"The reduction of the universe to a single being, and the expansion of a single being to God, that's love "( Victor Hugo )
According intuition of the poet, the universal and the particular does not seem to oppose. The love one can be lead to love of all beings. The simple reason we dictate the necessary condition: not being closed on itself. For then, the beloved becomes absolute, idol and love also closes to the transcendent, to God. There is a risk in human love. But now, this risk is also an opportunity and a springboard.
Some thinkers have even dared to say that human love was a trap. I do not like the arrangement, but it becomes acceptable when it adds a trap divine a trap set by God. Understand: God is universal love does not tend a trap like a bad hunter! The words also are a trap ...
"The prudent avoid this trap, but the wise men were deceived, because you have this foolishness to attain true wisdom. Plato approves the delirium of love sensitive and Rochefoucauld recognizes that those who live without folly is not so wise as he thinks "(1)
I do not think we should condemn the" conservative "or applaud the "Wise". The choice may well be a matter of vocation. In many cases, human love begins with an irrational attachment: "I love only you." But that exclusivity is difficult to reconcile with the universal love that God asks us to love our enemies. Of course, this "impossible" universal love we put the bar very high, and does not seem very romantic, if somewhat abstract. What
would it add to make it more acceptable to our "me" rather selfish? Baudelaire, quoted by Thibon, says: "If the idea of virtue and love Universal is not involved in all our pleasures, our pleasures become torture and remorse "We need the talents of a Beaudelaire to say it in one sentence.
It is good to join the two extremes and live together. God alone is universal, while the beloved is particularly limited. The love of the universal separately makes it even more "limited and opaque." This limited love can lead to a dead lover, to make it inaccessible transcendence of both desired and lost. Spiritual Experience painful confronts a disillusionment which is often frustrated by human love.
Fortunately, the apparent impasse is not without solution. If human love sucks, more or less consciously, by exceeding the limits, it will not be a trap but a springboard. It is probably in the sense that it should be understood that this trap is "divine". Can put this in relation to these words of Christ: "I have come to light a fire on the earth"?
Exceeding our limits, however, must be understood not as an attempt by me on himself. He is quite incapable. But rather as an opening force that can save us. "Abandon yourself entirely to the fire of love, let yourself be consumed by him to the point where, finding no impurities to power the smoke, the flame turns any light ... It is the only smokeless fire in him must transmute our passions. "(1)
(1) G. Thibon
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