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What is love?
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Is it an emotion?
- Is it charity or eros?
- Love is the reflection of the light of the one who has cleansed his heart from his passions.
- Love is God ...who dwells in cleansed hearts.
- One may first love a fair form
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From beautiful bodies he may proceed to beautiful minds contemplating...
- The beauty of laws and institutions
- the beauty of sciences
- The universal beauty and the beauty of nature
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Until finally he will behold the absolute beauty of the cause of all the creations, that supreme being of love
- Thus he will bring forth wisdom and real virtue and vice verca