Luke 12:14 Meaning But He Said to Him

Asked to settle a quarrel over an inheritance, love declines the whole role of arbiter, for to weigh one brother's claim against another is already to accept the dream in which they are divided and something real can be split between them. The mind that comes demanding a verdict wants its separation confirmed, wants a line drawn that says this is mine and that is yours. Love will not draw the line, because it sees no division to rule upon.

When a mind asks who should be judged the guilty one and who the wronged, the truest answer refuses the question entirely, for love has come not to divide the brothers more finely but to remind them they were never actually apart.

Judge: the role the ego begs love to take, the seat from which one is declared right and another wrong so that separation may be made lawful. Divider: the one asked to parcel out what the mind believes can be owned in pieces, the arbiter of a split that love refuses to make real.

The refusal to judge or divide is the higher awareness declining to enter the realm of quarrel over possessions, the domain of the lower mind that measures, splits, and disputes. To be a divider is to work in separation, cutting the whole into contending parts, and the awakened self will not stoop to that fragmenting office. Its work is union, not the parceling out of what the ego clutches.

The inner Christ addresses the man, the ordinary human consciousness still tangled in mine and thine, and turns away from the task of division because its whole nature is to make one, not to partition.