Human love, soul love for God and divine love. About two kinds of love Soul and love in each

Love in man is laid down by the Lord. It is the driving force of life. And the Lord, out of Love, created the whole world, and put this power into man at the time of creation. That is why initially, both in the commandments and in the Scriptures, everything calls for love.

This is the largest and most familiar state to man. A person learns about it from early childhood, without even realizing that it already lives in him. He just loves his parents, friends, toys and cannot say why.

Love accompanies a person all his life to a greater or lesser extent, it can be to objects, people, to himself, to everything that a person comes into contact with. This proves that love was given to man as part of his spiritual life by the Creator, who is Love Himself.

The theme of love is so great that it is impossible for a person to talk about it fully, just as it is impossible to know God to the end in His Majesty.

Without love, a person loses understanding and understanding for what and for whom he lives.

Without love, there are no desires, no aspirations, as if a certain force is departing that gives you life.

Without love, hope for the bright and the best dies.

The enemy replaces love for the higher with love for the lower and for the natural beyond measure.

A man loves material pleasures for his body. He loves people, but out of his imaginary humility. He loves a child, a spouse, but excessively, putting them in the place of God.

Without love for the highest, darkness and emptiness sets in towards God, and the meaning of everything and everywhere is lost.

The essence of love can manifest itself in three forces. It is a natural force, self-destructive and creative.

When love is directed at its own kind, then this force is natural and does not lead to perfection. The likeness of a person is only another person, this is a child - parents, spouse and other people are like brothers and sisters.

The similarity of a child, parents, relatives, spouses (not by birth, but by life) is clearly for human understanding, and such love is pleasing to God, but to a certain extent.

Passionate love for the opposite sex is not pleasing to God, because it should be love as brother and sister.

Love for any inanimate thing should not be expressed by the word love, because. love is the living force of similar living beings, and such “love” is not natural, which means it is a passion.

Love must be given to one's own kind, and if it is love for oneself or the inanimate, it is self-destructive.

Love is a creative force when it is directed to the one whose image you are, because. God is the Highest Love, and the Power emanating from Him is immeasurable.

I am ready to give you everything, my love!

I am ready to give You all the good that I have, but I do not own it - it is Yours!

I am ready to give You all my evil, so that You can make it good, but I am not able to cast it out myself, I only hope in Your power!

I am ready to give my life for You, but I am not worthy of this feat!

I am ready to give my soul and heart to You, take them and cleanse them!

I am ready to give you my spirit - but glory to you - he is yours!

About any subject, whether it be a thing or a feeling, an action or an event, one can speak on the basis of its signs. And who can give signs of love if not God Himself, who speaks through the apostles by the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)?

This echoes John. chapter 4 - if you do not fulfill the laws of love and do not have feelings, then you do not know God. Having known God's love for oneself, His Mercy, it is possible to find love oneself. If there is a fear of punishment from God in a person, then by that he testifies that God is not Love.

Human love shows how feeling guides everything - desires and thoughts. That is why it is said that the main thing in life is love, which drives everything. If the Spirit of God, then it is pure, sacrificial, compassionate. In some, love is led by the Holy Spirit, while in others it is still worldly, but under the fear of God.

Just as a baby, for inexplicable reasons, recognizes his mother and feels love, affection, care for himself for her, so these feelings are instilled in a person by the Creator. These are the components of the soul, and with the loss of love and goodness, invested in nature, there is a substitution of unnatural ones like evil and dislike.

True love can only be spiritual, because God is Spirit, and only by contacting the Spirit with Love can a person receive love.

An example of pure love is the love of parents and children. Parents are ready to dissolve in their beloved child, just as the human spirit wants to dissolve in the Spirit of God, and vice versa, out of love for a person, God dissolves in the spirit of a person.

Love between the sexes is a sensual passion.

My soul! My Lord gave you love, and what is it?

You have loved passionately and earthly things a lot, my soul! And what is this compared to the love of my God?

