LOVE IS THE LIFE OF MAN

Mike G. — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:18:55 +0000

Man knows that there is such a thing as love, but he does not know what

love is. He knows that there is such a thing as love from common speech,

as when it is said, he loves me, a king loves his subjects, and subjects

love their king, a husband loves his wife, a mother her children, and

conversely; also, this or that one loves his country, his fellow citizens,

his neighbor; and likewise of things abstracted from person, as when it

is said, one loves this or that thing. But although the word love is so

universally used, hardly anybody knows what love is. And because one is

unable, when he reflects upon it, to form to himself any idea of thought

about it, he says either that it is not anything, or that it is merely

something flowing in from sight, hearing, touch, or interaction with

others, and thus affecting him. He is wholly unaware that love is his

very life; not only the general life of his whole body, and the general

life of all his thoughts, but also the life of all their particulars.

This a man of discernment can perceive when it is said: If you remove

the affection which is from love, can you think anything, or do anything?

Do not thought, speech, and action, grow cold in the measure in which the

affection which is from love grows cold? And do they not grow warm in the

measure in which this affection grows warm? But this a man of discernment

perceives simply by observing that such is the case, and not from any

knowledge that love is the life of man.

What the life of man is, no one knows unless he knows that it is love.

If this is not known, one person may believe that man’s life is nothing

but perceiving with the senses and acting, and another that it is merely

thinking; and yet thought is the first effect of life, and sensation and

action are the second effect of life. Thought is here said to be the first

effect of life, yet there is thought which is interior and more interior,

also exterior and more exterior. What is actually the first effect of life

is inmost thought, which is the perception of ends. But of all this

hereafter, when the degrees of life are considered.

Some idea of love, as being the life of man, may be had from the sun’s

heat in the world. This heat is well known to be the common life, as it

were, of all the vegetations of the earth. For by virtue of heat, coming

forth in springtime, plants of every kind rise from the ground, deck

themselves with leaves, then with blossoms, and finally with fruits, and

thus, in a sense, live. But when, in the time of autumn and winter, heat

withdraws, the plants are stripped of these signs of their life, and they

wither. So it is with love in man; for heat and love mutually correspond.

Therefore love also is warm.

GOD ALONE, CONSEQUENTLY THE LORD, IS LOVE ITSELF, BECAUSE HE IS LIFE

ITSELF AND ANGELS AND MEN ARE RECIPIENTS OF LIFE.

Jimi Hendrix, peace advocate, Seattle Boy

Mike G. — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:39:53 +0000

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

Jimi Hendrix was born on November 27, 1942

(American rock guitarist, composer and singer who fused American traditions of blues, jazz, rock, and soul with techniques of British avant-garde rock to redefine the electric guitar in his own image. 1942-1970)

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

Jimi Hendrix was born on November 27, 1942

He was an American rock guitarist, composer and singer who fused American traditions of blues, jazz, rock, and soul with techniques of British avant-garde rock to redefine the electric guitar in his own image. (1942-1970)

Bruce Lee, the poet

Mike G. — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:35:07 +0000

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”

Whore

Mike G. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:29:57 +0000

Quote the Raven…you saucy little evil whore, oh you, the Demon Goddess i cannot, i dare not, ignore…whom I shall love, forever more….whose knock enthralls forbidden lore, I would endure the lavish gore, assault mine ears with your glorious roar, ….you nasty little fuckin’ whore.

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LOVE IS THE LIFE OF MAN

Jimi Hendrix, peace advocate, Seattle Boy

Bruce Lee, the poet

Whore