The Principle of Reincarnation
The article: Unnatural Fatigue
Chapter 11
The life-giving force of existence and neighbourly love
It was therefore not for nothing that Christ said, "... but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also".
"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 ...", "... and if he (your brother) repent, forgive him.
And if he seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him".
Later he pointed out to the apostle Peter that it was not merely seven times a day that one should forgive, saying, "... not until seven times: but, until seventy times seven".
Does this not mean that one should forgive everything and everyone?
When a person can forgive seventy times seven times a day does this not then cover all the situations in which he should forgive that he could possibly meet?
After this daily quota of forgiveness there is surely nothing left to forgive.
Everything has to be forgiven.
If these words or concepts were merely figments of the imagination of a superficial fanatic they would have long since dissolved into thin air.
That which is not rooted in reality will in time be removed by the storms of life.
The present concepts and commands have now braved thousands of years, this being due exclusively to the fact that they express an irrefutable truth, a truth that is now becoming a living reality through demonstrable reactions in the human being's physical and mental structure and way of being.
With neighbourly love in mind and behaviour, the kind of deliberation that is lethal will disappear, the deliberation through which one trains oneself to see "the mote in one's brother's eye" without ever seeing "the beam in one's own eye".
By removing this crookedness from one's daily perception of life one has found the best medicine for all illness and misfortune.
Only by using this medicine can one find the road back to life.
The domain of suffering must yield to the radiant sunshine of love.