Passionate love is destruction, not love, it is the delight of feelings, desires, and the body. It is between two, where each delights himself through the other. Rarely is it sacrificial, because sacrifice is the denial of self-pleasure.

Love for a person is holy love when it is sacrificial and belongs to three - God and two people.

Love for God is a love that absorbs all of you and dissolves you in Him. There is so much of it that I am ready to give myself all to people so that when they come into contact with you, they feel what this love is. She gives strength, she gives peace, she gives self-confidence, not being proud of herself, but relying on God. She lifts to Heaven!

Mind wants to control and the soul wants to indulge. Soul like children. They live by the soul, and they are spoiled. They can't stand being controlled. The need to teach lessons, to walk under control - this shackles the soul in fetters.

Most often it happens like this that we love some, but live with others. It is so interestingly done from above that our soulmate suits us like a key to a castle. When you meet him, both of them break their pride completely. That is, the soul is attached. And both need to develop the divine qualities of patience, humility, forgiveness, love, to serve without demanding anything. But I don’t want to serve, I want to squeeze even more out of a person. And then there is a struggle - the mind or soul will remain.

If the soul remains then they rub against each other and live very happily. There are very few such families. And between these people there is a very magical feeling of love, which only intensifies over time. But those who did not want to give up their pride and their power qualities run away. And they find people they don't like. They live with them at the level of reason - love is not important, only suffering comes from it. There is money, there is appearance, there is reason, we will raise children on reason, according to the rules. But happiness does not work.

Mind is a good thing but not the ultimate truth. Mind is material energy. It is said that there is spiritual love, there is earthly love. I told you that you can love any person with spiritual love. But the earth is impossible. You can only love someone whom God has given. And if you refuse to go through the breaking of pride, refuse to love - the soul closes, and illnesses begin. Do not close love in yourself, regardless of whether a person is alive or not, next to you, or with another person. If you do not tear out love from your heart, then your soul will be very powerful. And you will feel constant energy and joy of life.

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There is a huge difference in how the soul and personality perceive and express love. For a person, love is a deep sensual-emotional experience of attachment to another person. So deep that a person feels in his Beloved a source of meaning, and life, and the future. It seems that only merging with a loved one on all planes of life is able to give this meaning, future and feeling of life. An attraction that forms a strong bond with the object of love, with the need to constantly think about the beloved, to be near him, to see, hear, feel, smell, touch.

In fact, it is the saturation of the image of a loved one with all five senses, which is seen as a life filled with meaning. That is, the meaning of life in this case is seen in the richness, fullness of feelings and emotions that love for a loved one gives.

Precisely because love is used to satisfy an emotional-sensory need, it cannot be controlled by the mind. As they say, the mind is silent when the heart speaks. And this deep feeling contains a huge transmuting power - love can radically change a person down to the cellular level.

But in view of the fact that emotions are affected, the astral body, it causes excitement on the entire scale of emotions, ranging from extremely positive - euphoria, and ending with extremely negative - suffocating hopelessness.

It is the passage of consciousness through this whole scale of experiences that determines the value of the love of a person. Thanks to such an intense experience, a person opens his heart, and over time, acquiring, selfish and demanding love is transformed into sacrificial, radiant, selfless love. Such love becomes an inexhaustible source of creativity, and there are many examples of this in history.

Gradually, such a development of the heart-creative perception of the world leads to an understanding of love in the capacity in which the Soul understands it. And for the Soul, true love is a synonym for wisdom. Such love perfectly sees flaws along with virtues. She does not seek to retain and appropriate. All its activity is aimed at helping the inner life to free itself from the fetters of physical-sensory perception. The Love of the Soul always wisely sees those who really need help, and those who do not need it, although they scream about the opposite. Love of the Soul is able to read the thoughts of another person's heart, which are always striving for unity. It is the unity of everyone and everything that strives to hold the love of the Soul. She never divides into “yours” and “mine”, she sees all Souls as a single whole with a single goal, which is to find happiness.

