13. The Religion of Love

The Religion of Love is wrongly misunderstood due to the various distortions and misrepresentations of the concept of love, for the greatest aspect of true love is severity! What is now called love is anything but love. When all so-called loves are relentlessly examined in their depths, nothing remains but selfishness, vanity, weakness, comfort, conceit or impulses.

True love does not concern itself with what pleases another, what is agreeable to them or what brings them joy. It is guided only by what benefits the other person! Regardless of whether it gives them joy. That is true love and service.

So when it is written: “Love your enemies!” it means: “Do what benefits them! Chastise them as well if they cannot otherwise come to understanding!” That is serving them. But justice must prevail when doing so, because love and justice are inseparable, they are one! Undue indulgence would only increase the faults of your enemies and let them to slide further down a harmful path. Would that be love? On the contrary, one would thereby burden oneself with guilt!
 
The Religion of Love has become a religion of complacency, based only out of the human desires, just as the person of the Bringer of Truth, Christ Jesus, has been dragged down to a softness and yieldingness which He never possessed. It was precisely through all-encompassing Love that He was stern and serious among men of intellect. His sadness, which often overtook Him, was only natural in light of His High Mission and the human element facing it. It had nothing to do with softness.
 
After all distortions and dogmatichave been stripped away, the Religion of Love will be a doctrine of the strictest logical consistency, in which no weakness or illogical indulgence will be found.