On Love

The brilliant David Deida did us a great service when he articulated three completely different aspects of loving.

1. Love - can be summed up as a feeling of 'at oneness'. As Deida points out, you can love other human beings, and you can love the delicious flavor of ice cream. Love in this aspect is something accessible as a matter of human nature. Whether friend or foe, deep relation or common acquaintance, love is all around and available to be shared and experienced, ever-presently and at all times. It is up to us as Humans to decide whether we offer the recognition to this reality or not. This doesn't mean we have to be hippies ... on the contrary. What it means is that amidst a reality and manifestation that includes equal portions of life and death, joy and suffering, entertainment and boredom, and everything else soever; and especially in the face of our own personal idea(l)s of evil, still there is this Love which is a fundamental backdrop to the comings and goings of manifestation.

2. Romantic Infatuation - Rather like a drug trip, I won't spend too much time on the definition as there are countless poetics, song-fare, and myriad other expressions of what exactly this is. Rest assured, if you are unsure of whether or not you are experiencing a romantic infatuation, you're not. The Euphoria caused by the release of brain chemicals associated with this state are unmistakable.

3. Polarity - In Chapter I. of the Thelemic Holy Book "The Book of Law", the star goddess Nuit says:

"For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union. This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all."

The deepest confusion running rampant in the world, is the confusion of sexual polarity with our number 1 definition of Love as a state of being 'at one with'. Polarity itself is a division of oneness, and hence not the Non-Dual Loving that we call Hope in the real world. In a sense, and in a Thelemic sense, Love is the absolute formula of the universe. Polarity is the engine which creates the spectacular display of reality.

All things pass except the fundamental Unity of Emptiness and Form. All that passes is the fundamental root of both all suffering, and all ecstasy.
The Law of Love is then quite simple. Love is your responsibility. Polarity is your art; the way in which you utilize the arc of energy existing between all poles soever (especially masculine and feminine poles). Romantic Infatuation can be considered the X Factor, as it is a function of our inherent Nature, and does not fall under the realm of free will, but that of True Will.

Know Thyself, Know the Difference, and for God's Sake PLAY in LOVE!