With the free world seeking an adequate way to defend itself against mental and physical aggression, it is well to consider whether a spiritual defense, based on the omnipotence of God, divine Love, is not the real answer to the world's problem.
The Bible tells us that Esau and Jacob, enemies because of early treachery on Jacob's part, were reconciled when Jacob's materiality, avarice, and fear yielded to a spiritual sense of things, and he saw man as God's reflection. When they met, Jacob said (Gen. 33:10), "I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me." As we see the image or reflection of God instead of enemies, we too shall find all enmity and misunderstandings destroyed and experience the consciousness of spiritual peace, in which war becomes divinely impossible.
True victory comes only through love— love which is impartial and universal, which does not single out friends alone for beneficence, but which treats all alike, blessing impartially and divinely with its unselfed actions. We free ourselves from enemies by loving them, but this does not mean that we are to love an evil mortal. It means that we should have a clear concept of God as divine Love and of man as Love's reflection and thus see that any other sense of man is but an evil suggestion, which has no more power than we give it.
