Definition of love

[zaramareis]

Thanks for you all your replies :- )

I've been meditating on the concept of 'universal love' lately from a direction that I believe is aligned with LOO.

I stumbled onto it via two directions:

1. Pondering social causes, quality, lack of discrimination, I realized that the most important point is to simply support everyone to experience life as they see fit, an ultimate cause a la Buddhism or Service-to-Others and the universe
   
2. Experimenting with specific inspired well-wishing for certain kinds of bliss that are fun to imaginatively offer, realizing that, hey, if they don't want this, maybe I'd love to wish for the fulfillment of their other desires, needs, fantasies, and dreams for the highest good and with divine balance (and if they don't accept any of these warm-wishes, may the energy go where it's welcome and appreciated).  Refining a rather particular metta-wish and noticing the subtle differences in feeling was interesting.
   

Eventually it hit me that, doh, this is essentially a view/distortion of universal love: the wish for everyone to experience life as they see fit.

This seems to fit with the primary distortion of free will -- the law of confusion. 

For while I can support you, I cannot know for you how you want to and choose to experience existence.

27.12 Questioner: I would like for you to define love in the sense— in its sense as the second distortion.

Ra: I am Ra. This must be defined against the background of intelligent infinity or unity or the One Creator with the primal distortion of free will. The term Love then may be seen as the focus, the choice of attack, the type of energy of an extremely, shall we say, high order which causes intelligent energy to be formed from the potential of intelligent infinity in just such and such a way. This then may be seen to be an object rather than an activity by some of your peoples, and the principle of this extremely strong energy focus being worshiped as the Creator instead of unity or oneness from which all Loves emanate.

And love in action is the choice of how to support Universe in flourishing as it wishes.  The direction of free will!

I find it interesting that in LOO the law of confusion comes first.  As I've noticed that love seems to imply liberty, for love involves cherishing your directionality and supporting it ?.  Maybe this is because "everyone" and "individuation" as in my conception/distortion of Love require the law of confusion, already

It also seems that the passages meadow-foreigner shares suggest a conception of Love sans law of confusion (and thus also without self and other-selves)?  Perhaps the ordering is not so crucial, however ?.

Let us start from the beginning, from Ra's perspective:

13.5 Questioner: Thank you. Can you tell me of the first known thing in the creation?

Ra: I am Ra. The first known thing in the creation is infinity. The infinity is creation.

13.6 Questioner: From this infinity then must come what we experience as creation. What was the next step or the next evolvement?

Ra: I am Ra. Infinity became aware. This was the next step.

13.7 Questioner: After this, what came next?

Ra: I am Ra. Awareness led to the focus of infinity into infinite energy. You have called this by various vibrational sound complexes, the most common to your ears being “Logos” or “Love.” The Creator is the focusing of infinity as an aware or conscious principle called by us as closely as we can create understanding/learning in your language, intelligent infinity.

13.8 Questioner: Can you state the next step?

Ra: The next step is still at this space/time nexus in your illusion achieving its progression as you may see it in your illusion. The next step is an infinite reaction to the creative principle following the Law of One in one of its primal distortions, freedom of will. Thus many, many dimensions, infinite in number, are possible. The energy moves from the intelligent infinity due first to the outpouring of randomized creative force, this then creating patterns which in holographic style appear as the entire creation no matter which direction or energy is explored. These patterns of energy begin then to regularize their own local, shall we say, rhythms and fields of energy, thus creating dimensions and universes.

This almost paints a picture where the distortion of free will is itself an act of love ??

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As to why the mental gymnastics, for this one, intellectual insight furthers and guides heartfelt experience.  Exploring these notions of universal love help this one to experience more pure, distilled love.