LOVE

 

 

Love is that feeling of wishing all the good luck to happen to another person. Love is an intense feeling directed to a person or thing, to oneself, or to another. Love is one's affinity for another person or thing.

 

Love can be directed to oneself.  While this is not evil, it may be at the expense of the rights of others.  When this intense liking for oneself is to the detriment of others, this is called selfishness.  It has a primordial goal --- the preservation of the species.  You are commanded by God to "Love thy neighbor as thyself."  It means you should love others in the same way that you love yourself.  You should love yourself, but not at the expense of others.

 

Love for the opposite sex means one is ready to sacrifice for the sake of his loved ones.  This is usually accompanied by sensual feeling, the desire for sex.  Its main purpose is to induce a couple to procreate so as to fill Earth.  Love for the opposite sex is the sweetest, most intense feeling that one can experience.  It is carnal love.  It is very hard to overcome.  It requires singleness of purpose, great will power to forego one's carnal love.  When Jesus fell in love with Miriam, He experienced first hand how a human being falls in love.  He could not eat nor sleep.  There was conflict.  He had a mission.  To go with Miriam and satisfy His carnal love would be to prefer her over the Love of His Father in heaven.  Then Jesus, summoning all His will power, announced His irrevocable decision.  No, he could not give in to his love for Miriam.  Both were heartbroken.  But the will of God the Father had to be followed.  Here, Christ showed that although carnal love is very strong, one can overcome it.

 

One step higher than selfishness and carnal love is the Love for one's fellowmen.  This Love means harboring no ill thought or wishing ill luck to befall another person.  It is maintaining a positive outlook for one's neighbors and expecting from them good will.  Love for one's neighbors is the antithesis of "survival of the fittest."  If people worked together, not individually but together, the result of their efforts is more than the sum of their individual efforts.  This is synergy.

 

Why did God require everyone to love his neighbor in order to be saved?  Loving one's neighbor is an attribute of God.  God drove Adam and Eve away from the Garden of Eden, but to show His Love He promised to send His son to redeem mankind.  Did not God give the gross spirits a chance to evolve to a higher, more perfect spirit?   God forgives.  This is another attribute of God.   When one loves he does not look to the faults of others but to their good qualities.  He thinks positively regarding the potential of his neighbors.  He has faith in them.

 

Love charges the atmosphere around you.  When one with love comes in contact with others, he feels only good will for them so that the other person feels relaxed and not confrontational.  Both their forces do not cancel each other but instead are directed to a higher plane.

 

Loving others means forgetting oneself.  And one's Earthly affinities like lust, power, greed, riches, pride, etc. are diverted and controlled.  Because of Love, one rises to a higher spiritual plane since he has succeeded in detaching himself from the pull of material things.  And when one has freed himself from this gravitational pull of the seven cardinal sins, he has opened his heart for Divine Love to enter.  He has opened himself for God to dwell in him.  This means that the Divine Love energy supplies one's being with the thoughts of God that will propel him to higher perfection.  Divine Love serves as a magnet that attracts a person to higher perfection, to God.  The effect is that a person no longer is Earth-bound, but prefers spiritual things..

 

Divine Love is supposed to be the glue that will bind all of God's creation together since when they work together it is faster to rise up because of synergy.  This glue which is Love will prevent fellow men from tearing each other apart.  When one has opened his heart for Divine Love to enter he is at the right path.  He is inclined to right thoughts, right words, and right deeds.

 

The key that will open one's heart for Divine Love to enter is nothing more than loving one's neighbor.  Once Divine Love enters one's heart it is just like the fuel of a rocket that will propel a person up faster and higher to perfection.  Thus the gravitational pull of material things is easily overcome with Divine Love.

 

Let us get the key.  Let us love one another.