SLAVE OR PRIEST?

The common purpose shared by all living creatures is unconditional love. 

Because human kind has been endowed with free will, they are in a position to deviate from the path of perfect love either from ignorance/unconsciousness or from malice, which is but another form of unconsciousness. Therefore, human beings have to enlighten themselves in order to be able to willingly serve the cause of love. By enlightenment is meant they have to become consciously aware of their lower self and its instinctual, emotional and mental behaviour patterns. Up until then your love is conditional, dualistic and as such dependent upon its contrary opposite, in the form of unhappiness, fear, dissatisfaction, hatred, evil, injustice etc.

The level upon which your consciousness is mainly focussed in your everyday life is the deciding factor in the question of whether you are a slave, servant or priest of love. Whether your love is free or conditioned.

Leading a mainly unconscious personal existence your life is being ruled by your instincts. Hence your loving, too, is a matter of instinctual reactions rather than something you are aware of and free to bestow or withhold. Instincts are domineering and unpredictable masters, leaving no space for free will.

If you are living your life guided by your emotions, you are like a low servant who is equally at the disposal of its master’s whims and fancies. But at least you are theoretically possessing the right of free will even though you are too dependent to be actually acting by it.

If you are a person who is mainly living upon the mental level, your love is bound to be principally lived in this sphere of existence, too. Here you are like a higher servant who is to some degree free to act according to your own decisions. You are in a position to command your feelings and instincts to a certain degree but you are still serving someone else’s interests and are conditioned thereby.

Whereas to be living in full awareness of your lower self and from the heart, you are like a priest who has freely and lovingly submitted himself to the service of God. You have given up yourself in order to dedicate your existence to the cause of love.