And the love of the Soul is not blind, unlike the love of the personality. Wisdom is a mixture of love and intellect, and therefore the Soul, being wise, is capable of discrimination, and sees counter-currents.

For a person, love is the ability to accept a loved one as he is, with all the shortcomings.

For the Soul, love is a vision of both virtues and faults, and this vision is directed towards helping the loved one overcome the faults so that the inner Life can express itself unhindered. But at the same time, the Soul, in principle, is not able to impose its opinion or vision. She always leaves the object of love free.

For a person, this is difficult, because a strong connection with a loved one provides the necessary source of life, meaning, nourishes feelings. And this connection is always imposed either by one person or both.

According to esoteric psychology, the love of the Soul is pure reason. It has nothing to do with emotions and feelings in the way that is customary for a person. It has more to do with intuition, which always sees the meaning of everything that happens, which always sees everything in Unity.

The main quality of the Soul's love that everyone can see is joy, a quiet, ringing joy, calmly pouring out with complete trust in the world and in fate, because the Soul always knows that any event in life, no matter how tragic it may look, always and inevitably leads to happiness from a sense of freedom. And only time, that great illusionist, hides this beautiful final goal.

Therefore, the love of the Soul is based on the vision of meaning and meaning, it is full of Trust in the World.

And the love of personality, blind from ignorance of meaning and meaning, misled by the fireworks of emotions, separated from the mind, suffers from mistrust. She always struggles to lose a loved one, because this loss is tantamount to death.

Love of the Soul releases from the intensity of experiencing the love of the personality. The Love of the Soul is directed by the occult Law of Magnetic Control, which spreads on the intuitive plane of Existence. And the love of the personality is directed by the Law of Love, which is relevant only for the astral plane.

With love, Sofia Nizhegorodskaya

Theophilia is the religion of the spirit; cosmophilia is the religion of the flesh. Cosmophilia is turned to the cosmos - it is the object of human love. This love can reach inspiration and ecstasy. A person feels himself a particle of the grandiose reality of the cosmos, a jet of its energy, a ray of its light. He may or may not believe in God, but in fact, in his deep worldview, the cosmos is a deity. For him, the cosmos is a cup boiling with vitality, infinity in time and space, from which the human spirit is captured, a song that has sounded and will sound forever. The religion of the cosmos is falling in love with it and quivering contemplation of its enchanting beauty.

Cosmophilia is the joy and enjoyment of being itself. For the ancient cosmophiles, God did not exist outside the cosmos; for modern - God is only a dead abstraction. Cosmophilia is a call to a person to feel his unity with the universe, to feel its creative forces and energies, to feel the powerful breath of the cosmos in his chest, to realize that human nature is part of the universe. The cosmos is material and corporeal, therefore admiration and worship of human flesh clearly emerges in paganism. In ancient art, the cult of bodily beauty was elevated to a high degree. Man is the highest manifestation of the living cosmos, hence the naive anthropomorphism of pagan religion and the Promethean humanism of mythology. Paganism was a theology of joy and beauty, but a theology in which there was no God: His place was taken by the cosmos, in its majesty and power, and man, in its intellectual upsurges and passionate feelings. In paganism there was no doctrine of the rebirth of man, it was replaced by the catharsis of mysteries and theatrical performances, where heroism and virtue in a collision with inexorable fate received a tragic denouement. Catharsis could only have a temporary effect on a person's soul - like a bow strike on the strings, a sound similar to the moan of a dying person arises and immediately disappears. The relapse of pagan humanism was clearly manifested in the Renaissance. This is a call from Christ to Pan, from the beauty of the Divine to the beauty of the cosmos and man, from the spirit to the flesh.

