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Love is a force and an action. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/divine-love#p30</ref>
<center>~</center> Love is one of the great universal forces; it exists by itself and its movement is free and independent of the objects in which and through which it manifests. What you call love and think of as a personal or individual thing is only your capacity to receive and manifest this universal force. But because it is universal, it is not therefore an unconscious force; it is a supremely conscious Power. Consciously it seeks for its manifestation and realisation upon earth; consciously it chooses its instruments, awakens to its vibrations those who are capable of an answer, endeavours to realise in them that which is its eternal aim, and when the instrument is not fit, drops it and turns to look for others. Men think that they have suddenly fallen in love; they see their love come and grow and then it fades—or, it may be, endures a little longer in some who are more specially fitted for its more lasting movement. But their sense in this of a personal experience all their own was an illusion. It was a wave from the everlasting sea of universal love.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p2</ref> <center>~</center>
Love is universal and eternal; it is always manifesting itself and always identical in its essence. Love does not manifest in human beings alone; it is everywhere. Its movement is there in plants, perhaps in the very stones; in the animals it is easy to detect its presence. Love, the eternal force, has no clinging, no desire, no hunger for possession, no self-regarding attachment; it is, in its pure movement, the seeking for union of the self with the Divine, a seeking absolute and regardless of all other things. What human beings have made of it, we do not need to say; they have turned it into an ugly and repulsive thing. And yet even in human beings the first contact of love does bring down something of its purer substance; they become capable for a moment of forgetting themselves, for a moment its divine touch awakens and magnifies all that is fine and beautiful. But afterwards there comes to the surface the human nature, full of its impure demands, asking for something in exchange, bartering what it gives, clamouring for its own inferior satisfactions, distorting and soiling what was divine.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p3</ref>
 
