10/01/2025
From the Rays of the Dawn chapter: HATRED
If we should draw a horizontal line and call it the relationship of personalities, we would place LOVE, which is the highest attribute of the human soul, at one end, and at the other end we would place its opposite, HATRED. Every thought, act or expression between personalities must, of necessity, find its resting place somewhere along this line. Hatred is the negative aspect of that which we call love. It can be described as “an emotional attitude characterized by anger and an extreme aversion, enmity, ill-will, together with a desire to inflict injury upon some individual or object.” Actually, hatred is an associate state of anger, and as such its action has already been discussed in a previous chapter.
Let us digress, for a moment, and go back along the evolutionary highway to the time when the first spark of reason was given to the soul. We would observe, perchance, one of the first crude manifestations of human life walking through the woods and experiencing a terrific storm. The roar of thunder and crash of lightning were incomprehensible to man, and as he looked up in wonderment, his reaction was the same as it is today with things we do not understand. Hence fear, terrible fear, took possession of his consciousness. It is a mental law that whatever the mind does not understand, it will either fear or worship. When that which arouses the emotional state of fear does not inspire awe, admiration, or worship, then it will provoke a feeling of hostility, a form of hatred.
Hatred, therefore, is an aspect of fear. We hate our enemies because we are afraid of them. We scorn those whom we do not fear. Where there is no fear, there is no hate. With all the chaos, destruction, and suffering rampant in the world today, there are many who still remain calm and poised in their thinking. Their hearts are not filled with hatred, for they are confident that good will ultimately prevail.