PART 3

What follows herein has been taken directly from The Children of the Law of One - The Lost Teachings of Atlantis by Jon Peniel, but paraphrased where possible.

God is not Loving
God is not Unloving
God is Love
Give Love and You Give God
Give Love and You Get God
The Universal One is Love
Find Oneness at ALL Cost
In finding Oneness, you find God
In finding Oneness, you find yourself
In finding Oneness, you find Real Love
Living as One, is to Unselfishly Love ALL
Living as One, is to Unselfishly Love yourself
To find Oneness, Unselfishly Love others
Before yourself
True Love is Unselfish
True Love is Givingness
True Love flows out like the waters
Nurturing all who would drink from it
True Love does as the Stars
True Love does as the Sun - it shines
on the evil as well as the righteous
True Love seeks nothing in return
True Love is Untainted by Wants
True Love desires only the furtherance of True Love
True Love is Strong in the Right
True Love is Indignant in the face of Deceit
True Love is Kind
True Love is Compassionate
True Love is Creation
To become Truly Loving
Find someone who Truly Loves
Empty Yourself, and let their Love fill you
Then keep not the Love you have found
to yourself
For only in giving it away
Will you always have it
Unselfish Love is the Way of Daily Balance
Imagine
a world
Full of people who are ALL Loving Unselfishly
does any self go without receiving love?
ALL receive Love
Imagine
a world
full of people who ALL love selfishly
do any go without receiving love?
None receive Love
Feel Unselfish Love
If Your Thoughts
Are Not Accompanied
By Feeling Unselfish Love,
Can What You Are Thinking Be Correct?
Unselfish Love and Oneness are bound together like two sides of a coin.

Selfishly based love is a condition of negative polarity - the way of taking. It is always sucking energy. This is the exact opposite of the condition of positive polarity - the way of being giving. The way’ of being giving, could also be called Unselfish Loving.

It is a basic precept of the Children, that in order to achieve a Universal consciousness, and fully understand the Universe and our place in it, you must Unselfishly Love. So it is important to recognize and differentiate between Loving Unselfishly, and loving in a selfish, possessive way.

Start by contemplating your motives for giving or loving. In other words, when you are giving, what do you personally stand to lose or gain from that giving? Is there a selfish motive involved at all? If so, it contaminates any real unselfish giving and Love that may have been there also.

What I would call true Love, is simply Unselfish Love. Unselfish Love radiates to all without exception, so powerfully that it transcends your separate self and IS God’s Love flowing through you, to others. You become the vessel that is channeling the Universal Spirit (while also being the Universal Spirit). It gives to all who would receive. If your love is not one that gives to all and loves all, then it is a selfishly based love, not true Love, not pure Love, not Unselfish Love.

There are few situations in which most people experience giving pure Unselfish Love, and the unselfish joy that comes from giving it. Mothers have the greatest opportunity for this, because of the very nature of their relationship with their children. Most mothers will find joy just knowing they have done something good for their child, or that their child is happy. Some parents, both mothers and fathers, have experienced the feeling of the joy of giving unselfishly, when they give their child a gift that is from Santa Claus’, rather than from Mom or Dad (thus not getting ‘credit’ for the gift). Also, most mothers would be willing to die for their children. Part of that is genetics of the human animal, but another part is Unselfish Love. A mother is generally happy, rather than jealous, when their grown child finds a mate and a pleasurable relationship. There are exceptions to this of course. One such exception which can result in strong feelings of jealousy, and dislike towards the grown child’s mate, is when there is karma involving past relationship ties between a mother and child. If the mother, in a past life, disliked, liked, or was romantically involved with the person who is now her child, there can be problems. Or if the mother disliked or was jealous of the child’s new mate in a past life, there will be discord.

