Love: the Urstoff
The first Greek philosophers sought the one substance or quality by which we could understand the world. German scholars, studying the early Greeks, named this one substance or quality the urstoff .
From love, by love, in love, for love God creates the world. The world God creates operates by the principle of love.
Love is the one principle by which we can understand the world.
Apart from love we cannot understand the world God creates.
Living in love aligns us with the fundamental principle of the world. Living contrary to love puts us in opposition to the essence of God and the world God creates.
Our Experience
We suffer when others don’t act in love towards us. What does that tell us? We suffer when we don’t act in love towards others. What does that tell us?
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