Loving another as yourself

"Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven."
Enable us to know, as in heaven, so on earth, God is omnipotent, supreme.

"You will learn that in Christian Science the first duty is to obey God, to have one Mind, and to love another as yourself."

How do you love another like this?

It is to recognize, cherish, embrace the qualities of God that you see in another. It is to create a profound connection of at-one-ment with God's manifestation. It is to awake to His likeness-made-manifest and to hold that vision, that connection, that awakening in your heart - and in your arms.

It is to be the Light of Love and to see that Light of Love in another. It is to love another as yourself. It is to create - discover - Oneness with God-made-manifest, made tangible, made real in your experience with such clarity and profound connection and intimacy as to reveal Oneness, tangible Oneness.

It is not making love to "a material form with a mind inside" - though that may appear as an important step. But it is actually seeing another as God's own likeness, "beloved, complete, divinely fair" with such clarity as to experience Oneness - the love of Love.

A simple sensual experience focuses primarily on a body, the shadow.

Love, real Love, is making love - awakening to the Love of God - made manifest as another.

Therein lies the treasure of Love.