In last night’s post, “Love: Metaphysically Speaking,” I discussed love as an attractive force, such as in the case of the love of God. But what is this love of others that we hear so frequently about? Jesus continued his discussion of this concept in Matthew 22:39-40:
And the second command is like the first: ‘You must love other people the same as you love yourself.’ All of the law and the writings of the prophets take their meaning from these two commands.
Spiritually speaking, loving others is the attraction of the Spirit that resides in each and every one of us. This is a representation of the Spirit which the True God manifests. In order to manifest this love, we seek to bring our bodies closer to each other (sometimes driven by other feelings that I definitely don’t have to explain).
While it is easy to say that we must move toward one another and unite our Spirits to express this love, that is much easier said than done, at least in this world. It can be quite frustrating when we are Spirits in a Material existence and are often distracted into not realizing that we are Spirits at all! While success in this matter may only be fully realized in other states of beings or in what some may term Heaven, we must constantly seek to address this similarity and God-likeness in each other. By realizing this commonality in others, we move toward bringing about love, and we allow others to love us.
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