LOVE AND VALENTINES DAY!

What an awesome celebration of love yesterday. The word “Love” has been interpreted and reinterpreted over the centuries by poets, the church, and roaming troubadours in the 11^th Century. When we are really young the association of sex with love was the driving vehicle behind our relationships. A lot of people who never grew up still make that association today. I guess I have yet to grow up!

What is love? Is it an emotional state of mind of desire for another person or thing? When Rabbi Jesus talked about love some of the things he said my give a clue. Keep in mind that religious writers did not start writing about the teachings Rabbi Jesus until almost 30 years after his death. Plenty time for writers to modify and create stories about what he might have taught about love.

It is taught in most churches that Rabbi Jesus said to “love thy God with all they heart and soul; to love your neighbor; to love your enemies, and to do unto others as you will have them do unto you.”

What kind of love was this that Rabbi Jesus allegedly taught during his ministry? It was discovered that in some of the scared documents in recent history that Rabbi Jesus, Moses, and Mary were students in the Temple Karnack in Africa (Egypt) where the sacred and secret knowledge about the behavior of human was taught. The motto over the front door was “Man Know Thy Self.” Africa was the birthplace of civilization and the principles of conduct taught in the New Testament and in the Torah. The Ten Commandments were copied directly from the Book of the Dead in Africa.

The Temple Priest taught that the source of creation flowed from one source that was unknowable and undefineable. That Source was responsible for creating every living thing and all that lives are a part of that source. That is, all living things are “One” and they eventually return to the Source.

When you harm or abuse another person, you harm and abuse yourself. If you kill another human being you kill a part of yourself. Every life is sacred and what you do unto another person will be done unto you.

This Source has been defined as “Love.” It is pure energy-light of unconditional love. It is love that gives life! When we serve others by giving to them, caring about them, we are aligning our self with the Source. We see our self in others and we treat them the way we want to be treated.

Because the current human condition in the world of the money changers is more about getting and not giving the battles created by anger, hatred, resentment, fear, greed, jealousy, and revenge do  not leave much room for love.

Each year, when we send a love note to someone expressing our oneness with them, and by the giving of a gift to recognize that the giving is the source of all life we follow an ancient tradition.

On February 14, the day Saint Valentine died in prison, it is to copy Saint Valentine (269AD) when he sign a note while in prison, to a young girl (his Jailers daughter) whom he was healing, that read, “From Valentine.”

Though we should be serving others by giving all the time, the one day a year, February 14, it’s truly an awesome experience feeling the love flowing from lovers all over the world.

Why was he in jail? He violated the Emperor Claudius II law against marrying young people. Claudius felt that unmarried men made better soldiers. As the saying goes, “love conquers all,” so in the end that law became void.

Keep giving, giving, and giving as much as you can to stay close to the Source (your heart is where the Source lives) while your head remains in the world.

Peace.