{Crucifixion and Love [continued (6)]}[13th October 1989]

[Redbook6:311-312][19891013:0941f]{Crucifixion and Love [continued (6)]}[13th October 1989]

19891013.0941

[continued]

In an earlier session,* I offered to give a lift to a lad without transport, living 8 miles in the opposite direction [to me], to and from every course, if no one nearer would do it. [W] is giving two children a lift to and from a different school on her route to and from [d]’s school every day, because the family have no car. This is not charity in the modern sense, but it is I believe the beginning of the Virtue at g~ which used to be translated as Charity, which I prefer to call by some such term as Loving-kindness, ie Applied Love. I suppose r~ is Pure Love, and at C perhaps Divine Love, which is the Attraction to Unity? There is a kind of Love at j~, too, but I do not yet know its name: I know its nature, though, a type of creative, fiery, political, shaking-and-stirring kind of Love: the fire of Love, perhaps, but not (I imagine) as Rolle** would have meant it. And so on...?

In the inner development of communities,*** g~ corresponds to the cluster or group of neighbours within which one lives (C is the Individual, r~ the Family, j~ the Parish or Ward – the smallest formal political unit, normally).****

*[of the Welsh course; see last previous entries]

**[Richard Rolle, c1300-1349, English mystic, hermit, & writer of ‘The Fire of Love’]

***(ref earlier vol [eg [Redbook1:114-116][19700120:1605]{The Cluster}[20th January 1970] (concept later incorporated into the subsequently destroyed Locality Plan);

[[Redbook3:176-180][19870412:2137](FREEDOM AND COMMUNITY)[12th April 1987], at

[Redbook3:177-178][19870412:2137b](FREEDOM AND COMMUNITY [continued])[12th April 1987] & [Redbook3:178-180][19870412:2137c](FREEDOM AND COMMUNITY [continued(3)])[12th April 1987];

[Redbook4:33][19870710:0855f]{COMMUNITY}[10^th July 1987]];

[Redbook4:126-127][19871014:2155d]{Generalisation and Specialisation [continued (4)]}[14th October 1987];

& cf [Redbook4:132][19871018:2352c]{Angelic Hierarchies [continued (3)]}[18th October 1987]])

****{No longer – revised [[Redbook6:343][19891031:0008]{Government Circles revised}[31st October 1989],] p343 – g~ = ward, r~ = family & friends, j~ = district}

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