Ancient cosmology gave a symbolic picture of the universe. We can get an image of the primordial Mind from its expression, the cosmos, and from ourselves. “The stars are a theophany of radiating intelligences…” writes Anthony Damiani. We look up at the sky, and see vast space and stars. So too, we are vast no-thing, and radiating energy centers. Plotinus: as we look up in the heavens… we wonder: what great being gave rise to this marvel.
How can a person fully express himself unless he fully develops himself? The spiritual evolution which requires him to abandon the ego runs parallel to the mental evolution which requires him to perfect it. (8:1.158)
Love is our nature. Fear is the feeling of separateness. When we are in our reality, there is only Love: which is being. As Rumi says: from the view of love “there is not even one, how can there be two.”
Fear and desire are the deep nature of egoism. They can arise when we don’t really know who and what we are.