual prototypes that marks the work of the true mystic in any age.
In this book Joseph Murphy, one of the outstanding mystics in the metaphysical field, has presented a depth of feeling seldom expressed through the written word.
Those who have had the privilege of listening to the discourses of Dr. Murphy have felt that which was not spoken, the impartation of a spiritual essence which can only be felt. I am certain that the reader of this book will find a response in their consciousness to that invisible and ineffable beauty which it suggests.
Ernest Holmes
President and Founder of
Institute of Religious Science
and Philosophy, Los Angeles, California
Chapter 1
The SCRIPTURE SAYS, God is love, God is all, over all, through all, all in all
Love, therefore, is resident in all men and in all things; 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 of 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, he must radiate this Love. 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. Fear is the inversion of love, or love turned upside down. There is only Love. If a 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 strikes up a similar response in him.
When we are faced with a problem, let us become still; feel within ourselves that Divine Love is working through the situation now; realize only harmony and peace prevail; then dismiss it from our minds knowing that it is so. We will find a perfect solution is offered to us which blesses all.
By illustration, a woman told me that her son was an aviator during the war. Each night while he was away, during her meditation she would take her son in her arms realizing that Divine Love enfolded him in the midst of the chaos of war. She knew 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; likewise, 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 flee away.
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 upon the inner meaning of this chapter, which is one of the greatest sections 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, but unless these words are permeated with love and feeling, they are empty.
For example, a man told me recently that his mother was dying. His sister visited him, and together they went to the hospital, where the girl began to pray audibly. He said her words were beautiful, poetic, and flowery.
When she had finished, she said to him, Were the words not lovely?
He replied, Yes, my dear, they were.
On their way down from the ward, his sister turned to him saying, Mother hasn’t got a chance, poor thing! She will die shortly.
He told me how stunned he was with surprise.
This is a perfect illustration of what this verse means. Love is Freedom. The words used by this good lady were beautiful; she was sincere in her own way; nevertheless, they were . . . as sounding brass and tinkling cymbal.
In order to make words effective, they have to be felt as true. It is necessary to pour life, love, and feeling into our words and statements of truth.
This girl did not have charity. Charity means love. Love is the cement that binds. It is that sense of oneness with the Father of all—the Almighty Power. Since love is a deep sense of our unity with God, with Life, and the All Powerful, we must in prayer become one with our ideal of perfection.
In the case of a woman who is sick in the hospital, we must not see her sick or in pain. No, we must have charity or love and see her as the perfect being, an offspring of the Infinite, clothed with all the qualities and attributes