Man’s Relationship With the Creator Is Like a Dramatic Love Story

Man's Relationship With the Creator Is Like a Dramatic Love StoryTwo questions I received on love:

Question: You often say that one’s relationship with the Creator should be similar to how a groom courts a bride, how she conceals herself, and so on. In addition, you have said that in the past women were bought for money, and it was enough to meet someone just once before getting married to them. But where is passion and tension in this?

My Answer: There is no need for love on the corporeal level, because it is created later through mutual compromise and habit. However, passion and tension are necessary in one’s relationship with the Creator because these feelings are higher – contrary to egoism. For example, it can be compared to a dramatic love story where the lovers (man and the Creator) aspire toward each other (through bestowal), against the desires of the whole world (against all their egoistic desires) – and this creates passion and tension.

Question: In a TV show you were asked, “What is love?” and you said, “It is the fundamental quality of the universe, mutual bestowal that permeates all levels of nature, except man. We are left to our own devices, and we do everything in the world except this.” However, you also say that man doesn’t have freedom of action and everything is determined by the Creator.

My Answer: This is how things were initially determined by the Creator: All nature in our world is egoistic due to man’s egoistic downfall, and the correction of all of nature depends only on man. To the degree man corrects his inanimate, vegetative, and animate desires, he also corrects the external inanimate, vegetative, and animate levels of nature.

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  1. <<… it can be compared to a dramatic love story where the lovers (man and the Creator) aspire toward each other (through bestowal)…>> – what dramatic love story if we do not know what love overall is? What is Love? If everything is permeated with love except man (how do we know and experience outside us what love is?), how can we talk about what we do not perceive? Even how can we relate to love if freedom of action is not given and determination is peforming our actions? Is this comment not a bit black-white painting and the reality less dramatic than potrayed? The question is: How can we effort to tell everybody that love = pure bestowal = comes from the creator = is a universal law = connects everything with everything = makes it possible to drop / overcome egoism = inspires for self bestowal (on human level) and leads us to “unlogical” self-dedication with the power to make oneself gift, bestowal towards the environment, but depicted with our “creator” and by dedicating ourselves we also dedicate our “creator” – and here we are back at the beginning – but richer and connected with the origin – is it not like this?

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