“Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.”

– Fyodor Dostoevsky

Recently, a friend reached out to me with a question about something bad — even evil — that had happened to another person.  Although she acknowledged that there probably was little or nothing that she could do about the situation that lay in the past, she struggled with how to live with such things in the world and know about them but not be able to change them.  When bad things happen to good people, we feel a sense of outrage.  When evil goes unpunished and those who hurt others walk away unscathed, we can feel helpless, angry, and confused.  Good is supposed to win.  How can we assure that evil will not prevail?

For the past week, my sweetheart and I have been reading The Biology of Belief, by Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D.  Lipton has taken us on a journey through the new biology, connecting the dots between the behavior of individual cells and the way it relates to our interactions with our environment.  We have been fascinated with his views on nature vs. nurture, and he has changed our way of thinking about our own existence.  What I want to share today from Lipton appears in his Epilogue.  He separates it from the book about Biology, because he realizes that science resists including Spirit in its realm.  Lipton compares the Creator/Source to White Light.  He encourages us to see the example of what happens when white light is passed through a prism.  The prism splits the light into a rainbow of colors — each distinct and beautiful in its own right.  When we are born, passing through the prism of the Creator, we take on unique identities as we live in a physical world.  Then Lipton reverses the process.  When all the colored rays of light are passed through the prism in the opposite direction, they recombine to once again become white light.  If you leave out one color, the process fails.  All of them are needed for the recombination to succeed.  Lipton says:

“I see that White Light will only return to the planet when every human being recognized every other human being as an individual frequency of the White Light.  As long as we keep eliminating or devaluing other human beings we have decided we don’t like, i.e., destroying frequencies of the spectrum, we will not be able to experience the White Light.  Our job is to protect and nurture each human frequency so that the White Light can return.”

There is someone in our life who has done many things to hurt us and our family.  My sweetheart and I struggle with the events that have caused pain to us and to the people we love.  Yesterday, as we were driving home from a basketball game, my darling turned to me and said,

“What color do you suppose (Person) is?”

I thought for a moment.  ”Muddy brown, with a touch of gray?”

“Yeah,” he replied, “and maybe with a little blood dripping around the edges.”

Yeah.  A little blood.  Nice touch.  He continued:  ”And in order to create White Light we need to bring (Person) through the prism.”

Wow.  How do we reconcile that the White Light who created us also created the person we see as evil?  Then I wondered what color that other person sees when s/he looks in the mirror.  I wondered what color people see when they look at me.  I wondered what the White Light sees when looking through the prism at the world on the other side.

I think Dostoevsky has the right idea.  As we sit on our side of the prism and gaze through it to glimpse the White Light, we are drawn to seek the way to become that beautiful, complete light.  The answer is simple, but the execution of the answer is a struggle — we must love others, even in their sin, and hope that they will do the same for us.  Each of us needs each other being who walks the earth.  We all are pieces of creation and separate rays that have split from the White Light.  In order for Love and Light to surround the earth, we must recognize our oneness with all who share our planet.  We must draw ourselves together with love, even while we are in our sin, so that we can again become one with our Source.