4-14. Love yourself, first, and all the world will fall into alignment with what you offer to yourself. Love will show you a transformed world, a garden in which you are forever free.
The ego cannot love. This statement, seemingly so very simple in presentation and understandable in scope, cannot be appropriately encapsulated within any form of expression that is capable of being rendered into any meaningful form of conveyance that can be effected within this world, for it speaks to a much greater structure of Reality and Unity that must be Experienced individually before it can be allowed to unfold into the greatest amount of liberation that any mind can experience. This is not to say that the ego is the opposite of Love, for Love is unopposed in any and all forms, nor is the ego antithetical to Love, for what comparison is sensical at all when one is propositioned to present some form of rationality that pits that which is illusion and nothingness against the summary Whole of all of Creation, so very Perfect indeed and Complete in all of is presentations and effects, no matter what situation or structure is evaluated as being derivative of Love? All that that could possibly be is conjecture of a nature that is not at all efficacious or illustrative of the Nature of Love, for it is merely contemplation, when Love is to be Experienced before it is Accepted in its Totality. What is described as the love of the ego is but the most meagre of alliances with desire as some form of replacement for the contentedness and fulfillment that will accompany a release of all that is requested as a substitute for the ministrations of Love, so infinitely gentle in application and outrageously powerful in utilization. When you experience the transformation of attachment, represented under the guise of love given unto another, into the appropriate and accurate expression of Love Experienced within this world of form, all desires will subside and eventually cease, for to Love another as God Loves all of the Children of God is to Give to them all that it is possible to provide whilst requesting nothing at all in return, for Love is Given - it cannot be demanded. This is a rare Experience in relation to romantic entanglements, at least as of yet for the vast majority of the now incarnate Children of God, for almost all are taught from a very tender age that love unrequited or unreciprocated is equally unappreciated, or even unjustified in its offering. That is incorrect, and it is an error of perception that is grave indeed, for to transform the love of affection and desire for recognition into the Love that is the Appreciation that sparked all that was to be created by the Children of God, there must come a great undoing of all desires for acknowledgement in any form at all, so that Love can flow freely and effortlessly, rather than being predicated upon some form of relinquishment of the freedom that every Child of God enjoys to be as they are best able to be, no matter how they are treated, or ignored, by any other Child of God. Independence and Freedom are your Creation-right, as it were, but they are rarely uptaken and genuinely lived by most, simply because they remain steadfastly unwilling to love themselves first, before they attempt to find such a self-supporting expression of the Truth of God reflected within the arms of any other incarnate Child of God. There is one relationship that is far more likely to engender such expression of unconditional and unlimited Love within this world - the Love that any sane and rational parent will feel upwelling from the very depths of their hearts for their child or children. This is not without reflection within the Will of God, for what else would be an appropriate manner of expression of a relationship that is revelatory of the unlimitedness of Love other than for it to be easily and readily Experienced within the miracle of birth and the raising of a newly-incarnate soul, encased within flesh and form but unburdened, at least initially, by so many of the lessons in ignorance and farcical error that so quickly subsume the lightness and joy of the newborn babe? Because the relationship between parent and child is a direct reflection of the Nature of Creation - namely, that one great Creator spawned an entire legion of Children, each possessed of the Nature of God and wholly Loved without limit and without end, it is much easier to experience the unlimitedness and unconditionality of Love within the care of a child, for what is it that they need to do or accomplish to be worthy of the Love of their parent? Surely nothing at all would be the response of any who are possessed of rationality and even the most bare connect between their befuddled minds and infinite hearts, for they are all loved for who they are, not what they may or may not grow up to become. Love yourself as this - as your Creator does, for and because of who you are in Truth, and not dependent upon some subset of all of the possibilities and probabilities that are contained within the ambit of All That Is, for Love is not conditional and it cannot falter, no matter how much your faith in Love or your perceptions of yourself and your innate value may alter as you wind your way through the forest of the ego, journeying back towards God and Truth, on a Path that is clear but that can appear to be shady and unkempt, when you refuse your own innate ability to See with a Clarity that is Perfect in every possible manner that can be understood by any possessed of sanity at all. By Loving yourself, first and foremost, you align perfectly with the Will of God, a Will that defines your Freedom through Acceptance of the Perfection of Creation, a simple endeavour that is not at all difficult, but one that requires a level of Faith that is unknown to so many who remain ensconced within the ego’s walls of seemingly effective protection, but which are, in Truth, the transient obstructions of a prison that only you hold the key to releasing. You have wounded only yourself when you dreamed that you might be anything less than a perfect expression of the Divinity of Love, and it is only through your own effort to undo all that you believed to be real that you can be Freed again to be just as Love Is - eternal and complete with no requirement of justification in any manner at all. Being as this will transform all that you perceive from a wasteland of separated bodies and unconjoined hearts into a paradise of the greatest Peace, for you will become ever more able to See this world as it is - a temporary place of learning and a location within which all that was not Real could be explored, so that it could then be set aside and Love bidden to arise again within the very center of your heart. This world is not in conflict - it is neutral, just as all that is material is but at the mercy and direction of the Creator and the Created, equally and completely. This world will be as you make it out to be in your own mind, either a hellscape of endless pain or a vast paradise of infinite Peace, for all of perception is but a reflection of your own beliefs - it is not definatory in its own right at all. Your Freedom through Love is Certain. Your acceptance of this Truth is not. But that is of no consequence, for there is nothing more in front of you but the continuation of the time that you wish to spend being unloving to yourself in any manner at all, a Path that can end in the Heart of God whenever you wish, for all that you are bid to do is to release all that was never Real, so that all that is Certain can be Remembered, undoing all that never was and releasing you to be the most Perfect Expression of Love that you were always and eternally Created to be.