Divine Love
Rays of sunlight at sunset, piercing the trees and illuminating the meadow below. View from the bottom bench.
Elizabeth Daryush Garden.
11 July 2020.
June 2, 2022
Divine Love……..
Divine Love, easy to say. Sounds nice, Divine Love. Easy to say, Divine Love.
Like many things in this world, easy to say and sounds nice.
But, what is it?
Can something not of this world, although it does interpenetrate this world, be defined by our language and images.
Can Divine Love be described, qualified, quantified.
Could Tao be spoken, it would not be the eternal Tao.
Could the name be named, it would not be the eternal name. 1
Look at Tao and you do not see it; men call it colourless.
Listen to Tao and you do not hear it; men call it soundless.
Reach for Tao and you do not touch it; men call it immaterial. 2
So perhaps Divine Love can only be experienced.
But maybe we can approximate it with two words, completeness and openness.
Divine Love is complete in and of itself. It does not want anything, and does not want for anything.
And in this completeness, openness, an abundance of giving, is its natural state.
A mighty radiative plenitude emanating from the Spirit of the Universal Gnosis is touching us, is at our disposal. 3
An impersonal, unconditional Love that does not turn into anything else.
So perhaps we can say this about Divine Love, but still, it is only saying, and not experiencing.
Divine Love, not of this world, but interpenetrating this world.
And with respect to each one of us, lying dormant within us is a remnant of this completeness and this openness.
Located within us, closer than hands and feet!
Why are you so enchanted by this world when a mine of gold lies within you? 4Then I looked within my own heart and there I found Him. He was nowhere else. 5
To find the Beloved, you must become the Beloved. 6
Quotes, notes.
Tao Te Ching - chapter 1. Read The Chinese Gnosis for free here
Tao Te Ching - chapter 14. Read The Chinese Gnosis for free here
Rumi - 13th century Persian poet
Rumi - 13th century Persian poet
Rumi - 13th century Persian poet