(© RKP, 1958)Love...2
The positive and negative elements, in the form known as masculinity and femininity, two aspects of a single manifestation, are in a state of imbalance in male and female respectively, each manifesting an excess of one element.
The association of male and female has the apparent effect of restoring this double imbalance to a state of equilibrium. Since the attainment of equilibrium is constantly and automatically sought throughout manifestation the mutual attraction of male and female, and the mutual need of one another, thereby becomes comprehensible.
But it is a need that can never attain fulfilment during life, nor anything but a simulation thereof. From this there results all sexual performances on the one hand, and all specific conflict between the sexes on the other.
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Contact of male and female, regardless of age or condition, always and inevitably constitutes an attempt at the reunion of separated elements and the re-establishment of a disturbed equilibrium.
But this process of contact may well constitute reunion in another dimension, temporarily at least, which is represented by a subtle relationship on the plane of manifestation that is described by terms such as romantic and sentimental.
But every such contact, between individuals (more accurately described as force-fields), however separated by circumstances and unknown to one another, may constitute a union on the plane that is beyond the apprehension of our senses.
The more dynamic and less impermanent examples of this universal process are somewhat inappropriately called 'love'.
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