The manifestation of the love of the Divine in the world was the great holocaust, the supreme self-giving. The Perfect Consciousness accepted to be merged and absorbed into the unconsciousness of matter, so that consciousness might be awakened in the depths of its obscurity and little by little a Divine Power might rise in it and make the whole of this manifested universe a highest expression of the Divine Consciousness and the Divine love. This was the supreme love, to accept the loss of the perfect condition of supreme divinity, its absolute consciousness, its infinite knowledge, to unite with unconsciousness, to dwell in the world with ignorance and darkness.
<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p6</ref>
On the physical plane the Divine expresses himself through beauty, on the mental plane through knowledge, on the vital plane through power and on the psychic plane through love.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/the-divine-working-in-the-universe#p6</ref>
= How to Love? = And what is On the first gesture of love? To give oneself, to serve. What is its spontaneous, immediate, inevitable movement? To serve. To serve in a joyous, complete, total self-giving. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/6-march-1957#p5</ref> A psychic fire within must be lit into which all is thrown with physical plane the Divine Name upon it. In that fire all expresses himself through beauty, on the emotions are compelled to cast off their grosser elements and those that are undivine perversions are burned away and the others discard their insufficienciesmental plane through knowledge, till a spirit of largest love and a stainless divine delight arises out of on the flame vital plane through power and smoke and frankincense. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p12</ref> == Bhakti and Love == Love, bhakti, surrender, on the psychic opening are the only short cut to the Divine—or can be; for if the plane through love and bhakti are too vital, then there is likely to be a seesaw between ecstatic expectation and viraha, abhimāna, despair, which will make it not a shortcut but a long one, a zigzag, not a straight flight, a whirling round one's own ego instead of a running towards the Divine.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2915/the-centraldivine-processesworking-ofin-the-sadhanauniverse#p18p6</ref>
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