a little reflection about divine love

Here's a little reflection about divine love...

... for those of you who - like me, sometimes struggle to feel connected to it.

Here we go:

"As above, so below; as within, so without"

... is the fundamental principle of action-and-knowledge-by-analogy that underlies all magical worldviews in all cultures, pithily expressed on the Emerald Tablet.

Without accepting this analogy as a premise, there's no way that magic or mysticism "makes sense" since without analogy there's no bridge of knowing between our subjective (occult, inner) experience and the subjective (occult, inner) experience of the world / divinity.

So if you're going to have faith in anything, I suggest putting your faith in this analogy, as it opens the doors to all other kinds of mysteries...

... through a very tangible, accessible means that we all learned about in grade school: analogy.

Analogy means: "This" is like "that" -

--analogy a subtle kind of metaphor that unlike pure metaphor does not assert total identity ("This" IS "that"; "The rose is a star") but instead makes room for difference while still holding everything in relationship of similarity: "The rose is *like* a star."

Ultimately, all pure metaphors are true, but it's very difficult to viscerally perceive that while grounded in our individual identities - meanwhile, analogy is more readily understood.

I was meditating on this recently and recalled that the analogy of the Emerald Tablet goes both ways:

"As below, so above; as without, so within."

So taking my own human self to be "the below" of divinity, I can extrapolate certain things about divinity by analogy:

1) I have a longing for the divine = the divine has a longing for me and all other beings

2) I dearly love my friends and family = the divine dearly loves its relations (which includes me)

3) I feel the pang of compassion when I contemplate the suffering of others = the divine feels pangs of compassion for me when I'm suffering.

.... this hit all hit me very strongly last night as I was reflecting on it, and I felt my heart filling up with love.

It felt like being in a wonderful hall of mirrors - I could perceive very directly how all the love pouring out of me was reflected and multiplied back to me by the mysterious "Other" - divinity, the world, the Universe.

I figured I would share this stream of thought...

.... since perhaps the logical process behind it can be of help to those of you who (like me) are a bit on the heady side and have trouble simply accepting and feeling comforted by (true) cliches like "the Universe loves you!"

best,

Carolyn

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