So there is no reciprocation of love when you Love Unselfishly? There can be, but there doesn’t need to be. If you feel a need for reciprocation, you aren’t purely loving Unselfishly. Being Giving, Unselfishly Loving, warms the heart and is beneficial to the giver, and the one who is being given to. Unselfish Love is its own reward. The Universal Spirit is Love. We are like faucets and the Universal Spirit is like water. When you open up and let the water flow to all, you are constantly being filled with the water as it passes through. But if you close the faucet off because you mainly desire to keep the water for yourself, it doesn’t flow through you, and you are left empty.

The people who are thus empty because they don’t outflow their Love, then start looking in a different direction for something to fill them up. If a relationship diversion won’t do it for them, if they are not loving and getting love from their relationships, they do other things. Even if they stay with someone, they must look for diversions to fill the emptiness of the lack of love and God in their hearts and lives. Desperately they think, constantly keeping the brain busy so they won’t be aware of their emptiness. They pursue selfish pleasures and amusements of all kinds. But there is never any peace, and never any real or lasting satisfaction - only a temporary fix. And like the drug addict who needs a fix, the more it gets the more it needs/wants. But the pleasure never lasts, and the feeling is never the same as the joy you get from giving, and ultimately the connection to the Universal Spirit that is made through giving. They’re left with that hollowness again, and the need to find some other distraction.

So one should only seek to Love others, and not receive love? Don’t misunderstand, there is nothing wrong with receiving love, taking love. In fact, receiving Unselfish Love is wonderful. It is when you only conditionally give love, under the guise of love, in order to get something for yourself, that is wrong. It is a serious problem in the world.

I have heard it said that you must love yourself first. Only then can you love others. But this seems contradictory to the Children’s teachings.

There is nothing wrong with loving yourself either - unless that is a rationalization for actually being selfish, which is often the case. But you can really, Unselfishly Love your self. In fact, it is unavoidable if you Love Unselfishly at all. Because when you Love Unselfishly, you Love ALL, and that includes your self. And when you Love Unselfishly, you feel so good about yourself that you can’t avoid loving yourself. But you don’t ever really feel good about yourself when you love selfishly - your self might feel good temporarily, but you don’t feel good about yourself. And if you don’t feel good about yourself, how could you really be loving yourself? And how could a heart full of selfishness even find room for truly loving its self simultaneously? So it is backwards - what they say about loving yourself first. Now remember this - instead of loving yourself first, Unselfishly Love others first, and you will truly love yourself automatically. You just can’t go wrong that way. The other is too often just a clever trick of the selfish separate self, to rationalize selfishness.

‘I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine’. You’ve heard that before, yes? That kind of love is conditional. It will only give if it is getting what it wants. That’s what most relationships are built upon, that mutual agreement to give to each others’ selves. Here’s another one you must have heard before, "It must be give and take". No. It must be ‘give and give’ in order to work, because if it’s ‘give and take’, what happens when both feel they should be taking at the same time and think the other should be giving? And that happens all the time. Relationships like that don’t last; they are disintegrating and full of turmoil, for each self wants and fears, and when it doesn’t get what it wants or is confronted with its fears and dislikes, problems start. When people enter relationships like that, everything is perfume and roses for a while (honeymoon period) because the selves are each getting so much energy, so much self-gratification. But after awhile, one of the partners in the relationship always falls short, and doesn’t give as much as the other wants - then negativity begins to snowball in a familiar cycle. One partner feels slighted and says or does something to hurt the other. Then the other reciprocates and hurts back. This negativity builds strength and momentum each time it goes back and forth. The relationship is damaged. Sometimes the damage can’t ever be repaired. It can be no other way in selfishly based relationships - Universal Law is in effect here. Only in Unselfish Love is peace found, both for the giver, and the receiver.

The biggest warning sign of selfish love is jealousy. Selfish love is also possessive, and thus must spawn the most horrible and destructive emotion that exists: jealousy. Selfish love can only bring negativity and destruction in the end.

If you have true Love for someone or something, Unselfish Love, you want the object of your Love to be free and happy, regardless of the consequences to you.

Unselfish Love is the most important way of being that there is.