Love is the most universal, formidable and mysterious of cosmic energies.
From the point of view of spiritual Evolution, It seems that we might be able to give a name and value to this strange energy of love.
Could it not be, in essence, the attraction which is exercised upon each conscious element by the center of the universe? The call toward the great union, whose attainment is the only real business in nature?
In this hypothesis (which conforms with the findings of psychonanalysis) love is seen as a primitive and universal psychic energy which gives significance to everything around us.
Thus, through woman the universe is really advancing toward man.
If man fails to recognize the true nature and the true object of his love, the disorder which follows is profound and irremediable.
Stubbornly trying to gratify a passion which opens on the Infinite with something that is simply inadequate, man desperately tries to make up for the fundamental disequilibrium brought about within him by a restless search for pleasures, especially those of a material character.
This is vanity and, in the eyes of anyone who even partly perceives the inestimable value of the “spiritual quantum of mankind, a frightening waste.
Look quite coldly, as a biologist or an engineer, at the reddening sky over a great city at night. There, and indeed everywhere else, the Earth is continuously dissipating in pure loss its most miraculous power.
The earth is burning uselessly. Idly. Wastefully. How much energy do you think is lost to the Spirit of Earth in one night?
Man must instead perceive the universal reality which shines spiritually through the flesh. He will then discover what has so far frustrated and perverted his power to love.
Woman is put before him as the attraction and the symbol of the world. He can unite with her only by enlarging himself in turn to the scale of the world. And because the world is always larger, and always unfinished, and always in advance of us, to achieve his love Man thus finds himself embarked on a limitless conquest of the Universe.
In this sense, Man can reach woman only though the consummation of the universal union.
Love is a sacred reserve of energy, and the very blood stream of spiritual evolution; that is the first discovery we can make from the Sense of Earth.
-Pierre Teillard de Chardin, Building the Earth
by ims1217