ABOUT LOVE

WHAT IS LOVE?

They ask the question, “What is love?” on TV last week and all that the psychologist could come up with was that, “Philosophers have been trying to answer that question for thousands of years.” When you study esoteric science you sometimes wonder why you bother to watch TV and you think that you can spend your time better with a Blavatsky/AAB/DK book in bed. I thought that I could answer that question better than the poor sod on TV without going to the books. What would my answer be without going to the books if I have to answer it to a young person?

There is only one love, not many kinds of love, but one love with different progressive stages of that one love. It all depends where we are on our way of human-hood. First we have selfish love of self when we start to develop our brains as toddlers. When you’re young, [under 10 years old] and in school you fall in love for the first time with that beautiful creature of the opposite sex that is in the same class with you. Puppy-love… for a lot of people that is the nearest to real love because of its care-free innocence. Later, as we know, it gets more complicated, certain things happen to your body and you become aware of a thing called sex. You start to look at the opposite sex differently and you start to fall in love for different reasons by the time you are a teenager. By the time you reach your twenties that love is pure lust mixed up with a lot of other emotions but you still convince yourself it is love because you are so happy. By the time you reach your thirties this happy-love gets another quality added to it; Responsibility. You start to feel responsible for your loved-ones and you want to take care of them and you start to think less of your own needs. During your fourties you get mixed up in religion or spiritualism and you start to love everybody and everything, not just your family. Wisdom gets added to that love and become Christ-love. Later, much later it will become god-love or pure-love. I do not know what comes next, we can just speculate……this is just a simple explanation and it might not happen in the same order with everybody. Some people are born more mature.

For those of us that want some more I went to the little blue books [of AAB] and would like to add the following:

We get three expressions of love: Love in the Personality, Love in the Ego [soul], and Love in the Monad [spirit]. Love in the Personality is love in the three worlds; love in the Ego is love in the solar system, and all that it contains; while love in the Monad demonstrates a measure of cosmic love, and embraces much that is outside the solar system altogether….as evolution proceeds it shows itself as a gradual expansion of the love faculty, passing through the different stages……Love is not a sentiment or an emotion, nor is it desire or a selfish motive for right action in daily life. Love is the wielding of the force which guides the worlds and which leads to the integration, unity and inclusiveness which impels Deity itself to action. Love is a hard thing to cultivate; it is a difficult thing to apply to all conditions of life, and its expression will demand of you the utmost you have to give, and the stamping out of your selfish personal activities…..the chains of love unite the world of men and the world of forms and they constitute the great chain of the Hierarchy. The spiritual effort you are asked to make is that of developing yourself into a vibrant and powerful centre of that fundamental, universal love.

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