Paganism was a religion of cosmic beauty and human pleasures, and against this background, Christianity seemed to the ancient world a fanatical sect, a religion of the mob and ignoramuses, a doctrine that robs people of the happiness that life gives them, a gloomy ghost of death during a feast. For the pagans, Christians were people devoid of a sense of beauty, haters of life, enemies of state foundations, a plague that threatens the existence of humanity itself.

Christianity has highlighted the illusory nature of pagan cosmophilia. It exposed the tragedy of a person, his sinful damage, internal disgrace, his demon likeness, something that paganism tried to hide or not know.

Christianity revealed to people the existence of a spiritual, invisible, eternal world, and expanded the horizons of human existence to infinity, where the cosmos itself is conceived not as a deity, but rather as the footstool of a person born for heaven.

Christianity revealed in man his true likeness to God and, at the same time, showed the depth of his fall, the ugliness of his passions and the path to another joy - the joy of transfiguration, the joy of communion with God, the joy of not only empirical existence, but returned paradise, the joy of grace - divine power, which regenerates man and makes him from a son of earth a son of heaven, from a spark that arises and goes out in time, a partaker of the eternal light of the Divine.

Christian morality has its source in theophilia, and pagan morality in cosmophilia. Gnosticism, Catholicism, the Renaissance, Protestantism and Theosophy are a retreat from theophilia towards cosmophilia. If you look at atheism as a type of religion, then its essence is also cosmophilia. Cosmophilia does not provide firm moral principles. Man is in constant dependence on the outside; he must either adapt himself to it, or accept it as inevitable, or try to adapt the external to himself.

Cosmophilia is tragic in its essence. It is impossible to find support in space, corruption and death rule there. Man, as a particle of the cosmos, is doomed to destruction. Excessive anthropophilia turns into anthropophagy, in which the person himself disappears. Losing a sense of eternity and his god-likeness, he loses himself, his inner self-identity and turns into a kaleidoscope of external, successive impressions. He seeks to find happiness and well-being in the acquisition of the external, which is actually alien to the human soul. Cosmophilia cannot satisfy the highest needs of the human spirit, it is powerless to revive a person, to destroy the dissonances of evil and sin in him and his environment. This is the joy of intoxication, which can give oblivion from the hardships of life, but not make a person happy. Therefore, cosmophilia is dramatic optimism.

Let's make some digression. As we have said, theophilia is spiritual love, and cosmophilia is spiritual love. In human nature one can distinguish spirit, soul and body. Spirit is the highest power of the soul, it is an eye directed towards God and capable of contemplating the invisible metaphysical world. The other eye of the soul is fixed on the earth; in fact, this lower part of the indivisible soul we call the soul. Body, soul and spirit have their own needs. But a person receives true joy only when the needs of the spirit are satisfied. Spiritual joy is experienced by a person as deep peace, as true happiness, which a person has found not in this world, but rather in renunciation of the world, not through the satisfaction of his passions, but through their taming. This joy is perceived as an invisible light, felt as a special warmth of the soul - the warmth of awakened life. This is a joy that never satiates a person, but in which all new secrets of being and the depths of his own soul are revealed. It was the feeling of this unearthly joy that gave strength to Christian martyrs to go to torture, to give everything, even life, so as not to lose this joy. For her sake, the monks went to monasteries, retreats and deserts, deepened their minds into their hearts, as if hiding in it, so as not to dispel this joy with other fleeting, ephemeral joys of the world and their own emotions. Spiritual joy gave the righteous the hardness of a stone during temptations and trials.

The fulfillment of some spiritual, and even more bodily needs cannot give a person true joy. How many rich people have been deeply unhappy in their lives. How many kings have seen their crown as a red-hot hoop. How many great commanders have been defeated by their petty passions. How many people with a bright emotional world and a subtle aesthetic sense, who gave eternal examples of art, experienced a deep crisis and ended their lives tragically. In contrast, the satisfaction of the needs of the spirit makes a person happy, no matter what state he is in, no matter what position he is in, no matter what work he does.

