AN AWAKENING
| Love, indeed, is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire by Allah given.—Byron. |
HE expressions, “falling in love,” and “making love,” are terms suggesting something that is impossible.
No one falls in love. The experience of loving may come when a person has evolved where fine perceptions are possible. All living is an awakening process in which there are many degrees of consciousness. At a certain stage in his evolution, a human being is able to see and feel certain truth.
The imagination is a power which is developed with intellect and fine feeling. The imagination can create a world and people it. In this way, ideals are perpetually made. Humanity’s effort to realize ideals is evolution.
When man can image a human being that fulfils the highest ideal he can create, the soul rejoices. Man forgets the imperfect in his ecstacy when contemplating the perfect. And when one human being sees another human being who reminds him, more or less, of his ideal, he is said to love.
He does not “fall” nor “make,” he realizes, he awakens, and sometimes re-creates.