#38 How to love one's neighbor as one's self
[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...