TCR 507 - We Are Given Three Universal Loves

TCR 507 [2, 3, 6]

There are three universal loves 
enkindled in every person from creation: 
the love of the neighbor, a spiritual love, 
which is the love of performing uses; 
the love of the world, a material love, 
which is the love of possessing wealth; 
and the love of self, a corporeal love, 
which is the love of ruling over others. 
A person is truly a person 
when the love of the neighbor, 
or the love of performing uses, 
constitutes the head; 
and the love of the world, 
or the love of possessing wealth, 
constitutes the breast and the abdomen; 
and the love of self, or the love of ruling, 
constitutes the feet and the soles of the feet. 
If, however, the love of the world 
constitutes the head, 
the person is as it were hunch-backed; 
but if the love of self constitutes the head, 
he is like a person standing 
not on his feet but on the palms of his hands, 
with his head downwards and his haunches upwards.

When the love of performing uses 
constitutes the head, 
and the other two loves constitute in their order 
the body and the feet, 
the person appears in heaven with an angelic face 
and a beautiful rainbow about his head.

. . . No one is wise in spirit 
except by the Lord's doing; 
this happens when he is born again 
and created anew by the Lord.'