[Pryr-1.2-38]
Because all this turning towards Self is in reality turning from God, and as
much as we have of Self-love, is a hellish and earthly Weight, that it must be
taken off, or there can be no Ascension into Heaven.
But you wilt perhaps say, if all Self-love
is to be renounced, then how do we Love of our Neighbor? (Leviticus xix: 18; Mark xix:19) Isn’t that too renounced because the
Commandment is, only to love our Neighbor as ourselves.
The Answer here is easy, and yet no Quarter
given to Self-love.
There is but one only Love in Heaven, and while
the Angels of God do love one another in this manner, they also love themselves
as well, yet they do not fall under the Spell of Self-Love because they adhere
to a greater and more supreme form.
It is this form that is unchangeable &
pure and is the Law to all intelligent Beings of all Worlds, and the Law for
now & all Eternity: God alone is to
be loved for himself, and as all other Beings exist by Him, and for Him when one
Loves God, one loves all because when filled with love of God one is filled
with over-brimming love that knows no bounds.
Whatever intelligent Creature neglects this
Rule of Love, he then is so far fallen from the Order of his Creation, and is, until
He reforms & returns to this eternal Law of Love, an Apostate from God, and
incapable of the Kingdom of Heaven.
[Pryr-1.2-39] Now if God alone is to be
loved for Himself, then no Creature is to be loved for itself; and so all
Self-love in every Creature is absolutely condemned.
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