The Book of Psalms

IN these two Psalms (1 and 2) we seem to have an epitome of the great fundamental Truths of all Religion. — In the first we find laid the great foundation of the recognition of Law embodying the Divine Power throughout the universe. The second Psalm sets forth the two other great principles, by which Truth, or Law, is brought into actuality. These are the energizing and directing power of Universal Spirit acting according to Law, which is the Infinite of Personality (i.e., Love, Intelligence, Volition), which is called “the Lord”; and the distributing medium of this Energy for its application in particulars, which primarily is Man, who, when he recognizes this as his function, realizes his true relation to God and receives the Spirit, and thus collectively is the Anointed Son of God. Here as elsewhere in Scripture, the collective sense of a principle is representatively spoken of under the figure of the specific instance in which it has been most completely realized (e.g., Babylon, Rome, etc.) and hence this Psalm has a special application to Christ. — Note also the forms of opposition to Truth.

Thus these two Psalms contain the teaching of the whole Bible in miniature.

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