==Nature of Love==
In its essence, in its origin, love is like a flame, a white flame which overcomes ''all'' resistance. You can experience this yourself: whatever the difficulty in your being, whatever the burden of accumulated error, ignorance, incapacity and bad will, a single ''second'' of this pure, essential, supreme love dissolves it as in an all-powerful flame; a single moment and a whole past can disappear; a single instant in which you ''touch'' it in its essence and a whole burden is consumed.
[Based on Aphorism 49- To feel and love the God of beauty and good in the ugly and the evil, and still yearn in utter love to heal it of its ugliness and its evil, this is real virtue and morality.]<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-49#p11,p12</ref> <center>~</center> ...it is the joy of identity. Something must be there already which can become conscious of the identity, and that precisely is love. Then comes the manifestation of love. And in its supreme form, that is, when it returns to its source crossing all the phases of its manifestation, it becomes the bliss of union. For the feeling of union comes as a consequence of the feeling of separation. The passage through the whole manifested universe gives the feeling of separation from the Origin; and the return to the Origin is the bliss of union, that is, the two things that were separated are united once again. And it is still Love; it is Love after the great circuit of the manifestation. When it returns to its Origin, it becomes the bliss of union.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/26-august-1953#p6,p7</ref> <center>~</center>
Love is in its nature the desire to give oneself to others and to receive others in exchange; it is a commerce between being and being.Physical life does not desire to give itself, it desires only to receive..It is true that it is compelled to give itself, for the joy of identity. Something life which only receives and does not give must be there already which can become conscious of the identitybarren, wither and that precisely perish,—if indeed such life in its entirety is love. Then comes the manifestation of love. And possible at all here or in its supreme formany world; but it is compelled, that isnot willing, when it returns to its source crossing all obeys the phases subconscious impulse of its manifestation, Nature rather than consciously shares in it becomes the bliss of union. For Even when love intervenes, the feeling of union comes as self-giving at first still preserves to a consequence large extent the mechanical character of the feeling subconscious will in the atom. Love itself at first obeys the law of separation. The passage through hunger and enjoys the whole manifested universe gives receiving and the feeling of separation exacting from others rather than the Origin; giving and surrendering to others which it admits chiefly as a necessary price for the return thing that it desires. But here it has not yet attained to its true nature; its true law is to establish an equal commerce in which the Origin joy of giving is equal to the bliss joy of union, that is, receiving and tends in the two things end to become even greater; but that were separated are united once again. And it is still Love; when it is Love after shooting beyond itself under the great circuit pressure of the manifestationpsychic flame to attain to the fulfilment of utter unity and has therefore to realise that which seemed to it not-self as an even greater and dearer self than its own individuality. When it returns to In its Originlife-origin, it becomes the bliss law of unionlove is the impulse to realise and fulfil oneself in others and by others, to be enriched by enriching, to possess and be possessed because without being possessed one does not possess oneself utterly. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0521/26the-ascent-augustof-1953life#p6,p7p9</ref>
Love is in its nature the desire to give oneself to others and to receive others in exchange; it is a commerce between being and being. Physical life does not desire to give itself, it desires only to receive. It is true that it is compelled to give itself, for the life which only receives and does not give must become barren, wither and perish,—if indeed such life in its entirety is possible at all here or in any world; but it is compelled, not willing, it obeys the subconscious impulse of Nature rather than consciously shares in it. Even when love intervenes, the self-giving at first still preserves to a large extent the mechanical character of the subconscious will in the atom. Love itself at first obeys the law of hunger and enjoys the receiving and the exacting from others rather than the giving and surrendering to others which it admits chiefly as a necessary price for the thing that it desires. But here it has not yet attained to its true nature; its true law is to establish an equal commerce in which the joy of giving is equal to the joy of receiving and tends in the end to become even greater; but that is when it is shooting beyond itself under the pressure of the psychic flame to attain to the fulfilment of utter unity and has therefore to realise that which seemed to it not-self as an even greater and dearer self than its own individuality. In its life-origin, the law of love is the impulse to realise and fulfil oneself in others and by others, to be enriched by enriching, to possess and be possessed because without being possessed one does not possess oneself utterly. <refcenter>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-ascent-of-life#p9~</refcenter>
The gnostic life will exist and act for the Divine in itself and in the world, for the Divine in all; the increasing possession of the individual being and the world by the Divine Presence, Light, Power, Love, Delight, Beauty will be the sense of life to the gnostic being. In the more and more perfect satisfaction of that growing manifestation will be the individual's satisfaction: his power will be the instrumentation of the power of Supernature for bringing in and extending that greater life and nature; whatever conquest and adventure will be there, will be for that only and not for the reign of any individual or collective ego. Love will be for him the contact, meeting, union of self with self, of spirit with spirit, a unification of being, a power and joy and intimacy and closeness of soul to soul, of the One to the One, a joy of identity and the consequences of a diverse identity. It is this joy of an intimate self-revealing diversity of the One, the multitudinous union of the One and a happy interaction in the identity, that will be for him the full revealed sense of life.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-gnostic-being#p21/ref>
 
==Origin of Love==
''Q. Where does love come from?''
''A.'' Where does love come from? From the Origin of the universe.
...I say that love is a supreme force which the Eternal Consciousness has emanated in order to send it into the world. Love comes from that. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/26-august-1953#p3,p4,p5</ref> <center>~</center>
The material world in its darkness and ignorance had forgotten the Divine. Love came into the darkness; it awakened all that lay there asleep; it whispered, opening the ears that were sealed: 'There is something worth waking to, worth living for, and it is love!' And with the awakening to love there entered into the world the possibility of coming back to the Divine. The creation moves upward through love towards the Divine and in answer there leans downward to meet the creation the Divine Love and Grace. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/26-augusft-1953#p1</ref>
 
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When Consciousness separated from its Origin and became Inconscience, the Origin emanated Love to reawaken Consciousness from the depths of the Inconscience and bring it back into touch with its Origin.
It may be said that at its origin love is the supreme power of attraction which awakens, in response, the irresistible need of an absolute self-giving; they are the two poles of the urge towards complete fusion.
No other movement could, better and more surely than this, throw a bridge across the abyss dug by the sense of separation that comes from the formation of the individual. It was necessary to bring back to itself what had been projected into space without destroying for this purpose the universe created thus.
That is why love sprang up, the irresistible power of union. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/divine-love#p21,p22,p23</ref> 
=Types of Love=
==Divine Love==