“Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you. The cement of a higher humanity will unite all interests in the one divinity.”
Mary Baker Eddy
(Science and Health, page 571)
Divine Love is our protective cloak. The true sense of Love and our willing acceptance of it, keeps us safe from human hatred, all that would oppose the Truth of Love. A panoply is a full suit of armor, often an impressive ceremonial attire. So we can rejoice that the garment that divine Love supplies for us to wear is not one which hides us away from life. It protects us but at the same time, vividly celebrates and expresses Love’s purpose–confidently, boldly, beautifully.
This awareness of divine Love’s presence is a strength to us and a saving grace for humanity; for as we abide with infinite divine Love and express it, we can’t help but embrace the whole world in that magnificent panoply. We naturally recognize the better man and that sense of hatred diminishes. That “higher humanity” that we are individually expressing unifies us all.
Let that garment of divine Love envelop you and your world. Mankind is always ready to respond to Love’s graceful touch, that “one divinity,” which heals us individually and unites us in what is our most natural cause and most powerful activity: to love one another as God so fully and powerfully loves us.
Laura Moliter, CS
