The “golden rulers” may establish a progressive society in which they live according to their ideals while maintaining an adequate defense against their benighted fellows who might seek either to exploit their pacific predilections or to destroy their advancing civilization. [1]
The Andonites were early taught the golden rule, and, even today, their Eskimo descendants live very much by that code; custom is strong among them, and they are fairly free from violent antagonisms. [2] The golden rule was taught in Garden of Eden. [3] Jesus golden rule was based on infinite worth of finite. [4] The golden rule of human fairness cries out against all such fraud, unfairness, selfishness, and unrighteousness. [5] There are two levels of the golden rule: the brotherly love and fatherly love. [6] The golden rule, when literally interpreted, may become the instrument of great offense to one’s fellows. [7] The worship of insects and other animals was promoted by a later misinterpretation of the golden rule—doing to others. [8] Evolutionary religion drives home to the individual the idea of personal duty; revealed religion lays increasing emphasis on loving, the golden rule. [9]
Ethical and moral beings can learn to live the golden rule. [10] The golden rule as restated by Jesus demands active social contact; the older negative rule could be obeyed in isolation. [11] Only moral beings will ever seek for that spiritual insight which is essential to living the golden rule. [12]
The golden rule can only be comprehended by living them, by realizing their meanings in the living interpretation of the Spirit of Truth, who directs the loving contact of one human being with another. [13]
See also: UB 52:5.8; UB 101:8.4.