Dorothy Tennov's (1979) scientific work "Love and Limerence" breaks open the deep and true understanding of 'Abdu'l-Baha's explanation of the following Tablet, clarifying the scientific reality of the character, form and intent of his words, as correctly translated into English.
The Tablet of the Four Loves has been shown, in The Covenant of Love Presentation (23.9.23), to correspond to the four aspects of the Covenant in which "Limerence" (fear-based infatuation) is the Test. The Everlasting Covenant; the Most Great Covenant, the Greater Covenant, and the Lesser Covenant as understood and discerned by the Baha'is is super-charged by the One Power of these Four Loves!
Dorothy Tennov is a super genius! And this scientific study all future historians will agree is one of the singular most important discoveries of the 20th Century--a firm foundation for ameliorating the underlying causes of war, and a firm foundation for personal awareness that backs up the type of disciplined human discernment and understanding needed to uphold the prophesied Kellogg-Briand Paris Peace Pact for the Oneness of Humanity and the firm personal foundations for Universal Peace for all time!
The effort that Dorothy Tonnev has put into this work and the many cooperating minds that have gone forward to generalize this understanding for neural diversity, the overcoming of co-dependency, and the strengthening of healthy human relationships cannot--and should not--ever be underestimated.
This is a must-read for all people who freely wish to live in pure LOVE emancipated from limerence and who wholeheartedly strive for divine Alchemy of a limerent-free foundation for a Golden Age of true Golden Civilization! Understanding the mechanisms of limerent relationships, addictive behaviors, and overcoming limerent-reactive enslavement is a truly liberating experience for members of all sexes and genders who seek to be valued and seen in worth as persons with real goals, dreams, and a true purpose in life. That mainstream society capitalize upon fear-based limerent susceptibilities, doubts, paranoia, and fear, is all completely overthrown by this Most radical and revolutionary approach to true love, the very real foundation of peace of heart, peace of mind, and peace on earth for all ones.
This must-read study on the discernment of love from fear-based limerence cannot either be underestimated nor ignored. This work should be included in high-school core curriculum so that burgeoning adults, and adolescents can have the best possible education to avoid limerent "games people play", remain immune from limerent attacks, and stay in firm resolve of upholding the personal truth we all carry inside, saying: "I know who I am", the Supreme Self as partakers of the unfoldment of the Divine Plan, both personally and for society. How many an addict can be saved from limerence insecurities! How many a suicide can be prevented by understanding the pit-falls of limerence fears blocking true love and exacerbating the crises of existential isolation from real love!
Greater then the genius of e=mc2, Dorothy Tonnev shall be seen as the foremost genius of the 20th Century! The Century that made war illegal in 1928, and the Century that exposed one of the primary causes of war, limerent-confusion in the path of true love!
It is this author's sincere hope that all people shall attain to overcoming limerence and all limerent objects that have clouded the minds with a clutter, now that Dorothy Tennov's work has enabled us to easily make fast the way to the good life and life abundantly. May her monumental work and her name live on for 5000 Centuries of this New Aquarian Cycle: a bulwark against the toxic, a Stronghold in the House of Love!
Everyone who learns this discernment between Love and Limerence has a chance to survive and thrive! Esp. in these days of rampant war, and prejudiced and inflamed passions that only serve to divide and conquer, separating the servants from the servants via malicious infighting of fear-based material concerns.
Humanity as a whole, and individuals in particular, will benefit greatly from Dorothy Tonnev's pioneering work!
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Oct 27, 2024
TABLET OF THE FOUR LOVES
(One for each Chamber of the Heart!)
The Four Kinds of Love
Source: – Paris Talks
97 Cadogan Gardens, London | Saturday, January 4th, 1913
WHAT a power is love! It is the most wonderful, the greatest of all living powers.
Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful.
In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love. When the heart of man is aglow with the flame of love, he is ready to sacrifice all--even his life. In the Gospel it is said God is love.
There are four kinds of love. The first is the love that flows from God to man; it consists of the inexhaustible graces, the Divine effulgence and heavenly illumination. Through this love the world of being receives life. Through this love man is endowed with physical existence, until, through the breath of the Holy Spirit--this same love--he receives eternal life and becomes the image of the Living God. This love is the origin of all the love in the world of creation.
The second is the love that flows from man to God. This is faith, attraction to the Divine, enkindlement, progress, entrance into the Kingdom of God, receiving the Bounties of God, illumination with the lights of the Kingdom. This love is the origin of all philanthropy; this love causes the hearts of men to reflect the rays of the Sun of Reality.
The third is the love of God towards the Self or Identity of God. This is the transfiguration of His Beauty, the reflection of Himself in the mirror of His Creation. This is the reality of love, the Ancient Love, the Eternal Love. Through one ray of this Love all other love exists.
The fourth is the love of man for man. The love which exists between the hearts of believers is prompted by the ideal of the unity of spirits. This love is attained through the knowledge of God, so that men see the Divine Love reflected in the heart. Each sees in the other the Beauty of God reflected in the soul, and finding this point of similarity, they are attracted to one another in love. This love will make all men the waves of one sea, this love will make them all the stars of one heaven and the fruits of one tree. This love will bring the realization of true accord, the foundation of real unity.
But the love which sometimes exists between friends is not (true) love, because it is subject to transmutation; this is merely LIMERENCE. As the breeze blows, the slender trees yield. If the wind is in the East the tree leans to the West, and if the wind turns to the West the tree leans to the East. This kind of "love" is originated by the accidental conditions of life. This is not love, it is merely acquaintanceship--LIMERENCE; it is subject to change.
Today you will see two souls apparently in close friendship; tomorrow all this may be changed. Yesterday they were ready to die for one another, today they shun one another’s society! This is not love; it is the yielding of the hearts to the accidents of life. When that which has caused this “love” (LIMERENCE) to exist passes, the love passes also; this is not in reality love.
Love is only of the four kinds that I have explained. (a) The love of God towards the identity of God. Christ has said God is Love. (b) The love of God for His children—for His servants. (c) The love of man for God and (d) the love of man for man. These four kinds of love originate from God. These are rays from the Sun of Reality; these are the Breathings of the Holy Spirit; these are the Signs of the Reality.
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