Infinite Way Letter
July 1955
By Joel Goldsmith
Part 6 of 6
Meditation For Beginners
Love is the Fulfillment of the Law
“Owe no man any thing, but to love one another; for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law…. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself…. Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.”

Are you fulfilling the law of love in the measure of which you are capable? If love is not fulfilling your being, you are not fulfilling the law of Love, and you have separated yourself from the fulfillment.
God is not a giving God, nor is He a withholding God. God is a state of divine being now, and so your life experience represents the degree in which you are fulfilling the law of Love. Any lack of demonstration, any lack of peace, harmony or security represents your violation of the law of God. It represents withholding of love from your fellowman; it represents not doing unto others as you would have others do unto you. This does not necessarily mean in the line of service, although, of course, this has its rightful place. We do not so often violate the law of Love by our human conduct toward each other as by the mental concepts that we entertain. Too often we love one and dislike another; trust one and fear another, and it is in this that we violate the law of Love.
None of us would care to be judged by our degree of humanhood, because everyone falls from his own standards of what he should be. Rather would we like to be judged by what we are inside, by what we know to be our rightful Selfhood. Instead of judging by appearances, we must judge righteous judgment by looking through to the Soul of every individual and there beholding the Christ, and agreeing that there is God; there is the very Presence and Spirit of God. The Kingdom of God is within you, and once you discern that God is the center and circumference of every individual being (whether the individual knows or acts it or not) in that very moment you are loving your neighbor as you would want to be loved by him.
As we entertain more love of God we entertain more love of our fellowman, and we have less room in our consciousness for judgment, criticism and condemnation. We come into oneness with God in unity with man. Then it is that we are loving our neighbor as ourselves, and we are fulfilling the law of Love.
End Part 6 of 6