Some Visions of the One

God is Love. That might well be the summation of the most important of all mystical principles,and is undoubtedly and literally true. The Absolute does not HAVE Love, but IS love!

But to see the Absolute as ONLY Love, as magnificent as that is, is to reduce It from its incredible, fathomless greatness.

For the Absolute is also cosmic Mind. Check this out:

The only factor that is absolutely real within Mind-- within you and within me-- is cosmic Mind. The only real factor within the galaxies of cosmic Mind is unqualified goodness. And the only factor that is absolutely real within these oceans of goodness is Love.

So, God is the Love-response to self and cosmos, but God is also the cosmic Dreamer. This is the higher Self of traditional metaphysics, the deeper Self of mysticism, the "higher Power" of twelve-step programs, and the Brahman of the Upanishads.

It is Soul, but not just Soul; it is the still much deeper Spirit, oremind, Lovemind, or Superconscious, at the very core of the Unconscious. He/She/It uses your nervous system (senses) to bring your personal cosmos into being.

So, you could say, correctly, that the higher power has two interrelated functions: first, it Loves, lives in and through Love, is Love itself; secondly, out of pure Love for Souls, He/She dreams into being the entire cosmos. These might not be, in a larger analysis, two separate processes, but simply two ways of looking at a single Reality. To the intellectual mind, with its categorizations, it is two ways of understanding the One.