This is not my original idea, but it makes sense to me that lust, greed, and other distortions of love are attempts by the incarnated, veiled soul to recapture in some form the blessings it enjoyed when it was One with the Creator. But we live in a world of shadows, so unless we rediscover our spiritual selves, we can only end up grasping at shadows and think it's the best we can get.
Lust can then be understood as a shadow of Love - whereas Love is a deep connection and harmonious union with another-self, lust without love is superficial, shallow, unsatisfying - like eating a cardboard cutout of a hamburger instead of the real thing, and this probably why the hunger known as lust generates more of the same, instead of satisfying, when a green-ray transfer is not present.
Along the same lines, lust is also a powerful expression of feeling incomplete without something external. Within Illusion, the self appears to need all kinds of things from external reality - our natural tendency is to look for most solutions "out there." In Reality, of course, everything we need is within, and our real work is to identify and remove the blockages inside ourselves which prevent us from receiving or accessing it.
Greed can be seen as missing and craving the effortless abundance of Creation as it exists beyond the veil -- an abundance which also provides the sense of security of always having everything you need.
Lust can then be understood as a shadow of Love - whereas Love is a deep connection and harmonious union with another-self, lust without love is superficial, shallow, unsatisfying - like eating a cardboard cutout of a hamburger instead of the real thing, and this probably why the hunger known as lust generates more of the same, instead of satisfying, when a green-ray transfer is not present.
Along the same lines, lust is also a powerful expression of feeling incomplete without something external. Within Illusion, the self appears to need all kinds of things from external reality - our natural tendency is to look for most solutions "out there." In Reality, of course, everything we need is within, and our real work is to identify and remove the blockages inside ourselves which prevent us from receiving or accessing it.
Greed can be seen as missing and craving the effortless abundance of Creation as it exists beyond the veil -- an abundance which also provides the sense of security of always having everything you need.
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