Sincere love is selective, it cannot love everyone: it loves some, as if attached to them; others are indifferent to her, as if they do not exist; to the third, the soulful person harbors hostility. Soul love itself is not free from selfishness. It depends on the changing mood of a person, on the attitude of those around him, and often goes out as quickly as it arises, and some emotional attachments are replaced by others. Passionate love can be expressed in strong emotions of the soul - how high the waves of the sea rise during a storm, but it is full of inner turmoil and anxiety. How often a person obsessed with such love hurts himself and the one he loves.

Unrequited love turns into a drama, and divided love turns from poetry into prose. Spiritual love includes a person in eternity, but spiritual love is a thread that can break at any moment: rarely, when it reaches the cemetery and ends at the grave. More often, disappointment or jealousy gnaws this thread with its teeth.

Spiritual love thinks first of all about eternal life, and sincere love about earthly. Soul love is a natural property of a person; spiritual love is an opportunity that is realized through grace. Spiritual love is, above all, love for God; its consequence is love for people, it is like a second reflected light. Without rays the sun cannot exist, and without the sun its rays cannot exist. Love for God is manifested through love for people; love for people has its source in love for God.

Many people cannot distinguish cosmophilia, which has a pantheistic character, from love for God, and spiritual love for people from spiritual love. How can a person know if he has spiritual love? Its first sign is a desire to pray for one's offenders, treating slanderers and rivals as one's friends, secret mercy to those who do evil. The second is a feeling of joy and consolation in the heart, when a person forgives all insults, lies, slander, deceit and wishes eternal salvation to his enemies. The third sign is when a person blames only himself for all misfortunes and misunderstandings, and justifies others. The fourth, when he considers himself worse and more sinful than all people, as if lying under everyone's feet. Fifth, when he loves solitude more than crowds and prefers solitary prayer to conversations with people. The sixth, when he thanks God for suffering as for mercy and the opportunity to touch with his lips the cup from which the Lord drank. The seventh sign is when he considers nothing in this world his own, but only given to him for a while and is not attached to anything by his soul. The eighth sign is a direct evidence of the heart itself, which found what it was looking for and did not find in the world - a deep peace of feelings and thoughts, in which there is no confusion, anxiety and contradictions. Ninth, the calmness with which a person looks forward to death, as the threshold of the resurrection.

The life of a Christian should become a path to the acquisition of spiritual love. Here constant work, asceticism, struggle with passions, repentance, obedience and humility are necessary. The lack of spiritual love is manifested in anxiety and discontent, in the incessant pursuit of external things, in ingratitude for what a person has, and in an impatient desire to change the situation, as if the inner disorder of life depends on it. The possessor of spiritual love struggles with two enemies: the demon and his own passions. The owner of spiritual love fights with people, paying little attention to his moral ulcers and forgetting about the existence of the demonic world. Spiritual love is simple and modest, it is silent and strict. She is like a hidden treasure - gold wrapped in a canvas. Soul love is verbose and eloquent; it looks like a decorated casket, inside which coppers are stored. Spiritual love gives a person freedom, she herself is the breath of eternity. Passionate love makes a person either a slave or a slave owner, and sometimes both at the same time.

The present age is a time of catastrophic impoverishment of love, both in social, family, and religious life. And, at the same time, the word "love" has become fashionable, having lost its original deep meaning. It lost its purity and chastity, and became some kind of muddy, prodigal, omnivorous love, often turning into a subject of speculation, with which they want to justify any lawlessness and ugliness, and this love began to be called spiritual, and sometimes even attributed to God.

We do not identify spiritual love with vicious love, but we warn that if the properties of spiritual and spiritual love are not clearly and clearly defined and delimited, but, on the contrary, are artificially mixed, then spiritual love as a usurper will take the place of spiritual and then the moral degradation of Christians and theological chaos in Orthodoxy will become inevitable.