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The whole universe is to him full of love and love alone—that is how it seems to the true lover. So when a man has this love in him, he becomes eternally blessed, eternally happy and this blessed madness of divine love alone, can cure for ever the disease of the world that is in us.
We all have to begin as dualists in the religion of love. God is to us a separate being, and we feel ourselves to be separate beings also. Love then comes in the middle and man begins to approach God—and God also comes nearer and nearer to man. Man takes up all the various relationships of life-as father, as mother, as son, as friend, as master, as lover-and projects them on his ideal of love, on his God. To him God really becomes all these, and the last point of his progress is reached when he feels that he has become absolutely merged, in the object of his worship. We all begin with love for ourselves, and the unfair claims of
