The Law of Three (84) Love your Enemies

 

"Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you"   

 Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5.44)

 

Love your enemies is a challenging statement that puzzles human reason.  Are humans capable of unconditional love?

The Law of Three teaches that enemies are an essential force in the three-fold play of human development. Our attitude or feelings toward our "enemies" indicate our level of being.  " Love your enemies" does not mean eliminating your enemies or converting them into saints. What would become of Shakespearean tragedies without friends and foes?

In the course of life, all of us play the roles of friends and enemies equally, depending on which side of the conflict we find ourselves on at a given time. However, whatever role is given to us to play by the rulers of the day, the non-dual presence of the real I that abides within ourselves remains untouched.

In the present, ever-repeating global turmoil, we hear the familiar tune of experts prophesying the end of the world, a change in the cosmic cycle, evolutionary movement, levels of consciousness, etc.  How do each of us fit into all these pronouncements?  Do they mean that you or I are evolving? Could there be a simpler, more direct way to test whether, at either the individual or global level, we are moving uphill or downhill?

Maybe there is. Could love be the measure of both individual and collective human growth and development, and fear be the measure of our involution?  Put simply, do the present stocks of love make irrelevant the current stocks of missiles,  or, on the contrary, do we still desperately need to increase the production of the latter?  

Love:

"If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing."  1 Corinthians 13