{Love, Sex and Marriage [continued (3)]}[27th August 1990]

[Redbook7:256][19900827:1050d]{Love, Sex and Marriage [continued (3)]}[27th August 1990]

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In terms of Love, this* implies that such a narrow marriage involves the Christian model of loving-kindness at g~, but not ἐρως,** sexual love, at j~, – and not that pure Love which is the first degree of Love, at r~. There are two further implications of this:

(1) that because all truth flows from C, loving-kindness which does not include or flow from pure Love at r~ is essentially a hollow form of Love [sic]; and

(2) that a marriage without a balance of sexual love is incomplete (and also of course likely to cause sexual frustration).

I believe that pure love at r~, or the sector c-r~, or perhaps the movement towards r~ generally, is the basis for romantic love, for ‘falling in love’. While the original intensity of this motivating (ie emotional) force presumably cannot last beyond true*** satisfaction in love, some element of romantic love, which is almost a kind of mutual worship,**** needs also to be incorporated in a full marriage.

*[See last previous journal entry]

**[See last previous journal entry but one, & [Redbook7:250][19900826:1728d]{The Three Loves}[26th August 1990]]

***[‘true’ inserted marginally]

****(ie re C?)

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