Mistaken views are much worse than dissolving views, since whatever is false should disappear. That human love guided by the divine Principle, which is Love, is partial, unmerciful, or unjust, is a misapprehension of the Principle that is Love and its workings in the human heart.
A person said to me "I felt the influence of your thought upon my mind and it produced a wonderful illumination, peace, and understanding," naming the time of this occurrence. But I had not thought of them especially, as I recollect, for quite a season, but had a clear consciousness that they were doing well, and my affections were continually and involuntarily flowing out towards them and all the world. Another may speak of an opposite belief of my influence upon them of which I am totally ignorant and innocent.
When will the world cease to judge from a personal sense of things, conjectural and misapprehensive? When my thoughts dwell in God—and they do not dwell elsewhere to my consciousness only when wrung with grief—I must benefit those who hold a place in my memory whether they be friend or foe, and each shares alike the benefit of that radiation from the infinite source of Love. This individual state of blessedness and blessing is universal love, not self-guided, and emits light because it is light, and all who are receptive share it equally.
