The man who has learned to some degree the true meaning of universal law rejoices to-day in the evidence of the inquiry of all peoples and nations into this great and unbounded subject. The need for universal law is seen internationally; the presence of such a law is the next vision the earnest seekers are bound to behold, and will simply mean the transformation in thinking from a human basis to the spiritual. Then, and not until then, will the truth about universal law, universal love, universal harmony, be experienced. The real comfort in this fact is that this true concept can be experienced right now in individual consciousness unhampered by the belief that it requires the cooperation of human mentalities or activities to complete man's happiness or insure progress.
The world is expressing a decided and generally recognized need to-day of what it likes to call cooperation,— cooperation of nations, cooperation of capital and labor, cooperation of parties, cooperation of individuals. The highest concept it seems to have gained of this cooperation is a material law—a league of nations, an arbitration board, a legal agreement; whereas the great need and the need that will some day be recognized by the thinkers is for a higher concept, the true concept of man's universal relation, the realization that the problem is a mental one and not the concoction of a web of material laws or the joining of hands of the human family.
Nations are even now willing to discuss ideals, willing to sacrifice present peace for future progress, willing in some degree to pay for their neighbor's happiness and harmony, and it simply means that the light of Truth and Love is permeating the materialistic mist that hazes the vision of mortals. This light is manifesting itself in what seem to be good human qualities and higher modes of thought and living. This is simply an elementary expression of the true and only law, or to put it in more accurate terms, an elementary recognition of the law of God, good, by the individual who reflects it, and this recognition of a law of Love, a law of good, will unfold itself to the receptive thought until its source is clearly seen. It then becomes to this individual an impersonal, universal law that is ever present and available.
