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The Alchemy of Love
By Henry Knight Miller
LOVE is the great cleanser, the divine factor in experience, the saviour of: life, a redemptive and transfiguring potency. It sweetens life, driving forth the hobgobblins of malice, envy, jealousy, hate. It is the essence Of civilization. It differentiates the cultivated man from the beast and beastman. Love turns the rough paths to rose-entwined bowers, warms the heart, obliterate every distinction of name, sect, country, creed. Thru love you come to approximate the likeness of God who is love.
Be a spendthrift of love. Some sin perchance thru uncontrolled misdirected love, but by far the more fatal fault is insufficient love. Pour forth floods of affection upon family, friends, enemies. Let this tender emotion obliterate every distinction of name, sect, country, creed.
We know God not thru musty books, barren creeds, spiritually bankrupt ecclesiastical organizations competing for membership, property and power, but thru unselfish and unstinted love.
Sometimes even the demi-mondaine is nearer God than the high dignitary of the church, for tho she err, she errs thru love, even tho it be prostituted and misdirected, while the latter, smug, complacent, self-satisfied, pharisaic may know neither the spirit nor essence of love and by his very lack of kindliness, mercy, sympathy, comradeship crucifies the very God he presumes to represent. Love is not only the fulfillment of the law— it is the law. Live the love-tinctured life and you will soar to sunkissed summits, bearing your fellows aloft, drawing men with irresistible compulsion. You will be for many as the shadow of a great oak at summer's noontide, as an oasis in desert places, a crystal fountain to thirsty lips.
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