My Thoughts On Valentine's Day

The Poetry of Love

Spiritual poetry is the poetry of love. It expresses the love of the seeker, the love of the lover for the Beloved. Who is the Beloved? In spiritual poetry the Beloved is the Divine Essence, the mystic or spiritual poet my call the Beloved by another name, by one of the names of the Divine Messengers, but the Beloved is always the Divine Essence whether the poet know it or not, whether the poet will admit it or not. The poet puts the love of the Divine Essence before herself (I say herself because the female is the symbol of the soul in most cultures and poems).

The poet is the lover, the soul seeking the Divine Essence. The Divine Essence while it is a spirit and spiritual creatures have no physical gender is considered male in many (not all) cultures. There are many cultures and religions that have the concept of both the divine masculine and the divine feminine. The two appear to be two separate entities, but God or the Divine Essence is a singularity that can not be divided. As human beings we divide the Divine Essence into male and female into sects and religions, but in reality the Divine Essence is not and can not be divided. Humanity divides because the only way we appear to be able to comprehend something is to label it, to put it into categories.

(8 Mulk 162 B.E.)