A Blind and careless interpretation of the Mosaic law has too long been permitted apparently to fasten the curse of a wrong sense of heredity upon mankind. For centuries have the innocent and the inoffensive been needlessly burdened by the unresisted thought of unmerited condemnation with its attendant suffering.
The human mind, "sitting in darkness" of its own evolving, has read, studied, and taught the Second Commandment as setting forth an unalterable edict by which in all cases and under all circumstances, the sins of the human parents were intended to be visited upon their hapless progeny, even unto the third and fourth generation of the luckless ones. Mankind, by a process of false reasoning utterly devoid of spiritual light, has gradually mesmerized itself by constant iteration into a need for merciless insistence upon this one point of the transmission of inherited tendencies and peculiarities. Mortals have ignored the most important and only explanatory clause of this commandment, until it is well-nigh forgotten. Through desuetude it has been practically rendered null and void. Yet the Law-giver plainly specified all that should come under the ban when he named "them that hate me [Divine Love]."
To the ordinarily intelligent thinker, the statement is clear that the visitation of evil shall extend only to them that hate. For the message follows quickly that "mercy" shall be shown "unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments." Then why rest in apathy under the belief in a doom that was never ours? Why not turn from error and break the spell by its simple antidote, beginning to love?
